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• FA••al, h. belonging to a b••an.
• Fabellator, l. an inventer of little tales.
• Fabianus, Bishop of Rome, martyred under Decius.
• Fabius Maximus, a Roman General famous for tiring and overthrowing Annibal.
• Fabrication, l. the making a
• Fabrick, l. a building; al∣so a work-house.
• Fabrick-lands, given for the building or repairing of a Church, Colledge, &c.
• Fabulator▪ -list, an inventer or teller of Tales.
• Fabulinus, the God sup∣pos'd to look to Children when they begin to speak.
• Fabulosity, a being
• Fabulous, full of
• Fables, l. invented tales.
• Fac-totum, (l. do-all) a border, in whose midle any letter may be put for use, and taken out again.
• Façade, f. the front or out∣side of a house.
• Facetious, l. wittily-merry.
• Facile, l. easie.
• Facility, easiness.
• Facinorous, l. belonging to notable exploits.
• Fack, one circle of any queiled rope.
• Facrere, o. dissimulation.
• Fact, l. an act or deed.
• Factious, given to
• Faction, a withdrawing a∣ny number from the main body (of Church or state) governing themselves by their own Councels, and [o∣penly] opposing the establi∣shed Government.
• Factist, a poet or play-ma∣ker.
• Factitious, l. counterfeited, made like another.
• Factor, l. a Merchants A∣gent beyond-sea.
• Facture, l. the making or doing of a thing.
• Faculty, l. power or abili∣ty, also a licence or dispen∣sation, also a tr••de, mystery or profession.
• Faculent, l. bright, clear.
• Facundate, l. to make
• Facundous, full of
• Facundity, l. Eloquence.
• Fader, o. Father.
• Fadom, Fathom, Six foot.
• Fage, o. a merry tale.
• Faint, Feint, or Fained Acti∣on, whereby nothing can be recovered, though the words of the writ be true.
• Fain, o, glad.
• Faint pl••ader, a false and deceitful pleading.
• Fair-pleading (beau-pleader) a writ on the statute of Marl-bridg, providing that no fines shall be taken for not pleading to the purpose.
• Fairie, Goblin, Phantasm, also, o. a goodly sight.
• Fairy-sparks, Shel-fire, K. often seen on clothes in the night.
• Faisible, f. possible to be done.
• Faitours, idle vagabonds.
• Fakenham, a town in Nor∣folk.
• Falang, f. a jacket or close coat.
• Fall of a Planet, an essen∣tial debility, opposite to his exaltation.
• Falarick, l. belonging to a dart thrown from towers be∣sieged.
• Falcator, l. a cutter with a bill or hook.
• Falcation, l. a mowing.
• Falchon, a short hooked sword.
• Falcidius, a Roman Consul, author of the
• Falcidian-law, treating of the Citizens right to dispose of his own goods.
• Falciferous, l. bearing a hook or bill.
• Falcon, a great Gun, next to the minion.
• Falda, a sheepfold.
• Faldage, the Lords liberty▪ of folding his Tenants sheep.
• Falding, a kind of course cloth.
• Faldi••dory, -dorium, -tory, the Bishops seat within the Chancel.
• Fald-stool, placed on the Southside of the Altar at which the Kings of England kneel, at their Coronati∣on.
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• Falern, Fall-, a disease in hawks known by their white talons.
• Falernian [wine] growing in
• Falernus, a Field of Cam∣pania in Italy.
• Falesia, a hill or Down by the Sea-side.
• Fallacy, l. Sophism, g. [a proposition framed for] de∣ceit.
• Fallaciloquence, deceitfull speech.
• Fallacious, deceitfull.
• Fallax, l. the same; also deceit.
• Fall-off, when the ship keeps not near enough to the wind.
• Falls, the different lyings of the deck higher or lower.
• Falls of the tackle, the small ropes which they hale by.
• Falouque, f. a kind of Barge or Brigantine.
• Falso returno brevium, a writ against the Sheriff, for false returning of writs.
• False-keel, another keel put under the first, when the ship is too floaty.
• Falstre, an Island in the Baltick Sea.
• False-stem, another stem put on the first being too flat.
• Falsed, o. falsifyed.
• Falsification, l. the same as
• Falsifying, counterfeiting, working or speaking of
• Falsity, Falshood, untruth.
• Famagosta, the chief City in the Isle of Cyprus.
• Fambles, c. hands.
• Famble-ch••ais, c. rings or Gloves.
• Fam-grasp, c. agree with.
• Famicide, l. a slanderer, de∣stroyer of ones good name.
• Famigeration, a divulging, reporting abroad.
• Familiar, belonging to a
• Family, or houshold, also an hide, Manse, Carucata or a Plough-land.
• Familiar, [spirit] with whom there is a league or contract made.
• Familist, one of the
• Family of Love, Hereticks following one H. Nicholas, (1550) whose chief Tenet was, That Christ is already com'n to judgment.
• Famulers, o. helpers.
• Fanatical, belonging to
• Fanatick, Pha-, l. frantick, mad; also a dissenter from the Church of England.
• Fane, a weathercock, also a Temple.
• Fannian law, repressing ex∣cessive banquets.
• Fannel, f. an ancient or∣nament of Priests left arm in sacrificing.
• Fantastick, -cal, whimsical.
• Fantome, as Phantome, also lank or light, No.
• Fanus, a Heathen Deity representing the year.
• Faonatio, Feo-, the fawning of Does.
• Fapesmo, a Syllogism whose first Proposition is an univer∣sal affirmative, the 2d. an u∣niversal negative, and the last a particular negative.
• Farantly, No. handsome.
• Farandman, sc. pilgrim or stranger.
• Farce, f. any stuffing in meat, a knavish jig at the end of an interlude, a fond and disso∣lute play.
• Farced, l. Fassed, o. stuffed.
• Farcie, -cines, fashions, scurffe lepr••sie, a knotty creeping ul∣cer.
• Farcinate, l. to stuffe.
• Fardingdeal, Farundel of Land, the fourth part of an Acre.
• Farding or Farthing of Gold, a Gold-coin worth 20 pence.
• Fardel of Land, the 4th. part of a yard-land, or rather (as Noy saies) two fardels make a nook▪ and four nooks make a yard-land.
• Fare, sa. [the price of.] a passage, also for Face.
• Farrinaceous, -nous, l. made or full of Corn or meal.
• Farl••y-leu, something paid (at the death of a Tenant) in stead of a herriot.
• Of Farlie or Ferlie, things, for Of Yeorly, early or an∣cient things.
• Farnham, a Town in Sur∣rey.
• Farriginous, belonging to a
• Farrago, l. maslin, a mix∣ture of several grains toge∣ther.
• Farreation, l. a Ceremony whereby the Priests confirm∣ed marriage.
• Farringdon, a Town in Bark∣shire.
• Farrow, to bring forth [as a Sow.]
• Farsang, Parasang, a Persi∣an league, three miles.
• Farth••ling, as Farling.
• Farthing of Land, a yard∣land.
• Fascicular, made into a
• Fas••icle, l. a fardel, bun∣dle.
• Fasciculate, to tye up into a bundle.
• Fascination, l. a bewitching by the eye.
• Fasciate, to bind with
• Fascia, l. a swathe.
• Fasguntide, Fasting-tide, Ns. Shrove-tide, the beginning of Lent.
• Fashion-pieces, Timbers in fashion of a great pair of ••orns, to which all the planks reaching to the Ships after-end are fastened.
• Fast, o. wedded.
• Fast-freits, o. full fraughted.
• Fastidious, l, disdainful.
• Fastigate, -giate, l. to raise or grow up to a sharp top.
