Word Meanings - FAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface; as: An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about

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1. An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface; as: An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle. Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel. An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away. Something in the form of a fan when spread, as a peacock's tail, a window, etc. A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind. Clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. Is. xxx. 24. 2. That which produces effects analogous to those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that which inflames, heightens, or strengthens; as, it served as a fan to the flame of his passion. 3. A quintain; -- from its form. Chaucer. Fan blower, a wheel with vanes fixed on a rotating shaft inclosed in a case or chamber, to create a blast of air for forge purposes, or a current for draft and ventilation; a fanner. -- Fan cricket , a mole cricket. -- Fan light , a window over a door; -- so called from the semicircular form and radiating sash bars of those windows which are set in the circular heads of arched doorways. -- Fan shell , any shell of the family Pectinidæ. See Scallop, n., 1. -- Fan tracery , the decorative tracery on the surface of fan vaulting. -- Fan vaulting , an elaborate system of vaulting, in which the ribs diverge somewhat like the rays of a fan, as in Henry VII.'s chapel in Westminster Abbey. It is peculiar to English Gothic. -- Fan wheel, the wheel of a fan blower. -- Fan window. Same as Fan light .

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FAN)

• Foment
• Excite
• cherish
• fan
• propagate
• encourage
• Inflame
• Fire
• kindle
• excite
• rouse
• incense
• madden
• infuriate
• exasperate
• Irritate
• Imbitter
• auger
• enrage
• Rekindle
• Reignite
• resuscitate
• reinspire
• refocillate
• reinforce
• Suscitate
• Rouse
• vitalize
• inflame

Related words: (words related to FAN)

• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• AUGER
  nave of a wheel + gar spear, and therefore meaning properly and 1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• CHERISHMENT
  Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• INFLAMED
  Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
• IMBITTERMENT
  The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.
• INCENSEMENT
  Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak.
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• FOMENT
  warm application or lotion, fr. fovere to warm or keep warm; perh. 1. To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid. 2. To cherish with heat; to foster. Which these soft fires . . . foment and
• INCENSER
  One who instigates or incites.
• FOMENTATION
  The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors. The lotion applied to a diseased part. 2. Excitation; instigation; encouragement. Dishonest
• INFURIATED
  Enraged; furious.
• MADDEN
  To become mad; to act as if mad. They rave, recite, and madden round the land. Pope.
• RESUSCITATE
  Restored to life. Bp. Gardiner.
• CHERISHER
  One who cherishes. The cherisher of my flesh and blood. Shak.
• ENCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity. All generous encouragement of arts. Otway. 2. That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward,
• PROPAGATE
  akin to propages, propago, a layer of a plant, slip, shoot. See Pro-, 1. To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species
• EXASPERATER
  One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.
• MISKINDLE
  To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
• SELF-KINDLED
  Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power. Dryden.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• SAUGER
  An American fresh-water food fish ; -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• REVITALIZE
  To restore vitality to; to bring back to life. L. S. Beale.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• GAUGER
  One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
• DISINFLAME
  To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.
• EXASPERATE
  Exasperated; imbittered. Shak. Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning. Mrs. Browning. (more info) roughen, exasperate; ex out + asperare to make rough, asper
• AROUSE
  To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the