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1. trans. To twist or turn with a screw-like motion; to screw. Also with off, on, up.
1806. A. Douglas, Poems, To a Disappointed Lover, 43.
I downa laugh, I downa sing, | |
I downa feeze my fiddle-string. |
1813. W. Leslie, View Nairn, Gloss., 454. Feeze. To turn a screw nail.
b. fig. To insinuate.
1813. W. Leslie, View Nairn, Gloss., 454. Feeze. to insinuate into unmerited confidence or favour.
1824. Jamieson, s.v. One feezes himself into the good graces of another.
2. intr. for refl. To wind in and out; to hang off and on.
17[?]. in Ritson, Scot. Songs (1794), I. 287.
My ewie never playd the like, | |
But feesd [printed teesd] about the barnyard wa. |