fireship,a prostitute. (Cant.) Wycherley, Love in a Wood, ii. 1 (Sir Simon). [Smollett, Roderick Random, 1. xxiii.]
firk,to beat, trounce. Hen. V, iv. 4. 29. See EDD. (s.v. Firk, 4).
firk,to cheat, rob. Dekker, Honest Wh. (NED.); speltferk, Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, iii. 1. See NED. (s.v. Firk, 2, c).
firk,to move about briskly, to frisk, gallop. Shirley, Hyde Park, iv. 3 (Song). See NED. (s.v. Firk, 3 b).
firk,a frisk; (humorously), a dance. Shirley, Hyde Park, ii. 2 (Lacy).
firk up,to trim up. Shirley, Constant Maid, ii. 1 (Playfair).
fisgig,a light, worthless female, fond of gadding about. Tusser, Husbandry, § 77. 8; ‘Trotiere, a fisgig, fisking huswife, gadding flirt’, Cotgrave. See NED. (s.v. Fizgig).
fisk,to scamper about, frisk, move briskly; ‘Then he fyskes abrode’, Latimer, Fourth Sermon (ed. Arber, p. 104); ‘Tome Tannkard’s Cow . . . fysking with her taile’, Gammer Gurton’s Needle, i. 2;fysking, Fitzherbert, Husbandry, § 45. 2; ‘Fisking about the house’, Otway, Venice Preserved, ii. 1 (Pierre). A Shropshire word (EDD.).
fist,a contemptuous expression; ‘Fist o’ your kindness!’, Eastward Ho, iv. 1 [or2] (Gertrude). Also speltfiste,fyste,foist; the orig. sense is a breaking wind, a disagreeable smell. See NED. (s.v. Fist, sb.2).
fisting-hound,a spaniel; a contemptuous term. Fleming, tr. of Caius’ Dogs; in Arber, Eng. Garner, iii. 287. See above.
fitches,‘vetches’.Bible, Isaiah xxviii. 25;fytches, Fitzherbert, Husbandry, § 20. 40, § 70. 8. ‘Vesce, . . . fitch or vitch’, Cotgrave. ‘Fitches’ in gen. prov. use in Scotland, Ireland, and England (EDD.).
fitchock, fichok,a polecat. Fletcher, Bonduca, i. 2 (Petillius); Scornful Lady, v. 1 (end). ‘Fitch’ is a common prov. word for the polecat; see EDD. (s.v. Fitch, also, Fitchock).
fitten, fitton,an untruth, an invention. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Revels, i. 1 (Amorphus); Gascoigne, Fruites of Warre, st. 54. ‘Fitten’ is in prov. use for ‘an idle fancy’, ‘a pretence’, in Hants., Wilts., and Somerset (EDD.). ME.fytonor lesynge, ‘mendacium’ (Prompt. EETS., see note no. 729).
fitters,fragments, rags, pieces. Beaumont and Fl., Custom of the Country, iii. 3. 4; Pilgrim, i. 1. 22. In prov. use in the north (EDD.).
five-and-fifty,the highest number to stand on, at the game of primero. But it could be beaten by a flush, i.e. when the cards were all of one colour. ‘As big asfive-and-fifty and flush’; as confident as one who held five-and-fifty in number, and also held a flush; so that he could not be beaten; B. Jonson, Alchem. i. 1 (Face).
five eggs:in phr.to come in with one’s five eggs, to break in or interrupt fussily with an idle story; ‘Persones coming in with their five egges, how that Sylla had geuen ouer his office’, Udall, tr. of Erasmus’s Apoph., p. 272; ‘Another commeth in with his fiue egges’, Robinson, tr. More’s Utopia (ed. Arber, p. 56). The orig. phrase had reference to the offering offive eggs for a penny, which was a trivial offer, and not very advantageous to the purchaser in the sixteenth century; Seeeggs(2).
fiveleaf,cinquefoil,Potentilla reptans. Drayton, Pol. xiii. 229; ‘Of Cinquefoyle, or Five-finger grasse’, Lyte, tr. of Dodoens, bk. i, c. 56.
fives,a disease of horses. Tam. Shrew, iii. 2. 54; ‘Vyves, a disease that an horse hath,avives’, Palsgrave; so Cotgrave; ‘Adivas, the disease in Horses and other Beasts call’d the Vives’, Stevens, Span. Dict., 1706. Of Arabic origin,ad-dhîba, ‘morbi species qua affici solet guttur jumenti’ (Freytag); see Dozy, Glossaire, p. 45.
fixation,in alchemy; the process that rendered the elixir fixed. B. Jonson, Alchem. ii. 1 (Subtle).
flacket,a flask, bottle, or vessel; ‘A flacket of wyne’, Great Bible (1539), 1 Sam. xvi. 20; ‘A flacket,Uter formam habens doliarem’, Coles, Dict., 1679. In prov. use in Yorkshire for a small cask-shaped vessel for holding beer (EDD.). ME.flaket, ‘obba, uter’ (Cath. Angl.);flakette, ‘flasca’ (Prompt.). Anglo-F.flaket(Gower).
flag,used as a sign or signal; ‘A flag and sign of love’, Othello, i. 1. 157; ‘His flag hangs out’ (i.e. as an advertisement), Middleton, The Widow, iv. 1 (Valeria); ‘ ’Tis Lent, the flag’s down’ (i.e. there is no flag flying above the theatre, because it is Lent, and the performances are suspended), Middleton, A Mad World, i. 1 (Follywit).
flaighted, fleighted,terrified. Golding, Metam. iv. 597; fol. 52 (1603); id., xi. 677. See NED. (s.v. Flaite, also, Flight). ‘To flight’ means properly ‘to put to flight’, hence, ‘to frighten’, ‘to scare’. Cp. EDD. (s.v. Flaite).
flanker,a fortification protecting men against a ‘flank’ or side attack; ‘Flankers . . . cannon-proof’, Marston, Antonio, Pt. I, i. 1 (Rossaline).
