fannont (fanon)

See fanon. fanon (fan'on), n. [Early mod. E. fannon; 2138 ML. fano(n-), a banner, esp. a priestly ban napkin napkin, etc., ME. fane, a ban fahne = AS. fan a, ner, a weather-vane: see fanel, vane. The same word appears in gonfanon, gonfalon: see gon falon.] 1. An ensign; a banner.-2. One of the tails of the forked pennon. See pennon. 3. Eccles.: (a) The cloth in which the deacon in the ancient or early medieval church received the oblations; the cloth with which the subdeacon or acolyte held the holy ve els; the offertorium, sindon, or offertory-veil. offertory-veil. See pa tener. (b) The cloth or offertorium in which a fantastic II. a. Same as fan - tailed , 1: specifically ap.. plied to small old-world warblers of the genus Cisticola , as C. cursitans of Europe. fan-tailed (fan'tāld), a . 1. Having the feathers of the tail arranged in the shape of a fan; eur hip i duro us: applied to ordinary birds ( Cari nat a), in distinction from bush - tailed, an epithet nate in distinction from bush rated of the Ratite.-2. Having the tail exceedingly developed and complicate, as the variety of the domestic pigeon known as the fantail. fan-tan (fan'tan), n. [Chinese, fan, number of times, + tan, apportion.] A Chinese game indulged indulged in by gamblers, in which (in its sim called cash, is covered with a bowl, the players betting or staking money on what the remainder will be when the heap has been divided by 4. From the winnings of each player a certain percentage, usually 8 per cent., is deducted for the benefit of the croupier or the good of the house: often abbreviated tan. There were only a few natives playing at fan - tan -a game which, though a great favourite with the natives, appears very stupid to a European. with gold, blue, and red stripes. It is first put upon the head like a hood, descending on the shoulders. After as sumption of the chasuble, it is thrown back, and rests upon the upper part of that vestment. (f) One of the lappets, pendants, or infulæ of a miter. They are apparently derived from or formed a part of the veil or hood once worn by prelates. Take from your true subiects the Pope's false Christ with his bels and bablinges, with his miters and mastries, with his fannoms [read fannons ] and fopperies, and let them haue frely the true Christ again. Bp. Bale, English Votaries, Pref. (g) A church banner or vexillum. Also fannel. -4. In surg., a splint formerly used in fractures of the thigh and leg, consisting of a cylinder of straw, usually laid round a stick bound by cord or ribbon. Under it, next to the limb, was placed the false fanon, a compre of linen in many folds. fan-palm (fan'päm), n. Any palm having flabellate or fan-shaped leaves, in distinction from those with pinnate leaves. - Bermuda or Jamaica fan-palm, Sabal Black burn i an a. - Chinese fan-palm, Trachycarpus Fortune i. European or Mediterranean name of various species of Corypha, especially the Paliput fan-palm, Chamærops humilis. Indian fan-palm, palm, C. umbraculifera. fanqui, n. See fankwai. fan-shaped (fan'shāpt), a. Resembling a fan in shape or form; flabellate. - Fan-shaped window, in arch., a window bounded by an arc of rather more than a semicircle the circumference of which is cut out in semicircular notches: a type of window occurring in early German medieval work. fan-shell (fan's hel), n. A scallop; a pecten; an individual of the Pectinida, so called from the form and radiating ridges. P. P. Carpenter. fan-structure (fan's truktūr), n. In geol., an arrangement of closely folded strata such that the axis-planes of the folds dip, on each side of a mountain-ma or -range, toward the central axis-plane of the range itself, so that the whole has a structure, as exhibited in a cro -section, resembling that shown by an open fan held upright. This arrangement occurs in the most marked degree in certain parts of the chain of the Alps.