Fane vs Fang - What's the difference?
fane | fang |
(obsolete) A weathercock, a weather vane.
* 1801 , John Baillie, An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne ,
A temple or sacred place.
* 1850 , The Madras Journal of Literature and Science , Volume 16,
* 1884 , , Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau ,
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, title= * 1993 [1978], (editor), The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1: Cosmogenesis,
(transitive, dialectal, or, archaic) To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
* J. Webster
(transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To take; receive with assent; accept.
(transitive, obsolete, as a guest) To receive with hospitality; welcome.
(transitive, obsolete, a thing given or imposed) To receive.
(dialectal) To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.
A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
* Evelyn
(mining) A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
(rare, in the plural) Cage-shuts.
(nautical) The coil or bend of a rope; (by extension) a noose; a trap.
(nautical) The valve of a pump box.
a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh
(in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom
(rare) To strike or attack with the fangs.
To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
* Philips
As a verb fane
is .As an adjective fane
is faded.fane
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fane, from (etyl) . More at vane.Noun
(en noun)page 541,
- The ?teeple had become old and ruinous; and therefore the pre?ent one was built about the year 1740. It had, at that time, four fanes' mounted on ?pires, on the four corners; the?e being judged too weak for the ' fanes , were taken down in 1764, and the roof of the ?teeple altered.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 64,
- Fanes are built around it for a distance of 3, 4 or 5 Indian miles; but whether these are Jaina , or more strictly Hindu is not mentioned.
page 78,
- The priests of the Germans and Britons were druids. They had their sacred oaken groves. Such were their steeple houses. Nature was to some extent a fane to them.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane , its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
page 458,
- And this ideal conception is found beaming like a golden ray upon each idol, however coarse and grotesque, in the crowded galleries of the sombre fanes of India and other Mother lands of cults.
fang
English
(wikipedia fang)Etymology 1
From (etyl) fangen, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- He's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged .
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Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) fang, .Noun
(en noun)- the protuberant fangs of the yucca
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 3
From an abbreviation of fangtooth, from (etyl) *.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- chariots fanged with scythes