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1. An instrument for winnowing grain.β. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 570 Capisterium, a vanne [or a Seve].1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 100 Rushes so big, that they will serue to make sieues, rangers, and vans.1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God (1620) 239 There was also the Vanne, which is otherwise called the creele.1725 W. Broome in Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 158 A shepherd..the Oar surveys, And names a Van.1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xi. 157 Who shall name The oar..a van.† d. Applied to things resembling a winnowing fan (sense 1a) in shape (see quots.). Obs.In the Chaucer passage the word is commonly supposed to mean ‘quintain’.
a. A basket of special form (also, earlier, a sort of wooden shovel) used for separating the corn from the chaff by throwing it into the air. Obs. exc. Hist.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > winnowing > fan, cloth, or basket
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wind-cloth1500
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winding-cloth1548
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winnow1580
wan?1615
sail-fan1707
wind-screen1763
wind-sheet1891
a800 Corpus Gloss. Uanna, fon.
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke iii. 17 His fonnæ vel windgefonnæ.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) iii. 17 His fann ys on his handa.
a1100 Gerefa in Anglia IX. 264 Fanna, trogas, æscena.
c1405 (c1390) Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 129 Strouted as a Fanne, large and brode.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 148 Fann to clense wythe corne, vannus.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 14v, Flayle [1580 Flaile], strawfork & rake, with a fan that is strong.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxii. 121 The corne scattered from the fanne.
1654 J. Trapp Comm. Psalms xiii. 8 Chaff will get to the top of the Fan; when good Corn..liethe at the bottom of the heap.
1716 Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 612 As when on Ceres' sacred Floor the Swain Spreads the wide Fan to clear the golden Grain.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 635 The grain shaken and winnowed by fans.
1889 C. N. Elvin Dict. Heraldry p. xlix, Winnowing-basket..Fan or Vane.
b. Any kind of contrivance to blow away the chaff; a fanner; a fanning or winnowing-machine.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > winnowing > machine
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aspirator1883
c1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agric. (1681) 325 A Fan is an instrument that by its motion artificially causeth Wind: useful in the Winnowing of Corn.
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 259 They..do it..with the fan at home, I mean the leaved fan; for the knee fan..[is] not in use amongst them..But the wheel fan saves a mans labor.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry viii. 117 For the cleansing of Corn..is commonly made use of..a Fan with Sails.
1768 Meikle & Mackell Specif. Patent 896 A fan to blow out the gross chaff [in a grain dressing machine].
1836 L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. I. 489 Fan..a rotative blowing machine, consisting of vanes turning upon an axis, used for winnowing corn.
c. transf. and fig. Sometimes with allusion to Matt. iii. 12.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [noun] > that which discriminates
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1559 T. Bryce in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) I. 172 When William Nicoll..Was tryed with their fiery fan.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 63 The fire and fan, of iudgement and discretion.
1609 Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 26 Distinction with a broad and powerfull fan, Puffing at all, winnowes the light away. View more context for this quotation
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. 15 He hath sought to purge his floore by sundry fannes of afflictions.
1667 Milton Paradise Lost v. 269 He..with quick Fann Winnows the buxom Air. View more context for this quotation
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > shield > [noun] > other types of shield
blazon?a1400
fanc1405
pavise1407
ancile1600
shield-board1872
figure of eight shield1939
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > tilting at quintain > quintain
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c1405 (c1390) Chaucer Manciple's Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 42 Now swete sire, wol ye Iusten atte Fan.
?a1500 tr. Vegetius in Promptorium Parvulorum 148 Olde werriours were wont to iuste with fannes, and pley with the pil, or the pale.
?a1500 tr. Vegetius in Promptorium Parvulorum 148 [Young soldiers ought to have] a shelde made of twigges sumwhat rounde, in maner of a gredryn, the whiche is cleped a fanne.
e. (See quot. 1863; = fanful n.). dial.
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1863 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. Fan (Camb.) of chaff, 3 heaped bushels.
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the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [noun] > stirring up or inflaming passion > one who or that which
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fuel?1594
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inflammatory1681
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enkindler1853
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > devices to provide or adjust draught
fan1530
register plate1715
register1744
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Shadrach1827
draught1870
phukni1959
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 218/2 Fanne to blowe with, estovillon.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 10 The contradiction of others is a fanne to inflame that loue.
3. An instrument for agitating the air, to cool the face, etc. with an artificial breeze.† b. = punkah v. Obs.
a. A fan to be held in the hand.A common kind, and the one always referred to in transferred senses relating to shape, is constructed so as to admit of being folded up in small compass, its form when unfolded being that of a sector of a circle.
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the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > fan > hand-held or portable
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1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. xi. f. 154, A fanne of golde, and an Idole.
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iii. iv. 70 For..the least fether in her bounteous Fanne. View more context for this quotation
1641 S. Marshall et al. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. (1653) §2. 5 Their daughters walking in Cheapeside with their fannes and farthingales.
1726 Swift Gulliver I. ii. v. 90 The Ladies gave me a Gale with their Fans.
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 32 Fans..made of a very thin kind of palm in the form of a crescent, having a stick of the same wood in the middle.
1836 Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 16 The widow dropped her fan.
1851 A. H. Layard Pop. Acct. Discov. Nineveh xiii. 325 Two eunuchs holding fans over the head of the monarch.
1871 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 4) xii. 307 The posterior pair [of wings] are folded up lengthways like a fan.
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the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > fan > punkah
weather-fan1611
fan1696
punkah1790
1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 133 Fans..hung at the Ceiling..There is also a small silken cord fasten'd to it, and drawn thro' a Hole into the Anti-Chamber, where a Servant is placed to keep the Machine playing. These Fans are usually hung over a Couch, or Bed.
4. poet. A wing. [? After Italian vanni, plural.]
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > wing
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pinion?a1425
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β. 1667 Milton Paradise Lost ii. 927 His Sail-broad Vannes He spreads for flight. View more context for this quotation1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden I. i. 163 You [Sylphs]..the airy surge, Mix with broad vans.1816 Wordsworth Poems Sentim. xxv, Ravens spread their plumy vans.1830 Tennyson Love & Death 8 Love..spread his sheeny vans for flight.1631 T. Fuller Heavie Punishment xxxii, in Davids Sinne sig. D5, The shamefac'd birds..Did hold their other fanne before their eye.
1700 Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Fables 252 Then stretch'd his feather'd Fans with all his might.
1818 Keats Endymion i. 39 The fans Of careless butterflies.
5. β. 1821 J. Baillie Columbus in Metrical Legends xvi, As the deep vans [of the palm leaf] fall and rise.
a. Anything spread out in the shape of a fan (sense 3a); e.g. a leaf, the tail of a bird, the delta at the mouth of a river, fan-like tracery in a roof.
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the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > [noun] > fan-shaped object
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dovetail1678
fan-tail1735
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 3 Then fig-tree fannes uppon their shame they wore.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccxxxiv. 204 The Peacock spreads his Tail, and Challenges the Other, to shew him such a Fan of Feathers.
1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. i. 142 On the upper story live peacocks are spreading their fans.