• Fastness, a strong hold, a place inaccessible, for bogs, bushes, &c.
• Fastuisity, l. pride, disdain∣fulness.
• Fat, o. eight bushels.
• Fatality, l. fatalness, the being
• Fatal, deadly, belonging to or appointed by
• Fate, destiny, necessity.
• Fathom, six feet in length.
• Fatidi••al, prophesying, fore-telling.
• Fatiferous, l. bringing fate.
• Fatigable, capable of
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• Fatigation, l. a wearying.
• Fatigue, f. wearisomness, toil, tediousness.
• Fatiloquent, l. soothsaying, prophesying.
• Fatome, as Fantome.
• Fatuity, l. sottishness, stu∣pidity.
• Fatuate, l. to play the fool.
• Favaginous, full of or like honey or honey-combs.
• Faunus, the Son of Saturn, one of the oldest Italian Kings.
• Faunes, Field and Wood-Gods.
• Faunick, l. wild, rude.
• Favonian, belonging to
• Favonius, l. the West-wind.
• Faukon heronere, a Falcon taking herons.
• Faust, l. lucky, happy.
• Faustity, good luck, hap∣piness.
• Faunte••yns, o. little infants.
• Fautor, l. a favourer, che∣risher or maintainer.
• Fautress, l. she that fa∣voureth or maintaineth.
• Faw, fain, glad, o.
• Fay, f. Faith.
• Faytours, as Faitours, de∣ceivers.
• Faxed, see fixed.
• Feabes, Feaberries, Sf. Goose-berries.
• Feal, No. to hide.
• Fealty, f. (fidelity) the Te∣nants oath (at his admittance) of being true to his Lord.
• Feasible, Feac-, Feis-, (f. Faisible) easie to be done.
• Febricitation, l. a falling sick of an ague or Fever.
• Febriculous, having or sub∣ject to a Fever.
• Febris Catarrhalis, a Fever caused by distilling of Rheum from the head.
• Feg, no. fair, also to flag or tire.
• February, the moneth of
• Februation, l. sacrificing and praying for the Souls of the dead.
• Fecial, Faecial, l. an herald.
• Fecible, as Faisible.
• Feculent, Faec-, full of dregs.
• Feculency, filthiness.
• Fecundity, l. fruitfulness.
• Fedity, l. foulness.
• Federasy, o. confederacy.
• Fee, Foedum, Lands held by perpetual right.
• Fee-farm, Land held of ano∣ther to himself and his heirs for ever, for a certain Yearly Rent.
• Fee-simple, or absolute, to us and our heirs for ever.
• Fee-taile, or conditional, To us and the heirs of our Body.
• Fee of Greece (for Free, Fre, Fretum) the Archipelago
• Feers, o. chess-men, fellows.
• Feest, o. joy (for Feast.)
• Feet, (for feat) o. fine.
• Feffe, o. indue.
• Fehthe, o. feud, enmity.
• Feige, o. to carp at.
• Feintise, f. a dissembling.
• Felapton, a Syllogism whose first proposition is an univer∣sal negative, the 2d. an uni∣versal affirmative, and the last a particular Negative.
• Felaw, o. for fellow.
• Felicitate, -cifie, to make
• Felicitous, full of
• Felicity, l. happiness.
• Fellifluous, l. flowing with gall.
• Fele, o. Sense, knowledge.
• Fell, o. for field, a stony hill, sa. also cruel, raging.
• Fellon, -oun, o. cruel, also an angry blister at the fingers end, &c.
• Felmonger, a dealer in [sheep] skins parting the wool from the pelts.
• Felo de se, l. a self-murder∣er.
• Felonious, belonging to
• Felony, any offense next to petty treason, as murder, Theft, Rape, &c.
• Feloque, and Felucca, the same as Falouque.
• Feltr••d, o. entangled.
• Feltron, o. strong rock.
• Feme Covert, f. a married woman.
• Feminie, o. the Womens (Amazons) Country.
• Fence, c. to spend.
• Fence-moneth, from June, the 9th. to July, 9th. when Deer begin to fawn, and it is unlawful to hunt in the Forest
• Fencing Cully, c. a receiver of stoln goods.
• Fend, no. defend, shift off.
• Fendly, (q. Fiendly) ugly.
• Fends, Fend-bolts, things hung over the ship-side, to keep it from rubbing against another, &c.
• Fenestral, l. belonging to a window.
• Feneratious, taken or given to
• Feneration, usury.
• Fenestere, a promontory of Gallicia.
• Fenne, A. the division of a Book.
• Fenny, k. mouldy.
• Fenugrece, an herb growing plentifully in Gre••ce.
• Feodary, Feud-, Feudatory, an Officer belonging to the Court of wards and liveries, to survey and value the land, &c.
• Feoffment, the gift or grant of Lands, &c. in fee-simple by delivery of seis••n, by word or writing.
• Foeminine, l. belonging to the Female sex.
• Foeneration, l. a putting out to use.
• Fer, and Ferthest, for Far and Farthest.
• Feracity, l. fruitfulness.
• Feral, l. dangerous, deadly.
• Feral signs, Leo and the last part of Scorpio.
• Ferde, o. Fear.
• Ferd, o. Went.
• Fercost, J. a small kind of ship.
• Ferdella terrae, ten Acres.
• Ferdendel, as Fardingdeal.
• Fere, Phere, o. a companion [on the way.]
• Ferdfare, an acquitment of a man to go into the wars.
• Ferdinando, either from
• Fred rand, sa. pure peace▪ or as Bertrand, sa. fair and pure.
• Ferdwit, an acquitment of murder in an Army.
• Feretory, a place in the Church where are set the bier, Coffins, &c.
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• Feretrius, a name of Jupi∣ter.
• Ferial, belonging to
• Feriation, l. a keeping ho∣liday.
• Ferient, l. striking.
• Ferine, l. brutish, wild.
• Ferio, a Syllogism whose first proposition is an univer∣sal, the last a particular Ne∣gative, and the second a par∣ticular affirmative.
• Ferison, the same in the 3d figure, as Ferio in the first.
• Ferit, I. a blow.
• Ferity, l. fierceness, bru∣tishness, salvageness,
• Ferly, o. Strange. See Far∣ly.
• Ferling a farthing, also the fourth part of a Ward.
• Ferlingata terrae, Ferlingas, Ferdl-, the fourth part of a yard-land.
• Ferm, c. a hole.
• Ferm, Farm, an house [and land] taken by lease in writ∣ing or parol.
• Fermaces, g. Medicines.
• Fermanagh, Erdino, a Coun∣ty in Ireland.
• Fermisona, the winter sea∣son of Deer, as Tempus pin∣guedinis is the Summer sea∣son.
• Fermary, o. (q. Infirm-,) an Hospital.
• Fermerere, o. an Over∣seer of Cattel and Husban∣dry.
• Fermentarious, belonging to
• Ferment, l. leaven.
• Fermented, -tated, leaven∣ed.
• Fermentation, a puffing up [with leaven,] the working of beer, &c. and (in Chy∣mistry) the ripening or re∣solving of any thing into it self.
• Ferne year, o. February (Fevrier, f.)
• Ferocious, l. Fierce, haugh∣ty.
• Ferocity, l. Fierceness.
• Feronia, a Goddess of the ••oods.
• Ferrean, l. of or like iron.
• Ferret, a little beast sent into the Coney-burroughs to drive them out.
• Ferried, carried by
• Ferry, a passage over the water.
• Ferry, a town in Kent,
• Ferruginous, full of or like
• Ferrugo, l. the rust of
• Ferrum, l. Iron.
• Ferrumination, a Chymical soldering of metals together.
