An English expositor teaching the interpretation of the hardest words vsed in our language. With sundry explications, descriptions, and discourses. By I.B. Doctor of Phisicke.

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• Fabricate. To frame, to build.
• Fabrike. A frame a buil∣ding.
• Fabulous. False as a fable.
• Facile. Easie.
• Facilitie. Easines.
• Faction. A sect or diui∣sion into sundry opinions.
• Factious. Contentious, troublesome, vnquiet.
• Factor. He that buieth and selleth for a merchant, or that looketh to his bui∣sinesse.
• Faculty. Power, ability, a trade or course of life, a priuiledge or power granted, that a man may doe something, which without such priuiledge he could not doe.
• Facundite. Eloquencie.
• Fage. A fable.
• Falding. A kind of course cloth.

• Fallacie. Deceit in words.
• Falsitie. To counterfeit, or make false.
• Falsification. A counter∣feiting, or making false.
• Falsitie. Falsehood, de∣ceit.
• Fanaticall. Distracted, mad, franticke, out of his wits.
• Farcines. A disease in beasts: it is a creeping vl∣cer growing in knots, and following alongst some veine.
• Farced. Stuffed, full.
• Fascinate. To bewitch.
• Fastidious. Disdainfull, loathing, proud.
• Fate. Destinie, that which must of necessitie come to passe, by Gods secret appointment.
• Fatall. That which hap∣peneth or commeth to passe by fate.
• Faunus. Poeticall gods of the woodes.
• Fauorite. One in great fauour.
• Fealtie. A ceremonie done by some tenants to the Lord of whome they hold lands: which is in laying their right hand vpon a booke, and promi∣sing fidelitie to him by oath.
• Feature. Hansomnesse, comelinesse, beautie.
• Fecunditie. Fruitfulnes.
• Fleere. A companion, a husband or wife.
• Felicitie. Happinesse.
• Fell. A skinne, sometime it signifieth fierce, terrible, or frowning.
• Feminine. Of or belon∣ging to the female.
• Fencemonth. A month, so called, because then it is not lawfull to hunt in any forrest, for that the does then do fawn. This month beginneth about the ninth of Iune, and con∣tinueth till the ninth of Iuly.
• Fengreeke. A plant or herbe, the seede whereof is much vsed in phisike. It is yellow, being hot in the second degree and drie in the first, and hath pow∣er to mollifie and dis∣solue.
• Feodarie. An officer who is to bee present with the Escheater, at the fin∣ding of any office, and

• to suruey wards lands, and to rate them.
• Feofment. A deede wit∣nessing the sale or gift of lands in fee simple, with liuerie of seisine, and possession thereof. He that maketh the Feofment is called the Feofer, and the partie to whome it is made, the Feofee.
• Ferie. Any day of the weeke not kept holy.
• Fers. The Queene in chesse play.
• Fertile. Fruitfull, yeelding much.
• Fertilitie. Fruitfulnesse.
• Feruent. Hot.
• Feruour. Heate.
• Ferula. A rod, sticke, or thinne paulmer, where∣with children are cor∣rected in schooles vpon the hand.
• Fessepoint. The middle part of a scucheon, whose bredth is deuided into three euen parts.
• Festiuall. Merry, ioyfull, belonging to a feast.
• Festiuitie. Mirth re∣ioycing, pleasantnes, mer∣rinesse.
• Feud. Hatred, enmitie, strife.
• Fewmets, or Fewmi∣shing. The dung of a Deere.
• Fiants. The dung of a Fox or Badger.
• Fiction. A feined deuice, a lye.
• Fidelitie. Faithfulnesse.
• Figment. A vaine deuice, a lye, a counterfeit tale.
• Figuratiue. That which figureth or serueth but as a representation of another thing.
• Filiall. Of or belonging to a sonne.
• Filme. A fine thinne skinne within the bodie, deuiding the flesh or any neere member one from another.
• Fine. An end: some∣time money payed when one first taketh land for yeares.
• Finall. Of or belon∣ging to an end, the last.
• * Finance. An end.
• Finite. which hath an end.
• Fire-drake. A fire some∣time seene, flying in the

• night like a Dragon. Common people thinke it a spirit, that keepeth some treasure hid: but Philosophers affirme it to bee a great vnequall ••••••a∣lation; inflamed betweene two Cloudes, the one hot, the other colde (which is the reason that it also smo∣keth:) the middle part whereof, according to the proportion of the hote Cloud, being greater than the rest, maketh it seeme like a bellie, and both ends like vnto a head and taile.
• Firme. Strong, stable, stedfast.
• Firmament. Astronomers vnderstand by this word, the eighth spheare, next aboue the spheres of the seauen Planets, in which all the fixt Starres are pla∣ced.
• Firmitie. Strength, sted∣fastnesse.
• Fistike nuts. Outlandish nuts, brought out of Syria and other hot Countries, not much vnlike a small Hasell nut. They are very good against the stoppings of the liuer, being steeped all night in some sweete wine, and so eaten in the morning. They are good also to vnstop the lungs, and for such as are trou∣bled with shortnesse of breath, and are comforta∣ble for the stomacke; yet they nourish but little, be∣ing taken as meate.
• Fistula. A dangerous vlcer or sore still running. It goeth vp into the body, with a long narrow hole, like a pipe, and is com∣monlie hard in the out∣side,
• Fitch. The furre of the Polecat.
• Fixe. To fasten.
• Fixed. Fastened.
• Flagitious. Wicked, verie lewd.
• Flamine. A great Priest amongst the Gentiles. There were three such at Rome. One called Fla∣men Dialis: The Priest of Iupiter: who ware rich vest∣ments, and had a chaire of Estate. If his Wife chanced to dye, he there∣upon went presentlie out of his office: It was

