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▪ I. feeze, n.|fiːz|
Forms: 4 veze, 6 feas(e, 6–7 feese, 7 feaze, 7– feeze, 9 U.S. pheese, -ze.
[f. feeze v.1]
1. A rush, impetus; hence, a violent impact. Also, a rub. Now dial. and U.S.
1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1127 And there out came a rage and such a veze, That it made al the gate for to rese. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie 50 They light vpon him..and beare him downe with mightie feas. 1603Knolles Hist. Turkes (1621) 878 Both their [galleys] beakes were with the feaze broken off. 1847Mather in Whistlebinkie (1890) II. 165 Wi' a lick o' sweet oil an' a feeze o' her hand. 1865Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 349 Even the locust's cry is no longer a mere impertinent feeze of sound.
†b. to fetch or take (one's) feeze: to take a short run before leaping. to take one's full feeze: to start at full speed. Obs.
1571Campion Hist. Irel. ii. ix. (1633) 120 Advising you though you have fetched your feaze, yet to look well ere you leape over. 1580Baret Alv. R 41 To leape, taking his race, or fetching his feese, ex procursu salire. 1600Holland Livy i. lxv. (1609) 87 b, They [the Roman soldiers] tooke their full feese, and ran up the hill. 1675Tullie Let. Baxter 19 If a man do but goe back a little to take his feeze, he may easily jump over it.
2. U.S. chiefly colloq. A state of alarm or perturbation.
1846Worcester, Pheese, a fit of fretfulness. 1855Lowell Let. in Atlantic Monthly Dec. (1892) 749/2 So I am in a feeze half the time. a1865Haliburton (Cent. Dict.), When a man's in a feese, there's no more sleep that hitch.
▪ II. feeze, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.|fiːz|
Forms: 1 fésian, 3–6 fese(n, -yn, 3 south. vesen, 5, 7 feese, -ze, (6 pheeze, 7 feize, pheese), 7 south. veeze, veize, veze, 6, 9 fease, south. vease, 6–9 feaze.
[OE. fésian (? also fésan), fýsian to drive, corresponds to ON. *feysa (mod.Norwegian föysa, Sw. fösa), app.:—*fausjôjan, fausjan. It is possible that this word and ON. fiúka, feyka, of similar meaning, are from a Teut. root feu, fau, differentiated by s and k (pre-Teut. g) suffixes.
Totally unconnected with OE. fýsan (:—*funsjan) to hurry, which survived into early ME. as fusen |y|: see fuse v.1]
†1. trans. To drive; to drive off or away; to make (one) run, put to flight; to frighten away. Often with away. Also to feeze about. Obs.
c890Laws Edward & Guthrum xi, Ðonne fysie hi man of earde. 1014Wulfstan Hom. (1883) xxxiii. 162 Ðæt oft on ᵹefeohte an feseþ tyne. a1300Signa ante Judicium 172 in E.E.P. (1862) 12 Al þe fentis sal.. be ifesid in to helle. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 339 Powder of erþe of þat lond i-sowe in oþer londes vseþ [v.r. veseþ] awey wormes. c1400Beryn Prol. 351 Shal I com þen, Cristian, & fese a-wey þe Cat? 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke viii. 29 He should bee drieuen and feased of the deiuill into deserte places. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. II. 10/2 They feazed awaie the Irish. 1583Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 31 Lyke bees..Feaze away the droane bees with sting, from maunger, or hiuecot. 1689C. Mather Mem. Providences 62 A Devil would..make her laugh to see how he feaz'd 'em about.
b. To impel.
1610Mirr. Mag., Sir N. Burdet xvi. 480 Those eager impes whom food-want feaz'd to fight amaine.
2. To frighten, put into a state of alarm.
c1440J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. v. 611 Bete hir weel, right for hir blaspheme, To fese hem alle that troste in hir doctryne. 1460Christ's Compl. 471 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 198 Ful foule schulde þi foos be fesid If þou myȝte ouer hem as y ouer þee may. 1887Kent Gloss., Fease, to fret, worry.
3. The threat ‘I'll feeze you’ seems to have given rise to the following senses:
a. vaguely, To ‘do for’, ‘settle the business of’ (a person).
b. To beat, flog.
a.1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. Induct. i. 1 Ile pheeze you infaith. 1613Beaum. & Fl. Coxcomb i. vi, I'll feese you. 1620Fletcher Chances ii. i, H'as giv'n me my quietus est: I felt him In my small guts: I'me sure h'as feez'd me.
b.1610B. Jonson Alch. v. v, Come, will you quarrel? I will feize you, sirrah. 1631Massinger Emperor East iv. ii, Countryman. Zookers! Had I one of you zingle, with this twig I would so veeze you! 1674J. W[right] Mock-Thyestes 101 Your Toby I'le so feaze with this Rod..That [etc.].
▪ III. feeze, v.2 dial.|fiːz|
1. trans. To twist or turn with a screw-like motion; to screw. Also with off, on, up.
1806A. Douglas Poems 43, I downa feeze my fiddle-string. 1813W. Leslie View Nairn Gloss., Feeze, to turn a screw nail.
b. fig. To insinuate.
1813W. Leslie View Nairn Gloss., Feeze, to insinuate into unmerited confidence or favour. 1824Jamieson s.v., One feezes himself into the good graces of another.
2. intr. for refl. To wind in and out; to hang off and on.
17..in Ritson Scot. Songs (1794) I. 287 My ewie never play'd the like But fees'd [printed tees'd] about the barn⁓yard wa'. |