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Fanned   /fænd/   Listen
verb
Fan  v. t.  (past & past part. fanned; pres. part. fanning)  
1.
To move as with a fan. "The air... fanned with unnumbered plumes."
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."
4.
To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat.
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.





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"Fanned" Quotes from Famous Books



... said: 'In the last days of Spring, and clad for the season, with five or six grown men and six or seven lads, I would bathe in the waters of Yi, all fanned by the breeze in the Rain God's Glade, and wander ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris
... sustained the invasion with fretful looks and a certain peevish abstraction. She was evidently interrupted by the rapid entrance, which was as unwelcome as it was hasty. Cold though the night was, Mrs Fred, leaning back upon her sofa, fanned her pink cheeks with her handkerchief, and looked annoyed as well as disturbed when her children came trooping into the room clamorous for tea behind the little impetuous figure which at once hushed and protected them. Susan became ...
— The Doctor's Family • Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
... the din of battle, the roll of drums, and the blast of trumpets; and the whole of this tempest was fanned by the faint breathing of a sick and ...
— Halil the Pedlar - A Tale of Old Stambul • Mr Jkai
... had given us all the peppermints he thought we ought to have—and seven more besides, he sat down in the big cretonne chair by the window, and fanned his neck with a newspaper. He seemed to be pretty mad at the people ...
— Fairy Prince and Other Stories • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... the voice that soothed and somehow made it easy to obey. She was fanned slowly, and all ...
— A Little Girl in Old Quebec • Amanda Millie Douglas


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