• Ferrure, f. the shooing of horses.
• Fers, Feers, Feerses, o. Chess∣men.
• Ferth, o. Fourth.
• Fert••ing, o. a thin scale.
• Fertility, l. a being
• Fertile, l. fruitfull.
• Fertilize, to make or grow fruitfull.
• Fervent, the same as
• Fervid, l. hot, eager.
• Ferulaceous, like unto or full of
• Ferula, Fennel-giant, an A∣frican herb, from whose root comes Gum Arabic; also as
• Ferular, a palmer or hand-clapper.
• Fervor, l. a burning heat, vehemency.
• Fesse, a Considerable King∣dom of Africa.
• Fesaunce, o. a Pheasant.
• Fesse-point, (l. fascia) the girdle of honour, a line go∣ing thorow the midst of the Escutcheon.
• Fessitude, l. weariness.
• Festination, l. a making haste.
• Festingmen, Sa. Frank-pledge.
• Festino, a Syllogism whose first proposition is an univer∣sal, and last a particular Neg. the midlemost a Partic. Affir∣mative.
• Festivous, l. full of
• Festivity, l. merriment.
• Festoon, -ton, f. Encarpo, g. a garland of fruits or flower-works [in graven or imbossed work.]
• Festucous, belonging to or having tender sprigs or bran∣ches.
• Fetid, l. stinking.
• Fetiferous, l. bringing forth fruit or young.
• Fetise, o. handsome.
• Fetor, l. a stink, ill-smell.
• Fetously, o. featly.
• Fette, o. fetched.
• Fettle, No. to go about any business.
• Feu, a very high Moun∣tain in China.
• Feud, feed, feid, Ge. a deadly and implacable ha∣tred.
• Feudal, belonging to or held in fief or fee.
• Feud-••oot, Sa. a recom∣pence for engaging in a feud or faction.
• Feudist, one that bears a feud or writes of Fee, &c.
• Feverfew, Febrifuga, Par∣thenia, Maetricaria, Mother∣wort, a cleansing and open∣ing herb.
• Feveriere, -rere, o. Februa∣ry.
• Feversham, a town in Kent where K. Stephen, his Wife and Son lie buried.
• Feuterer, a dog-keeper, or leader of a Lime-hound, &c.
• Few, No. to change
• Fewmets, -mishing, the dung of a Deer.
• F••y, Sc. Foolish.
• Fey, or Feigh it, No. to do any thing notably.
• Fey meadows, ponds, &c. Cleanse them.
• F fa ut, the seventh mu∣sick note, the Cliff-note of the basse-part.
• Fiants, f. the dung of a Badger, Fox, and all ver∣mine.
• Fib, c. to beat.
• Fibrous, belonging to
• Fibres, l. small strings a∣bout roots, veins, &c.
• Fibulation, l. a buttoning, or joyning together.
• Fictile, l. made of Earth.
• Fictitious, l. feigned, invent∣ed.
• Fiction, l. a feigning, also the thing feigned.
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• Sycosis, Haemorrhoides, the piles in the fundament.
• Fid, Okum put into the touch-hole and covered with lead to keep the powder dry, also an iron pin to open the strands in splising of ropes.
• Fideicide, a faith-destroy∣er, breaker of his word or trust.
• Fideicommissor, l. he that commits a thing to anothers trust or dispose.
• Fidelity, l. Faithfulness.
• Fide-jussor, l. a pledge or surety.
• Fidius, the God of faith∣fulness, (for Filius) the Son [of Jupiter.]
• Fiduciary, l. trusty, also a Feoffee in trust.
• Fiduciate, l. to committ a trust, or make condition of trust.
• Fiera••ras, f. fierce at arms, a Braggadocia.
• Fieri facias, a writ for the Sheriff to levy (within the year and day) the debt or damages recovered.
• Fife, an Eastern County of Scotland.
• Fifteenth▪ a Parliament-tribut on every City or Bo∣rough in the Realm.
• Fightwite, Sa. a forfeiture for fighting and breaking the peace.
• Fights, Coverts, any places where men may stand unseen and use their arms (in a ship.)
• Figment, l. a feigned sto∣ry.
• Figulated, l. made of earth
• Figurati••n, as Ethopaeit.
• Figurative, belonging to or spoken by a
• Figure, a word or speech not strictly proper or literal; (in Grammar) a distinguish∣ing of words into simple and compo••nd, (in Logick) a threefold disposition of the Argument or middle term with the two ex••reams, viz. Sub prae prim••, Bis prae secun∣da, Tertia bis su••.
• Figuretto, a kind of stuff
• Figured or flowered.
• Fi••aceous, l. made of thread or flax, also full of
• Filaments, l, as Fibres.
• Filanders, little worms in hawks, also Nets for wild beasts.
• Filazers, Fourteen Officers in the Common pleas, filing original writs that issue from the Chancery, and making out process thereupon.
• Filch, c. a staff with a hole for a hook upon occasion.
• Fildale, Fi••kale, Fictale, Sothale, an extortion (un∣der pretense of Compotati∣on) by Bailiffs in their hun∣dreds.
• File, f. a thread or wire, a difference in Cout-Ar∣mours, also the order of Soldiers in depth usually six.
• File-leaders, all in the first rank.
• Filial, l. belonging to a son.
• Filiaster, f. a Son in law.
• Filiation, Son-ship.
• Filjan-ta••eas, a Cap that the Turkish Sultanas wear.
• Filiolus, l. a little son, also a Godson, Nephew, &c.
• Fill••mot, (fueille mort) f. [the colour of] a dead leaf.
• Filipendula, Dropwort.
• Fillet, a line added under the Chief (in Heraldry.)
• Fill, o. pleased or thought convenient.
• Filly-foal, a Mare-colt.
• Film, a thin skin.
• Filipinas, Indian Islands found and reduced by Philip the 2d King of Spain.
• Filoz••lla, a kind of stuff.
• Filtration, l. a straining or distilling through a felt, wool∣len-cloth, &c. hung over the brim of a pot.
• Fimashing, as Fewmets.
• Fimble [hemp] So. Early ripe.
• Fimbriated, l. edged or bor∣dured with another colour (in heraldry.)
• Final, l. belonging to, brought to, or having an end.
• Finan••er, a receiver or teller in the Exchequer.
• Finance, -cy, f. Wealth, Revenue, treasure.
• Finders, searchers [for goods not customed.]
• Find the Ships trim, find how she will sail best.
• Findible, l. which may be cleft.
• Fine, a mulct or penalty, al∣so a formal conveyance of Land, &c. before a Judge, by acknowledging a final agree∣ment.
• Fine adnullando levato, &c. a writ to Justices, for disan∣nulling a fine levied of Lands holden in ancient Demesn, to the prejudice of the Lord.
• Fine capiendo pro terris, a writ for one (committed to Prison and his goods in the Kings hand) to be released for his fine.
• Fine levando de tenementis, &c. a writ licensing the Ju∣stices of Common-pleas to admit a fine for the sale of Lands holden in Capite.
• Fine non capiendo, &c. a writ forbidding Officers of Courts to take fines for fair plead∣ing.
• Fine pro redisseisina, &c. a writ for the release of one laid in prison for a Redisseisin upon a reasonable fine.
• Fine force, f. an absolute ne∣cessity or constraint.
• Finesse, f. craft, subtilty.
• Finite, l. limited, bounded.
• Finland, part of Sw••ethland.
• Finors of Gold, &c. as Par∣ters and Departers.
• Fin•• skiles, o. it finds or feigns skills.
• Firdstole, as Fridstole.
• Firebares, o. Beacons.
• Fire-boot, allowance of com∣petent fire-wood to the Te∣nant.
