feeze

Meanings

Noun

• A state of fretful excitement or worry.
• A race; a run.
• A running start or run-up, as for a leap; .

Verb

• To drive off, frighten away, or cause to flee or hesitate; to faze.
• To beat.
• To humble; harass; subdue.
• To cause to swing about.
• To swing about (in the wind); to flare (as a candle).
• To defeat, settle or finish.
• To fret; be in a fume; worry.
• To hurry; to move in an agitated manner.
• To dawdle; loiter.
• To fetch.
• To screw; twist; tighten by screwing.
• To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a rope.

Origin

• From Middle English fese, from the verb (see below).
• From Middle English fesen, from Old English fēsian, fȳsian, variants of fēsan, fȳsan, from Proto-West Germanic *funsijan, from Proto-Germanic *funsijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pent-. Cognate with Icelandic fýsa. faze.
• From Scots feeze, from Old Scots fize, from Dutch vijs, from Middle Dutch vise, from Old French vis, viz, from Latin vītis. vice, vise, and withe.