feeze

English

Etymology

From Old English fēsian (“to drive away, put to flight”)

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -iːz

Noun

feeze (plural feezes)

  1. (obsolete) fretful excitement
  2. a race; a run; a running start, as for a leap
  3. vexation; worry; fret

Verb

feeze (third-person singular simple present feezes, present participle feezing, simple past and past participle feezed)

  1. to drive off; frighten away; put to flight
    • 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker‎, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
      … but as any old fighter will tell you there is nothing more discouraging than to discover that your most effective blows do not feeze your opponent, ...
  2. to drive; compel; urge
  3. to beat; whip; chastise
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Fletcher to this entry?)
  4. to vex; worry; harass; plague; tease; disturb
  5. to defeat; settle or finish
  6. to fret; be in a fume; worry
  7. to sneeze
  8. to untwist; ravel out
  9. to dawdle; loiter
  10. (Scotland) to screw; twist; tighten by screwing.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

References
  • Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for feeze in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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