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Fan-light [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A window in form of an open fan.

Fan-light [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face with a fan.

2. To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion.

3. The fanning wind upon her bosom blows;

4. To meet the fanning wind the bosom rose.

5. Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves.

6. To move as with a fan.

7. The air - fanned with plumes.

8. To winnow; to ventilate; to separate chaff from grain and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat.