ground being well dried, a number of the papers are well beaten together on a block, and by this means the filver or gold get a luftre as if they had been burnished. Let every feeble humour thake your hearts; Pope. 3. To feparate, as by winnowing.-I have col lected fome few, therein fanning the old, not omitting any. Bacon. Not fo the wicked, but as chaff, which, fann'd, The wind drives, fo the wicked shall not stand In judgment. Milton. FANACES, a name of Bacchus. See BACCHUS, N° I, 1. FANANO, a town of Modena, in the territory of Frignano, and ci-devant dept. of the Panaro; 25 miles S. of Modena. Lon. 11. 18. E. Lat. 44. 10. N. FANATICI. See FANATICS, § 3. * FANATICISM. n. f. [from fanatick.] Enthufiafm; religious frenzy.-A church, whofe doctrines are derived from the clear fountains of the Scriptures, whofe polity and difcipline are formed upon the most uncorrupted models of antiquity, which has ftood unshaken by the most furious affaults of popery on the one hand, and fanaticifm on the other; has triumphed over all the arguments of its enemies, and has nothing now to contend with but their flanders and caJu ndies. Rogers. (1.) * FANATICK. adj. [fanaticus, Lat. fanatique, Fr.] Enthufiaftick; ftruck with a fuperftitious frenzy. Ofiris, Ifis, Orus, and their train, With monft'rous fhapes and forceries abus'd Fanatick Egypt, and her priests, to feck Their wand'ring gods difguis'd in brutish forms. Milton. (2.) FANATICK... [from the adjective.] An enthufiaft; a man mad with wild notions of religion. The double armature of St Peter is a more destructive engine, than the tumultuary weapon fnatcht up by a fanatick. Decay. (3.) FANATICS. See 2. The ancients called thofe FANATICI, who paffed their time in fana, temples, and being or pretending to be often feized with a kind of enthufiafm, as if infpired by the divinity, fhowed wild and antic geftures. Prudentius reprefents them as cutting and flashing their arms with knives. Shaking the head was alfo common among the fanatici; for Lampridius informs us, that the emperor Heliogabalus was arrived to that pitch of madnefs, as to fhake his head with the gafhed fanátics. Hence the epithet was applied to the Anabaptifts, Quakers, &c. at their firft rife, and is now given to the moderu prophets, Muggletonians, &c. *FANCIFUL. adj. [fancy and full.] 1. 1maginative; rather guided by imagination than reafon: of perfons.-Some fanciful men have expec ted nothing but confufion and ruin from those very means, whereby both that and this is moft effectually prevented. Woodward. 2. Directed by the imagination, not the reason; full of wild images; of things-What treasure did he bury in his fumptuous building: and how foolish and fanciful were they! Hayaward.-It wou fhow as much fingularity to deny this, as it does a fanciful facility to affirm it. Garth. *FANCIFULLY. adv. [from fanciful.] According to the wildness of imagination. FANCIFULNESS. n. f. [from fanciful.] Addiction to the pleafures of imagination; habit of following fancy rather than reafon.-Albertus Magnus, with fomewhat too much curiofity, was fomewhat tranfported with too much fancifulness towards the influences of the heavenly motions, and aftrological calculations. Hale. FANCOURT, Samuel, a diffenting minifter, born in the waft of England, in 1678. He became paftor of a congregation at Salisbury, from whence he was obliged to remove for rejecting the Calviniftic opinions of election and reprobation. He then went to London, where he established the first circulating library, about the year 1740, but in this he was not greatly encouraged. He wrote fome controverfial tracts, and died in low circum. ftances in 1768. *FANCY. n.. [contracted from phantasy, phantafia, Latin; pavaria.] 1. Imagination; the power by which the mind forms to itself images and reprefentations of things, perfons, or scenes of being. Shakespeare, fancy's fweeteft child! Milton. Are many leffer faculties, that ferve Love is by fancy led about, Love and hate are fancy all. Granville. 