1815 T. Rickman in J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 163 The squares were filled with fans, &c. of small tracery.
1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax I. i. 13 The large brown fan of a horse-chestnut leaf.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. vi. 211 A fan of beams, issuing from the hidden sun, was spread out.
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 218 The interstices between the fans are filled up in various ways.
1883 Daily News 25 June 2/1, I..detect a strain of the tendon in the fan of the off fore-heel.
b. = fan-light n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > fanlight
fan-light1819
fan1844
1844 A. R. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury II. vii. 92 There was a light over the fan of the door.
c. Organ-building (see quot. 1880).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > parts conveying action
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roller board1632
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tracker1843
pricker1852
trace1852
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trundle1876
fan1880
square1880
trace-rod1880
1880 Hopkins in Grove Dict. Music II. 598 at Organ, A long arm of iron, called a fan, extending horizontally in front of the vertical draw-rods.
d. Physical Geogr. A fan-shaped or conical alluvial deposit formed by a stream or river where its bed becomes less steep (e.g. at the edge of a plain); esp. a deposit of little height and gentle slope (cf. cone n.1 1d). Also attrib., as fan-delta, fan-terrace.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > deposited by water, ice, or wind > [noun] > by water
roddon1857
platform-mud1863
cone1864
fan1864
levee1870
alluvial fan1873
apron1889
sand-wash1901
scroll1902
spillbank1909
sheet-flow1928
point bar1945
1864 J. von Haast Rep. Form. Canterbury Plains 19 Thinking that giving such a name [sc. ‘delta’] to the alluvial accumulations of the rivers in this island, showing some peculiarities, would impart an erroneous impression, Dr. Hector and myself, in drawing up a synopsis of the geological formations of New Zealand, have adopted for the formation of those subaerial accumulations the expression ‘Fan’, for those of regular water-courses; and of ‘Half-cone’, for those of intermittent mountain torrents, and we shall for the future use these two expressions.
1873 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 29 446 At the mouth of each of these [gorges] are alluvial fans, which project out into the flat of the river-alluvium.
1873 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 29 447 The fan is properly a flat cone, having its apex at the mouth of the ravine.
1883 Proc. Royal Physical Soc. Edinb. 7 290 In this paper lateral delta terraces will be referred to as fan terraces.
1884 Dawson in Leisure Hour Aug. 492/1 A great mass of similar matter was projected from it in a fan or delta.
1890 Gilbert in U.S. Geol. Surv. Monogr. I. 81 The ‘alluvial fan’ of Drew is the ‘alluvial cone’ of American Geologists, and there would be some reason for preferring ‘fan’ to ‘cone’ if it were necessary to employ a single term only. It is convenient to use them as synonyms, employing ‘cone’ when the angle of slope is high and ‘fan’ when it is low.
1902 in Ld. Avebury Scenery of Eng. 482 The vale of Neath contains a series of such cones or ‘fans’ of gravel.
1920 Nature 13 May 322/2 The wind-worn grains of magnetite brought northward from the great fan-deltas of the Adour system.
1948 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 14 34 These alluvial fans extend right down to the sea.
1965 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. (rev. ed.) xviii. 551 There are all gradations from wide fans 10–100 miles across that are usually nearly flat.., through fans of moderate width and inclination.., to relatively small steep-sided cones..built of the coarser debris brought down by short torrential streams.
6. A rotating apparatus (analogous to the later forms of winnowing fan: see 1b) usually consisting of an axle or spindle, with arms bearing flat or curved blades:
a. for producing a current of air as a means of ventilation, etc.
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the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > fan
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the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > fan > rotating
vane1810
fan1835
propeller fan1850
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 380 The effect of one of Fairbairn and Lillie's four-guinea fans upon a large factory is truly admirable.
1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 314 A fan, by which heated and compressed air could be supplied to the ash-pit.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 131 A powerful fan is used to drive air into some of the wards.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers May 1880-Feb. 1881 9 131 Fan, a revolving machine, to blow air into a mine (pressure-fan)..or to draw it out (suction-fan).
b. for regulating the throttle-valve of a steam-engine. Also called fan-governor.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > valves > throttle > regulator on
fan1887
1887 Ewing in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 509 The Allen governor..has a fan directly geared to the engine.
c. in a windmill (see quot.).
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1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic Gloss. 776 Fan, small vanes or sails to receive the impulse of the wind, and..to keep the large sails of a smock wind-mill always in the direction of the wind.
1874 in E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.
d. (see quot. 1825); also fan-fly.
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1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic Gloss. 776 Fan..an instrument..to decrease speed by its action on the air.
e. Soap Manuf. (see quot. 1885).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for making other articles > [noun] > soap-making equipment
frame1725
pan1742
Jack1845
sess1853
soap-boiler1863
fan1885
1885 W. L. Carpenter Treat. Manuf. Soap vi. 158 An important adjunct to a soap-copper..for preventing the contents from boiling over..is called a fan, and..it consists essentially of a rotating paddle, whose blades just touch the top of the boiling mass.
f. In a motor vehicle, an apparatus for sending a current of cold air over the radiator. Also attrib., as fan belt n. the belt which transmits torque to the fan from the engine.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > fan or fan belt
fan1900
fan belt1921
1900 Motor-Car World May 178/2 The motor..is cooled by means of a fan driven from the periphery of the fly-wheel.
1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 215/1 Fan cooling, a small fan, worked by the motor, is sometimes used to drive a current of cool air on to the outside of the cylinder to keep it cool.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 27 Apr. 4/1 The cylinders had kept so cool by the fan-blower that I could almost keep my hand on the combustion head.
1912 Motor Man. (ed. 14) iii. 64 An alternative method which avoids the use of a separate fan, is provided by fan-vaned arms in the fly-wheel.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 19 Oct. 6/1 (advt.) We recommend that you carry a spare fan belt of genuine leather.
1939 J. Harrison Motor-cars To-day vi. 82 Under conditions where slow speed is combined with heavy pulling, such as when climbing a hill, there would be a risk of over-heating if it were not for the fan.
1956 ‘T. B. D. Service’ Ford Cars v. 114 It may be necessary, after extended mileage, to replace a fan belt.
1963 A. Bird & F. Hutton-Stott Veteran Motor Car Pocketbk. 175 The Vivinus..voiturette had a fan-assisted air-cooled engine.
1963 R. F. Webb Motorists' Dict. 95 Fan cooling. This is necessary for any air-cooled engine that is placed in an enclosed engine compartment.
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a. The flukes or lobes of the whale's tail.
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b. Naut. The screw used in propelling vessels; a single blade of the same. Also attrib. in two-fan.
c. Angling. A similar apparatus on spinning-bait.
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1785 Bramah Specif. Patent 1478 Fig. 25. A is a wheel..made with fans on its extremity like the water wheel of a mill..The fans will then act as oars and force the ship forward.
