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▪ I. † fers Chess. Obs.
Also 5 fiers, 6 ferse, 7 feers.
[a. OF. fierce, fierche, fierge (in med.L. fercia, farzia), ad. (ultimately) Pers. ferzēn, Arab. firzān, also ferz. The Pers. word means ‘wise man’, ‘counsellor’.]
1. The piece now known as the queen.
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 654 She stal on me and took my fers And whan I saw my fers aweye Alas! I couthe no lenger pleye. a1547Surrey in Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 21 And when your ferse is had, And all your warre is done. 1663–76Bullokar, Fers, the Queen at Chess-play.
2. A pawn which has passed to the eighth square (see quot.).
1474Caxton Chesse iv. vii. (1860) L iv, He may not goo on neyther side til he hath been in the fardest ligne of theschequer, & that he hath taken the nature of the draughtes of the quene; & than he is a fiers.
3. the ferses twelve: according to Prof. Skeat, all the men exc. the king (the bishops, knights, and rooks, being counted as one each).
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 723 Thogh ye had lost the ferses twelve. [1671Skinner, Fers, Feers, Feerses, men at Chess. 1692–1732in Coles.]
▪ II. fers
obs. f. farce v., fierce a., furze, verse. |