feagued

Verb

feague (third-person singular simple present feagues, present participle feaguing, simple past and past participle feagued)

1. To increase the liveliness of a horse by inserting an irritant, such as a piece of peeled raw ginger or a live eel, in its anus.
   • FEAGUE, to feague a horse; to put ginger up a horse's fundament, to make him lively, and carry his tail well; it is said, a forfeit is incurred by any horse dealer's servant, who shall show a horse without first feagueing him, used figuratively for encouraging or spiriting one up.1785, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1st edition, London: Printed for S. Hooper, No. 212, High Holborn, →OCLC, page 61

   Synonyms:

   ginger

2. (obsolete) To beat or whip; to drive.
   • Dol[l]. (aside). Oh, if I wist this old priest would not sticke to me, by Ioue, I would ingle this old seruing-man. / Harp[oole]. Oh you old mad colt! yfaith, Ile feak you! fil all the pots in the house there.1600, Anthony Munday, Michael Drayton, Richard Hathwaye, Robert Wilson, The First Part of the True and Honorable History, of the Life of Sir Iohn Old-castle, the Good Lord Cobham. As it hath been...

   Synonyms:

   flog

3. (obsolete) To subject to some harmful scheme; to ‘do in’.
   • Sir Sim[on Addlepot]. I vvill carry the VViddovv to the French Houſe. / [Mrs.] Joyn[er]. If ſhe vvill goe. / Sir Sim. If ſhe vvill go; vvhy, did you ever knovv a VVidovv refuſe a treat? no more than a Lavvyer a Fee faith and troth; yet I know too. / No treat, ſvveet words, good meen, but ſly...1671 March (first performance), [William] Wycherley, Love in a Wood, or, St James’s Park. A Comedy, […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1672, →OCLC, Act I, pages...
4. (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
   • Come, brother Cockwood, let us get 'em / To lay aſide theſe masking Fopperies, and then / We'll fegue 'em in earneſt: Give us a bottle, Waiter.1668, George Etherege, She Wou’d if She Cou’d, a Comedy. […], London: […] [John Macocke] for H[enry] Herringman, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, page 49

   Synonyms:

   coitize

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