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A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1 De Colange.

ists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase. The fanfare announcing the arrival of the various Christian princes. Sir W. Scott.

A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster. [R.] Dryden.

A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. Swift.

A species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes.

o lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch. [Obs.] Shak. He's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged. J. Webster.

Having fangs or tusks; as, a fanged adder. Also used figuratively.

Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.

w made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled. "Our fangled world." Shak.

Quality of being fangled. [Obs.] He them in new fangleness did pass. Spenser.

Destitute of fangs or tusks. "A fangless lion." Shak.

A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.

A small flag sometimes carried at the head of the baggage of a brigade. [Obs.]

Resembling a fan; -- specifically (Bot.), folded up like a fan, as certain leaves; plicate.

Same as Fanon.

One who fans. Jer. li. 2.

iped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple. [Written also fannel, phanon, etc.]

Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers.

movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.

Filled with fancies or imaginations. [Obs.] Shak.