†flantado,flaunting display. Only occurs in Stanyhurst (tr. Aeneid, i. 44).
flapdragon,a combustible put in liquor, to be swallowed flaming; e.g. a raisin set on fire. L. L. L. v. 1. 45; Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, iv. 1 (Clause). Hence, as vb., to swallow quickly, Winter’s Tale, iii. 3. 100.
flapjack,a pancake; also, an apple turnover. Pericles, ii. 1. 87; Brome, Jovial Crew, ii. 1 (Vincent); see Nares. In prov. use in E. Anglia, Sussex, and Somerset (EDD.).
flappet,a little flap; ‘A flappet of wood’, Beaumont and Fl., Knight of the B. Pestle, i. 2 (or3), Ralph. The sense offlapis here uncertain; perhaps a fly-flapper, to keep off flies.
flash,a pool, a marshy place. Drayton, Pol. xxv. 60; Fitzherbert, Husbandry, § 70. In common prov. use in the north country, also in Lincoln and Shropshire; occurring frequently in place-names, see EDD. (s.v. Flash, sb.11). ME.flasch, ‘lacuna’ (Prompt.), OF.flache, ‘locus aquis stagnantibus oppletus’ (Didot), Med. L.flachia(Ducange).
flask,to flap; also, to cause to flutter; ‘To flask his wings’, Golding, Metam. vi. 703 (fol. 77); ‘The weather flaskt . . . her garments’, id., ii. last line.
flasky,(perhaps) belonging to a ‘flask’ or ‘flash’, a muddy pool; ‘The flasky fiends of Limbo lake’, Appius and Virginia, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, iv. 149. See NED.
flat-cap,a London citizen; esp. a London apprentice; ‘Flat-caps thou call’st us. We scorne not the name’, Heywood, 1 Edw. IV, sc. 1 (NED.); Beaumont and Fl., Knight of Malta, iii. 1 (Song, st. 4). See Nares.
flatchet,a sword. Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, i. 92;flachet, iii. 241. 529. Cp. MHG.flatsche,flasche, a sword with a broad blade (Weigand).
flatted,laid flat, levelled, made smooth. Dryden, Ceyx and Alcyone, 131; tr. of Virgil, Aeneid x, 158. See EDD. (s.v. Flat, v. 21).
flaunt-a-flaunt,flauntingly displayed. Gascoigne, Steel Glas, 1163.
flaw,a gust of wind. Arden of Fev. iv. 4. 44; 2 Hen. VI, iii. 1. 354; Hamlet, v. 1. 239. Metaphorically, a quarrel; Webster, White Devil (Camillo), ed. Dyce, p. 7. In prov. use in Scotland, also, in Devon and Cornwall (EDD.). Norw. dial,flaga, a gust of wind (Aasen).
flaw,to ‘flay’. B. Jonson, Alchem. iv. 1 (Subtle). In prov. use in Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, see EDD. (s.v. Flaw, vb. 7).
fleck,to spot, stain; hencefleckt, spotted in the cheek, flushed with wine; ‘And drinke, till they be fleckt’, Mirror for Mag., Norfolk, st. 25. In prov. use in Scotland and various parts of England, see EDD. (s.v. Fleck, vb.15). Cp. Norw. dial.flekk, a spot (Aasen).
fledge,fully fledged, ready to fly. Drayton, Muses’ Elysium, Nymphal ii. 147; ‘Fledge souls’, Herbert, Temple, Death. OE.flycge, fledged; cp. G.flügge. See Dict. (s.v. Fledge). Seeflidge.
fleet,to be afloat. Ant. and Cl. iii. 13. 171; to be overflowed, to be covered with water; Spenser, F. Q. iv. 9. 33; to pass or while away (time), As You Like It, i. 1. 124. OE.flēotan, to float.
fleet,to skim cream off milk; ‘I shall fleet their cream-bowls’, Grim the Collier, iv. 1 (Robin), in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, viii. 443; Lyly, Euphues (ed. Arber, p. 336). In prov. use in the north country, E. Anglia, and Kent and Sussex, see EDD. (s.v. Fleet, vb.2). OE.flēt, cream. Cp. Bremen dial.flöten, ‘die Sahne von der Milch abnehmen’ (Wtb.).
fleeten,pale, of the colour of skimmed milk; ‘You fleeten face!’, Fletcher, Queen of Corinth, iii. 1 (Conon).
fleeten,pale, of the colour of skimmed milk; ‘You fleeten face!’, Fletcher, Queen of Corinth, iii. 1 (Conon).
