famuli

Plural of famulus. famulist (fam'u-list), n. [L. famulus, a servant: see family.] In Oxford University, an inferior member of a college; a servant. famulus (fam'u-lus), n.; pl. famuli (-li). [= Sp. fámulo = Pg. It. famulo, amanuensis. We keep a famulus to go errands, yoke the gig, curry the cattle, and so forth. Carlyle, in Froude. The magician's famulus got hold of the forbidden book, and summoned a goblin. Carlyle , French Rev., III. iii. 3. fan (fan), n. [ fan , fann (for winnowing grain), fann (for winnowing grain) = D. wan = OHG. wanna , MHG. G. wanne = Sw. vanna , a fan (for winnowing grain), = It. van no = OF. van , F. van (whence E. van2 , which is thus a doublet of fan ), vannus , a fan (for winnowing grain), orig. * vatnus , akin to Skt. vāta , wind, √vā , blow. Cf. E. wind1 , and its deriv. winnow , from the same ult. root.] 1. The common name of instruments for producing agitation of the air by the movements of a broad surface, as of a wing or vane. Specifically-(a) A hand-implement for cooling the face and person by agitating the air. Fans are made in a variety of forms and of two general kinds, those which can be folded or shut up and those which are permanently expanded or fixed. Fixed fans are made of feathers set side by side, of the leaves of palmate-leafed palm-trees, or of paper or similar films spread on slender radiating sticks. Folding fans are sometimes made of thin slips of ivory, wood, or papier maché, etc., but more commonly of a continuous surface of paper, silk, or other material, mounted on strips of a rigid material pivoted at one end, and folding together easily in the manner of a plaiting. The most costly and elaborate painted fans were made during the eighteenth century, especially in France, chicken-skin being a favorite material. Crul [curled] was his heer, and as the gold it shoon, And strouted [expanded] as a fanne, large and brode. Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 129. These fannes both men and women of the country doe carry to coole themselves with all in the time of heate, by the often fanning of their faces. Coryat , Crudities, I. 134. "What would you give to your sister Anne?". "My gay gold ring, and my feathered fan ." The Three Knights (Child's Ballads, II. 370). extending horizontally in front of the vertical draw-rods, where by suitable mechanism it is made to wave up and down. Grove, Mus. Dict., II. 598. (e) An apparatus, also called the fan - governor , for regu- lating the throttle-valve of a steam-engine. (f) In soap- manuf . , a rotating paddle, so set that its blades skim close- ly over the surface of the boiling ma in the soap-copper. It serves to prevent the contents of the copper from boil- ing over. = D. wannen = OHG. wannōn , winnow; from the noun.] I. trans . 1. To cool and refresh, or affect in any way, by agitating the air with or as with a fan. Come Zephyrs, come, while Cupid sings, Fan her with your silky Wings. Congreve, Semele, ii. 2. Cleopatra disdained not to cause herself to be fanned by favourite slaves armed with screens or fea- thers of the Ibis, impregnated with odours. Uzanne , The Fan (trans.), p. 28. The air Floats as they pa , fann'd with unnumber'd plumes. Milton , P. L., vii. 432. Her turtles fann'd the buxom air above: And, by his mother, stood an infant Love. Dryden , Pal. and Arc., ii. 519. The southwest wind Of soft June mornings fanned the thin white hair Of the sage fisher. His was no flickering flame, that dies Unle when fanned by looks and sighs, And lighted oft at lady's eyes. D. Webster , Speech, Feb. 22, 1832. That such a man could spring from our decays Fans the soul's nobler faith until it burn. Lowell, Jeffries Wyman. ing, in light, unsteady puffs of wind. To fan out, to spread or reach out in the form of a fan; hence, to be come thin and scattered, as a school of fish. fanal (fa-nal'), n. [F. fanal = Sp. Pg. fanal , a lantern, signal-light, beacon, lighthouse, fanale , a signal-light, beacon, lighthouse (ML. fanale ), fano , It. faro , a lighthouse, pharus , φάρος , a light- IMG:content-1073.png:[blocks in formation] A small