• not lawfull for him to a∣bide one night out of the Citty, nor yet to affirme any thing by oath; for his word was held of sufficient credit. The other two Fla∣mins, were the Flamine of Mars, and the Flamine of Romulus, called Quirinus.
• Flankards. Hunters call so two knots or nuts, in the flanke of a Deere.
• Flebotomie. See Phlebo∣tomie.
• Flegmaticke. Full of fleagme, or inclining to fleagme.
• Flexibilitie. Aptnes to bend.
• Flexible. Pliant, easie to bend.
• * Flo. An arrow.
• Floreine. A coyne, wherof there be two sorts: one a∣bout the valew of thre shil∣lings foure pence, the o∣ther about two shillings ten pence-farthing.
• Fluent. which floweth or aboundeth.
• Flux. A flowing or issue of bloud.
• Fluxibilitie. Aptnes to flow or spread abroad.
• Fluxible. Which is apt to flow or run abroad.
• Foyling. The print of a Deers foote in grasse, when it cannot well be seene.
• Foemen. Enemies.
• F••••••es. A kinde of furre brought for the most part out of France: the top of this furre is blacke, and the ground whitish: the beast that beareth it, is about the bignesse of a Cat.
• Foison. Great plenty, store.
• ••o••erers. Vagabonds.
• Folio. A sheete or large leafe of paper.
• Fomentation. In physick it properlie signifieth, pow∣ders or drie things in bags, or any liquour in a sponge or bladder, applied warme to the bodie, to mitigate paine, or for some other purpose.
• Footstall. The lower part of a pillar, whereon it stan∣deth.
• Foppe. A Foole.
• Foppery. Foolishnesse, a vaine matter.
• Forage. Prouision for horses and cattell in the wars.
• Forcer. A cofer, or little chest.

• Forester. He that hath charge to looke to a for∣rest, or some part of it.
• Foreloyne. A tearme in hunting, when a hound meeteth a chace, and goeth away with it before the rest.
• Forlorne. Vtterly vndone, in a desperate estate.
• Formalitie. An obseruing of good forme or order.
• Formall. That which keepeth due forme.
• Formositie. Beautie, faire∣nesse.
• Forestall. To buy victu∣all or other merchandise by the way before it come to the faire or market; to sell it againe at a dearer price.
• Forestaller. He that doth forestall, and buy things in such sort.
• Fortifie. To make strong.
• Fortification. A hold, any place made strong.
• Fortitude. Courage, strength, valour.
• Forewelked. Dried vp.
• Foster. To cherish, to bring vp, to keepe.
• Fother. A waincloade of 2000. weight.
• Fracture. A breaking.
• Fragility. Weakenesse, britlenesse.
• Fragment. A broken peece, a cantle.
• Fragrant. Sweete smel∣ling.
• * Frape. A companie, a rabble.
• Fraternitie. A brother∣hood.
• Fraud. Deceit, couse∣nage.
• Fraudulent. Deceitfull.
• Fray. Harts or stags are said to fray their heads, when they rubbe them, to make the pilles of their new hornes come of.
• * Fremd. Strange.
• Frequent. Often, com∣mon, also to haunt or re∣sort much to a place.
• Frequentation. A haun∣ting or resorting to a place.
• Frication. A rubbing.
• Friction. A rubbing.
• Friuolous. Vaine, foolish, of no account.
• Froise. A pancake, a tan∣sie.
• Front. A forehead, the first part of a battell, an en∣trance or beginning.

• Frontire. The boundes or limits of a countrey.
• Frontlet. Any thing worne on the forehead.
• * Frownce. A wrinckle.
• Fructifie. To beare fruite.
• Frugall. Thriftie, spa∣ring.
• Frugalitie. Thriftinesse, good husbandry.
• Frustrate. To make void, to deceiue, to disappoint.
• Fugitiue. One likely to runne away, a vagrant per∣son, a run-away
• Fumigation. A perfume, any thing which being cast on hot coales, maketh a sweet smell.
• Function. An office, a charge which one hath, a course of life.
• Fundamentall. Of or be∣longing to the foundation, or to the maine, chiefe, and principall point.
• Funerall. A solemne bu∣riall of some great person.
• Furies. Three imagina∣rie hags or spirits in hell, hauing snakes growing on them in stead of haires. Poets feyned them to bee daughters of Acheron (a ri∣uer in hell) and of the night, and to haue the of∣fice of tormēting the soules of wicked men. Their names were Alecto, Megae∣ra, and Tisiphone.
• Fusible. That may be molten.
• Future. That which shall be hereafter.