Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FAN-FAR-ON-ADE', n.

A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. Swift.

FANG, n. [Sax. fang; D. vang; G. fang, a seizing.]

1. The tusk of a boar or other animal by which the prey is seized and held; a pointed tooth. Bacon.
2. A claw or talon.
3. Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken. The protuberant fangs of the Yuca. Evelyn.

FANG, v.t. [Sax. fengan, to catch, seize or take, to begin; D. vangen; G. fangen; Dan. fanger; Sw. fånga. See Finger.]

To catch; to seize; to lay hold; to gripe; to clutch. [Obs.] Shak.

FANG'ED, a.

Furnished with fangs, tusks, or something long and pointed; as, a fanged adder. Shak. Chariots fanged with sythes. Philips.

FAN'GLE, n. [fang'gl; from Sax. fengan, to begin.]

A new attempt; a trifling scheme. [Not used.]

FAN'GLED, a.

Properly, begun; new made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Seldom used, except with new. See New-fangled.] Shak.

FANG'LESS, a.

Having no fangs or tusks; toothless; as, a fangless lion.

FAN'GOT, n.

A quantity of wares, as raw silk, &c. from one to two hundred weight and three quarters. Dict.

FAN'ION, n. [fan'yon; Fr. from Goth. fana, L. pannus, G. fahne, a cloth, a flag, a banner.]

In armies, a small flag carried with the baggage. Encyc.

FAN'-LIGHT, n.

A window in form of an open fan.

FAN'-LIKE, a.

Resembling a fan. Kirby.

FAN'NED, pp.

Blown with a fan; winnowed; ventilated.

FAN'NEL, or FAN'ON, n. [Fr. fanon; Goth. fana, supra.]

A sort of ornament like a scarf, worn about the left arm of a mass-priest, when he officiates. Dict.

FAN'NER, n.

One who fans. Jeremiah.

FAN'NING, ppr.

Blowing; ventilating.

FAN-TA'SIA, n. [It. fancy.]

A fanciful air in music, not restricted to the severe laws of composition.

FAN'TA-SIED, a. [from fantasy, fancy.]

Filled with fancies or imaginations; whimsical. [Not used.] Shak.

FAN'TASM, n. [Gr. φαντασμα, from φαινω, to appear. Usually written phantasm.]

That which appears to the imagination; a phantom; something not real.

FAN-TAS'TIC, or FAN-TAS'TIC-AL, a. [Fr. fantastique; It. fantastico from Gr. φαντασια, vision, fancy, from, φαινω, to appear.]

1. Fanciful; produced or existing only in imagination; imaginary; not real; chimerical. South.
2. Having the nature of a phantom; apparent only. Shak.
3. Unsteady; irregular. Prior.
4. Whimsical; capricious; fanciful; indulging the vagaries of imagination; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
5. Whimsical; odd.

FAN-TAS'TIC, n.

A whimsical person. Jackson.

FAN-TAS'TIC-AL-LY, adv.

1. By the power of imagination.
2. In a fantastic manner; capriciously; unsteadily. Her scepter so fantastically borne. Shak.
3. Whimsically; in compliance with fancy. Grew.

FAN-TAS'TIC-AL-NESS, a.

Compliance with fancy; humorousness; whimsicalness; unreasonableness; caprice. Johnson.

FAN'TA-SY, n.

Now written fancy, – which see. Is not this something more than fantasy? Shak.

FAN'TOM, n. [Fr. fantôme, probably contracted from L. phantasma, from the Greek. See Fancy.]

Something that appears to the imagination; also, a specter; a ghost; an apparition. It is generally written phantom – which see.

FAP, a.

Fuddled. [Not in use.] Shak.