noun

• (now dialect and US) A state of worry or alarm.
  "All this time, they were chattering; but at last I thought, by the sound of their voices, that they must be walking away, and I never was in such a feeze in all my life, in case they should be gone before I could get up the wall ; and when I did get up it, sure enough, gone they was!"
• (now dialect and US, also fetch one's feeze) A rush, impetus, or a violent impact; also, a rub.
  "[…]though you haue fetched your feaze, yet to looke well ere you leape."
• (obsolete, Scotland) A device for wedging items into a tight space.
  "setting up the most expedient agricolary instruments of wains, carts, slades, with their several devices of wheels and axle-trees, plows and harrows of divers sorts, feezes, winders, pullies, and all other manner of engines fit for easing the toyl and furthering the work;"

verb

• (transitive, obsolete, often with about, also feeze away) To drive off or away; to make (someone) run, put to flight; to frighten away; compare faze.
  "Gracious! what a hurly-burly 'twas! How the volks veased [gloss: Hurried, drove] out o' church—higgeldy piggeldy, helter skelter: zich jitting, [gloss: Pushing against each other], driving, and dringing. [gloss: Squeezing]"
• (transitive) To beat; to chastise.
  "Come, will you quarrel? I will feeze you, sirrah."
• (transitive, intransitive) To cause to swing about.
  "When stormy winter shook the trees, An' drumly dubs began to freeze, An' Christmas times brought bread an' cheese, An' routh o' whisky, Auld Carlo then his tail would feeze Sae keen an' frisky."
• (transitive, intransitive) To cause to swing about.

verb

• (transitive, also with off, on, up) To twist or turn with a screw-like motion; to screw.
  "What pushing and crushing Amang the lads and lasses; What squeezing and feezing Wi' ilka ane that passes"
• (figurative, by extension) To insinuate.
• (transitive, intransitive) To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a thread or rope.
  "In short, Tibbie made maist praiseworthy efforts to feeze her fingers oot o' my loof as lang as I held them fast."
• (obsolete, transitive, figurative, with at or up) To rub hard; to do a piece of work with passion.