feese
/fˈiz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of fess (“horizontal band, in heraldry”).
verb
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."
Etymology
Perhaps from Middle English fese (“a blast, a rush, a burst”), a derivative of Middle English fesen (“to put to flight”). More at faze.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: fese, fesen