fleet,a creek, inlet, run of water. Drayton, Pol. xxiii. 191; xxv. 51. 129. In prov. use in various parts of England; esp. in E. Anglia and Kent; hence the name of Northfleet, see EDD. (s.v. Fleet, sb.19). OE.flēot, estuary.
fleme,to put to flight. Morte Arthur, leaf 318. 8; bk. xiii, c. 16; lf. 414, back, 16; bk. xx, c. 17. OE.flēman(Anglian), to put to flight; deriv. offlēam, flight.
flert;seeflirt.
flesh,to feed with flesh, to satiate, All’s Well, iv. 3. 19; 2 Hen. IV, iv. 5. 133; to feed the sword with flesh for the first time, 1 Hen. IV, v. 4. 133; to make fierce and eager for combat, King John, v. 1. 71. Hencefleshed, eager for battle, inured to bloodshed, Richard III, iv. 3. 6; ‘A flesh’d ruffian’, Beaumont and Fl., Custom of the Country, iv. 2 (Zabulon).
fletcher,a maker or seller of arrows. Ascham, Toxophilus, p. 110; ‘Jack Fletcher and his bolt’, Damon and Pithias (Hazlitt’s Dodsley, iv. 19). Anglo-F.fleccher, arrow-maker (Rough List); F.flèche, arrow.
flete,to float. Surrey, Description of Spring, 8; in Tottel’s Misc., p. 4.Fletyng, floating, swimming, Surrey, tr. of Aeneid, ii. 259. Seefleet.
flew,the large chaps of a deep-mouthed hound; as of a bloodhound. Henceflews, with the sense of flaps, or flapping skirts, Dekker, Shoemakers’ Holiday, v. 4 (Eyre). Hence alsoflew’d, having flews (of a particular quality), Mids. Night’s D. iv. 1. 125.
flew,a tube, pipe; seeflue.
flibote, fly-boat,a fast-sailing vessel. Heywood, King Edw. IV (Spicing), vol. i, p. 38; If you know not me (Medina), vol. i, p. 336. DutchVlie-boot, boat on the riverVlie, the channel leading out of the Zuyder Zee. See NED. (s.v. Fly-boat).
flicker,to flutter. Fletcher, Pilgrim, i. 1 (Alphonso); Dryden, Palamon, 1399. Metaph. to make fond movements, as with wings: Palsgrave has, ‘I flycker, I kysse together.’
flicker-mouse,a bat, a ‘flittermouse’. B. Jonson, New Inn, iii. 1; ‘Ratepenade, a bat, rearmouse or flickermouse’, Cotgrave. A Sussex word (EDD.).
flidge,fledged, furnished with feathers. Warner, Albion’s England. bk. ii, ch. 10, st. 48; Peacham, Comp. Gentleman, c. 4, p. 33;flig, Peele, Edw. I (ed. Dyce, p. 408). OE.flyege, fledged. Seefledge.
flight,an arrow for long distances, light and well-feathered. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Revels, v. 3 (2 Masque: Cupid);flight-shot, the distance to which a flight-arrow is shot, about 600 yards; ‘A flite shot over, as much as the Tamise is above the Bridge’, Leland, Itin. (ed. 1744, iv. 41); ‘It being from the park about two flight-shots in length’, Desc. of Royal Entertainment, 1613 (Works of T. Campion, ed. Bullen, p. 179); ‘Two flight-shot off’, Heywood, A Woman Killed, iv. 5. 2.
flip-flap,a fly-flapper, for driving away flies. Dekker, O. Fortunatus, i. 2 (Andelocia);flyp-flap, a lap of a garment, Skelton, Elynour Rummyng, 508.
flirt, flert,to throw with a jerk, to jerk, fillip. Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, iii (ed. Arber, 84); Drayton, Pol. vi. 50; to move with a jerk, to dart, to take short quick flights, Stanyhurst, tr. Aeneid, i (ed. Arber, 31).
flirt-gill, flurt-gill, flurt-gillian,a woman of light behaviour, a flirt. Romeo, ii. 4. 162; Beaumont and Fl., Knt. of the B. Pestle, iv. 1 (Wife);flurt-Gillian, The Chances, iii. 1 (Landlady). ‘Gill’ and ‘Gillian’ are forms of the Christian-name ‘Juliana’.
flitter-mouse,a bat. B. Jonson, Sad Sheph. ii. 2 (Alken); Alchemist, v. 2 (Subtle). In common prov. use in various parts of England (EDD.).
flix,fur of the hare. Dryden, Annus Mirab. 132. Also applied to other animals; ‘the flix of goat’, Dyer, The Fleece, bk. iv, l. 104. In prov. use for the fur of a hare, rabbit, or cat, see EDD. (s.v. Flick, sb.3).
float,flow, flood of the tide. Ford, Love’s Sacr. ii. 3;in float, at high water, ‘Hee being now in Float for Treasure’, Bacon, Henry VII (ed. Lumby, 128); Middleton, Span. Gipsy, i. 5 (Rod). Seeflote(wave).
flocket,a loose garment with long sleeves. Skelton, El. Rummyng, 53.