2. An opinion bred rather by the imagination than the reafon-Men's private fancies mufl give place to the higher judgment of that church which is in authority over them. Hooker-A person of a full and ample fortune, who was not disturbed by any fancies in religion. Clarendon.-I have always had a fancy, that learning might be made a play and know, and are not yet penetrated into the infide and reality of the thing; but content ourselves with what our imaginations furnish us with. Locke. and recreation to children. Locke. . Tafte; i dea; conception of things.-The little chapel called the Salutation is very neat, and built with a pretty fancy. Addifon. 4. Image; conception; thought. How now, my lord, why do you keep alone; Of forrieft fancies your companions making, Using thofe thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on? Shak. 5. Inclination; liking; fondness.-His fancy lay extremely to travelling. L'Etrange. For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself, To fit your fancies to your father's will; Or elfe the law of Athens yields you up To death, or to a vow of fingle life. Shak, -A refemblance in humour or opinion, a fancy for the fame bufinefs or diverfion, is a ground of affection. Collier. 6. In Shakespeare it fignifies love. Tell me where is fancy bred, Merch. of Ven. True worth fhall gain me, that it may be said Defert, not fancy, once a woman led. Dryd. -The fultan of Egypt kept a good correfpondence with the Jacobites towards the head of the Nile, for fear they fhould take a fancy to turn the course of that river. Arbuthnot.-One that was juft entering upon a long journey, took up a fancy of putting a trick upon Mercury. L'Eftrange. 3. Falle notion. The altering of the fcent, colour, or tafte of fruit, by infufing, mixing, or cutting into the bark or root of the tree, herb, or flower, any coloured, aromatical, or medicinal fubftance, are but fancies: the cause is, for that thofe things have passed their period, and nourish not. Bacon. 9. Something that pleafes or afcertains without real ufe or value.-London-pride is a pretty fancy for borders. Mortimer. (1.) To FANCY. v. a. [from the noun] 1. To pourtray in the mind; to image to himself; to imagine. But he whofe noble genius is allowed, Who with ftretch'd pinions foars above the crowd; Who mighty thought can clothe with manly drefs, He whom I fancy, but can ne'er exprefs. Dryd. 2. To like; to be pleased with.-Ninus both admiring her judgment and valour, together with her perfon and external beauty, fancied her fo ftrongly, as, neglecting all princely refpects, he took her from her husband. Raleigh. It is a little hard, that the queen cannot demolish this town in whatever manner the pleaseth to fancy. Swift. (2.) To FANCY. v. n. To imagine; to believe without being able to prove.-All are not always bound to hate and punish the true enemies of religion, much lefs any whom they may fancy to be fo: all are always obliged to love its true friends; and to pray for its very enemies. Strutt's Sermons-If our fearch has reached no farther than fimile and metaphor, we rather fancy than * FANCYMONGER. z.. [from fancy. One who deals in tricks of imagination.-There is a man haunts the foreft, that abuses our young plants with carving Rofalind on their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns, and elegies on brambles; all, forfooth, deifying the name of Rofalind. If I could meet that fancymonger, I would give him fome good counfel; for he feems to have the quo tidian of love upon him. Shak. * FANCYSICK. adj. [fancy and fick.] One whofe imagination is unfound; one whofe diftemper is in his own mind.-'Tis not neceffity, but opinion, that makes men miferable; and when we come to be fancyfick, there's no cure. L'Efrange. *FAND for found. It is retained in Scotland, This when as true by tryal he out fand, He bade to open wide his brazen gate. Spenfer. *FANE. n. f. [fane, French; fanum, Latin.] A temple; a place confecrated to religion. A poetical word.Nor fane, nor capitol, The prayers of priests, nor times of facrifice, Embarments all of fury, fhall lift up Their rotten privilege! Old Calibe, who kept the facred fane Of Juno, now the feem'd. Shak. Dryden. The fields are ravish'd from th' induftrious fwains, From men their cities, and from gods their fanes. Pope. * FANFARON. n. [French, from the Spanifh. Originally in Arabick it fignifies one who promifes what he cannot perform. Menage.] 1. A bully; a hector.-Virgil makes Encas a bold avower of his own virtues, which, in the civility of our poets, is the character of a fanfaron or hector. Dryden on Dramatic Poefy. 2. A bluf terer; a boaster of more than he can perform.There are fanfarons in the trials of wit too, as well as in feats of arms; and none fo forward to engage in argument or discourse as thofe that are leaft able to go through with it. L'Etrange. * FANFARONADE. n. f. [from fanfaron, French.] A blufter; a tumour of fictitious dignity.-The bishop copied this proceeding from the fanfaronade of Monfieur Bouffleurs. Swift. (1.)* FANG. n. f. [from the verb.] 1. The long tusks of a boar or other animal, by which the prey is feized and held; any thing like 'em. Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The feafon's difference; as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the Winter's wind; Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Ev'n 'till I fhrink with cold, I fmile and fay, This is no flattery. Shak Some creatures have overlong or outgrowing teeth, which we call fangs or tufks; as boars, pikes, falmons, and dogs, though lefs. Bacon. Then charge, provoke the lion to the rage Of fangs and claws, and, ftooping from your horfe, Rivet the panting favage to the ground. Addif. 2. The nails; the talons. 3. Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.-The protuberant 992 fangs fangs of the yuca are to be treated like the tuberofes. Evelyn. (2.) FANG, in geography, a town of China, of the 3d rank in the province of Hou-Quang, 50 miles SE. of Yuen-yang. *To FANG. v. a. [fangan, Saxon; vangen, Dutch.] To feize; to gripe; to clutch. To vang is yet ufed in Devonshire. Deftruction fang mankind! Shak. FANGEAUX, a town of France, in the department of Aude; 8 miles SSE. of Caflenaudary, and 131 W. of Carcallonne. Lon. 19. 42. E. of Ferro. Lat. 43. 11. N. * FANGED. adj. [from fang.] Furnished with fangs or long teeth; furnished with any inftruments of deftruction, which can be exercifed in imitation of fangs. My two fchoolfellows, Whom I will truft as I will adders fang'd, They bear the mandate. Shak. Not Scythians, nor fierce Dacians, onward rufh With half the speed, nor half fo fwift retreat : In chariots, fang'd with fcythes, they fcour the field Philip, * FANGLE._n. f. [from fangan, Saxon, to attempt. Skinner] Silly attempt; trifling fcheme. It is never ufed, or rarely, but in contempt with the epithet neau; as, new fangles, new fangleness. *FANGLED. adj. [from fangle.] This word feems to fignify gawdy; ridiculously fhewy, vain ly decorated: new-fungird, is therefore new fahioned; dreffed out in new decorations.-Quick wits be in defire new fangled, and in purpofe unconftant. Afcham.- A book! oh, rare one! Shak. * FANGLESS. adj. [from fang.] Toothlefs; without teeth. The king hath wafted all his rods On late offenders, that he now doth lack The very inftruments of chaftifement; So that his pow'r, like to a fangkes lion, May offer, but not hold. *FANGOT. 2. Į A quantity of wares raw filk, &c. containing from one to 200 weight three quarters. Dict. Shak. as FANGY, a town of Effex, near Canvey ifle. FANIONS, in the military art, finall flags carcd along with the baggage. FAN-KI, a town of China, of the 3d rank, in the province of Chan-fi; 17 miles NE. of Tai. FANNA, a town of Italy, in Friuli; 7 miles NNE. of Aviano. *FANNEL. n. [fanion, French.] A fort of ornament like a fcarf, worn about the left arm of a mais prieft when he officiates. Dict. *FANNER. 2. f. ifrom fan.] One that plays a fan.-I will fend unto Babylon fanners that shall fan her. Jerem. FANNET, a township of Pennsylvania, in Franklin county, (1) FANO, a fea-port town of Italy, in the duchy of Urbino, anciently called Fanum Fortune. It is a bishop's fee under the Pope, and has fevetal churches and monafteries; with an ancient triumphal arch, erected in honour of Auguftus, who fent to it a colony called Julia Faneftris. It is furrounded with ditches and a lofty wall, with towers at small distances, and baftions towards the fea. It is feated on the Adriatic, 8 miles SE. of Pefaro, and 17 E. of Urbino. Lon. 13. 