▪ I. † feind, feint Obs. rare.
[Of obscure origin; it can hardly be a var. of fiend; a subst. use of feigned, feint adjs.?]
? A phantom, goblin.
| 1658–9 Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 64 Those feints, which come nearest the shape of man, are most ugly and dangerous. 1703 T. N. City & C. Purchaser 7 There are really no such standing Species of Animals, and Vegetables [as fauns, mermaids, etc.] in Nature, tho' the belief of such feinds hath been propagated by Orators. |
▪ II. feind(e
obs. forms of fiend.