Meaning

Obsolete form of feeze (“running start”)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Obsolete form of feeze (“running start”).
2. Obsolete form of feeze (“state of fretful excitement or worry”).
3. Alternative form of fess (“horizontal band, in heraldry”).
4. Alternative form of feeze (“to freeze”).

Example Sentences

Conatum longius petere. Quintill: To fetche his feese of beave further of in leaping.

To leap without fetching any race or feese, nullo procursu salire.

And giving way backward, fetch their feese or beire againe, and with a fierce charge and assault to returne full butt upon the same that they had knocked and beaten before.

William Fellow als Norry grants to thomas thacker of Hyghege in Com. Derby gen . these Armes following: Gules a feese betwene iij maskes argent And by way of Augmentacon upon the Feese a treyfull asure stalkede verte betweene ij bytturse heds rasy in theire ppr . coloure, about theire necks a laase wth a folding knotte golde taslede azure on every masks iij droppes sable.

Bigware. Or, a feese gu. betw. three lozenges az. ( another, six ) .

Other branches of the family in Wilberton, Isle of Ely, South Pertherton, in county Somerset, Petersham in county Surrey, and in Westmoreland all have the following arms: Or a feese indented ( another dancettée ) between three crosses crosslet fitchée gules.

The Jetter Coat of Arms "Sable, a feese between three bats displayed Argent.

Some rain in the night which feesed [froze] as it fell, […]

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Use feese when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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