5. E. Lat. 43. 52. N. (2.) FANO, a town of Naples, in the province of Abruzzo Ultra, 9 miles SSW. of Teramo, FANOE, two finall islands of Denmark; 1. in the little Belt, 2 miles S. of Middlefahrt, in 1nen: 2. in the German Ocean, on the coaft of Slefwick, about 15 miles in circuit, inhabited by fishermen. Lon. 8. 25. E. Lat. 55. 23. N. FANSHAW, Sir Richard, famous for bie embafiies, was the Icth fon of Sir Henry Taufhaw of Ware Park in Hertfordshire, and was born about 1607. In 1635, he was employed by K. Charles I. fent refident to the court of Spain; whence ting recalled in 1641, he adhered to the royal intereft, and was employed in feveral important matters of state. At the restoration he was mace manter of the requefts; a ftation in thofe times i confiderable profit. Afterwards, on account of his kill in the Latin language, he was made focretary for that tongue. In 1661, he was fent envoy to Portugal; and in 1662, with the title of ambassador; when he negociated the marriage of Charles II. with the infanta Catherina. Upon bis return he was made a privy countelior. In 1654, he was fent an baffador to both Spain and Portgal; at which time the foundation of peace betwixt thefe crowns and England was laid by him. His conduct during his former employments in thofe courts gained him fach efteem, that his reception was magnificent, exceeding all that vere before, which thofe kings declared was not to be a precedent to fuccceding ambafladors. He died at Madrid in 1665, on the very day he had fixed for his return to England. Belides fome orizi nal poems, he published a tranflation of Bathista Guarini's Paftor Fido, and another of the Lufa of Camoens. Among his pofthumous publications; are," Letters during his embathes in Sp..ia and Portugal; with his life prefixed," FANTASIA, in the Italian music, figrifes fancy and is ufed for a compofition, wherein the compofer ties himself to no particular time, but ranges according as his fancy leads, amidit various movements, different airs, &c. This is otherwife called the capricious flyle: before fonatas were ufed, there were many of this kind, fome of which ftill remain. * FANTASIED. adj. [from fentofy.] Filled with fancies or wild imaginations. Shak. As I travell'd hither through the land, I found the people strangely fantahed. * FANTASM. 7. f. [See PHANTASM] A thing not real, but appearing to the imagination. * FANTASTICAL. FANTASTICK, adj. [faztafique, Fr. from fantafy.] 1. Irrational; bred only in the imagination.The delight that a man takes from another's fin, can be nothing but a fantalical, preternatural complacency, arifing froin that which he really has no feeling of. South. Subfifting only in the fancy; imaginary.— Prefent feats Are less than horrible imaginings: 2. MY My thoughts, whofe murther yet is but fantaj tical, Shakes to my fingle ftate of mar, that function Shak. — Men'are fo podleted with their own fancies, that fome ́xtraordinary revelations of truth, when indeed they do but dream dreams, and amufe themfelves with the fantalick ideas of a bufy imagination. Dray of Pity. 3. Unreal; apparent only; having the nature of phantoras which only affume vilible forms occafionally.-- Are ye funtalical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye fhow? 4. Uncertain; undeady; in.egular. Shak. Prior. Nor happinets can I, nor mifery feel, From any turn of her fantaflick wheel. 5. Whimical; fanciful; capricious; humorous; indulgent of one's own imagination. They put fach words in the mouths of one of thefe funtaftical mind-infected people, that children and muficians call lovers. Sidney.- Ili kuit it up in filken strings," With twenty odd conceited true love knots: To be fantaflick, may become a youth Of greater ume than I. Shak. -Duumvir is provided with an imperions, expentive and fantajlick miûrefs; to whom he retires from the converíacion of a difcreet and affectionate wife. Tatler. We are apt to think our medill its a little fantaflical, in the different prices they fet upon their coins, without any regard to the metil of which they are compofed Addijon. FANTASTICALLY, adv. [from funtafiical.] 