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Webster's English Dictionary

fan

n. [AS. fann, fr. L. vannus fan, van for winnowing grain; cf. F. van. Cf. Van a winnowing machine, Winnow.]1. (Mach.) An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface ()

Clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. (Is. xxx. 24.)

2. That which produces effects analogous to those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that which inflames, heightens, or strengthens; as, it served as a fan to the flame of his passion. ()

3. A quintain; -- from its form. (Chaucer.)

Fan blower, a wheel with vanes fixed on a rotating shaft inclosed in a case or chamber, to create a blast of air (fan blast) for forge purposes, or a current for draft and ventilation; a fanner. -- Fan cricket (Zol.), a mole cricket. -- Fan light (Arch.), a window over a door; -- so called from the semicircular form and radiating sash bars of those windows which are set in the circular heads of arched doorways. -- Fan shell (Zol.), any shell of the family Pectinid. See Scallop, n., 1. -- Fan tracery (Arch.), the decorative tracery on the surface of fan vaulting. -- Fan vaulting (Arch.), an elaborate system of vaulting, in which the ribs diverge somewhat like the rays of a fan, as in Henry VII.'s chapel in Westminster Abbey. It is peculiar to English Gothic. -- Fan wheel, the wheel of a fan blower. -- Fan window. Same as Fan light (above). -- electric fan. a fan having revolving blades for propelling air, powered by an electric motor. ()

v. t. [Cf. OF. vanner, L. vannere. See Fan, n., Van a winnowing machine.]1. To move as with a fan. ()

The air . . . fanned with unnumbered plumes. (Milton.)

2. To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a fan. ()

3. To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion. ()

Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves. (Dryden.)

4. To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat. (Jer. li. 2.)

5. To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan excites a flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned the excitement of the populace. ()

Fanning machine, or Fanning mill, a machine for separating seed from chaff, etc., by a blast of air; a fanner. ()