feese

Perhaps from Middle English fese (“a blast, a rush, a burst”), a derivative of Middle English fesen (“to put to flight”). More at faze.

feese (plural feeses)

1. Obsolete form of feeze (“running start”).
   • 1565, Thomas Cooper, Thesaurus linguae Romanae et Britannicae, page 109:

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

   • 1580, John Barrett, Alvearie:

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

   • 1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, translated by Holland, Res Gestae:

     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.

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

feese (plural feeses)

1. Alternative form of fess (“horizontal band, in heraldry”)
   • 1881, The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, page 50:

     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.

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

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

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

     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.

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

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

Borrowed from English face.

feese

1. to face

Borrowed from English faze.

feese

1. to faze