1859 J. S. Mansfield in Mercantile Marine Mag. (1860) 7 15 Her engines..worked a two-fan screw.
1859 J. S. Mansfield in Mercantile Marine Mag. (1860) 7 17 The Prince was supplied with a three-bladed fan.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling iv. 100 The other end of the brass [of the spinning bait] has fixed on it a pair of wings or fans, on the Archimedean screw principle.
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a. A pennon.
b. A weathercock. Obs.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > meteorological instruments > [noun] > wind-vane or weather-cock
cock?a1300
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vane1425
fan?a1500
thane1570
weather-flag1611
eagle-cock1694
girella1720
weathervane1721
dogvane1769
weather-fane1773
girouette1822
wind-vane1858
pendant1860
wind-cock1920
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 805 Hic cherucus, a fanne [cf. Promp. Parv. 148 Fane of a stepylle, cherucus].
?a1600 (a1500) Sc. Troy Bk. (Cambr.) l. 229 in C. Horstmann Barbour's Legendensammlung (1882) II. 222 With fannys ande banneres wpone hight Aboue standande.
1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 49 A red high-crown'd Cap on his head, with..a Fan or weather-cock on the top of it.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > a movement of air > caused by or as by a fan
fan1609
1609 Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. iii. 41 The captiue Grecian falls, Euen in the fanne and winde of your faire sword. View more context for this quotation
Compounds
C1. General attrib.
a. Simple attributive.
(a) (In sense 3a.)
(i)
fan-exercise n.
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1867 ‘Ouida’ Cecil Castlemaine (1879) 2 Practising the Fan exercise.
fan-form n.
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1871 Figure Training 110 The toes..spread widely, and in fan form, out.
fan-stick n.
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1686 London Gaz. No. 2149/4 Two Fan-sticks, Carved curiously with hollow work.
1761 Gentleman's Mag. 31 498 The ladies began to count their fan sticks.
fanstick-maker n.
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1723 London Gaz. No. 6170/9 Edward Bunn..Fan-Stick-maker.
fan-wind n.
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1578 J. Banister Hist. Man vii. f. 94, A fanwynde to the hart, to coole the same.
(ii)
fan-like adj. and adv.
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1816 R. Southey Poet's Pilgrimage iv. 46 Where loftiest trees High o'er the grove their fan-like foliage rear.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 688/1 The arms..are separated one from the other, fan-like.
fan-wise adj. and adv.
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1882 T. Foster in Proctor Nature Studies 55 Feathers radiating fanwise from each of the fore-limbs.
1882 T. Foster in Proctor Nature Studies 56 The fan-wise and rounded arrangement of the wing-feathers.
(iii)
fan-fashion adv.
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1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxv. 319 This expanded, fan-fashion, as it rose.
(b) (In sense 6.)
fan-blast n.
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1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 552 Fan blast machines are frequently employed..to urge the fire of steam boilers.
fan-blower n.
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1847 Rep. Comm. Patents 1846 (U.S.) 84 The fan blowers now used in steamboats for blowing the fires in the furnaces are generally made from two to three feet in diameter.
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Fan-blower, a blower in which a series of vanes fixed on a rotating shaft creates a blast of air.
fan-house n.
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1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Jan. 7/1 The fanhouse was partly destroyed.
fan-shaft n.
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1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 1069 The fan is driven by a small..engine K, connected to a crank on the end of the fan-shaft B.
fan-ventilator n.
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Fan-ventilator.
fan-wheel n.
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1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 439/2 Fan,..the force of the current created by the fan wheel.
b. Attributive in the sense of resembling a fan in shape.
fan-coral n.
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1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Eglishay, Great quantities of sponge and fan-coral are annually thrown ashore.
1881 Rep. Geol. Explor. N. Zealand 67 This fan-coral bed.
fan-crest n.
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1883 J. W. Mollett Illustr. Dict. Art & Archæol. Fan-crest Her., an early form of decoration for the knightly helm.
fan-hoop n.
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1756 W. Cowper Connoisseur No. 104. 810 Mrs. Mayoress..came sidling after him in an enormous fan-hoop.
fan-jet n.
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1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. IV. 326 Fan-jet, a form of nozzle for watering-pots and engines having a fan or spoon shaped lip.
fan-leaf n.
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1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. I. xvii. 422 It is probably the Livistona rotundifolia of botanists, and is the most complete and beautiful fan-leaf I have ever seen.
1879 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 1 Dec. (1911) II. 248 He had come to England and brought some fan leaves.
fan-shell n.
c. Objective.
(a)
fan-bearer n.
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1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile viii. 205 The King, attended by his fan-bearers, returns in state.
fan-maker n.
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1710 London Gaz. No. 4781/3 Mr. Lewis Fortin, Fanmaker.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Fan-maker, a manufacturer of ladies' fans. Fan and Sky-light Maker, a manufacturer of semi-circular windows and glazed roofs.
fan-painter n.
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1723 London Gaz. No. 6188/10 John Gibbons..Fan-Painter.
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 28 Rosalba Carriera was..a fan painter of celebrity in the 17th century.
fan-painting n.
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1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 28 Cano de Arevalo..devoted himself to fan painting.
fan-tearer n.
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1696 C. Cibber Love's Last Shift iii. 47 An Eternal Fan-tearer, and a constant Persecuter of Woman-kind.
(b)
fan-bearing adj.
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1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. T 1, No Apish fan-bearing Hermophradite.
d. Parasynthetic and similative.
fan-crested adj.
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1799 Barton Fragm. Nat. Hist. Pennsylv. 2 Mergus cucullatus Fan-crested-Duck.
fan-leaved adj.
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1834 H. Caunter Oriental Ann. v. 85 The fan-leaved palm.
fan-nerved adj.
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1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Fan-nerved, having the nerves radiating like a fan from one point as in some leaves and insects' wings.
fan-pleated adj.
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1873 Young Englishwoman June 286/1 A fan-pleated flounce.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 May 1/3 Fan-pleated bows of lace.
fan-shaped adj.
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1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) IV. 337 Grows exactly like the Boletus versicolor..Fan-shaped; scarcely ½ an inch diameter.
1807 J. Britton Archit. Antiq. Great Brit. I. (King's Coll. Chapel) 8 They appear in the fan-shaped tracery, or groining of the inner surface.
1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 134 The swamp palmetto..raises its fan-shaped leaves.
fan-veined adj.
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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. (at cited word), Fan-veined, when the veins or ribs are disposed like those of a fan.
e. In various attrib. uses relating to the ventilation of a mine by means of a fan.
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1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 101 Fan drift, a short tunnel leading from a short distance from the top of the upcast shaft to the fan chamber or casing in which the fan runs, along which the whole of the return air is drawn by the fan... Fan shaft. 1. A shallow pit-shaft sunk beneath a fan connecting it with the fan drift. 2. The upcast shaft where a fan is in use.
1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 14 Jan. 10/3 Firemen, engineers, fanmen and pumpmen..had their wages increased on November 1.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 7/4 The fan-drift connecting the present down~cast pit with the existing fan has at last been completed.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §047 Fan boy, fan man,..turns handle of small ventilating fan to ventilate heading not served by main air current.
