feague

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They lay their heads together, with their snuff - boxes in their hands, as Mr. Bayes has it, and feague it away.

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  1. To beat or whip. When a knotty point comes I lay my head close to it, with a snuff-box in my hand; and then I feague it away i' faith. Buckingham, Rehearsal. Heark ye, ye curs, keep off from snapping at my heels, or I shall so feague ye. Otway, Soldier's Fortune (1681).
  2. To discomfit; perplex. No treat, sweet words, good mien, but sly intrigue, That must at length the jilting widow fegue. Wycherley, Love in a Wood, i. 1.
  3. To be perplexed. [Provincial English]

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  1. Prob. from Dutch vegen, sweep, strike, = Middle High German vegen, German fegen, cleanse, sweep: see fay.
  2. Cf. feague, v.
 

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