Florentine,a kind of pie; meat baked in a dish, with a cover of paste. Beaumont and Fl., Woman-hater, v. 1 (Lazarillo); ‘I went to Florence, from whence we have the art of making custards, which are therefore called Florentines’, Wit’s Interpreter (Nares).
flote,a fleet. Caxton, Hist. Troye, leaf 142, back, 31; 216, back, 1; Hakluyt, Voy. i. 296, l. 2; speltfloate, Gascoigne, Fruites of Warre, st. 135. OE.flota, a ship, fleet (BT.).
flote,a wave, billow; also, the sea; ‘The Mediterranean Flote’, Tempest, i. 2. 234; ‘The flotes of the see’, Caxton, Jason, 114 (NED.). OF.flot, a wave (Hatzfeld); cp. OE.flot, the sea (Sweet).
flote,to skim milk, to take off the cream. Tusser, Husbandry, § 49. 1. See EDD. (s.v. Float, vb. 16).
flower-de-luce,the ‘fleur-de-lis’, a plant of the genus Iris. Tusser, Husbandry, § 43. 11; Spenser, F. Q. ii. 6. 16; Wint. Tale, iv. 4. 127; also, the heraldic lily, the armorial emblem of France, 1 Hen. VI, i. 1. 80.
flown:‘The Sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine’, Milton, P. L. i. 502; ‘Flowen with wine’, Ussher, Ann, vi. 250 (NED.). ‘Flown’ was orig. used of a stream in full flow, ‘in flood’; ‘Cedron . . . in wynter . . . is mervaylously flowen with rage of water’, Guilford’s Pilgrimage (ed. Camden Soc. 31). See NED. (s.v. Flow, vb. 11 b).
†fluce,to flounce, plunge; ‘They [cattle] backward fluce and fling’, Drayton, The Moon-calf, 1352. Not found elsewhere.
flue, flew,an air-passage, a tube or pipe. In NED. (s.v. Flue, sb.3) is this note:—‘The following passage is usually quoted as the earliest example of the word, which is supposed to mean here the spiral cavity of a shell. Butflueis probably a misprint forflute. [The quotation follows]: 1562, Phaer,Aeneidx [l. 209 of Lat. text] With whelkid shell Whoes wrinckly wreathedflue, did fearful shril in seas outyell.’ But this suggestion cannot be right; for the word occurs again in a parallel passage, where the spelling isflew, occurring at the end of a line, and riming withblew; viz. ‘Dolphins blew, And Tritons blowe their Trumpes, ytsounds in seas wtdroppingflew,’ Phaer, tr. of Aeneid, v. 824.
fluence,a flowing stream. Chapman, tr. of Iliad, xvi. 224; also, fluency, Heywood, Fair Maid of the Exchange (Works, vol. ii, p. 86).
flundering,‘floundering’, plunging and tossing; ‘Th’ unruly flundring steeds’, H. More, Song of Soul, i. 1. 17; Chapman, Gent. Usher, i. 1 (Vincentio); the word makes no sense here, for the passage is intentional nonsense. But it’s a loud-sounding and impressive word.
†flundge,fly out, are flung out. Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, i. 59. An onomatopoeic word, not found elsewhere.
flurt at,to sneer at, to scoff at. Two Noble Kinsmen, i. 2. 19; Beaumont and Fl., Rule a Wife, iii. 2; id., Pilgrim, i. 1; iii. 1; Wild Goose Chase, ii. 1. See NED. (s.v. Flirt, vb. 4 a).
flush,a term at primero; when a player held four cards of the same colour. B. Jonson, Alchem. i. 1 (Face). Seefive-and-fifty.
fluxure,fluidity; also, moisture; ‘Moisture and fluxure’, B. Jonson, Induct. to Ev. Man out of Humour (Asper); Mirror for Mag., Cromwell (by Drayton), st. 117. Late L.fluxura(Tertullian).
fly,a domestic parasite, a familiar. Massinger, Virgin Martyr, ii. 2 (Theoph.). Also, a familiar spirit; ‘I have my flies abroad’, B. Jonson, Alchem. iii. 2 (Face). See NED. (s.v. Fly, sb.15, a, b.).
fly-boat;seeflibote.
fob;Seefub(2).
fobus,a cheat; forfob-us, i.e. cheat us; fromfob, to cheat. ‘You old fobus’, Wycherley, Plain Dealer, ii (Jerry).
fode,a creature, person, man. Squire of Low Degree, l. 364; in Hazlitt, Early Pop. Poetry, ii. 37; The World and the Child, l. 4; in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, i. 243. Also, a companion, id. 247. ME.fode, a person, creature (Prov. Hendyng, 63); see Dict. M. and S.
fode, foad,to beguile with show of kindness or fair words, to soothe in fancied security. Golding translates ‘Favet huic Aurora timori’, in Ovid, Met. vii. 721, by ‘The morning foading this my feare’, ed. 1587, 99b. Skelton hasfode, Magnyfycence, 1719. ME.foden, to beguile (Will. Palerne, 1646).