• Fire-drake, a fiery Meteor, a great unequal exhalation inflamed between a hot and a cold cloud.
• Fire-cross, a Scotch Procla∣mation (by fire brands on a spear) for all between 16 and 60. to repair to a place of Rendezvous.
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• Firkin, a vessel of nine gal∣lons.
• Firma, sc. the duty which the Tenant paies to his Land∣lord.
• Firmament, l. the starry hea∣ven, finishing its course in 250 thousand years.
• Firmity, l. firmness, stable∣ness, constancy.
• Firmus, a Roman Emperour of a vast strength.
• First-fruits, Annates, one years profits of every bene∣fice.
• Firth, for Frith.
• Firthe, Fyrte▪ Fyrt, o. a bug∣bear, a Ghost, or appariti∣on.
• Fiscal, belonging to a
• Fisque, l. a treasury or Ex∣chequer.
• Fish-garth, a dam or wear for the taking of fish.
• Fishing, piecing of masts or yards to strengthen them.
• Fissility, l. aptness to be cleft.
• Fissiped, l. cloven-footed.
• Fissure, l. a cleft or divisi∣on.
• Fiste-nuts, brought out of hot countries and useful in Physick.
• Fistulary, belonging to a
• Fistula, l. a pipe, also an ulcer eating in and running like a pipe.
• Fitch, the [fur of the] pole∣cate.
• Fitchtel, a town of Meck∣lenburgh in Germany.
• Fitched, sharp at the end. See Cross.
• Fithwite, as Fightewite,
• Fitz, (f. Fils) a son.
• Five-finger, a fish like a spur∣••owel, to be destroyed by the Admiralty law, because de∣structive to Oysters.
• Fixation, l. a fixing, ma∣king any volatil spiritual bo∣dy to endure the fire.
• Fixed stars, not varying their distance from one another; and (corruptly) as
• Faxed stars, Comets, from
• Fax, o. hair,
• Fiz-gig, a dart to strike fishes as they swim.
• Fiz••n, Foison, Sf. the heart or natural juice of herbs, &c.
• Flabellation, an airing with a
• Flabel, l. a fan.
• Flaccid, l. flagging, droop∣ing.
• Flacket, No. a bottle in fa∣shion of a barrel.
• Flag, c. a groat.
• Flagellantes, l. Hereticks go∣ing up and down and us∣ing.
• Flagellation, whipping or scourging [of themselves.]
• Flagitation, l. earnest begg∣ing.
• Flagitious, l. hainous, wick∣ed.
• Flagrancy, l. a being
• Flagrant, l. burning, hot, ve∣hement.
• Flagcolet, f. a small pipe.
• Flags, Nf. turfs pared off to burn.
• Flag-worm, found and bred in sedgy places, hanging to the small strings of flag-roo••s.
• Flamins, -ens, the old Ro∣man Priests.
• Flammability, aptness to be inflamed.
• Flammation, a setting on fire.
• Flammeous, l. like flame.
• Flammivomous, l. vomiting flames.
• Flammiferous, bringing or causing flame.
• Flaminian way, a Roman high-way full of tombs and monuments.
• Flanc••, an Ordinary formed of an Arch-line, from the corner of the Chief, with a swelling Embossment toward the Nombril of th' Escutche∣on.
• Flandria, Flanders, one great Town of 154. villages within 90 miles.
• Flan••ards, the nuts or knots in a Deers flank.
• Flanque, the side of a com∣pany (of Soldiers) from the front to the rear.
• Flaring, Flair-, when a ship is a little howsing in near the water, then the upper work hangs over and is laid out broader aloft.
• Flash of flames, o. a sheaf of arrows.
• Flasque, an Arch-line some∣what distant from the corner of the Chief and swelling by degrees toward the midst of th' Escutcheon, a Carriage for Ordnance, a box for gunpow∣der, also a bottle (or pot∣tle) of Florence wine.
• Flatility, uncertainty, incon∣stancy.
• Flatulent, -uous, l. windy.
• Flatuosity, windiness.
• Flaunes, o. Custards.
• Flavour, a pleasant relish and smell [in wine, &c.]
• Flaw, l. Yellow.
• Flawmes, Sc. flames.
• Flay, o. flew.
• Flea-bane, a whitish herb (by Ditch sides) driving a∣way fleas.
• Fleawort, whose seed resem∣bles a flea in bigness and co∣lour.
• Fleak, No. a gate to set in a gap.
• Flebring, o. a slander.
• Flecked, arched like the fir∣mament.
• Fleckten, o. abound.
• Fledwit, Fletwit, Flightwite, by some, a fine set upon Fu∣gitive••, by others, a dis∣charging of outlaw'd fugi∣tives from amerciaments, when they return to the Kings peace.
• Fleen, o. to fly.
• Fleet, a famous prison in London by the side of
• Fleta, Fleet, Sa. a River, Flood, or small stream.
• Flemaslace, Sa. the claiming a felons goods.
• Fleme, a lancing or bloud∣ing instrument.
• Flemed, o. daunted.
• Fleming, o. Conquest.
• Flemer, o. an expeller.
• Flegmatick, as Phlegma∣tick.
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• ... Flemenesfirinthe, -fyrinthe, -freicthe,
• ... Flemeneferd, -frit, -wurde,
• ... Flemnenefremeth, Flemanis∣flit,
• Fremenefenda, all instead of
• Flymenafyrmthe, sa. the re∣ceiving or relieving a fugi∣tive.
• Flemeswit, a liberty to chal∣lenge the Cattle or amercia∣ments of your man a fugi∣tive.
• Flemming, one of Flanders.
• Flensborch, a Town of South Iuitland in Denmark.
• Flesh of Fruits or Roots, the edible part.
• Fletif••rous, yielding or cau∣sing weeping.
• Fleure, o. a sweet smell.
• Flexanimous, turning the mind, or of a turning mind.
• Flexibility, l. a being
• Flexible, capable of
• Flexion, l. a bending.
• Flexiloquent, l. speaking doubtfully or doubly.
• Flick, c. to cut.
• Flicker, c. a glass.
• Flide-thrift, shove-groat, shovel-board play.
• Fliker, o. to flutter.
• Flint, a Castle in Flintshire.
• Fli••ful, sa. contentious.
• Flitwite, Flitchtw-, Sa. a forfeiture for
• Flit, Sa. contention, wrang∣ling, &c.
• ...Flite, Flight, o. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 hide.
• Flittermouse, a bat.
• Flitting, [a staked horse] eating up all the grass within his reach, removing from place to place.
• Flizze, No. to fly off.
• Flizzing, No. a splinter.
• Flixweed, Sophia Chirurgo∣rum, an astringent herb.
• Flo, Flone, o. an arrow.
• Floan, loose, not haled home to the blocks.
• Floccisy, l. to slight, or light∣ly esteem.
• Flockmele, sa. in flocks.
• Flodden, a hill near Bramp∣ton in Northumberland.
• Flode, (for flowed) o. a∣bounded.
• Flog, c. to whip.
• Floor of a Ship, so much, of her bottom as rests upon the ground.
• Flora, Chloris, the Goddess of Flowers.
• Florce, f. the blew scum of wood boyling in the dyers Lead.
• Floramor, flower of Love, Passevelours, flower gentle.
• Florein, -rin, a kind of coin worth about three shillings, another worth eighteen pence.
• Florentine, Fluentine, be∣longing to
• Florence, the chief City of Tuscany, in Italy.
• Florences, a kind of Cloth brought from thence.
• Florey-blew, a kind of blew for paint or limning.
• Floriferous, l. bearing flo∣wers.