1927 Daily Tel. 7 June 12/5 The dismissal of three fanmen who refused to do certain work.
1963 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) ii. 10 Fan drift, an airway leading from a mine shaft, or airway, to a fan.
1963 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) ii. 10 Fan shaft. 1. The ventilating shaft to which a mine fan is connected. 2. The spindle on which a fan impeller is mounted.
f. Geol. Used attrib. and in Comb. to denote an arrangement of strata in a series of folds which incline outwards from the central fold, the axes of the folds being likened to the diverging lines of a fan.
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1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. vii. 917 The inward dip and consequent inversion..lead up to the fan-shaped structure, where the oldest rocks of a series occupy the centre and overlie the younger masses.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 652/2 The peculiar arrangement in mountains known as fan-structure may be produced by the continued compression of a simple anticline.
1937 S. W. Wooldridge & R. S. Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. v. 68 Before the recognition of recumbent folds or nappes..the Alps were usually interpreted as showing ‘fan-folding’.
C2. Special comb.
fan-banner n. a fan-shaped banner.
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1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings I. xviii. 128 The immense fan-banners of peacocks' feathers.
fan belt n. see 6f.
fan-bonnet n. a bonnet so called from its shape.
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1774 Westm. Mag. 2 484 Black Fan Bonnets.
fan consonant n. a consonant pronounced with the edges of the tongue more extended than is usual in making analogous sounds, as in the Arabic ‘emphatic’ consonants.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by place or organ > [noun] > lingual > by parts of tongue
blade-consonant1877
point-consonant1888
blade-point1890
fan consonant1902
apical1964
dorsal1964
1902 H. Sweet Primer of Phonetics (ed. 2) 36 Fan (spread) consonants..are modifications of point and blade consonants.
1908 H. Sweet Sounds of Eng. 45, tl, dl occur in Irish English as substitutes for þ, ð respectively; in them the fan modification is supplemented by a slight raising of the back of the tongue.]
fan cooling n. see 6f.
fan dance n. a solo dance in which the performer uses a fan or fans, esp. to conceal her nudity.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > erotic dancing > [noun]
cordax1531
ballum rancum1680
rankum1693
cancan1848
fan dance1879
belly dance1883
danse du ventre1893
hootchy-kootchy1893
coochie-coochie1894
coochie1895
cooch1910
bump and grind1938
belly dancing1949
twerk1996
1879 H. N. Moseley Notes by Naturalist on ‘Challenger’ 331 The most interesting dances were a Club Dance and a Fan Dance.
1951 T. Rattigan Who is Sylvia? ii. 248 I'd better get Babs to do her fan dance—if she's still vertical.
fan dancer n.
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1936 R. E. Sherwood Idiot's Delight i. 22 Shirley is the principal, a frank, knowing fan dancer.
fan-delta n. see 5d.
fan draught n. a system of supplying air in boiler furnaces by means of mechanically driven fans.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > boiler > [noun] > supply of water or air to
feed-water1862
fan draught1894
make-up1930
1894 W. H. White Man. Naval Archit. (ed. 3) xiv. 561 Fan draught is also of great value under unfavourable conditions, such as hot weather, calms, or following winds.
fan flat n. the flat [flat n.3 10b] in which the fans for ventilating the boiler room of a ship are situated.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > partial deck or floor of compartment > specific
fan flat1909
1909 Westm. Gaz. 15 May 2/2 A monstrous wave..poured into the fan-flat.
1923 Man. Seamanship II. xvii. 285 The fans are situated on an enclosed fan flat from which they draw their air.
1923 Man. Seamanship II. xvii. 285 Access to the boiler rooms is arranged through the fan flats.
fan-fly n. = 6d.
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1850 E. B. Denison Rudimentary Treat. Clock & Watch Making i. xvi. 27 A fan-fly was actually used in De Wick's clock, as it still is, to regulate the velocity of the striking part.
fan-forge n. (see quot.).
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1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. IV. 326 Fan-forge a transportable form of forge and fan.
fan-frame n. (see quot.).
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1880 C. A. Edwards Organs ii. vi. 71 The communication..effected by..the fan-frame movement.
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 834 The fan-frame [of an organ] is a set of backfalls having one set of ends close together, usually corresponding to the keys; the other ends are spread widely apart.
fan-governor n. (see 6b):
fan-groining n. Archit. = fan-tracery n.
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a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 222 Fan groining [is] itself a purely English invention.
fan heater n. a heater containing an electric fan that forces air over an electrically-heated element into a room or other place.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > having an electric fan
fan heater1961
1961 I. Murdoch Severed Head vi. 48 He dangled his long broad-nailed hand in front of his new fan heater.
1970 Bodl. Libr. Rec. 8 173 Cold air is deflected from the entrance by three 3kw fan heaters.
fan-jet n. (also fan-jet engine) a jet engine in which additional thrust is provided by cold air drawn by a fan through a duct surrounding the rest of the engine, which is used to drive the fan; also (as fan-jet), an aeroplane having such engines; = turbofan n.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > with jet engine(s) > types of
superjet1945
twin-jet1946
fan-jet1963
jumbo jet1964
jump jet1964
jumbo1966
super-jumbo1968
tri-jet1968
stretch plane1971
stretch1973
wide-body1979
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > jet > types of
jet turbine1878
ramjet1945
pulse jet1946
plasma engine1958
reaction jet1959
fan-jet1963
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > means of propulsion > [noun] > aircraft engine > jet engine > types of
jet turbine1878
athodyd1945
turbojet1945
turboprop1945
propjet1946
turbopropeller1947
turboramjet1948
turbofan1949
jato1951
fan-jet1963
scramjet1966
refan1973
1963 Sat. Rev. 20 July 14 (advt.) In 1961, American Airlines introduced a new engine called the fan-jet—with 30% more power than ordinary jets.
1963 N.Y. Times 15 Sept. p. xx7/3 The fan-jet engines..have turbine blades spaced for a minimum of sound.
1967 N. E. Borden Jet-engine Fund. 47 Fanjets, as they are called by some of the commercial airlines, and turbofans are one and the same thing.
1968 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 10 Nov. 9/6 The nose gear of an Alaska Airlines 727 fanjet was severed Saturday afternoon when the plane collided with a moose as the plane came in for a landing.
fan-lift adj. Aeronaut. fitted with fans to assist the vertical take-off of an aircraft.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > means of propulsion > [adjective] > types of jet engine
ramjet1942
pure-jet1944
propeller turbine1945
turbojet1945
turbopropeller1947
fan-lift1961
reheated1961
1961 Flight 80 504/2 Jet and fan lift aircraft appear to offer good range-speed-payload performance where substantial range is required and where hovering requirements are at a minimum.
1961 Aeroplane & Astronaut. CI. 791/1 Two vtol test-bed aircraft using the G.E. J85-5 fan-lift engine. The complete programme, which covers two years and will cost $10.5 million, includes the construction of the two fan-lift airframes by Ryan at San Diego.
fan marker n. Aeronaut. a radio marker beacon that transmits a fan-shaped beam.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > navigation of course of aircraft > [noun] > radio beam or beacon
beacon1919
localizer1922
beam1927
landing beam1929
marker beacon1929
fan marker1948
1948 Shell Aviation News CXXIV. 8/2 Written examinations are required on radio facilities in the New York area, including radio ranges, homing facilities, fan markers and let down procedures on the heavily congested La Guardia airport.
fan-mount n. [= French monture d' éventail] the frame upon which a fan is mounted.
