feese

plural feeses

1. obsoleteObsolete form of feeze (“running start”).

   To leap without fetching any race or feese, nullo procursu salire.

   1580, John Barrett, Alvearie

   2 more examples

   Conatum longius petere. Quintill: To fetche his feese of beave further of in leaping.

   1565, Thomas Cooper, Thesaurus linguae Romanae et Britannicae, page 109

   And giving way backward, fetch their feese or beire againe, and with a fierce charge and assault to returne full butt upon the same that they had knocked and beaten before.

   1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, translated by Holland, Res Gestae

2. obsoleteObsolete form of feeze (“state of fretful excitement or worry”).

plural feeses

1. alternativeAlternative form of fess (“horizontal band, in heraldry”).

   Bigware. Or, a feese gu. betw. three lozenges az. ( another, six ) .

   1884, Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, page 82

   3 more examples

   William Fellow als Norry grants to thomas thacker of Hyghege in Com. Derby gen . these Armes following: Gules a feese betwene iij maskes argent And by way of Augmentacon upon the Feese a treyfull asure stalkede verte betweene ij bytturse heds rasy in theire ppr . coloure, about theire necks a laase wth a folding knotte golde taslede azure on every masks iij droppes sable.

   1881, The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, page 50

   Other branches of the family in Wilberton, Isle of Ely, South Pertherton, in county Somerset, Petersham in county Surrey, and in Westmoreland all have the following arms: Or a feese indented ( another dancettée ) between three crosses crosslet fitchée gules.

   1908, William Richard Cutter, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, page 1958

   The Jetter Coat of Arms "Sable, a feese between three bats displayed Argent.

   1987, Grata Jeter Clark, The Jeter Mosaic: Seven Centuries in the History of a Family, page 10

1. alternativeAlternative form of feeze (“to freeze”).

   Some rain in the night which feesed [froze] as it fell, […]

   2002, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Gary E. Moulton, The Definitive Journals of Lewis & Clark, page 189