• Florilege, l. a gathering of flowers.
• Florist, one skill'd in flow∣ers.
• Florid, l. flourishing.
• Florulent, l. gay, the same as
• ••lo••culous, l. flowery, or blossoming.
• Flotes, pieces of Timber joyn'd, to convey burthens down a River.
• Flotages, things accidental∣ly floating on the Sea or great Rivers.
• Flotson, Flotzam, shipwrackt goods floating on the Sea, which belong to the Lord Admiral, together with Jet∣son (things cast over-bord or on shore) and Lagon, Legan, or Ligam (things lying at the bottom of the Sea) and shares.
• Flouke of an Anchor, that part which takes hold of the ground.
• Flowry de lice, o. beset with Lilies.
• Floting, o. whistling, pip∣ing.
• Flower de lysse, Orrece.
• It flows South, &c. It is high water when the Sun is in that point at full or new Moon.
• It Flows tide and half tide, it will be half floud by the shore, before it begins to flow in the channel.
• Fluctiferous, bringing waves.
• Fluctuate, l. to rise in waves, also to waver or doubt
• Fluctisonant, l. sounding with waves.
• Fluctivagant, tossed or wan∣dring on the waves.
• Fluctuous, l. like the waves, unquiet, boisterous.
• Fluellin, the herb Speedwell.
• Fluidity, a being
• Fluid, Fluent, or flowing or apt to flow, nimble.
• Fluish, No. washy, weak, tender.
• Fluminous, l. full of Rivers, also as
• Fluvial, belonging to Ri∣vers.
• Fluvious, flowing much.
• Flu••res, stones (resembling precious stones) coming out of Mines.
• Flush fore and as••, when the Deck lies level from stem to stern.
• Flushing a Town in Zeland.
• Flux, -xion, l. a flowing, issue, or loosness of body.
• Fluxing, making the pati∣ent spit up the disease.
• Fluxibility, l. an aptness to flow.
• Fly, that part of the com∣pass where the winds are de∣scribed.
• Fly gross, when hawks fly at great Birds as Cranes, Geese, &c.
• Focillate, l. to refresh.
• Fodder, Foder, Fother, s••. 2000 pound weight of Lea••, also course meat for Cattel, and a Princes prerogative of being provided by his subjects with Corn for his horses in any expedition.
• Fodient, l. digging.
• Foemina, sulphur (in Chy∣mistry.)
• Fogage, Fog or Feg, ranck grass not eaten in summer time.
• Fogo, a burning Island in America.
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• Fogus, c. Tabacco.
• Fohines, the first Monarch of the Chinois.
• Foiles, f. l. g. leaves.
• Foiling, the print of a Deers foot in the grass hardly dis∣cernable.
• Foine, f. to prick or sting.
• Foines, a fur (black at the top and the ground whitish) from a small beast of the same name.
• Foison, f. abundance.
• Foiterers, vagabonds.
• Fold course, as Faldage.
• Foliaceous, l. leavy.
• Foist, a pinnace or small ship.
• Folgheres, -geres, o. followers.
• Foliage, branched work.
• Foliatanes, a sort of men living only upon leaves, sup∣prest by the Pope.
• Foliate, l. leaved.
• Folio, of two leaves to a sheet.
• Folkingham, a Town in Lincolnshire.
• Folily, o. foolishly, rashly.
• Folkland, sa. copy-hold land.
• Folkmoot, Folkesmote, Folc∣mote, sa. a general assembly of the people, the County-Court, or else the Sheriffs Turn.
• Follicle, l. a small bladder, or purse.
• Foe-men, o. Enemies.
• Fomentation, l. a cherishing, an applying warm clothes (dipt in some liquor) to the body.
• Fond, Foond, Fund, f. a bot∣tom, or foundation, also a stock (in money or moneys worth.)
• Fond, o. contend, labour.
• Fondery, f. a stilling house, also the trade of melting me∣tals.
• Fong, sa. to take.
• Fonne, o. [to be] foolish.
• Fonnes, o. devices.
• Fons solis, a fountain in Lybia, (by the Temple of Jupit••r Hammon) boyling hot at midnight.
• Fontal, belonging to
• Fonts, Fountains, springs; also Church-Baptisteries, (which were primitively Ri∣vers.)
• Fontanel, f. an issue made in the body.
• Fontainbleau (for belle ••au) a retiring place for the Kings of France in the Forest of Becre, one of the purest Foun∣tains in the world, the Hamp∣ton Court of France, (also in dancing) a Borree so named.
• Foothote, -hute, (q. hot-foot) o. straightway.
• Footing-time, Nf. when the Child-bed woman gets up.
• Footstal, the foot or lower part of a pillar.
• Foot-bocks, Foot-books, or
• Futtocks, the compassing Timbers which give the breadth and bearing to the Ship.
• Fop, o. a fool.
• Forable, l. that may be peirced or bored.
• Foppery, foolishness.
• Forage, fodder for Cattel.
• Foraminous, l. full of holes.
• Foranous, belonging to the
• Forum, l. a Court or Market-place.
• Forbarre, Forebar, to bar or deprive for ever.
• Forbode, sa. to presage, also to prohibit or forbid.
• Forbish, to burnish.
• Forcers, an instrument to draw Teeth.
• Forcheim, a Town in Franc∣enland, where (they say) Pon∣tius Pilate was born.
• Forcipated, l. bending, hooked
• Foreclose, shut out, excluded for ever.
• Fordoe, o. to kill.
• Fordon, -dyd, killed.
• Forecastle, the fore part of a Ship above Decks.
• Fore, o. gone.
• Fore-foot, one ships lying or sailing crosse another ships w••y, or with her fore-foot.
• Foregoers, Purveyours going before the King in Progress.
• Forein [matter] triable in a∣nother Court.
• Foreign answer, not triable in that County.
• Foreign Attachment, of for∣einers go••ds found within a∣ny Liberty.
• Forein Apposer or Opposer, an Exchequer Officer opposing the Sheriffs of their green wax, apposing and examin∣ing them upon their Estreats.
• Forein plea, a refusal of the Judge as incompetent (the matter being out of his ju∣risdiction.)
• Forein service, that where∣by a mean Lord holds over of another without the compass of his own Fee; or else that which a Tenant performs either to his own Lord or to the Lord paramount out of the Fee.
• Fore-judging, or Fo••j- a Judgment whereby a man is deprived or put by the thing in question.
• Forejudged the Court, ba∣nished or expel'd from it.
• Fore-Knight and Main-Knight, two short thick pieces (carved with a mans head) fast bolted to the beams up∣on the 2d. deck.
• Foreland, Foreness, a pro∣montory jutting out.
• Forelock-bolts, bolts with an eye at the end whereinto an iron forelock is driven, to keep them from starting.
• Foreloin, when one hound going before the rest meets chace and goes away with it.
• Forensal, l. used in plead∣ing, pertaining to the Com∣mon-pleas.
• Forest, a safe harbour for Deer, or any wild beasts.
• Forestagium, a duty paia∣ble to the
• Forester, the Kings sworn Officer of the Forest.
• Forestaller, Regrater, one that buyes ware before it come to Market, to enhaunse the price.
• Forfare, o. forlorn.
• Fore-reach upon, to Outsail.
• Forfeiture, the [effect of] transgressing a penal law.
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• Forfeiture of marriage, a writ against one under age and holding by Knights ser∣vice, who refused to marry her whom his Lord profer'd, without his disparagement.
• Forfraught, o. beset.
• Forgard, o. lost.
• Forger of false deeds, [a writ against] one that make•• and publishes false writings to the prejud••ce of any mans right.
• Forkerve, o. cut off.
