Meaning

(countable) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
2. A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates, of the genus Festuca.
3. (countable) An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
4. (countable) The style of a sundial.
5. To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.

Example Sentences

to come under the fescue of an imprimatur

‘Now then,’ Mason rapping upon the Table’s Edge with a sinister-looking Fescue of Ebony, whose List of Uses simple Indication does not quite exhaust, whilst the Girls squirm pleasingly

with thy golden fescue play'dst upon Thy hollow harp

A minister that cannot be trusted to pray in his own words without being chewed to, and fescued to a formal injunction of his rote lesson, should as little be trusted to preach, besides the vain babble of praying over the same things immediately again ; for there is a large difference in the repetition of some pathetical ejaculation raised out of the sudden earnestness and vigour of the inflamed soul, (such as was that of Christ in the garden,) from the continual rehearsal of our daily orisons;

Word Forms

• fescues
• fescuing
• fescued

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When Should You Use Fescue?

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

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