The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght

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• FIber, a beaste called a beuer, whiche is also called Castor, whose stoones are vsed in medicine, and are called Casto∣reum. It is also a kynde of waspes.
• Fibrae, are the extreme partes of the liuer, the hart, or the lunges, or of other thinges wherin is any diuysyon, they maye be cal∣led lappes, brymmes. Also the spires of herbes or trees newe sprongen.
• Fibula, a buckle of a girdell, or other thing lyke therto.
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• Fibulo, aui, are, to buckle, to ioyne togither tymber, or bordes, or other lyke thinges.
• Ficaria, a fygge tree.
• Ficarius, an eater of fygges.
• Ficedula, a byrde.
• Ficetū, a place where figge trees do grow.
• Ficetor, oris, he that loueth or gadereth fygges.
• Ficolea, a staffe or stake of a fygge tree.
• Ficosus, full of sores in the heed or berde.
• Fictilis, fictile, erthen, or made of erthe.
• Fictinus, tia, um, fayned, or dissembled, or counterfayte.
• Fictor, oris, a counterfayter, a fayner.
• Ficulnea, a fygge tree.
• Ficulneus, a, um, & ficulnus, a, um, of a fygge tree.
• Ficus, in the masculyne gender is a fygge: in the feminine gender, is a figge tree. it is also a soore or scabbe, growyng in the pla∣ces of a mans body, where that heare is.
• Fidei cōmissarius, a feoffe of trust.
• Fide bona, without fraude or couyne.
• Fideicommissum, a feoffement of truste.
• Fidei cōmitto, misi, tere, to infeffe.
• Fidesussor, oris, a suretie, or borowe.
• Fidelia, a vesselle seruynge to dyuers pour∣poses.
• Fidelis, faithfull, loyall, trusly, or sure.
• Fidelitas, tatis, faythefulnesse, loyaltie, or suretie.
• Fidem astringere, to promyse faithfully.
• Fidem fallere, to breake promyse.
• Fidem labefactare, to lose credence.
• Fides labefactata, credence loste.
• Fide sua, mea, tua, iubere, to vndertake.
• Fidena, a towne in Italy.
• Fidentia, confidence.
• Fides, fidei, belefe, truste, promyse. It is a stablenes and truthe in promyses and co∣uenauntes. It is also a faythfull execution of thinges commytted or promysed.
• Fidem habere, to beleue.
• Fidem accipere, to be beleued.
• Fidem liberare, to kepe promyse.
• Fides, fidis, the strynge of any instrument. sometyme a harpe or lute.
• Fides publica, the credence or promyse of all the people and rulers.
• Fidicen, cinis, a harpe: it maye be called a fyddell. it is also he that playeth on the in∣strument.
• Fidicina, a woman harper or luter.
• Fidicula, a rebecke, or gytterne.
• Fidiculae plurali, a tourment made with cor∣des or strynges, wherwith menne be tour∣mented, to make them to confesse treason or felonye.
• Fido, fisus, sum, fidere, to truste.
• Fidutia, trust, confidence: somtyme hope: it is proprely that truste, wherin any thyng is deliueryd by one man to an other, to the intent that he shall redelyuer it, whan he is required.
• Fiduciaria possessio, a possession to an other mans vse, or vpon condicion.
• Fiduciaria mancipatio, aut uenditio, a state in landes made vpon confidence of truste, or a morgage.
• Fidus, a, um, trusty.
• Figmentum, the warke or warkemanshyp: sometyme a lye, or a thing fayned.
• Figo, xi, figere, to thruste in. sommetyme it sygnifyeth to driue or fasten in the erthe. Palum humi fixit, He droue the stake into the grounde. also to plant or sette. Ipse fera∣ces Figat humo plantas, He wolle sette in the grounde the fruitefull plantes. Some∣tyme to stryke.
• Figlina, ae, a potters warkehowse, or pot∣ters crafte.
• Figlina, plurali, vessell of erthe.
• Figulus, a potter.
• Figura, a fygure.
• Figuro, aui, are, to make or fourme.
• Filiaster, a sonne in lawe by an other wyfe, or an other husbande.
• Filius terre, a newe begunne gentylman, or a gentylman of the fyrste heed.
• Filicula, ferne growynge on trees, callid in a greke name polypodion.
• Filius, a sonne, filia, a doughter.
• Filii, somtime dothe conteyne both sonnes and doughters.
• Filistim, a countreye, that is nowe callyd Ascalon.
• Filix, licis, ferne.
• Filum, a threde. sometyme the proporcion of a thynge.
• Filo, aui, are, to spynne or make a threde.
• Fimbria, the skyrtes or hemme of a gar∣mente.
• Fimetum, a dunge hylle.
• Fimum, a boxe, out of the whiche men doo caste dyse.
• Fimus, dunge of cattell.
• Finalis, le, fynall, or laste.
• Findo, fidi, findere, to cutte, to cleue.
• Fissilis, le, that whiche may be cutte.
• Fissura, a cutte or clefte.
• Fingo, xi, gere, to make, to forme, to fayn.
• Finio, iui, ire, to fynyshe or ende.
• Finis, the ende, the conclusyon. also intente or purpose, whervnto any other thing hath relation, or is made or done for.
• Fines plurali, the borders or marches of a countrey, boundes.
• Finitimus, ma, um, nygh ioynynge.
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• Finirio, a definition.
• Finitor, oris, a setter of boundes.
• Fio, fieri, to be, to be estemed.
• Firmamentum, a suertie or stabylitie. also that, whyche is called the grounde of a cause or matter. Also the firmament or he∣uen vysyble.
• Firmo, aui, are, to make stable or sure.
• Firmus, stable, constant, well fortified.
• Firmitas, & firmitudo, stablenes, constāce, surenesse.
• Fiscalis, le, pertaynynge to the kynges treasure.
• Fiscella, a chiefe fate. Also it is a thynge made with withes and halters, wherewith cattell were so moselled, that they mought not byte anye yonge sprynges or buddes of trees.
• Fiscellus, a lyttell hyll in Italye, not farre from Tyber.
• Fisci, fiscinae, fiscellae, greate sachels, wher∣in were put great sommes of money.
• Fiscus, the priuate treasure of princis.
• Fiscum, the kynges escheker.
• Fiscina, a greatte baskette.
• Fiscibilis, le, that maye be cutte or slytte. fi∣scilis, the same.
• Fistula, a pype, as well to conuey water, as an instrument of musyke. Also the we sell or throte bolle. also a tappe or faucette. al∣so a disease or soore, whiche commeth of a putrified humour, and contynually rūneth.
• Fistulosus, full of holes lyke a spunge▪
• Fistuca, an instrumente, wherwith pi••••s of wodde be dryuen into the ground. and sto∣nes in pauynge, called a rammer.
• Fistucatio, pylinge, or pauynge.
• Fitiges, be beastis of Aethiope, of a browne colour, hauynge two pappes in the breste, as man hath: nor they be not so wylde, but they may be tamed, nor so tame, but they woll hurte those, that greue them.
• Fixus, a, um, fyrme, faste.

Notes

• Columel. Virg. Ge. lib. 4.
• Iunenal.