• Forlaine, o. Rechased.
• Forleien, o. to erre, or wan∣der.
• Forletten, o. abandoned.
• Forlorn, D. lost.
• Forlorn-h••pe, a party of Soldiers put upon the most Desperate service.
• Forloyn, o. a retreat.
• Forlyth, o. spoyleth.
• Formalize, to form or fa∣shion, also to play the
• Formalist, one that useth
• Formality, a being
• Formal, punctual, precise, belonging to or giving a
• Form, l. outward shew or appearance, shape or beau∣ty, also the inward essence of a thing.
• Formator, l. a former, ma∣ker, also an informer, in∣structer.
• Formal, -m••l, No. to be∣speak.
• Forme of a ••are, the seat which she makes herself.
• Former, the piece of wood on which they make the Carthrages.
• Formedon, f. (the form of the gift) a writ for him who hath right to any lands or te∣nements by virtue of an In∣tail.
• Formica, Herpes, a corrod∣ing ulcer.
• Formicans pulsus, a thick, and weak pulse.
• Formidable, l. Dreadfull, to be feared.
• F••rmidolous, l. the same, also fearing.
• Formosity, l. beauty, fair∣ness.
• Formulary, l. a president of Law-process, &c.
• Fornagium, Chimney-mo∣ney, also the Landlords fee for his tenants baking in his Oven.
• Forne-fader, o. first father Adam.
• Fornication, l. Whoredom between unmarried persons.
• Foreness, as Foreland.
• Forouten, o. without.
• Forprise, an exception or reservation, in Leases, &c.
• Forrey, o. Destroy.
• Forrioues, o. Fore-runners.
• Forsamkill, o. Forasmuch.
• Forses, Catadupae, water∣falls.
• Forschoke, forsaken, Lands Seised by the Lord (for want of due service, &c.) and quietly possest beyond the year and day.
• Forslagen, o. slain.
• Forslegon, -glon, -gen, o. slain.
• Forsongen, o. weary with singing.
• Forspec••n, o. spoken against or in vain.
• Forspreak, o. an Advocate.
• Forster, a Forester.
• Forstraught, o. Distract∣ed.
• Forswonk and Forswat, o. over laboured and sweated or Sun-burnt.
• Forth, l. Theft.
• Forthy, -then, No. there∣fore.
• Fortility, a fortifi'd place.
• Forthink, o. to be grieved in mind.
• Fortitude, l. valour, stout∣ness of mind, courage.
• Fortlet, a little Fort.
• Fortuitous, l. accidental, coming by Fortune or chance.
• Fortuny, a kind of Tourne∣ment or running a tilt with launces on horseback.
• Forvise, o. Foreshew.
• Forwany, o. wanting.
• Forwelk••d, o. Dried up.
• Forwept, o. weary with weeping.
• Forw••ned, o. withered.
• Foryede, o. overwent.
• Fossatum, a Ditch, or place fenced therewith.
• Fosset, Forset, a little long chest or coffer.
• Fosse-way, the Roman high-way dug from Cornwal to Lin∣coln, Ditched on both sides, or left imperfect li••e a Ditch, also several other inferiour high-waies.
• Fossion, l. a Digging.
• Fost••r, Forester.
• Foster-land, assigned for the finding of food.
• Fostal▪ o. the pricking or footsteps of a hare, also a way from the high-way to a great house, Ss.
• Fother, Foder, twenty hun∣dred pound weight.
• Fotheringha••, a Castle in Northamptonshire.
• Fotion, l. a cherishing.
• Fotive, l. nourishing or nourished.
• Fougade, f. a kind of fire∣work▪ a mine.
• Foul, hindred or intangled with another ship, rope, &c.
• Foul water, when a ship raises the sand or oaze in shallow water.
• Foundemaunt, f. Founda∣tion.
• Founder, a melter and caster of metals.
• Foulk, Fulk, Ge. Noble, or as
• Fol••, Sa. People.
• Founes, o. Devices.
• Fourche, f. (a fork) a de∣laying or putting off an Acti∣on.
• Foutgeld, Foot-, an amer∣ciament for not expeditating or cutting out the balls of great dogs feet in the Forest▪
• Founderd, filled (as a ship) with water by an extraordi∣nary leak, &c.
• Fowle fail o. (q. fail fouly,) to erre greatly.
• Fownd, o. framed.
• Fow, Che. foul.
• Fox-gloves, Digitalis, Vi••∣ga regia, Campanula sylvestri••, a cleansing herb.
• Foxes evil, as Alop••cia.
• Foyeten, (for Forle••en) let pass.
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• Foye, a Town in Cornwal.
• ... Fram, sa. From.
• Fram-pole-fences, of the Te∣nants of Writtel Mannour in Essex, toward whose repair they have the Wood grow∣ing on the Fence, and as many Trees (or poles) as they can reach from the top of the ditch with their ax helve.
• Fracid, l. rotten-ripe.
• Fraction, l. a breaking, dis∣sention, part of a whole num∣ber.
• Fracture, l. the breaking [of a bone.]
• Fragility, l. a being
• Fragile, l. brittle, apt to break.
• Fragment, l. a piece, or bro∣ken part of any thing.
• Fragrancy, l. a being
• Fragran••, l. sweet-smelling.
• Fraine, Sc. to ask.
• Fraight, sa. the burden of the Ship, also money paid for any th••ng carryed.
• Frail of [Malaga] Raisins, about 70 pound.
• Fraesheur, f. freshness, cool∣ness, liveliness.
• Framlingham, a Town in Suffolk.
• Frampton, a Town in Dor∣cester.
• Franc, f. a livre, 20 pence.
• Frank, o. free, liberal.
• Franchise, f. freedom, ex∣emption, priviledge.
• Franchise Royale, f. a grant of immunity from the King.
• Francigena, a native of
• France, the modern name of Gallia conquered by the
• Franci, -cones, Franks, Ger∣mans, under the conduct of Pharamond.
• Francis, a mans name, and (sometime) as
• Frances. a womans name.
• Franciscans, a strict order of Fryers instituted by St. Francis an Italian, 1198. vow∣ing chastity, obedience, po∣verty, &c.
• Frangible, l. breakable.
• Frank-almoine, a tenure of Lands bestowed on such as devote themselves to the ser∣vice of God.
• Frank-banck, Free-bench, the Dower of Copy-hold-Lands which the wife (being espoused a Virgin) hath after her husbands decease.
• Frank-chase, the Foresters li∣berty of Free-chase, whereby all (in such a compass) are prohibited to cut down wood, without his view.
• Frank-fee, that which is in the hand of the King or Lord of the Mannour, being anci∣ent Demesne of the Crown.
• Frank-farm, Land wherein the nature of Fee is changed (by Feofment) out of Knights service to certain yearly ser∣vices.
• Frank-fold▪ the Lords bene∣fit of folding his Tenant Sheep for the manuring of his Land.
• Frank-law, the benefit of the free and common Law of the Land.
• Frank-marriage, a Tenure in Tail-special, whereby a man hath Land with a Woman to him and the Heirs of his bo∣dy doing fealty only [to the fourth descent, and thence forward service] to the Do∣nour.
• Frank-pledge, the ancient custom of the Decenniers (or freemen in each Decenna) being surety for one another (at the age of fourteen) to the King.
• Frankincense, an Arabian gum from a tree of the same name with leaves and bark like Lawrel.
• Frankendale, a Town in the Palatinate of the Rhine.
• Franklin▪ -colon, a kind of red-legged bird for Hawk∣ing.
• Francford, -furt, a famous German City.
• Francling, a Freeholder.
• Franconia, Frankenland in the East part of Germany.
