feeze, feaze2 (fez)

i.; pret. and pp. feezed, feazed, ppr. feezing, feazing. [E. dial., also feese, fease; a corruption, by reduction of the difficult initial combination fn, of ME. fnesen, feeze, feazes (fez), v.; pret. and pp. feezed, feazed, ppr. feezing, feazing. [Sc., also faize, faise, intr.; connected with ME. faselen, later fasyll, intr., ravel out, = D. vezelen = MHG. vas len, G. faseln, ravel out: see fa , fa , fasell.] I. trans. To untwist the end of (anything made of threads or fibers); ravel out. II. in trans. To untwist; ravel out. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 994. If the things we couet to describe be not naturall or not veritable, than yet the same axeth more cunning to do it, because to faine a thing that neuer was nor is like to be proceed eth of a greater wit and sharper inuention than to describe things that be true. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 199. What heavens of joy then to himselfe he faynes ! Spenser , In Honour of Love, 1. 240. The poets feign that Vulcan attempted the chastity of Minerva, Bacon , Physical Fables, v. The supposing another man's ill usage to be ours, is the giving ourselves a present sense, as it were a kind of feigned experience of it; which doth, for the time, serve all the purposes of a true one. Bp. Atterbury , Sermons, I. ix. 2. To make a false appearance of; counterfeit; simulate; pretend: as, to feign death. betoken. In going keep a decent gate, not faining lame or broken, For that doth see me but wantonne e, and foolishne e Babees Book (É. E. T. S.), p. 296. Letters, feigned from such a nobleman, or such a knight. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, 1. 1. This feigned madne of Hamlet's is one of the few points in which Shakespeare has kept close to the old story on which he founded his play. Lowell , Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 220. We are far, however, from thinking that his sadne was altogether feigned. Macaulay, Moore's Byron. Men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise. Emerson, Nominalist and Realist. A fever in these pages burns Beneath the calm they feign. M. Arnold , In Memory of the Author of Obermann. Thowe shalt be as welcome no we As he that synne neuer ded fayne. feeze (fēz), v . i.; pret. and pp. feezed , ppr. feez- 3t. To di emble; disguise; conceal. ing. [E. dial., also written feaze ; cf. dial. fa- sil , dawdle; cf. feeze3 and its equiv. fasell .] To dawdle; loiter. Hall i well . feeze (fēz), v . t .; pret. and pp. feezed , ppr. feez- ing . [Sc., perhaps connected with OD. vijsen , screw, vijse , a screw, a vise, vis , OF. viz , vis ,viz, a vise: see vise .] To screw; twist; tighten by screwing. I downa laugh, I downa sing, I downa feeze my fiddle-string. A. Douglas , Poems, p. 43. To feeze into, to insinuate or wind one's self into, as into favor. To feeze aff, to unscrew. To feeze up, to "screw up"; work into a pa ion; flatter.