fog,rank, coarse grass. Drayton, Pol. xiii. 399; ‘Fogg in some places signifies long grass remaining in pasture till winter’, Worlidge, Dict. Rust.; ‘Fogge,postfaenium’, Levins, Manipulus. Hencefoggy, abounding in coarse grass, Drayton, Pol. xxiii. 115; moist, Golding, Metam. xv. 203. ‘Fog’ is in prov. use in various parts of England for the aftermath; the long grass left standing in the fields during winter (EDD.). ME.fogge(Cleanness, 1683, in Allit. Poems, 85). Norm. dial.fogge, long grass (Ross).
fog,to traffic in a servile way, hunt after, cheat.Foggingrascal, Webster, Devil’s Law-case, iv. 2 (Ariosto). A back-formation fromfogger; cp. ‘pettyfogger’; see Dict. (s.v. Petty).
foggy,flabby, puffy, corpulent; ‘Fat and foggy’, Contention betw. Liberality and Prodigality, v. 4 (Lib.); in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, viii. 377; ‘Un enbonpoint de nourrice, a plump, fat, or foggy constitution of body’, Cotgrave; ‘Foggy, to [too] ful of waste flesshe’, Palsgrave. Alsofog, bloated, Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, iii. 672. ‘Foggy’ is in prov. use in the north country for fat, corpulent.
fogue,fury. Dryden, Astraea Redux, 203. Ital.foga, fury, violent force (Florio).
foil, foyle,to tread under foot, trample down; ‘That Idoll . . . he did foyle In filthy durt’, Spenser. F. Q. v. 11. 33; the tread or track of a hunted animal, ‘What? hunt a wife on the dull foil!’, Otway, Venice Preserved, iii. 2 (Pierre);foyling, ‘Foulée, the slot of a stag, the fuse of a buck (the view or footing of either) upon hard ground, grass, leaves, or dust; we call it (most properly) his foyling’, Cotgrave. See NED. (s.v. Foil, vb.12).
foil, foyle,repulse, defeat, disgrace. Mirror for Mag., Cordila, st. 18; 1 Hen. VI, v. 3. 23. See above.
foin,a thrust, in fencing. King Lear, iv. 6. 251; ‘Keep at the foin’ (i.e. do not close in fight), Marriage of Wit and Science, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, ii. 389.
foist,a light galley; ‘The Lord Mayor’s foist,’ B. Jonson, Epig. cxxxiii; Voyage, 100; Fletcher, Woman’s Prize, ii. 6. 17. F.fuste, ‘a foist, a light galley’ (Cotgr.). Ital.fusta, ‘a foist, a fly-boat, a light galley’ (Florio); O. Prov.fusta, ‘poutre, bois, vaisseau, navire’ (Levy); Med. L.fusta, a galley, orig. a piece of timber (Ducange). Seegalley-foist.
foist(a term in dice-play), to ‘palm’ or conceal in the fist, to manage the dice so as to fall as required, Ascham, Toxophilus (ed. Arber, 54); to cheat, play tricks, Middleton, Span. Gipsy, ii. 1 (Alvarez); a cheat, a pickpocket, B. Jonson, Every Man, iv. 4 (Cob); Middleton, Roaring Girl, v. 1; a trick, B. Jonson, Volpone, iii. 6 (Vol.);foister, a cheat, a sharper, Mirror for Mag., Burdet, st. 32. Du.vuisten, to keep in the fist;vuist, the fist. See NED.
folk-mote,an assembly of the people. Spenser, F. Q. iv. 4. 6. OE.folc-mōt;folc, folk, people, andmōt, a moot or meeting.
folt,a foolish person. Disobedient Child, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, ii. 304;foult, Drant, tr. of Horace, Sat. i. 1. ME.folett, ‘stolidus’ (Prompt.). OF.folet, ‘a pretty fool, a little fop, a young coxe, none of the wisest’ (Cotgr.).
folter.Of the limbs: to give way; ‘His [the horse’s] legges hath foltred’, Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, bk. 1, ch. 17; of one’s speech: to stumble, to stammer, Golding, Metam. iii. 277. See NED. (s.v. Falter, vb.1).
fon,a fool. Spenser, Shep. Kal., Feb., 59. ME.fon(Wars Alex. 2944);fonne(Chaucer, C. T.A.4089).
fond,to play the fool, become foolish; to dote; ‘I fonde, or dote upon’, Palsgrave. Hencefonded, befooled, full of folly, Surrey, tr. of Aeneid, iv, l. 489 (L.demens, l. 374); ‘A fonded louer’ (an infatuated lover), Turbervile, The Lover, seing himselfe abusde, renounceth love, l. 11.
†fond,to found. Misspelt, for the sake of a quibble uponfond, foolish; Dekker, Shoemakers’ Holiday, iii. 3 (Hammon).
fone,foes. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 10. 10; Visions of Bellay, v. 10. OE.ge-fān, foes; pl. ofge-fā, a foe.
foody,abounding in food, supplying food. Chapman, tr. of Iliad, xi. 104; ‘Their foody fall,’ their settlement in a food-supplying place, id., xv. 638. ‘Foody’ is in prov. use in the north of England for rich, fertile, full of grass (EDD.).
footcloth,a large richly-ornamented cloth laid over the back of a horse and hanging down to the ground on each side; considered as a mark of dignity and state (NED.). 2 Hen. VI, iv. 7. 51; Fletcher, Noble Gentleman, ii. 1 (Marine); Beaumont and Fl., Thierry, v. 2 (Thierry); ‘My foot-cloth horse’, Richard III, iii. 4. 80; hencefoot-cloth, a horse provided with this adornment, Beaumont and Fl., Coxcomb, v. 1. 10.
foot-pace,a raised platform for supporting a chair of state. Bacon, Essay 56, § 4; Chapman, tr. of Odyssey, x. 466. F.pas, a step.