lighthouse, or, more commonly, the lamp or apparatus placed in such a lighthouse to give light. fan am (fa-näm'), n. [Anglo-Ind., fa- lam.] 1. The name of various native gold coins formerly current in southern India, and weighing from 5 to 6 of various small Euro- pean silver coins for- merly current in India. The value varied in different places, but it may be stated at about 3 pence English. IMG:content-1074.png:[blocks in formation] ick ; F. fanatique = Sp. fanático = Pg. It. fanatico = D. fanatiek (cf. G. fanatisch = Dan. Sw. fanatisk ), fanatic us , pertaining to a temple, inspired by by y a divinity, enthusiastic, frantic, furious, mad, fanum , a temple: see fane2.] I. a. Same as fanatical . II. n. A person affected by zeal or enthu- siasm, particularly on religious subjects; one given to wild and extravagant notions of reli- gion. There is a new word, coined within few months, called fanatics , which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age. He who sacrifices all expediency to a theory or a belief is in danger of becoming a fanatic . J. F. Clarke , Self-Culture, p. 213. [ fanatic + -al .] fanatical (fa-nat'i-kal), a . 1. Wild and extravagant in opinions, particu- larly in religious opinions; extreme, or main- taining opinions in an extreme way; especially, inordinately zealous, enthusiastic, or bigoted. A fanatick Fellow, one John Powdras, a Tanner's Son of Exeter, gave forth that himself was the true Edward, eld- est Son of the late King Edward the First, and by a false Nurse was changed in his Cradle. IMG:content-1075.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Of an extravagant, extreme, or inordinately zealous kind: as, fanatical ideas.. A Christen mannis obedyence standeth not in the ful- fyllyng of fanatic all vowes. Bp. Bale , Apology, fol. 96. I abhor such fanatical phantasms. Shak . , L. L. L., v. 1. Who that hath seen the new generation of scientists at their work does not delight in their healthy and manly vigor, even when most he feels their iconoclasm to be fanatical ? J. R. Seeley , Nat. Religion, p. 125. =Syn. Enthusiastic , Fanatical , etc. See enthusiastic and superstition . IMG:content-1076.png:[blocks in formation] After they have completed their tuning, they will (if they be masters) fall into some kind of voluntary or fan- Т. Масе (1676). cical play more intelligible. fancied (fan's id), p . a . [Pp. of fancy , v.] 1. Portrayed or formed by the fancy; imaginary: as, a fancied grievance. The vision of enchantment's past; Like frostwork in the morning ray, The fancied fabric melts away. His seals are curiously fancied and exquisitely well cut. Steele , Tatler, No. 142. fancier (fan'si-er), п. has a special taste or aptitude: used of one who deals in objects of fanciful taste: as, a bird - fancier ; a tulip-fancier. IMG:content-1077.png:[blocks in formation] fanatically (fa-nat'i-kal-i), adv . In a fanatical pearance. That which is fanciful is odd, but not beyond manner; with inordinate zeal or with bigotry. When men are furiously and fanatically fond of an ob- ject, they will prefer it... to their own peace. Burke , Petition of the Unitarians. fanaticalne (fa-natʼi-kal-nes), n . Fanaticism. That temper of prophanene , whereby a man is dis- is much posed to contemn and despise all religion,.. worse than fanaticalne , and idolatry. Bp. Wilkins, Natural Religion, ii. 1. fanaticism (fa-nat'i-sizm), n. [ fanatic + -ism.] The character or conduct of a fanatic; inordinate zeal or bigotry; the entertainment of wild and extravagant notions, especially in regard to religion. The fanaticism of Cromwell never urged him on im- practicable undertakings, or confused his perception of Macaulay , Hallam's Const. Hist. the public good. The wild fanaticism that nerves the soul against danger, and almost steels the body against torments. Lecky , Rationalism, I. 153. fanaticize (fa-nat'i-siz), v.; pret. and pp. fa- naticized , ppr. fanaticizing . [ fanatic + -ize .] I. trans . To make fanatical. the point of pleasing; that which is fantastic goes be- yond that point, suggesting an unregulated or half-crazy fancy: as, the fantastic notions or dre of a lunatic. That which is grotesque carries fancy so far as to be un- natural, absurd, a combination of incongruous parts, a travesty upon the real or proper. Come, see the north-wind's masonry. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful , so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion. Emerson , Snow-Storm. Hard, hard, hard is it, only not to tumble, So fantastical is the dainty metre. fancifulne motions and astrological calculations, supposeth that religion hath had its succe ive alterations and seasons according to certain periodical revolutions of the planets. Sir M. Hale , Orig. of Mankind, p. 168. Agile movement, and a certain degree of fancifulne , are indispensable to rhetoric. De Quincey , Rhetoric. fancifyt, v. t. [ -fy .] To imagine; fancy. The good she ever delighted to do, and fancified she was born to do. Richardson , Clari a Harlowe, VI. 344. fancile (fan'si-les), a . [ fancy + -le .] Destitute of fancy or imagination. A pert or bluff important wight, Whose brain is fancile , whose blood is white. Armstrong , Taste. In this book lay absolutely truth, Fancile fact. Browning, Ring and Book, I. 11. fan-coral (fan'kor"al), n . A gorgonian or seafan; an alcyonarian of the order Gorgon i aceæ , and especially of the family Gorgoniida: so called from the branching and radiating form. A common kind is a species of Rhipidogorgia . See cut under coral . There, with a light and easy motion, The fan - coral sweeps through the clear, deep sea. Percival , The Coral Grove. A form of crest com- fan-crest (fan'krest), n. mon in the middle ages at different periods, as in the reign of Richard I. of England, whose second great seal shows this crest, and again at the end of the thirteenth century, when it a umed the shape of a fan or screen with radiating ribs, attached to the helm at a single point. fan-crested (fan'krested), a. In ornith., having a crest of feathers which opens up and shuts down like a fan. The hawk-parrot, hoopoe, and royal tody have such crests. See cut under hoopoe. -Fan-crested duck. See duck2. fan-cricket (fan'kriket), n. A name of the mole-cricket, fen-cricket, or churr-worm, Gryllotalpa vulgar is. See mole - cricket. Fan-crest, about 1350. (From Viollet-le-Duc's "Dict. du Mobilier français.") fancy (fan'si), n. and a. [Early mod. E. also fancie, fansy, fant'sy, phant'sy, a contr. of earlier fantasy, productive imagination, especially as exercised in an unregulated, desultory, or capricious manner; the power or the act of forming in the mind images of unusual, impo ible, odd, grotesque, whimsical, etc., combinations of things. See imagination. Among these Fancy next Her office holds of all external things Which the five watchful senses represent She forms imaginations, aery shapes. Milton , P. L., v. 102. IMG:content-1078.png:[blocks in formation] 2136 thing untried or unknown; an impre ion, supposition, or notion: as, that's a mere fancy. A strange fancy cam into his head, That fair Nanciebel was gane. Lord Lovel (Child's Ballads, II. 163). I have always had a fancy that learning might be made a play and recreation to children. Locke , Education, § 148. 4. Productive or operative taste; design; invention. The New Street [in Genoa) is a double range of palaces from one end to the other, built with an excellent fancy, and fit for the greatest princes to inhabit. Add is on, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 362. 5. Inclination; liking; fondne : as, that which suits your fancy. Yet a' this shall never danton me, Sae lang's I keep my fancy free. Old Song, Herd's Coll., II. 20. Fair Helena in fancy following me. Shak ., M. N. D., iv. 1. But, sir, I have somehow taken a fancy to that picture. Sheridan, School for Scandal, iv. 1. That which takes my fancy most, in the heroic cla , is the good-humor and hilarity they exhibit. Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 232. 6. Something that pleases or entertains without nece arily having real use or value. Within a well-roped ring, or on a stage, Boxing may be a very pretty Fancy . Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 100. 7t. A short, impromptu musical piece, usually instrumental; a fantasy. And [Shallow) sung those tunes to the over-scutched huswives that he heard the carmen whistle, and sware they were his fancies , or his good-nights. Shak, 2 Hen. IV., iii. 2. 8t. One of the ornamental tags or aglets attached to the points in the seventeenth century. -9. A fancy roller (which see, under II.). The fancy has been called the scavenger of the carding engine. W. C. Bramwell, Wool-Carder, p. 203. In form of filleting, suitable for worsted spinning, the fancy is provided with spaced rings, so that after each six inches of carding surface there is a space of from 1 to 2 inches, to allow the tacking on of the clothing. Manufacturers ' Rev., XX. 216. The fancy. (a) A cant name for sporting characters collectively, especially prize-fighters. When the fancy was in favor amongst ourselves, the pugilist, after entering into any legal engagement, under strong penalties, to fight on a day a igned, went into training about six weeks previously. De Quincey, Plato. The clients were proud of their lawyers' unscrupulousne , as the patrons of the fancy are proud of their champion's condition. George Eliot , Janet's Repentance, ii. He must have been a hard hitter if he boxed as he preached-what The Fancy would call "an ugly cus tomer.' Dr. J. Brown , Rab, p. 6. (b) Any cla of people who cultivate a special taste; fanciers collectively. [Rare.] At a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the fancy. De Quincey. Syn. 1. Fantasy , etc. See fantasy and imagination. 2. Conceit. 5. Penchant, bias, vagary, whimsey. II. a. 1. Involving fancy; of a fanciful or imaginary nature; ideal; illusory; notional; dictated by or dependent on the fancy: as, a fancy portrait; fancy prices; fancy strokes or touches. This anxiety never degenerated into a monomania, like fancy prices for giants. Macaulay , Frederic the Great. that which led his [Frederic the Great's] father to pay 2. Fine; elegant; ornamental; adapted to please the taste or fancy (as a trade-epithet); of superfine quality: as, fancy stationery; fan cy flour. Fancy fair. See fair2 . - Fancy goods. (a) In trade , fabrics of varied or variegated patterns, as ribbons, silks, satins, etc., differing from those which are of a plain or simple style or color. (b) As commonly used, articles of show and ornament, not including valuable jewelry, but including appliances of dre le useful than ordinary textile materials or garments made of them, as women's collars, ruffles, ties, and the like, and such articles as inkstands, paper-weights, card-receivers, button-hooks, etc., of ornamental design. Fancy roller, in a carding-machine, a roller placed immediately before the doffer. It generally has straight wire teeth, and serves to raise the wool on the main cylinder, in order that the doffer may take it off readily. Е. Н. Knight. Fancy shot, in billiards , a stroke with the cue intended to make a point in the game by unusual play, or to show the skill of the player. - Fancy stitch, a more or le intricate stitch used for decorative purposes in the finer kinds of needlework: opposed to plain stitch. It does not take long for two young girls to grow intimate over tableau plans and fancy stitches. Mrs. Whitney, Leslie Gold thwaite, ix. Fancy stocks, among American brokers, stocks which, having no determinate value from any fixed or probable income, fluctuate in price according to the fancy of speculators.-Fancy store or shop, a shop in which fancy goods or ornamental trifles are sold. The world's people brought in the commercial element in the way of fancy shops for the sale of all manner of cheap and bizarre "notions." C. D. Warner , Their Pilgrimage, p. 139. fand Fancy work, ornamental knitting, crocheting, tatting, embroidery, etc., performed by women: a phrase applied generally to that which has but little value or serious purpose, and especially to that which is not the object of a regular industry. fancy (fan'si), v.; pret. and pp. fancied, ppr. fancying. [ Cartwright , Ordinary (1651). Their whole appearance shows as little variety or taste as if their clothes were bespoke by the colonel of a marching regiment, or fancied by the artist who dre es the three battalions of guards. Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 2. The relation between the mind and matter is not fan cied by some poet, but stands in the will of God, and 60 is free to be known by all men. Emerson , Nature. 2. To believe with little or no reason; imagine; suppose; presume: as, he fancies that he is ill; I fancy you will fail.-3. To take a fancy to; like; be pleased with. Ninus fancied her so strongly as, neglecting all princely respects, he took her from her husband. Raleigh , Hist. World. "Be ie, I could fancy a Welsh rabbit for supper." "So could I with a roast onion. Come, we'll go down." Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre, iii. 4. To breed or raise, with reference to pleasing the fancy; produce as a fancier. [Rare.] The wide differences observable in fancied animals. Encyc . Brit ., IV. 248. II. in trans. 1. To have or form a fancy or an ideal conception; believe or suppose without proof; imagine. If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know. Locke . 21. To love. IMG:content-1079.png:[blocks in formation] Pa .. to the romantic Gothic era, whose genius was conglomerate of old and new, and the myths of many ages and countries, but still fancy - free, or subject only to a pretended science as crude and wanton as the fancy itself. Stedman, Vict. Poets, p. 10. While literature, gagged with linsey-woolsey, can only deal with a fraction of the life of man, talk goes fancy free, and may call a spade a spade. R. L. Stevens on , Talk and Talkers, i. fancy-line (fan'si-lin), n. Naut .: ( a ) A line used for overhauling the lee topping-lift of the mainor spanker-boom: often called a tripping line. (b) A line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff, used as a downhaul. (c) A small line holding a fair-leader for the hauling part of the main-brace. fancy-monger (fan'si-mung"gėr), n. One who deals in fancies or tricks of imagination. There is a man haunts the forest that. hangs odes upon hawthorns, and elegies on brambles: all, forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind; if I could meet that fancy monger, I would give him some good counsel. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. fancy-sick (fan'si-sik), a . Subject to disordered fancy; of distempered mind; love-sick. All fancy - sick she is, and pale of cheer, With sighs of love, that cost the fresh blood dear. Shak ., M. N. D., iii. 2. fand1+ (fand). An old preterit of find . fand2t, v. t. [ fondien , fandian , try, tempt, prove, in- vestigate (= OS. fandōn = OFries. fandia = MD. vanden , seek, visit, = OHG. fanton, seek out, MHG. vanden , G. fahnden , inform against, endeavor to seize), find an (pret. fand ) , find: see find .] 1. To seek (to do a thing); try; en- deavor: followed by an infinitive. Fele times have ich fonded to flitte it fro thougt. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 623. I will go gete vs light for-thy, And fewell fande with me to bryng. York Plays , p. 113. As thow arte ryghtwise kynge, rewe on thy pople, And fande for to venge theme, that thus are rebuykyde! Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 867. For in the sea to drowne herselfe she fond , Rather then of the tyrant to be caught. Spenser, F. Q., III. vii. 26. 2. To prove; test; examine. Fande me, God, and mi hert wit thou. Ps. cxxxviii. 23 (ME. version). Also preoveth God his icorene [chosen] ase the goldsmith fondeth thet gold i the fure [fire]. Ancren Riwle , p. 182. Everich on, in the best wise he can, To strengthen hire shal ale his frendes fonde. Chaucer, Man of Law's Tale, 1. 249. fand Now fare Philip the free to fonden his might. King A lisa under (ed. Skeat), 1. 108. 3. To tempt; entice (to do evil). The deuell hadde of him gret enuye and onde [hatred]; 0 [one] tyme he cam to his smyththe alone him to fonde. Life of St. Dunstan , 1. 69 (Early Eng. Poems, ed. Furnivall). F. and A. M. An abbreviation of Free and Accepted Masons.