verb (old).—To send packing; to whiff away.
1826. SCOTT, Journal [pub. 1890], I., 205. Though this be Monday, I am not able to FEAGUE it away, as Bayes says— [The reference, as furnished by Dr. Murray to Mr. David Douglas, editor of the Journal (1890), is to certain editions of Buckingham’s farce, The Rehearsal: ‘I lay my head close to it with a snuff-box in my hand, and FEAGUE it away.]
