What is to ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion. Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves. Dryden called?
fan — To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion. Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves. Dryden. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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