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1753 Scots Mag. May 215/1 So inconsiderable an implement as a fan-mount.
1865 R. Browning Poems I. 22 To carry pure death in..a fan-mount.
fan-palm n. a name applied to palms having fan-shaped leaves.
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1816–20 T. Green Universal Herbal I. 284/2 Chamærops Humilis. Dwarf Fan Palm.
1839 M. Howitt Humming-bird 12 They flit about..through the fan palm tree.
1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 345 Corypha umbraculifera..Fan Palm..It resembles the common Fan Palm, or Palmyra, of the East Indies.
1885 A. Brassey In Trades 177 It is sometimes called the fan-palm, because travellers use the leaves as fans.
fan-plant n. the palmetto.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > palmetto trees or fan-palms
palmite1555
palmetto1582
palmetto tree1582
talipot1681
tamarind-palmetto1698
Chamaerops1766
eta palm1769
cabbage palm tree1773
palmetto bush1784
swamp-cabbage1792
cabbage tree1796
saw palmetto1797
latania1799
hat palm1812
gebang1817
coco de mer?1820
itaa1832
cabbage palm1847
miriti1853
latania1856
moriche1860
broom-palm1866
ilala1868
licuala1872
fan-plant1884
tiger-grass1884
buri1890
latanier1929
Washingtonia1945
1884 Mrs. Houstoun Texas & Gulf of Mexico II. 11 Frequent tufts of the fan-plant; as it is here called.
fan-print n. a design printed upon a fan.
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1846 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. Gloss. s.v., I have some fan-prints of various similar subjects.
fan-shade n. a shade for a lamp, etc., in form like a circular fan.
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1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. iii. 160 One of the old-fashioned fan-shades will be found useful.
fan-steam-engine n. (see quot.).
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Fan-Steam-engine. The action of this steam is the inverse of that of the fan. The outer annular casing..discharges [steam] from its inner surface in tangential jets upon the scoop-shaped blades which are attached to a rotating shaft.
fan-tracery n. Archit. see quot. 1841.
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1815 T. Rickman in J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 164 We now come to a new and most delicate description of roof, that of fan tracery.
1841 M. H. Bloxam Princ. Gothic Eccles. Archit. (ed. 4) 131 A very rich and peculiar description of vaulting is one composed of pendant semi-cones covered with foliated panel-work,..called fan-tracery.
fan-training n. Hort. a method of training fruit trees on a trellis or wall, in the form of a fan.
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1871 Robinson Loudon's Horticulturist viii. 325 Fan-training is chiefly adapted for trees trained against walls.
fan-trained adj.
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1880 S. Wood Tree Pruner 5 A well-developed fan-trained Peach-tree.
fan-tree n. (a) = fan-palm n.; (b) a tree spread out in the form of a fan (in quot. attrib.).
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1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 488 The fruit tree method [of pruning] in which the plant is spread out in the fan tree manner.
1835 R. Browning Paracelsus v. 180 Like strippings from the fan-trees.
fan-vaulting n. = fan-tracery n.
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1835 R. Willis Remarks Archit. Middle Ages 83 This appears to be the first step towards fan-vaulting.
fan-window n. (see quot.).
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Fan-window (Arch.), a semicircular window with radial sash.
fan-work n. = fan-tracery n.
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1801 Beauties Eng. & Wales I. 48 The vast arched roof..with its voluminous stones displaying all the elegance of fan-work.
1833 W. Barnes Gentleman's Mag. Lib. Topog. III. (1893) 314 Four fan-work groins.
fan worm n. any of various annelids of the families Sabellidæ and Serpulidæ.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Polychaeta > suborder Sabelliformia > member of
sea-pipe1755
pipe-worm1774
tube-worm1813
tubicole1842
fan worm1851
tube-maker1888
1851 Medlock tr. Schoedler Bk. Nature ii. 530 There are besides, the Sabellas, or pencil, fan, and comb-worms (Sabella).
1963 R. P. Dales Annelids 15 The most specialized tube-dwellers are the sabellid and serpulid fan-worms.
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fann.2
/fan/, U.S. /fæn/ A fanatic; in modern English (originally U.S.): a keen and regular spectator of a (professional) sport, originally of baseball; a regular supporter of a (professional) sports team; (hence) a keen follower of a specified hobby or amusement, and (gen.) an enthusiast for a particular person or thing.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person
woodman1297
madmanc1330
lunatic1377
franticc1380
madwomana1438
March harec1500
Bedlam beggar1525
fanaticc1525
bedlama1529
frenetic1528
Jack o' Bedlam1528
Tom o' Bedlam1569
crack-brain1570
madbrain1570
Tom1575
madcap1589
gelt1596
madhead1600
brainsick1605
madpash1611
non compos1628
madling1638
bedlam-man1658
bedlamerc1675
fan1682
bedlamite1691
cracka1701
lymphatic1708
shatter-brain1719
mad1729
maniaca1763
non compos mentis1765
shatter-pate1775
shatter-wit1775
insane1786
craze1831
dement1857
crazy1867
crackpot1883
loony1884
bug1885
psychopath1885
dingbat1887
psychopathic1890
ding-a-ling1899
meshuggener1900
détraqué1902
maddiea1903
nut1908
mental1913
ding1929
lakes1934
wack1938
fruitcake1942
nutty1942
barm-pot1951
nutcake1953
nutter1958
nutcase1959
nut job1959
meshuga1962
nutsy1964
headcase1965
nutball1968
headbanger1973
nutso1975
wacko1977
nut bar1978
mentalist1990
society > leisure > sport > supporting > [noun] > supporter
aficionado1819
supporter1843
fan1890
tifoso1949
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > beholder or spectator > at sport
racegoer1838
ringsider1889
fan1890
bleacherite1896
ring-worm1929
Koppite1960
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > [noun] > person following
amateur1757
hobbyist1871
fan1915
the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > enthusiasm (for something) > enthusiast for person or thing
votary1594
votary1594
well-willer1607
lief-hebber1653
enthusiast1748
amateur1771
fanatic1790
red-hot1835
freak1908
hound1926
fan1928
televisionary1928
tifoso1949
person1966
prosumer1987
1682 ‘T. Rationalis’ New News from Bedlam 13 The Loyal Phans to abuse.
1682 ‘T. Rationalis’ New News from Bedlam 40 To be here Nurs'd up, Loyal Fanns to defame, And damn all Dissenters on purpose for gain.
1890 Omaha (Nebraska) Sunday Bee 2 Feb. ii. There has not been much enthusiasm shown among the baseball fans of the city.