1. By the power of imagination. 2. Capriciously; humourously; 'unfttadry England is to idly king'd, Her fceptre fo fantafically born, By a vain, giddy, fhallow, humorous youth, Shak. 3. Whimfically; in compliance with mere imagination. One cannot fo much as funtaflically chule, even or odd, he thinks not why. Grew. FANTÁSTICALNESS. n. f. [from fantaf FANTASTICKNESS. tical.] 1. Humouroufnefs; mere compliance with fancy. 2 Whim ficalnefs; unr afonablenefs.-I dare not affume to oyfelf to have put him out of conceit with it, by having convinced him of the fantasticalnefs of it, Tilletfon. 3. Caprice; unfteadinels. * FANTASY. n. f. { fantafie, Fr. phantafa, Lat. Jurrasiz.] 1. Fancy; immagination; the power of imagining. See FANCY. I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantafy; Which is as thin of fubitance as the air, And more unconftant than the wind, Shak. Shak. He is fuperftitious grown of late, Quite from the main opinion he held once Of fantafy, of dreams, and ceremonies. Thefe fpirits of fenfe, in fantafy's high court, Judge of the forms of objects, ill or well; And fo they fend a good or ill report Down to the heart, where all affections dwell. Davies. -By the power of fantasy we fee colours in a dream, or a mad man thes things before him which are not there. Newton, 2. Idea; image of the mind. And with the fugʼry sweet thereof allure, Chafte ladies ears to fantafies impure. Hubbard. 3. Humour; inclination.--I would wish that both you and others would ceafe from drawing the Scriptures to your fantofies and affections. White. (1.) FANTIN, å fertile country of Africa, on the Gold Coaft, extending about 30 miles along the shore of the Atlantic. The natives are equally courageous and cunning. Their government is aristocratic; each town has a chief, and the fupreme judge is attended by a council of ancients: they are able to raise an army of 30,000 men. Their fmall towns are numerous, and there are 4000 fifhermen on the coaft. Their traffic with Europeans is in gold and Daves. (2.) FANTIN, the capital of the above territory, lies about 12 miles from the conft. * FANTOM. n. [S2 PHANTOM.] Something not real, but appearing to the imagination.” FANU, K'tinall iland of the Mediterranean, about 1 mile NW. of CÓRFU, (1.) FANUM, among the Romans, à temple, or place confecrated, to fome deity. The deified men and women among the Leathens had likewife their fana; even the great philofopher Cicero erected one to his daughter Tullia. (2.) FANUM FORTUNE. See FANO, N° 1. (3.) FANUM VACUNA, in ancient géography, a, village of the Sabine, ficuated between Cures and Mardela; where food the temple of VACUNA, goddess of the idle or unemployed, in an old decayed fate; and hence the epithet putre, used by Horace. It is now called VocONE, FAN-YUAN, a town of Afia, in the kingdom of Corea, 23 miles ESE. of Koang-Tcheou... FANZARA, a town of Fez, 15 miles SW-of Salee FAOT, a fmall ifle of Denmark, N. of Lalınd. ̧ Lon. 11. 26. E. Lat. 55. 0. N. FAOU, a town of France, in the dept. of Enifterre, 9 miles S. of Landerneau. FAQUA, or FOUA, a town of Egypt, on the W. branch of the Nile, built by the Milefians, in the reign of Plammitichus. It was formerly á fei, port, though now 20 miles from the fea. Goods, were brought to it by the canal from Alexandri”, which is now not navigable. It is 16 miles SE. of Rofetta, and 70 NNE. of Cairo. Lon. 48. 45. E. of Ferro. Lat. 31. 10. N. FAQUET, a town of France, in the dept. Cf. Morbihan, 30 miles NW. of Vannes. Lon. 14. 30. E. of Ferro. Lat. 48. 2. N. *FAP. adj. Fuddled; drunk. It feems to have been a cant word in the time of Shakespeare. -The gentleman had drunk himfelf out of his five fentes; and being fap, fir, was, as they fay, cafhiered. Shak. FAQUIER, a county of Virginia, bounded on the N. by Loudon, E. by Prince William, SE. by Stafford, S. by Culpepper, and W. by Shanando counties. It is 55 miles long, and 20 broad; and, in 1795, contained 11,250 citizens, and 6642 flaves. (1.)