▪ I. † fane, n.1 Obs.
Also 5 fayne, 5–6 phane, 7 faine; and see vane.
[Common Teut.: OE. fana wk. masc. = OFris. fana, OS. and OHG. fano (Ger. fahne), Goth. fana, ON. (gunn-) fani (Da. fane, Sw. fana; the mod.Icel. fáni, ‘buoyant, high-flying person’, is unconnected).]
1. A flag, banner, pennant.
| a 1000 Boeth. Metra i. 10 Fana hwearfode scir on sceafte. c 1325 Coer de L. 3893 They trumpyd and her baners displaye Off sylk, sendel, and many a fane. 1459 Test. Ebor. ii. (Surtees) 227 A grete salte salar gilte with banars and fanes. 1503 Hawes Examp. Virt. iii. 31 The towres..With fanes wauerynge in the wynde. 1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 72 The Fanes of ships. 1712 Lond. Gaz. No. 5051/3 Ensigns, Jacks, Pendants and Fanes. 1806 Naval Chron. XV. 194 On the fane of her fore-mast, is the date. |
2. A weathercock. See vane.
| c 1386 Chaucer Clerk's T. 940 O stormy poeple..ever untrewe..and chaungyng as a fane. 1483 Cath. Angl. 122 A Fayne of a schipe..ubi a weder coke. c 1510 Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) B iv, Varying as fanes erect vnto the winde. ? 1635 H. Glapthorne Lady Mother iii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. (1883) II. 142 Light faines erected on the tops Of lofty structures. 1773 J. Noorthouck Hist. London 611 The turret..from its top rises a ball that supports the fane. |
▪ II. fane, n.2 poet.
(feɪn)
Also 7 fawne, 5–7 phane.
[ad. L. fān-um temple.]
A temple.
| 14.. Lydg. Lyfe of our Ladye (Caxton) H j, To haue answer.. How long this fane ryal of asyse..sholde last. 1430 ― Chron. Troy ii. xiii, In this phane..they knele. 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1596) 107/1 The idolatrous temples and phanes. 1637 Heywood Dial. iv. 62 The phane Where the two brothers deify'd remain. 1727–46 Thomson Summer 769 Where palaces, and fanes, and villas rise. 1814 Scott Ld. of Isles iv. x, To old Iona's holy fane. 1850 Tennyson In Mem. lvi, Man, her last work..built him fanes of fruitless prayer. |
| transf. and fig. a 1618 Sylvester Du Bartas, Panaretus 656 Long live the Story Of Valiant Princes in the Fane of Glory. a 1839 Praed Poems (1864) II. 54 The fane where Fashion dwells, ‘Lyce's Academy for Belles’. |
Hence † faned ppl. a. [-ed2], having a fane; enshrined.
| 1633 Ford Love's Sacr. ii. ii, Such..as might well become The shrine of some fan'd Venus. |
▪ III. fane, n.3 Obs.
(feɪn)
(See quots.)
| c 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 138 Drenc wiþ feondseocum men, of ciricbellan to drincanne..fane, finul [etc.]. 1597 Gerarde Herbal Supp. to Gen. Table, Fane, white Flower deluce. 1878 Britten & Holland Plant-n., Fane..some white-flowered Iris, but we cannot determine the species. |
▪ IV. fane, n.4 Sc.
(feɪn)
[Cf. Sw. fan the devil.]
An elf, a fairy.
| 1806 Train Poet. Reveries, Witch Inverness 100 Kate was haunted wi' a fane. Ibid. 27 Every fane..in thy breast. |
▪ V. fane
Sc. f. of fain, feign.
▪ VI. fane
obs. f. of fan n.
▪ VII. fane
Sc. pa. tense of fine v. to finish.