fausen

English

Etymology

Compare Welsh llysowen (“eel”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːzən/

Noun

fausen (plural fausens)

(UK, dialect, obsolete) A young eel.
- [1611?], Homer, “Book XXI”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
  The wave-sprung entrails, about which fausens and other fish
  Did shoal,
  The spelling has been modernized.

References

“fausen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

faunes, unsafe

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