* FAR. adv. [feor, Sax. fatt, Erfc.] .1. To great extent in length.- Pay facred rev'rence to Apollo's fong, Left Left wrathful the far-shooting god emit higher mountains to pour down waters, than any part of the old world. Bac.-Latin is a more fuccinct language than the Italian, Spanish, French, or even the English, which, by reafon of its mo. nofyllables, is far the most compendious of them, Dryden. Prior. Then with ill gotten gold fhe bought a lord: 3. To a great diftance progreffively.— -As far, my lord, as will fill up the time "Twixt this and fupper. Shak. Far from that hated face the Trojans fly; All but the fool who fought his deftiny. Dryd. 4. Remotely; at a great diftance.-He meant to travel into far countries, until his friend's affection either ceafed or prevailed. Sidney.In a ki gdom rightly ordered, after a law is once established, it prefently takes effect far and wide; all ftates framing themselves thereunto. Hooker. And after that long strayed here and there, Through every field and forest far and near. Hubberd's Tale. -Far be it from me to juftify the cruelties ufed towards them, which had their reward foon after. Bacon. I have been hunting up and down, far and near, fince your unhappy difpofition, to find out a remedy. L'Estrange The nations far and near contend in choice, And fend the flow'r of war by publick voice. Dryden, Far off you view'd them with a longing eye Upon the topmoft branch. Dryden.. -Thefe words are fo far from establishing any dominion, that we find the quite contrary. Locke. 'Till on the Po his blafted corps was hurl'd, Far from the country, in the western world. Addifon. 5. To a diftance.-As far as the Eaft is from the Weft, fo far hath he removed our tranfgreffions from us. Pf. ciii. 12.-Neither did thofe that were fent, and travelled far off, undertake fo difficult enterprizes without a conductor. Raleigh. But all in vain! which when he faw, he ceas'd Contending, and remov'd his tents far off. Milt. -I had always a curiofity to look back into the fources of things, and view in my mind, fo far as I was able, the beginning and progrefs of a rifing world. Burnet. A lion's hide around his loins he wore; The well poiz'd javelin to the field he bore, Inur'd to blood: the far deftroying dart And the best weapon, an undaunted heart. Addifon 6. In a great part.-When they were by Jebus the day was far fpent. Judg. 7. In a great proportion; by many degrees. It is commonly ufed with fome word noting the comparative, but Dryden has used it abfolutely.-Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. Prov. xxxi. 10-Such a communication paffeth far better through the water than the air. Bacon. -Thofe countries have far greater rivers, and far 9. To a certain point; to a certain degree.-The How far forth you do like their articles. Shak. -Not to refolve, is to refolve; and many times it breeds as many neceffitics, and engageth as far in fome other fort, as to refolve, Bacon. Of this I need not many words to declare how far it is from being fo much as any part of repentance. Hammond.-The cuftom of thefe tongues fo far influences the expressions, that in thefe epiftles one may observe the force of the Hebrew conjugations. Locke. 10. FAR off. At a great diftance. For though I fed him angry, yet recalled Cherubic watch, and of a fword the flame (2.) * FAR. adj. 1. Distant; remote.-A man taking a far journey. Mark.— But we muft beg our bread in climes un- Beneath the fcorching or the freezing zone; To try the Lybian heat, or Scythian cold. Dryd. 2. It was formerly ufed not only as an adverb but an adjective, with off. Thefe things feem fmall and undistinguishable, Like far off mountains turned into clouds. Shak. -If we may behold in any creature any one spark of that eternal fire, or any far off dawning of God's glorious brightness, the fame in the beauty, motion, and virtue of this light may be perceived. Raleigh. 3. From FAR. In this fenfe it is used elliptically for a far, or remote place.-The Lord thall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth. Deut. xxvii. 49. 4. Remo ter |