English Dictionary

feeze

/fiːz/

noun

(obsolete or US, dialectal) A state of fretful excitement or worry. / (obsolete) A rush, impetus, or violent movement.

The feeze of winter was unbearable.

意味（1）

(obsolete or US, dialectal) A state of fretful excitement or worry.

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!

意味（2）

(obsolete) A rush, impetus, or violent movement.

Dabscote no harme receiued by his fall

But lightly vp himselfe againe doth rease,

Fiue Almains streight they light vpon him all

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.

意味（3）

(obsolete) A running start or run-up, as for a leap; used in the expression "to fetch one's feeze".

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

意味（4）

(obsolete, Scotland) A device for wedging items into a tight space.

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;