FAN

Definitions

1. 1. To move as with a fan. The air . . . fanned with unnumbered plumes. Milton.
2. 2. To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a fan.
3. 3. To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion. Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves. Dryden.
4. 4. To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat. Jer. li. 2.
5. 5. To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan axcites 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.