Fangle
Fan″gle (?), n. [From Fang, v. t.; hence, prop., a taking up a new thing.] Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Fan″gle (?), n. [From Fang, v. t.; hence, prop., a taking up a new thing.] Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
Fan″gle, v. t. To fashion.To control and new fangle the Scripture. Milton.
Fan″gled (?), a. New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled. “Our fangled world.” Shak.
Fan″gle‐ness (?), n. Quality of being fangled.He them in new fangleness did pass. Spenser.
Fang″less (?), a. Destitute of fangs or tusks. “A fangless lion.” Shak.
Fan″got (?), n. [Cf. It. fagotto, fangotto, a bundle. Cf. Fagot.] A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.
Fan″ion (?), n. [See Fanon.] 1. (Mil.) A small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade.2. A small flag for marking the stations in surveying.
Fan″like′ (?), a. Resembling a fan; — specifically (Bot.), folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate.
Fan″nel (?), n. [Dim., from same source as fanon.] Same as Fanon.
Fan″ner (?), n. 1. One who fans. Jer. li. 2.2. A fan wheel; a fan blower. See under Fan.
Fan″on (?), n. [F. fanon, LL. fano, fr. OHG. fano banner cloth, G. fahne banner. See Vane, and cf. Fanion, Gonfalon.] (Eccl.) A term applied to various articles, as: (a) A pecul...
Fan″tail′ (făn″tāl′), n.(Zool.) (a) A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail. (b) Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is ...
Fan‐ta″si‐a (?), n. [It. See Fancy.] (Mus.) A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in whi...
Fan″ta‐sied (?), a. [From Fantasy.] Filled with fancies or imaginations. Shak.
Fan″tasm (?), n. [See Phantasm, Fancy.] Same as Phantasm.
Fan″tast (?), n. One whose manners or ideas are fantastic. Coleridge.
Fan‐tas″tic (?), a. [F. fantastique, fr. Gr. ����������� able to represent, fr. ��������� to make visible. See Fancy.] 1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not ...
Fan‐tas″tic, n. A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. Milton.Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to draw it out t...
Fan‐tas″tic–al‐ness, n. The quality of being fantastic.
Fan‐tas″tic‐al (?), a. Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
Fan‐tas′ti‐cal″i‐ty (?), n. Fantastically.
Fan‐tas″tic‐al‐ly (?), adv. In a fantastic manner.the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne.
Fan‐tas″ti‐cism (?), n. The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.
Fan‐tas″tic‐ly (?), adv. Fantastically.
Fan‐tas″tic‐ness, n. Fantasticalness.
‖Fan‐tas″ti‐co (?), n. A fantastic. Shak.
Fan″ta‐sy (?), n.; pl.Fantasies (#). [See Fancy.] 1. Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.Is not...