feague

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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.
(quote-book)|year=1785|page=61|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=RyVKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA61|oclc=186524911|passage=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.
(quote-book), facing (w)|year=1788|oclc=460570527|passage=(smallcaps). To feague a horſe; to put ginger up a horſe's fundament, and formerly, as it is ſaid, a live eel, to make him lively, and carry his tail well: it is ſaid, a forfeit is incurred by any horſe dealer's ſervant, who ſhall ſhew a horſe without firſt feaguing him. Feague is uſed, figuratively, for encouraging or ſpiriting one up.
2004, (w), ''(w)'' ((w); 33), London: (publisher)|Doubleday, Standard Book Number|ISBN 978-0-385-60342-3; republished London: Publishers|Corgi Books, 2014, Standard Book Number|ISBN 978-0-552-16768-0, page 251:

Run along to Hobson's Livery Stable and tell them I want a good fast horse, right? Something with a bit of fizz in its blood! Not some feagued-up old screw, and I know the difference! I want it here in half an hour! Off you go!

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To beat or whip; to drive.
1671, (w), ''Juliana, or The Princess of Poland: A Tragicomedy, as it is Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke of York's Theatre'', London: Printed for Will Cademan (..) and Will Birch, (w) 606574495, Act I, scene ix; republished in ''The Dramatic Works of John Crowne. With Prefatory Memoir and Notes'' (Dramatists of the Restoration; Crowne 1–4), Edinburgh: William Paterson; London: H. Sotheran & Co., 1873, (w) 906095949, page 34:

There's one Count Sharnofsky, too, such another ambitious dry-chops, he hath not the grace to love good drink, and yet he hath the impudence to aim at the Crown. (..) He squints at it fearfully, and he hath an itch at the Princess too; (''Landlord squints, and makes grim-faces'',) but I hope the Cardinal will feage ''footnote'': "Whip" or "beat." 'um all.

1681, (w), ''The Souldiers Fortune: A Comedy. Acted by Their Royal Highnesses Servants at the Duke's Theatre'', London: Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes, at the Post-House in Russel-Street in Garden|Covent-Garden, (w) 5291125; republished as “The Soldier's Fortune”, in ''The Works of Thomas Otway. In Three Volumes. With Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, by Thomas Thornton, Esq.'', volume II, London: Printed for T. Turner, 87, London|Strand, (successor to John MacKinlay); by B. M‘Millan, (w), Covent Garden, 1813, (w) 9503722, Act 5, page 391:

''Beau''''gard''. Hark ye, ye curs, keep off from snapping at my heels, or I shall so feague ye.

(quote-journal) ''Saint Monday Gemmen'' held their diversions on the 18th, near Clay-hill, which consisted of a pugilistic exhibition between G. Wilkie, a coster-monger, and Jeffery Smith, a professor, but little calculated to astonish the spectators at his professional skill. The battle was for ten guineas; and, after a contest of about forty minutes, in which the combatants were decently feaked, and the head of Jeffery was a good deal disfigured, he resigned the contest, and the coster-monger was carried to Westminster in triumph, (..)
(quote-book) (2) To finish off, ‘do for’; (..) (3) ''To feague away'', to set in brisk motion (as violins); to stir in one's thoughts. ''To feague it away'', to work at full power, (..)
To subject to some harmful scheme; to ‘in’.
(RQ:Wycherley Love in a Wood)
(quote-book))|chapter=Canto II: Monday's Walk|title=Collin's Walk through London and VVestminster, a Poem in Burlesque|location=London|publisher=Printed for Richard Parker at the Unicorn under the Exchange, London|Royal Exchange in London|Cornhill, and (w) near the Devil-Tavern in Street|Fleet-street|year=1690|page=84|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=aq1kAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA84|oclc=11768239|passage=When ''Cataline'' a Catilinarian conspiracy|League / Had made, the Senators to fegue, / And ſtrumpet had told ''Tullius Cicero|Marcus Tully'', / The cloſe intentions of that Bully, / He not ſo much the cauſe revenging / O'th'State, as t'hinder his own ſwinging, / Made the beſt ſpeech to quell that ſtrife, / (Tis ſaid) that e're he made in's Life, (..)
To have intercourse with.
(RQ:Etherege She Wou'd)
(quote-book), at the White Lyon, next Lane|Chancery-Lane end in Fleet-street|year=1673|section=act I, scene i|page=11|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=02dVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA11|oclc=7154364|passage=Chorus. (..) See, yonder ſits ''Well-born'' with his pretty Wife. / (..) Shee ſeeks for her Gallant, and he o'my Life / Hath a mind to be feaguing yon Vizor-Mask-Whore.
An unkempt, slatternly person.