†foot-saunt,a game at cards; also calledcent-foot, and apparently the same ascent. Only in Gosson, School of Abuse, p. 35. Seecent.
fopdoodle,a simpleton. Massinger, Gt. Duke of Florence, ii. 1 (Calaminta); Butler, Hud. ii. 3. 998.
for-,intensive prefix, as distinct fromfore-, beforehand. OE.for-. Examples are given below: asfor-do,-hale,-slack,-slow,-speak,-spent,-swatt,-swonck,-weary,-wounded.
for,against, in order to prevent; chiefly with a sb. of verbal origin. Marlowe, 2 Tamburlaine, iv. 2; Two Gent. of Verona, i. 2. 136;for going, i.e. to prevent going, to save from going, Pericles, i. 1. 40. (Common; and, if the meaning be not caught, the sense of the sentence is altered.)
forby, foreby,hard by, near. Spenser, F. Q. i. 6. 39; v. 2. 54; by, id., v. 11. 17. ME.forby(Barbour’s Bruce, x. 345).
force.Of force, of necessity, Bacon, Adv. Learning, ii. 5. 2;on force, Heywood and Rowley, Fortune by Land, &c., ii. 1 (John); Works, vi. 381;force perforce, by violent constraint, King John, iii. 1. 142; 2 Hen. IV, iv. 1. 116;to hunt at force, to run the game down with dogs instead of slaying with weapons, B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, i. 2 (Robin).
force.It is force, it is of consequence or importance; usually negative,it is no force, it does not matter,no force, no matter,what force? what matter?; ‘No force for that, for it is ordered so’, Wyatt, The Courtier’s Life (Works, ed. Bell, 217). ME.no force,no fors, no matter, no consequence;what fors, what matter (Chaucer). Cp. Anglo-F.force ne fet, it makes no force, it matters not (Bozon).
force,to trouble oneself, care; ‘I force it not’, I reck not of it, I care not for it, Mucedorus, Induction, 68;it forceth not, it matters not, it is not material, Stubbes, Anat. Abuses (ed. Furnivall, 52). See NED. (s.v. Force, vb.114 b).
fordo,to destroy, overcome. Hamlet, ii. 1. 103. OE.fordōn, to destroy.
fore-,prefix; often miswritten for the prefixfor-, as inforespentforforspent. See underfor-.
forehand:in phr.forehand(shaft), an arrow used for shooting straight before one. Ascham, Toxoph. p. 126; 2 Hen. IV, iii. 2. 52; former, previous, Much Ado, iv. 1. 51; foremost, leading, Butler, Hud. ii. 2. 618; in the front, the mainstay, Tr. and Cr. i. 3. 143.
forelay,to lie in wait for. Dryden, Palamon, i. 493; also, to hinder, Dryden, tr. of Virgil, Aeneid xi, 781.
forepoynted,appointed beforehand. Gascoigne, Hermit’s Tale, § 2; ed. Hazlitt, ii. 141.
fore-right,right on, straight ahead. Beaumont and Fl., Knt. of Malta, ii. 3. 8; said of a favourable wind, Massinger, Renegado, v. 8 (Aga). In prov. use in Devon and Cornwall in the sense of straight forward (EDD.).
foreset.Of foreset, of set purpose, purposely. Ferrex and Porrex, ii. 2, chorus, 13. See NED.
forespeak,to predict; especially, to foretell evil about one. Chapman, tr. of Iliad, xvi. 792; xvii. 32; Witch of Edmonton, ii. 1 (Mother Sawyer).
forfaint,very faint, extremely languid. Sackville, Induction, § 15; Mirror for Mag., Buckingham, st. 73.
forfare,to perish, decay; ‘Thonge Castell . . . is now forfaryn’, Fabyan, Chron., Pt. V, c. 83 (side-note); ed. Ellis, 61. ME.forfaren(Gen. and Ex. 3018).
forgetive,inventive. 2 Hen. IV, iv. 3. 107. A word of uncertain formation, commonly taken to be a deriv. of the vb. ‘to forge’.
forgrown,grown out of use. Gascoigne, Prol., to Hermit’s Tale, ed. Hazlitt, i. 139.
forhaile,to distract. Spenser, Shep. Kal., Sept., 243. See NED. (s.v. For-, prefix15 b).
for-hent,seized beforehand. Betterfore-hent, Spenser, F. Q. iii. 4. 49. Fromfore, before, andhent, caught, from OE.hentan, to seize.
forhewed,much hacked, severely cut. Sackville, Induction, st. 57.
forjust,to tire out in ‘justing’, beat in a tilting-match. Morte Arthur, leaf 162. 35; bk. viii, c. 33.
forkhead,the head of an arrow, with two barbs pointing forward, instead of backward, as in theswallow-tail. Ascham, Toxophilus, p. 135.
