Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FAN, v.t.

1. To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face with a fan.
2. To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion. The fanning wind upon her bosom blows; To meet the fanning wind the bosom rose. Dryden. Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves. Dryden.
3. To move as with a fan. The air – fanned with plumes. Milton.
4. To winnow; to ventilate; to separate chaff from grain and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat.