feeze

(now dialect and US) A state of worry or alarm.

(now dialect and US, also fetch one's feeze) A rush, impetus, or a violent impact; also, a rub.

(obsolete, Scotland) A device for wedging items into a tight space.

(intransitive) To frighten, put into a state of alarm.

(transitive) To beat; to chastise.

(transitive, also with off, on, up) To twist or turn with a screw-like motion; to screw.

(transitive, intransitive) To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a thread or rope.

(intransitive) To swing about in the wind; to flare (as a candle)

(transitive, intransitive) To cause to swing about.

(transitive, obsolete, often with about, also feeze away) To drive off or away; to make (someone) run, put to flight; to frighten away; compare faze.

(obsolete, transitive, figurative, with at or up) To rub hard; to do a piece of work with passion.

(figurative, by extension) To insinuate.

Pronunciation spelling of freeze. [(intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.]