• Franeker, an University of West-Friesland.
• Frape, a company or rabble.
• Fraternize, to agree as Bro∣thers, also to bring into a
• Fraternity, l. a Brotherhood.
• Frase, Nf. to break.
• Frantick, Phrentick, g. mad.
• Fraternal, l. Brotherly.
• Fratricelli, Fratres de paupere vita, Hereticks following one Hermannus an Italian 1304. They held promiscuous bed∣dings, Christians not to be Governours, &c.
• Fratricide, l. the killing or killer of a Brother.
• Fratruels, l. Brothers chil∣dren, Cousin-Germans.
• Fraudation, l. a defrauding.
• Fraudulency, l. deceitfulness, a being
• Fra••dulent, crafty, full of
• Fraud, l. guile, deceit.
• F. (Fray-maker or Frighter) a mark burnt on the cheek (for want of ears to cut) for striking with a weapon in the Church or Church-yard.
• Fraxinella, a plant (like a little Ash) against obstructi∣ons.
• Frayes her head, [a Deer] rubs her head against a tree to re∣new it.
• Frayn'd, o. refrained.
• Frea, as Friga.
• Frederick, Ge. rich peace, vulgo Frery, Fery.
• Fredeborch, a Town of West∣phalia.
• Frediswid, sa. very free.
• Free the boat, cast out th•• water.
• Freel, f. frail.
• Freeleg••, No. privilege.
• Free-bench, as Frank-bank.
• Free-booters, Soldiers that make inroads into the Ene∣mies Country for Cattel, &c. or that serve (for plunder) without pay.
• Free-••ord, a small space be∣yond or without the fence.
• Free-Chappel, over and above the Mother-Church of a Pa∣rish, freely endowed and to which one might freely re∣sort, or (rather) of the Kings Foundation, or at least ex∣empted by him from the Ju∣risdiction

• and visitation of the Diocesan.
• Free-hold, free tenure, in Fee-tail, or for term of Life.
• Free-warren, the power of licencing any to hunt in such or such places, also the li∣cense it self.
• Freedstol, Fridstol, Frithstow, sc. (stool of peace) a chair of stone granted by King Athel∣stan to John de Beverly Arch-Bishop of York, as a Sanctua∣ry for offenders.
• Freistat, a Town of lower Bavaria, another in Austria, &c.
• Frement, l. gnashing the Teeth.
• Fremund, sa. free peace.
• Frem'd, -ened, o. a stranger.
• French-man, (anciently) any stranger.
• Frend-less-man, sa. an Out-law.
• Frenigerent, l. guiding the bridle.
• Freneth, o. asketh.
• Frenne, (for Forein) a stran∣ger.
• Freoburgh, Fridburgh, as
• ... Frank-pledge.
• ... Frery, Frederick.
• Freomortel, Frodm-, an im∣munity or freedom granted for murder or man-slaugh∣ter.
• Frequency, l. oftenness.
• Fréquent, l. often.
• Frequént, l. to haunt or re∣sort unto.
• Frescades, f. cool refresh∣ments in Summer-time.
• Fresco, I. fresh, cool.
• Walk in Fresco, in the fresh air.
• Drink in Fresco, to drink cool or fresh Liquor.
• Paint in Fresco, on walls newly plaistered, that it may sink in.
• Fresh, o. refresh.
• Fresh the hawse, veer out a little more or lay new plats upon the Cable.
• Fresh disseisin, an arbitrary disseisin (not above 15 daies old) which a man may seek to defeat of himself, without the help of King or Judges.
• Fresh-fine, levied within a year past.
• Fresh force, done within four∣ty daies.
• Fresh-gale, immediatel•• af∣ter a calm.
• Fresh-man, a novice, newly entred [in the University, &c.]
• Fresh shot, fresh water (from a great river) for a mile or two in the Sea.
• Fresh-spel, a fresh gang to relieve the Rowers in the long boat.
• Fresh sute, an active and eager following the offender (from the time of offence) till he be apprehended.
• Fret, o. to turn, also fraught.
• Fret, f. a round verril or ferril (of Iron, &c.)
• Frete, Frett••n, o. to de∣vour.
• Fretrots, a kind of Ada∣mites (wearing a secret Crown) suppressed Anno 1310.
• Fretted, diapered, with se∣veral lines crossing one ano∣ther.
• Friable, l. capable of
• Friation, l. a crumbling.
• Friar, Frier, (f. Frere, Bro∣ther) One that is a Regular or of some Religious Order.
• Friburg, a town of Schwa∣ben in Germany.
• Friers Observant, a sort of Franciscans, not Conventu∣als but at large, yet more strictly tying themselves to the Observation of their Rule.
• Friends, Quakers so called among themselves.
• Fricasse, f. a fried dish.
• Frication, l. a rubbing.
• Fridburg, a City of the high∣er Bavaria.
• Fridborge, Frithborg, Fri∣burgh, as Frank-pledge.
• Fridland, a town in Germany.
• Friday, the sixth day, from
• Friga, a Saxon Goddess in the shape of an Hermaphrodite
• Frigate, Sp. a Spial ship.
• Frigdores, o. Musick-mea∣sures (q. Frigian and Lo∣rick.)
• Frigefaction, l. a making cold.
• Frigerate, l. to cool.
• Frigeratory, l. a place to make or keep things cool.
• Frigor fical, that which doth
• Frigify, l. to cause
• Frigidity, Frigor, l. the be∣ing
• Frigid, l. cold.
• ... Frigmareventus, Winchel∣sea.
• Frim, No. handsome, thriv∣ing.
• Frim folks, Li. Strangers.
• Fripery, f. the trade, shop, or street of
• Friperers, the sorriest bro∣kers.
• Frist, No. to trust for a time.
• Frisesmorum, a Syllogism whose first proposition is a particular affirmative, the second an universal Nega∣tive, and the 3d a particu∣lar Neg.
• Frisia, Friezland by Holland.
• Frising, a town of lower Bavaria.
• Frit, salt or ashes fried or baked together with sand.
• Frith, Sa. a wood.
• Frithbrech, Sa. Breach of the peace.
• Frithburgh, as Fridburgh.
• Frithsocne, -soken, Sa. the liberty of having frank-pledge, a surety.
• Fritillary▪ a flower in the fa∣shion of a
• Fritillus, l. a box out of which Dice are cast.
• Fritiniancy, -iency, the chirp∣ing of a Swallow, &c.
• Frivolous, l. vain, of lit∣tle worth.
• Frize, the garnishing at the upper end of a pillar.
• Frobly mobly, So. indifferent∣ly well.
• Fro, o. from.
• Frodesham, a Town in Che∣shire.
• From-S••lwood, a Town in Som.
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• Frondation, a taking off the leaves or branches.
• Frondosity, l. leaviness, a flourishing with green leaves just under the Archittave.
• Frond••ferous, bearing leaves.
• Froise, a Pancake [with bacon intermixt.]
• Frontal, l. belonging to the forehead, also as
• Frontlet, an ornament or attire of the
• Front, l. Forehead, also the forepart of any thing.
• Frontals, Medicines applied to the forehead.
• Frontispiece, l. the fore-front of a building, also the Title or first page of a book [done in picture.]
• Frontier towns, standing on the
• Frontiers, the borders of a Country.
• Frontiniac, a luscious and rich wine of that town in France.
• Front-stall, the forepart of a horses bridle.
• Front••mes, a Roman name, from their high foreheads.
• Frote, f. to rub.
• Frounce, f. a wrinkle, also as
• Frounches, o. Bar••illon, f. a distemper in a hawks tongue.
• Frower, So. an edg-tool us∣ed in cleaving lath.
