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 (Zoˆl.), 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 (Zoˆl.), any shell of the family PectinidÊ. See
Scallop, n., 1. -- Fan tracery (Arch.), the decorative tracery on the
surface of fan vaulting. -- Fan vaulting (Arch.), an elaborate system
of vaulting, in which the ribs diverge somewhat like the rays of a fan,
as in Henry VII.'s chapel in Westminster Abbey. It is peculiar to
English Gothic. -- Fan wheel, the wheel of a fan blower. -- Fan window.
Same as Fan light (above).
Fan (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fanned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fanning (?).]
[Cf. OF. vanner, L. vannere. See Fan, n., Van a winnowing machine.] 1.
To move as with a fan.
The air . . . fanned with unnumbered plumes.
Milton.
2. To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air
on the face of with a fan.