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Definition of Feague
1. v. t. To beat or whip; to drive.
Definition of Feague
1. Verb. To decorate or improve in appearance through artificial means. ¹
2. Verb. To increase the liveliness of a horse by inserting an irritant, such as a piece of peeled raw ginger, in its fundament. ¹
3. Verb. (obsolete) To beat or whip; to drive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Feague
1. to whip [v FEAGUED, FEAGUING, FEAGUES] - See also: whip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feague
Literary usage of Feague
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"See Nares. feague, to settle one's business, to take one in hand, to dispose of.
... See NED. feague, to whip. Otway, Soldier's Fortune, v. 5 (Beaugard). ..."
2. Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Revised and Corrected ...by Francis Grose, Pierce Egan by Francis Grose, Pierce Egan (1823)
"To feague a horse ; to put ginger up a horse's fundament, and, formerly, ...
feague is used, figuratively, for encouraging or spiriting one up. PEAK. ..."
3. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"You hell-cat, with your hoggs face, I'le so feague you with this faggot-stick.
Revet, The Town Ж/о, 1671. I love to be merry sometimes ; but when a knotty ..."
4. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford by Walter Scott (1891)
"1 have not yet breakfasted, yet have cleared half my day's work holding it at
the ordinary stint. "To feague" does not occur in the first eiti- —" I lay my ..."
5. Some Unpublished Correspondence of David Garrick by David Garrick, George Pierce Baker, Bruce Rogers (1907)
"... the black Cap with a little Tassel & feague it ... 3 " feague," beat or whip.
Garrick Is thinking of The Rehearsal, Act n, Sc. 4,11. ..."
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