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  1.  trans. To twist or turn with a screw-like motion; to screw. Also with off, on, up.

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1806.  A. Douglas, Poems, To a Disappointed Lover, 43.

        I downa laugh, I downa sing,
I downa feeze my fiddle-string.

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1813.  W. Leslie, View Nairn, Gloss., 454. Feeze. To turn a screw nail.

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  b.  fig. To insinuate.

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1813.  W. Leslie, View Nairn, Gloss., 454. Feeze.… to insinuate into unmerited confidence or favour.

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1824.  Jamieson, s.v. One feezes himself into the good graces of another.

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  2.  intr. for refl. To wind in and out; to hang off and on.

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17[?].  in Ritson, Scot. Songs (1794), I. 287.

        My ewie never play’d the like,
  But fees’d [printed tees’d] about the barnyard wa’.

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