Meaning of feeze | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A state of worry or alarm.
   US, dialectal
2. A rush, impetus, or a violent impact; also, a rub.
   US, dialectal
3. A device for wedging items into a tight space.
   Scotland, obsolete

Examples

“All this time, they were chattering; but at last I thought, by the sound of their voices, that they must be walking away, and I never was in such a feeze in all my life, in case they should be gone before I could get up the wall ; and when I did get up it, sure enough, gone they was!”

““Don't git in a feeze, uncle Tib;—you can't help your head, I dare say;[…]””

“[Crispin buys a lottery ticket and splashes out in anticipation of winning.] The next morning Violetta [his daughter] was paraded through the streets by a smart clerk in the neighbourhood[…]At the turn of the next street they met Crispin himself, with a visage of alarming length. He was fresh from the office, where they told him he had drawn a—blank!—The smart beau sneaked off in a feeze, Crispin and his goods were sold out by the sheriff[…]”

“Why what a feeze you air in, to be sure!”

“[…]though you haue fetched your feaze, yet to looke well ere you leape.”

“Dabscote no harme receiued by his fall But lightly vp himselfe againe doth rease, Fiue Almains streight they light vpon him all At once: and beare him downe with mightie feas.”

“This tale being bleated out and heard, this cornuted husband of the sheep's heads fetching a feeze backward (like the Roman ram, to push forward with the more violent and villainous force) ran with all his horniferous strength at the poor fire-felon and stroke his brow-butters full in Prometheus's forehead that the very print remaineth in his front, and doth still in some of his race to this day;”

“[…]as hee that leapeth forward fetcheth his feeze a great way backe[…]”

“Our Man of Art[…]finds some words which will not at all serve is turn[…]viz. (An excellent Conserver of Liberty, but never intended for any share in Government, or the choosing of them that should govern)[…]and therefore well bethinks himself, retires a little, begins at An excellent Conserver of Liberty, makes that plural, adds, &c. which is not in the Original, fetches his feeze and leaps quite over all the rest of the Parenthesis[…]”

“Then Lizzie wad coax her, as I've heard her tell, Wi' a lick o' sweet oil an' a feeze o' her hand, She soon brought the dorty jaud back to hersel'.”

“setting up the most expedient agricolary instruments of wains, carts, slades, with their several devices of wheels and axle-trees, plows and harrows of divers sorts, feezes, winders, pullies, and all other manner of engines fit for easing the toyl and furthering the work;”

“The Dean and assessors —unanimoslie condishended and agreied upon that ane compitent number of feezes be made for packing of pleding.”

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