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▪ I. † ˈflabel, n. Obs.
Also 6 flable.
[ad. L. flābell-um fan, dim. of *flābrum, pl. flābra gusts of wind, f. flāre to blow.]
a. A fan.
b. Entom., in grasshoppers (see quot. 1658).
1552Huloet, Flable and fanne idem. 1570Levins Manip. 56 A Flabel, flabellum. 1628Venner Tobacco (1650) 402 The lungs which are the flabel of the heart. 1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 992 They [Grashoppers] sing not with their mouth..but by the reverberation of a little membrane under the flabells; (so they call those two coverings behinde the hinder thighs cleaving to the belly). 1656–81Blount Glossogr., Flabel, a Fan.
▪ II. † flabel, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. prec. n. Cf. OF. flabeller, ad. late L. flābellāre.]
trans. To fan.
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxxix. 176 It is continually flabbell'd [= Fr. éventé], blown upon, and aired by the north winds. |