To viciously humiliate or insult.
The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness.
Starting fluid.
Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic.
The medium breathed by human beings; the air.
A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura.
Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace.
Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955).
To slap (a behind, especially).
To dispel by waving a hand-held fan.
To strike out.
To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.
To invigorate, like flames when fanned.
To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
To apply (the air brake) many times in rapid succession.
To strike out (a batter).
To winnow grain.
A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.
An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.
An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
The action of fanning; agitation of the air.
A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
A section of a tree having a finite number of branches