1896 G. Ade Artie xvii. 158 I'm goin' to be the worst fan in the whole bunch.
1901 Dial. Notes 2 139 Fan, a base ball enthusiast; common among reporters.
1914 Daily Express 3 Oct. 3 First League football ‘fans’ in London can have a joyous time to-day.
1915 Film Flashes 13 Nov. 1 It is quite usual for a picture ‘fan’ to come out of one theatre and immediately cross the road to another.
1919 W. T. Grenfell Labrador Doctor (1920) iv. 56 Among my acquaintances there were not a few theatre fans.
1921 A. W. Myers Twenty Years Lawn Tennis 142 This was sheer spectacular tennis, dear to the hearts of the American ‘fans’.
1925 H. V. Morton Heart of London 93 The fight fans howling like a pack of hungry wolves.
1928 S. Vines Humours Unreconciled xiii. 168 What about..your League of Nations and disarmament fans?
1950 Manch. Guardian Weekly 4 May 15/4 The Water Department..had received..‘good-natured’ complaints from base-ball fans about the washing-out of two days' play.
Compounds
fan club n. a group formed by the devotees of some hero, ‘star’, etc.
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the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > enthusiasm (for something) > enthusiast for person or thing > group formed by fans
fan club1941
fan base1979
1941 V. Faulkner in Sat. Evening Post 6 Sept. 37/3 Sleepy Hollow, the name Desire had selected for her residence from a contest held by her fan club.
1959 ‘O. Mills’ Stairway to Murder v. 51 I believe she's the President of your Fan Club.
fan letter n. a letter from an admirer to a celebrity.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > other types of letter
billet-doux1673
poulet1691
treble letter1753
round robin1755
screed1834
tickler1846
application letter1850
test letter1869
letter of envoy1873
hastener1922
fan letter1932
aerogram1933
yum-yum1943
newsletter1961
overnights1975
1932 P. G. Wodehouse Louder & Funnier 41 How many fan-letters did you get last week?
1937 W. S. Maugham Theatre x. 82 She was naturally polite and it was, besides, a principle with her to answer all fan letters.
fan magazine n. a journal specializing in some common object of devotion or in well-known personalities.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > other periodicals
annals1763
scientific journal1797
story paper1849
woman's magazine1868
woman's mag1887
house journal1912
film magazine1916
digest1922
fan magazine1928
pulp magazine1929
confession magazine1931
slick1934
glossy1945
trade1949
photonovel1967
1928 Amer. Speech 3 364 It was picked up from a ‘fan-magazine’.
1951 Life 21 May 130/2 ‘Fanzines’, or fan magazines, which are usually small mimeographed publications devoted to amateur STF, criticism and gossip.
fan mail n. the letters sent to a celebrity by his or her followers.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > mail > [noun] > person's batch of > type of
shower1906
fan mail1924
1924 Motion Picture Mag. June 43 (title) The business of fan mail.
1937 W. H. Auden & L. MacNeice Lett. from Iceland 17 A poet's fan-mail will be nothing new.
1955 R. Bannister First Four Minutes xiv. 194 It was the beginning of a fan mail and of invitations to open bazaars that have continued ever since.
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fan art n. (originally) artwork created by devotees of a famous performer, book, TV series, etc., typically depicting the performer(s), themes, or characters familiar from the original work.
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1969 A. Aldridge Beatles Illustr. Lyrics I. 11 For the section on fan art we advertised widely.
1977 Amer. Libraries Apr. 213/1 The new directory [of Star Trek] also provides lists of actors in each show, fan art and stills.
2015 N. Lamerichs in J. Enevold & E. MacCallum-Stewart Game Love ii. 100 Like fan fiction..and fan art, cosplay motivates fans to closely interpret existing texts..and extend them with their own narratives and ideas.
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fan base n. originally U.S. the fans of a particular team, group, or person collectively; esp. long-term, dedicated supporters, sometimes perceived as being drawn from, or consisting of, a distinct social group.
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the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > enthusiasm (for something) > enthusiast for person or thing > group formed by fans
fan club1941
fan base1979
1979 Washington Post 18 Sept. e5/6 I think Washington will make it as a soccer town... We have a great fan base. We need to build on it.
1990 M. Hodgkinson Wedding Present (BNC) 46 Perhaps the only common ground the groups share is their fan base. They mainly attract a section of white, working-class and lower-middle class youth, often college educated.
2001 N.Y. Mag. 5 Mar. 72/2 Philip K. Dick..whose fan base has long consisted of pimply Dungeons & Dragons aficionados and twitchy, hollow-cheeked amphetamine tweakers.
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fanboy n. slang (occas. depreciative) a male fan (in later use chiefly of comics, film, music, or science fiction), esp. an obsessive one.
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1919 Decatur (Illinois) Rev. 2 Oct. 6/2 It was a shock to the fan boys when Cincinnati..beat the Chicago White Sox.
1973 (title of fanzine) Fanboy.
1985 Re: CoIE: a Non-fan's Opinion in net.comics (Usenet newsgroup) 20 June I've heard some comments from assorted folks that COIE is just a sap to the ‘fan boy’ audience... I regret that the non-fan has gotten lost and confused, but this ‘fan boy’ loves every minute of it.
1992 New Musical Express 4 Apr. 17/6 The idea is to package the music and make it really really collectable so the trainspotters and manky fanboy geekoids will buy it in their pathetic thousands.
2001 Village Voice (N.Y.) 18 Dec. 42/4 A critical darling and a cult hero—last month's Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute..was overrun with spiky-haired, bespectacled fanboys.
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fanfic n. colloquial = fan fiction n. at Additions.
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1976 in Amer. Speech (1978) 53 55 Granted some of the stories aren't great literature but they do seem to be a reasonably accurate cross section of short fan fic.
1996 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 16 Apr. 1 f Many fan-fics can be found on usenet.
2002 Sunday Times 4 Aug. 50/2 Sexy fanfic is called ‘slash fiction’.
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fan fiction n. fiction, usually fantasy or science fiction, written by a fan rather than a professional author, esp. that based on already-existing characters from a television series, book, film, etc.; (also) a piece of such writing.
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1939 Spaceways Feb. 22 It contains twenty large size pages, extremely well mimeoed, and consisting mainly of the best original fan fiction.
1975 J. Lichtenberg et al. Star Trek Lives! i. 23 Laura, whose ambition is to become a professional writer, has been writing Star Trek fiction since her early teens, and was recently nominated for a Hugo Award for fan fiction for her series ‘Federation and Empire’.
2002 Yahoo! Internet Life Mar. 32/3 Sing the praises of your favorite band, or heap scorn on the newest Lord of the Rings fan fiction.
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fangirl n. slang (occas. depreciative) a female fan (chiefly of comics, film, music, or science fiction), esp. an obsessive one.
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1934 A. P. Herbert Holy Deadlock 162 Mary..dashed out through the rain so swiftly that only two of the fan-girls caught her.
1990 Re: Hobbes: Possessed Toy from Hell or Reality Check from Alien Gods? in rec.arts.comics (Usenet newsgroup) 28 May Use those fanboy and fangirl talents of yours! Trace continuity back to the Hobbes Origin Story, and all will be revealed.
