noun
(now dialect and US) A state of worry or alarm.
(now dialect and US, also fetch one's feeze) A rush, impetus, or a violent impact; also, a rub.
(obsolete, Scotland) A device for wedging items into a tight space.
verb
(transitive, obsolete, often with about, also feeze away) To drive off or away; to make (someone) run, put to flight; to frighten away; compare faze.
(transitive) To beat; to chastise.
(transitive, intransitive) To cause to swing about.
(intransitive) To frighten, put into a state of alarm.
verb
(transitive, also with off, on, up) To twist or turn with a screw-like motion; to screw.
(figurative, by extension) To insinuate.
(transitive, intransitive) To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a thread or rope.
(obsolete, transitive, figurative, with at or up) To rub hard; to do a piece of work with passion.
verb
Pronunciation spelling of freeze.