[Perh. related to FEAK v.3; possibly a sing. inferred from feax, FAX, mistaken for a pl.] A dangling curl of hair.
1548. Thomas, Ital. Gram., Ciocca, a feake, or quantitie of heare.
1598. Marston, Pygmal., Sat. i. 138.
| He that can purpose it in dainty rimes, | |
| Can dally with his Mistres dangling feake, | |
| And wish that he were it, to kisse her eye | |
| And flare aboute her beauties deitie. |
1600. Abp. Abbot, An Exposition upon the Prophet Jonah (1613), 571. It doth not become thee to go with such feakes and lockes.
1650. J. Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis, ii. (1653), 72. If anything be lopped off their feaks or foretops.