2002 J. Goad Shit Magnet x.157 I'm the crippled writer; she's the obsessive fangirl.
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Fann.3adj.
A. n.3
a. A member of an African people in the Ogowe basin in western equatorial Africa.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of West Africa > [noun] > person
Nago1775
Fan1861
1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Explor. Equatorial Afr. vii. 67 Great crowds of Fan..came to see me.
1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 3/2 The Fan, whose name appears under the various forms of Fanwe, Panwe, Phaouin, and Paouen, are newcomers to the Gaboon district.
1911 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Magic Art (ed. 3) I. vi. 349 Thus in the Fan tribe the strict distinction between chief and medicine-man does not exist. The chief is also a medicine-man and a smith to boot; for the Fans esteem the smith's craft sacred, and none but chiefs may meddle with it.
1936 Discovery June 172/1 The area of the Western Bantu includes..in the west [the home of] such renowned cannibals as the Fang; it also includes the territory of considerable and highly organised kingdoms, such as the medieval kingdoms of the Kongo and the Balunda, and the later Bushongo Empire.
b. The Bantu language of this people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Kwa family > Bantu languages
Kaffir1820
Swahilese1833
Sesotho1846
Chagga1849
Kikuyu1849
Mitshi1854
Manganja1859
Bantu1866
Kavirondo1870
Luganda1876
Sotho1876
Fan1883
Gogo1883
Lunda1883
Nyamwezi1883
Kioko1884
Barotse1888
Ganda1891
Tumbuka1891
Chichewa1897
Bemba1902
Nyanja1902
Rwanda1902
Lingala1903
Sepedi1905
Ila1907
Lamba1907
Chewa1908
Venda1908
Ngoni1911
Munchi1913
Meru1921
Yao1924
Lozi1937
Nguni1939
Ndembu1945
Mwera1947
Sango1948
Ovambo1953
Sukuma1969
Tiv1976
1883 R. N. Cust Sketch Mod. Langs. Afr. II. xii. 413 As we advance into the Interior, we find only two leading Languages, the Fan, spoken by the invading Oshiba, and the Benga.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of West Africa > [adjective]
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the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [adjective] > of or relating to Bantu languages
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1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Explor. Equatorial Afr. vii. 65 He..set off to a Fan village.
1865 Trans. Ethnol. Soc. Lond. 3 37 It is proposed thus to write the very nasal nasals of the Fan language.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. xiv. 319 A young Fan man has to fend for himself.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. xiv. 322 Fan pottery, although rough and sunbaked, is artistic in form.
1962 Listener 12 Apr. 630/1 The Fan villages.
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fanv.
1. absol.15.. How Plowman lerned Pater Noster in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 218 He coude eke sowe and holde a plowe..Thresshe, fane, [etc.].fig.1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. 15 Let vs then..fanne ourselues.a1616 Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 178 The loue I beare him, Made me to fan you thus. View more context for this quotation1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life xiii. 162 Satan will fan thee, not to get out thy chaff.
a. trans. To winnow (corn, etc.). †Also fig.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [verb (transitive)] > winnow
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > try or test [verb (transitive)] > test (a person)
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [verb (intransitive)] > winnow
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c1000 Liber Scint. lx. (1889) 186 Na fanna [L. ventiles] þu þe on ælcum winde.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 139 Oure lhord ssel uanni his corn, ate daye of dome.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 149 Fanne corne, or oþer lyke, vanno.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccclxxxi. 640 Their tenantes ought..to bring home theyr cornes, and some to threshe and to fanne.
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes i. §15. 21 Men when they fan their corne cannot do it so thorowly cleane.
1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 42 They take white oats..they are fanned, cleaned, and carried to a mill.
1884 C. H. Farnham in Harper's Mag. Feb. 400/2 We..fan grain.
b. To winnow away (chaff); to drive away or scatter like chaff. Chiefly with away, out. lit. and fig.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [verb (transitive)] > winnow > winnow away chaff
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > clear out or away > sweep away > (as) by a fan
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c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 7 Þan fan owt þe holys.
1639 H. Ainsworth Annot. Psalmes cvi. 27 To sell their seed among the heathens, and to fan them in the land.
1641 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 11 They may fan away the chaff from the wheat.
1644 H. Parker Jus Populi 67 Phanning out of our way such advantages as the Royalists may seem to lay hold of.
1673 Milton Psalm i in Poems (ed. 2) 130 As chaff which fann'd The wind drives, so the wicked shall not stand In jugdment.
1818 Keats Endymion i. 41 To fan And winnow from the coming step of time All chaff of custom.
1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand xxvii. 261 Whoever got ‘fanned out’—it was always our own folk that did it.
1908 A. Ruhl Other Americans x. 151 One dreams of..a Broadway policeman marching down upon them leisurely with a nightstick and fanning them away.
c. To sweep away as by the wind from a fan.
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1820 Scott Abbot I. ii. 36 To fan the flies from my lady's face while she sleeps.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 29 Fanning the sere leaf far upon the leas.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxx. 397 You could have fanned her out of the way with a butterfly's wing.
2.
a. intr. †To make a fan-like movement; to flap. †Of a bird: To flutter. Of the wind: To blow. Now rare.
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the world > animals > birds > flight > [verb (intransitive)] > flap or flutter
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (intransitive)] > flap or beat up and down
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c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 457 [Þe rauen] fongez to þe flyȝt, & fannez on þe wyndez.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vii. 25 Þe fewle..fannez with his wenges ay till þe forsaid thinges be sett on fire.
a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCiiv, With her wynges she fanneth..vnto she haue kyndled in them fyre.
a1616 Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. i. 919 Fanning in his face with a Peacocks feather. View more context for this quotation
1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 99 They [winds] begin insensibly to fanne, and agitate the Air.
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. iii. iv. 27 These Sea-Breezes do commonly rise in the Morning... In half an Hour's time..it fans pretty briskly.
1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee vi. 78 To feel the cold uncanny night breezes fan through the place.
b. To be wafted gently along; to move as by a gentle beating of the wings (rare). Also, to move smartly; to clear out (U.S. slang).
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move in the air [verb (intransitive)] > gently
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1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. E2, Such downe, As in time of Molting, fanns, From the breasts of siluer Swannes.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) ix. 66 We managed to fan along at a rate of two knots an hour.
1874 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 52 The Barn Owl..fans its way onwards with its down-fringed wings.
1902 O. Wister Virginian xv. 168 This hyeh train?.. Why, it's been fanning it a right smart little while.
1904 Leslie's Monthly Mag. Aug. 421/2 He saw I was drunk, and fanned out, me shootin' at him with every jump.
1927 W. R. James Cow Country viii. 230 Todd..stuck to his seat and fanned his pony on out to the open.
3.
a. trans. To move or drive (the air) with a fan. Const. dat., also in, upon. Also, to stir (water) in this way; hence intr. or absol.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > set (air) in motion [verb (transitive)] > with a fan
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > move like fan
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [verb (intransitive)] > stir the water (of trout)
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c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Add. MS.) lxxxvii. 408 [The ape] toke vp the clothes, and fanned hem wynde.