• Froy, o. (q. Fro yee) from you.
• Fructify, l. bring forth fruit.
• Frugality, l. thriftiness, good-husbandry, a being
• Frugal, l. thrifty, sparing [in expences, diet, &c]
• Fruggin, an Oven-fork.
• Frugiferent, -rous, l. fruit∣full.
• Fruitery, f. a place to keep fruit in.
• Frutiges, -ices, l. branched work in sculpture, as
• Frueillage, in painting or ta∣pestry.
• Frum-gyld, Sa. the first payment (or recompence) made to the Kinred of a slain person.
• Frunt-stal, Sa. Home-stal, the chief seat or Mansion-house.
• Frummagen, c. choaked.
• Frum, Sa. Early, soon-ripe.
• Frumentarious, belonging to corn or
• Frumenty, pottage of milk and
• Frument, l. wheat.
• Frump, jeer, flout or taunt.
• Frussetum, a wood or wood-ground.
• Frussura, a breaking down or demolishing.
• Frustraneous, l. done in vain.
• Frustrate, l. to deceive or disappoint.
• Frustulent, l. full of
• Frusta, l. small pieces.
• Fruitage, Frut-, as Frutiges.
• Frutication, l. a sprouting or shooting forth of young branches.
• Fruticose, l. full of shoots, stalks or shrubs.
• Fryth, Frith, sa. a wood, or a pl••in between woods.
• Frythborgh, freedom from giving security of the Peace.
• Fuage, F••cage, Herth-sil∣ver (1 s.) imposed by Ed∣ward 3d. (black Prince of Wales) on the Dukedom of Aquitain.
• Fucator, l. he that doth
• Fucate, l. paint [the face,] counterfeit.
• Fugacia, Chasea, a Chase.
• Fugacity, l. aptness to fly away.
• Fudder, No. a load [of lead] eight pigs or sixteen hundred pound.
• Fugalia, Roman Feasts in remembrance of the expul∣sion of their Kings, also as Hock-tide.
• Fugation, l. a putting to flight.
• Fugue, f. when two or more parts (in musick) chase one another in the same point.
• Fugitive-goods, forfeited to the King from him that flies for Felony.
• Fuir, o. fury.
• Fuir, f. to fly, run away.
• Fuir en feit, to fly corpo∣rally.
• Fuir en ley, not to appear till one be outlawed.
• Fukes, Che. locks of hair.
• Fulbert, sa. full bright.
• Fulcible, l. capable of
• Fulciments, l. supporters.
• Fulgor, -gidity, -gency, a be∣ing
• Fulgent, -gid, l. bright, glistring.
• Fulgural, belonging to
• Fulguration, l. lightning, al∣so a reducing metals into va∣pours by the help of lead (in a copel) and a violent fire.
• Fulfremed, sa. perfect, fully framed.
• Fulk, o. (for Sulk, l. a hol∣low place, or furrow.
• Fulli••k, o. fully.
• Fulham, sa. a home or ha∣bitation for Fowles.
• Fullians, Monks of the or∣der of St. Bernard.
• Fuliginous, l. sooty, or smoaky.
• Fullers-earth, dug up about Brickhill in Bedfordshire, dis∣solved in vinegar it discusses Pimples, represses inflamma∣tions, &c.
• Fullonical, belonging to a
• Fuller, or scourer of cloth.
• Fulminatory, l. belonging to
• Fulmination, l. a striking with lightning, also a threatn∣ing.
• Fulvid, -vous, l. of a yellow∣ish dusky colour, lion-tawny.
• Fumage, [manuring with] dung.
• Fumadoes, -thoes, Sp. our Pilchards garbaged, salted, smoakt and prest.
• Fumets, the ordure of a Hart.
• Fumeyed, -mayed, o. muted.
• Fumidity, a being
• Fumid, l. smoaky.
• Fumiferous, bringing smoke.
• Fumigation, l. a smoaking or perfuming with smoak, also cal••ining of bodies by the fume of sharp Spirits.
• Fumitory, Enmaria, l. Palo∣milla, Sp. a hot biting herb.
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• Funimbulator, -ant, l. a dancer on the Ropes.
• Function, l. the perfor∣mance or exercise of any du∣ty or Office.
• Fund, land or soil, also as Fond.
• Funditou••, -tor, l. a slinger, or darter.
• Fundamental, belonging to
• Fundament, l. a Foundati∣on.
• Funebrous, -erous, l. mourn∣full, belonging to Funerals.
• Funestation, l. poll••tion by touching a dead body.
• Fungosity, l. spunginess, a being
• Fungous, l. full of holes, like a mushroom.
• Funnel, Tunnel, an instru∣ment small at one end, to convey liquor into a vessel, al∣so the upper part of a chim∣ney.
• Furacity, l. a being
• Furacious, pilfering, theev∣ish.
• Furbish, polish, make bright.
• Furcation, l. a forking, ma∣king like a fork, or hanging on a gallows.
• Furca, (Calefurcia) & Fos∣sa, a jurisdiction (in ancient priviledges) of punishing fe∣lons, viz. men with hanging and Women with drown∣ing.
• Furies, l. Alecto, Megaera and Tysiphone, daughters of Acheron and Night, tormen∣ters of Murderers and other wicked Souls.
• Furibund, -bond, l. raging, mad.
• Furina, a Roman Goddess, patroness of Thieves.
• Fured, Cu. went.
• Furling-lines, Fartheling-lines, small lines wherewith they
• Furle or Farthel the sails, ty them up to the yards.
• Furlong, the length of ••0 poles, half a quarter of a mile, and sometimes of an acre.
• Furlough, a licence from a Superiour to an Inferiour of∣ficer, to be absent a while from his charge in war.
• Furnivals, Lords of Fern∣ham in Bucks, whose tenure is, To find the King a right-hand glove on his Coronati∣on-day, and support his right arm while he holds the Scep∣ter.
• Furnage, as Fornagium.
• Furole, f. St. Hermes's fire, a little meteor appearing in the night upon the shrouds, &c.
• Furr the ship, clip on ano∣ther plank upon her sides af∣ter she is built, or else rip off the first planks, put other timbers upon the first, and then put on the planks a∣gain: a great (yet common) disgrace to English ships.
• Furst sore, (q. frost sore) a Chilblain.
• Furstenburg, a Castle of North Schwa••en in Germany.
• Furtive, l. given to steal∣ing, or done by stealth.
• Furze, whins, a prickly Bush good against the stone, Spleen, &c.
• Fuscation, l. a clouding or darkning.
• Fusibility, a being
• Fusible, l. apt or easie to be melted, capable of
• Fusion, l. a melting or pour∣ing forth.
• Fusil, f. a firelock, or a tin∣der box.
• Fusil, l. a spindle, also the resemblance thereof in a coat of arms.
• Fust, the trunk or body of a pillar.
• Fustian, stuff made of cot∣ton, or the down of an Egyp∣tian fruit.
• Fustic, a kind of wood which dyers use, from Bar∣bad••es, &c.
• Fustigation, l. a cudgelling, an ancient punishment of per∣jured persons.
• Fusty, Musty, vinewed.
• Futility, l. a blabbing, ba∣bling, lightness, vanity, fol∣ly.
• Futtocks, Foot-hooks, the compassing timbers scarfed upon the ground timbers and giving breadth to a ship.
• Futurition, -ty, a being
• Future, l. that which will be, or is to come.
• Fuzen, Fuzzen, No. Nou∣rishment.
• Fyle, Sc. Fouled.
• Fyngted, o. a [sore] finger tied up, aliàs a hawk.
• Fyre levin, o. lightning.
• Fyrte, as Firthe.