Obs. (Since OE. only Sc.) Also 6 fasse, fæs. [OE. fæs, fas str. neut., cogn. with OHG. faso m., fasa f. (MHG. vase), also MHG. vaser, mod.G. faser, of same meaning.]
1. A border, fringe.
c. 950. Lindisfarne Gospels, Matt. ix. 20. Wif … ȝeneolecde … and ȝehran fas wedes his.
1474. Ld. Treas. Accts. Scot. (1877), I. 22. Item vj vnce of silk for fassis to the samyn harnessing.
1501. Douglas, Pal. Hon., I. xxxiv. Fas, nor uther frenyies, had it none.
1560. Rolland, The Court of Venus, I. 157.
| With girdill of gold, nane gayar on the grund, | |
| With fassis fyne nane fairer mycht be found. |
2. As the type of something worthless.
1508. Ballad, in Golagr. & Gaw., sig. b v. Sik gouuernance I call noucht vvorth a fasse.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, IV. Proloug, 155. Sayis nocht ȝour sentence thus, scant worth a fas.