1594 Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iv. iv, Cupids hover in the Air, And fan it in Aeneas lovely face!
1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 26 Breath, which nature fannes upon it for a while.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. iv. xv, The birds of heaven..fann'd around him The motionless air of noon.
1886 Outing 8 161/1 The trout..is balancing himself on the hard sandy bottom, his fins slowly fanning the water.
1898 Daily News 15 June 4/7 It is commonly in steady weather that you see the trout with their heads a quarter of an inch beneath the surface, and with their tails fanning expectantly.
b. To move like a fan; to wave. arch.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > agitate [verb (transitive)] > cause to wave in the wind
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1638 Milton Lycidas in Obsequies Edward King 21 in Justa Edouardo King The willows..Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft layes.
1740 J. Dyer Ruins of Rome 20 The Gourd and Olive fan Their am'rous foliage.
4. To drive a current of air upon, with or as with a fan:
a. with the object or effect of cooling. Also to fan into (slumber).
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > cool > by driving a current of air on
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the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > freshen (air) [verb (transitive)] > supply with fresh air or ventilate > fan
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a1616 Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. ii. 50 The Norweyan Banners flowt the skie, And fanne our people cold. View more context for this quotation
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures viii. 23 He made one of his followers to fan me with a ventilow for to refresh me.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 80. ⁋3 Fanned into Slumbers by successive Hands of them [Slaves].
1725 G. Berkeley Proposal in Wks. (1871) III. 221 The air in Bermuda is perpetually fanned and kept cool by sea-breezes.
1820 Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 62 Where Arno's stream..still doth fan Itself with dancing bulrush.
1832 Tennyson Eleänore in Poems (new ed.) 25 Thy bounteous forehead was not fanned With breezes from our oaken glades.
1863 M. Oliphant Doctor's Fam. Mrs. Fred..took up her handkerchief and..began to fan her..cheeks.
b. with the object or result of kindling a flame; chiefly fig. Const. into, to.
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the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)] > incite or instigate > bring about by incitement
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > burn or consume by fire [verb (transitive)] > make a fire > direct current of air into fire
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a1616 Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. iii. 131 Let..Your Enemies, with nodding of their Plumes Fan you into dispaire. View more context for this quotation
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. 27 A coale from thy altar fann'd with the wings of the holy Dove.
1709 W. King Art of Love (new ed.) xiv. 67 By slow Degrees he fans the gentle Fire.
1822 Shelley Hellas 6 Its unwearied wings could fan The quenchless ashes of Milan.
1828–40 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) I. 146 He [Edward II] employed his ambassadors..to fan the dissensions between them.
a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 102 His almost imperceptible spark of life had been..fanned into a..flickering flame.
1887 C. C. Abbott Waste-land Wanderings iv. 96 The little fire..was fanned by a passing breeze to a lively flame.
5. Of a breeze, etc.: To blow gently and refreshingly upon, as if driven by a fan; to cool; rarely of a person: To breathe upon.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)]
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (a blast) (of the wind [verb (transitive)] > blow upon gently
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > cool > by blowing upon (of wind)
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > exhalation > exhale [verb (transitive)] > breathe on
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1600 Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 143 High Taurus snow, Fand with the Easterne winde. View more context for this quotation
1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. H2v, The coole winds haue fand the burning Sunne.
1635 A. Stafford Femall Glory 16 Onely Zephirus was let loose to fanne the Pinke.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. i. 316 The heat of the parts is fanned, cooled and tempered.
1713 Pope Windsor-Forest 9 Pants on her Neck, and fans her parting Hair.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere vi, in Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 38 It fann'd my cheek, Like a meadow-gale of spring.
1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms i. 11 The sea, I ween, cannot be fann'd By evening freshness.
1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xxxiv. 115 Plateaux, fanned by cool breezes from the sea.
6. To spread out like a fan.
a. trans. Naut. To widen. Also, to fan out (see quot. 1871).
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1867 W. H. Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. Fanning, the technical phrase for breadthening the after part of the tops. Also, widening in general.
1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 167/2 Fanning Out..spreading out the upper part of the paper somewhat in the resemblance of a fan.
b. intr. for refl. to fan out: to expand in rays, to assume a fan-like shape. Also fig. and (U.S.) to make a display.
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the world > space > extension in space > extend in space [verb (intransitive)] > be spread out
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)]
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to make, or cut, a splash1804
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to come out strong1825
to cut a spludge1831
to cut it (too) fat1836
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to do the grand1847
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to fan out1860
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to strut one's stuff1926
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1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 11, A prodigious winged vaughting horse..his wings fanning out.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) To Fan out, to make a show at an examination.
1861 G. W. Thornbury Life Turner I. 314 What Orient splendour of colour, fanning out far beyond towards Ithaca.
1926 Hutchinson's Best Story Mag. Nov. 59/1 His black tangle of beard, fanning over his knees ruffled in the wind.
1943 F. S. Herman Dynamite Cargo xi. 95 The warship screen fanned out and closed in.
1962 Times 25 Apr. 16/6 There fan out from the incident..not changes of attitude..but a series of comments on the nature of priestly vocation.
1965 Electronics Weekly 1 Dec. 17/5 Generating stations..interconnected by..transmission feeders fanning out to reach principal load centres.
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a. trans. To beat; to rate soundly.
b. To feel, handle. Also = frisk v. 4a.
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touch [verb (transitive)] > try by touching
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > search (a person)
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to rub down1825
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to run the rule over1865
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to pat down1943
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1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word), I fanned him sweetly, I beat him heartily.
1862 J. Binny in H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) Extra vol. 319/1 Joe..had ‘fanned’ the gentleman's pocket, i.e., had felt the pocket and knew there was a handkerchief.
1887 Tristram in Eng. Illustr. Mag. Dec. 228 Fanning them, which in the tongue of coachmen, is whipping them.
1916 H. Titus I Conquered vi. 84 His quirt fell... He fanned his pony again, and the beast grunted in his struggles for increased speed in the climbing.
1918 C. E. Mulford Man from Bar-20 ix. 100 Cussed if I wouldn't 'a' give six pesos, U.S. to 'a' seen that cougar a-fannin' you!
1927 E. Wallace Feathered Serpent xvii. 216 Legally no policeman has the right to ‘fan’ a prisoner until he gets into the police station.
1931 L. Steffens Autobiogr. I. ii. v. 213 You wonder why we fan these damned bums, crooks, and strikers with the stick.
1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 74 To fan, to search a person quickly for symptoms of concealed contraband articles, firearms, etc.
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a. N. Amer. Of a pitcher in baseball: to cause (a batter) to strike out.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (transitive)] > actions of pitcher
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1909 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1912 C. Mathewson Pitching in Pinch v. 101 He fanned the next two men.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 19/4 The Indian lefthander..has fanned more than 300 hitters.
b. intr. Of a batter: to strike out.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (intransitive)] > types of hit > miss
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1886 Outing July 477/2 The man who..‘fans out’ or ‘pops one up’.
1945 This Week Mag. 21 Apr. 10 He fanned in a pinch and the opposition booed.
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