An instrument used by ladies to agitate the air and cool the face in warm weather. It is made of feathers, or of thin skin, paper or taffety mounted on sticks.

Something in the form of a woman’s fan when spread, as a peacoc’s tail, a window.

An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is thrown up and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.

something by which the air is moved; a wing.

An instrument to raise the fire or flame; as a fan to inflame love.

To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face with a fan.

To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion. The fanning wind upon her bosom blows; . To meet the fanning wind the bosom rose. Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves.

To move as with a fan. The air - fanned with plumes.

To winnow; to ventilate; to separate chaff from grain and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat.