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Clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the
shovel and with the fan.

2. That which produces effects analogous to
those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that which inflames,
heightens, or strengthens; as, it served as a fan to the flame
of his passion.

3. A quintain; -- from its form. [Obs.]
Chaucer.

Fan blower, a wheel with vanes fixed on a
rotating shaft inclosed in a case or chamber, to create a blast of
air (fan blast) for forge purposes, or a current for draft and
ventilation; a fanner. -- Fan cricket
(Zoöl.), a mole cricket. -- Fan
light (Arch.), a window over a door; -- so
called from the semicircular form and radiating sash bars of those
windows which are set in the circular heads of arched doorways.
-- Fan shell (Zoöl.), any shell of
the family Pectinidæ. See Scallop,
n., 1. -- Fan tracery
(Arch.), the decorative tracery on the surface of fan
vaulting.


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