forks,a forked stake used as a (Roman) whipping-post. Fletcher, Bonduca, i. 2 (Petillius); ii. 4 (Decius). L.furcae, pl., forks; hence, a yoke under which defeated enemies passed; also, a whipping-post.
forlore,utterly wasted. Sackville, Induction, st. 48;forlorne, made bare, id. st. 8. OE.forloren, pp. offorlēosan, to lose, also, to destroy.
formerly,first of all, beforehand. Spenser, F. Q. vi. 1. 38; vi. 3. 38. Also, just now, even now; id., ii. 12. 67; Merch. Venice, iv. 1. 362.
forpine,to waste away. Gascoigne, Complaint of Philomene, 15;forpined, wasted, Hall, Sat. v. 2. 91.
forsane,pp.‘forsaken’, avoided, Twyne, tr. Aeneid, x. 720; xi. 412. I can find no third example of the formforsakenbeing thus contracted. (Not in NED.).
forslack, foreslack,to delay, to spoil by delay. Spenser, F. Q. vi. 12. 12; vii. 7. 45.
forslow,to delay. Marlowe, Edw. II, ii 4. 39. Ill speltforeslow, 3 Hen. VI, ii. 3. 56; B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Humour, v. 5 (Macilense).
forsonke,deeply sunk. Sackville, Induction, st. 20.
forspeak,to speak against. Ant. and Cl. iii. 7. 3.
forspeak,to bewitch. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Revels, iii. 1 (Asotus); Middleton, Witch of Edmonton, ii. 1. 12; ‘They [the witches] saie they have . . . forespoken hir neighbour’, R. Scot, Discov. Witchcraft, iii. 2. 45 (NED.); ‘Fasciner, to charm, bewitch, forspeak;fasciné, forspoken’, Cotgrave. In prov. use in Scotland for ‘to bewitch’, ‘to cause ill-luck by immoderate praise’ (EDD.). ME.forspekyn, or charmyn, ‘fascino’ (Prompt.).
forspent,exhausted. 2 Hen. IV, i. 1. 37; misspeltforespent, Sackville, Induction, st. 12.
forswatt,covered with ‘sweat’. Spenser, Shep. Kal., April, 99.
forswonck,spent with toil. Spenser, Shep. Kal., April, 99. Seeswink.
forth dayes,late in the day. Morte Arthur, leaf 402, back, 19; bk. xx, c. 5. ME. ‘Whanne it was forth daies hise disciplis camen’, Wyclif, Mark vi. 35.
forthink,to regret, to be sorry for. Spenser, F. Q. vi. 4. 32; ‘I forthynke, I repent me,Je me repens’, Palsgrave. A north-country word (EDD.), ME.forthynke, ‘penitere’ (Cath. Angl.); OE. forforþencan, to despise.
forthright,straight forward. Dryden, tr. Aeneid, xii. 1076; id., Palamon, ii. 237; used as sb., a straight course, Tr. and Cr. iii. 3. 158. In use in Scotland, see EDD. (s.v. Forth). ME.forth right(Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 295).
forthy,therefore, on that account. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 1. 14; Shep. Kal., March, 37. ME.for-thy, therefore (Chaucer, C. T.A.1841); OE.for-ðȳ.
forwaste,wasted utterly. Sackville, Induction, st. 11. (Betterforwast, wherewastis contracted fromwasted.)Forwasted, laid waste, Spenser, F. Q. i. 11. 1.
forwearied,extremely wearied. Spenser, F. Q. i. 9. 13; Davies, Orchestra, 58 (Arber’s Garland, v. 37).
forwhy,because. Peele, Edw. I, ed. Dyce, p. 412, col. 1; Richard II, v. 1. 46. ME.for-why(Chaucer, Bk. Duch. 461); see Dict. M. and S., and Wright’s Bible Word-Book.
forwithered,utterly withered. Sackville, Induction, st. 12.
forworn,worn out, exhausted. Gascoigne, Jocasta, iv. 1 (Antigone).
forwounded,badly wounded. Morte Arthur, leaf 175, back, 26; bk. ix, c. 9.
foster,a ‘forester’. Spenser, F. Q. iii. 1. 17; iii. 4. 50. Hence the surname ‘Foster’.
fougade,a small powder-mine; applied to the gunpowder plot of Guy Fawkes; ‘The fougade or powder plot’, Sir T. Browne, Rel. Medici, pt. i, § 17. F.fougade, a mine (Cotgr.).
foulder,a thunder-bolt. Mirror for Mag., Clarence, st. 47; hence as vb., to drive out, as with a thunder-bolt, id., Mortimer, st. 4. Anglo-F.fouldre(Gower).
fouldring,thunderous. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 2. 20.
foumerd,a ‘foumart’, polecat. Ascham, Toxophilus, p. 52. For numerous forms of this very general prov. name for the polecat see EDD. (s.v. Foumart). Seefulmart.
fourraye,to fall upon, attack, raid; lit. to foray, plunder, act as forayers. Caxton, Hist. of Troye, leaf 203. 8;foureyed and threstid, charged and thrust, id., leaf 299. 29. See NED. (s.v. Foray).
foutra, footra,an expression of contempt;a foutra for, a fig for. 2 Hen. IV, v. 3. 103; Fletcher, Mons. Thomas, iv. 2 (Launcelot). For the origin, see NED.
fowe, fow,to clean out, cleanse; ‘I fowe a gonge’, Palsgrave. In prov. use in some parts of England for the more usual ‘fey’ or ‘fie’, see EDD. (s.v. Fay, vb.2). ME.fowyn, or make clean, ‘mundo, emundo’ (Prompt. EETS. 184, see note no. 833); Icel.fāga, to clean.
fowl,a bird; pronounced likefool, and quibbled upon. 3 Hen. VI, v. 6. 18-20.
fox,a kind of sword. Hen. V, iv. 4. 9; ‘A right [genuine] fox’, Two Angry Women, ii. 4 (Coomes). The wolf on some makes of sword-blade is supposed to have been mistaken for a fox.
foxed,drunk. (Cant.) Fletcher, Fair Maid of the Inn, ii. 3 (Clown);fox, to make drunk, Middleton, Span. Gipsy, iii. 1 (near the end); Pepys, Diary, Oct. 26, 1660.
fox-in-the-hole,a game in which boys hopped on one leg, and beat each other with pieces of leather (Boas). Kyd, Soliman and Persida, i. 3 (end); Herrick, The Country Life, 57.
foy,fidelity, homage. Spenser, F. Q. iv. 10. 41. F.foi, faith.
fraight,pp.fraught, loaded. Peele, Poems, ed. Dyce, p. 601, col. 1; Spenser, F. Q. i. 12. 35.
frail,a basket made of rushes. B. Jonson, Volpone, v. 2 (Peregrine); ‘A frail of figges’, Lyly, Mother Bombie, iv. 2 (Silena); ‘Cabas, a frail for raisins or figs’, Cotgrave; so Palsgrave. In common prov. use in various parts of England—the Midlands, E. Anglia, and south-west counties—for a soft flexible basket used by workmen and tradesmen (EDD.). ME.ffraylofffrute, ‘carica’ (Prompt.),fraiel(Wyclif, Jer. xxiv. 2); OF.frayel, ‘cabas à figues’ (La Curne). See Thomas, Phil. Fr. 366.
fraischeur,freshness, coolness. Dryden, Poem on the Coronation, 102. F.fraischeur(mod.fraîcheur), coolness (Cotgr.).
franion,an idle, loose, licentious person. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 2. 37; v. 3. 22; Heywood, 1 Edw. IV (Hobs); Works, i. 44. See Nares.
frank,a sty, a place to feed pigs in. 2 Hen. IV, ii. 2. 160; ‘Franc, a franke, or stie, to feed or fatten hogs in’, Cotgrave; as vb., to fatten, confine in a sty, Richard III, i. 3. 314; Middleton, Game at Chess, v. 3. 14. ME.frank, a place for fattening animals, ‘saginarium’ (Prompt.), see Way’s note; OF.franc(Didot), see Ducange (s.v. Francum).
frapler,a blusterer, quarrelsome person. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Revels, iv. 1 (Amorphus); see NED. (s.v. Fraple). Cp.frap, to quarrel,frappish, quarrelsome, in EDD.
frappet,an endearing term addressed to a girl; ‘My little frappet’, Wilkins, Miseries of inforst Marriage, v. 1 (Ilford).
fraught,freight, cargo. Edw. III, v. 1. 79; Tempest, v. 1. 61;fig.of news brought by a new-comer. Milton, Samson, 1075; as vb., to lade, load, form a cargo, Tempest, 1. 2. 13. See Dict.
fraunch,to devour; ‘Fraunching the fysh . . . with teath of brasse’, Mirror for Mag., Rivers, st. 69;fraunshe, Turbervile, Hunting (ed. 1575, 358); see NED.
fraunchise,freedom. Sir T. Elyot, Governour, bk. iii, c. 15, § last; Fabyan, Chron. an. 1247-8, ed. Ellis, p. 336. ME.franchyse, privilege (Chaucer),fraunchyse, ‘libertas’ (Prompt.); Anglo-F.fraunchise, freedom, privileged liberty (Gower).
fraying,the coating rubbed off the horns of a deer, when she rubs it against a tree. B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, i. 2 (John).
fraying-stock,a tree-stem against which a hart frays (or rubs) his horns. Turbervile, Hunting, c. 27, p. 69.
fream,to roar, rage. Stanyhurst, tr. of Virgil, ii. 234; iv. 169. L.fremere.
freat,a weak place or blemish in a bow. Ascham, Toxophilus, pp. 114, 120; as vb., to injure, damage, Surrey, Praise of Mean Estate, 4; in Tottel’s Misc., p. 27. A Yorkshire word (EDD.). OF.frete(fraite), a breach, injury, see La Curne (s.v. Fraicte), and Didot (s.v. Fraite).
freke,a warrior, fighting-man. Ascham, Toxophilus, p. 68; Grimald, Epitaph on Sir J. Wilford, 13; in Tottel’s Misc., p. 112. ME.freke, a warrior, a man (Dict. M. and S.), OE.freca(Beowulf).
fremman,a stranger. Jacob and Esau, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, ii. 210. Forfremd man; ‘Fremd’ is in common prov. use for strange, foreign, in Scotland and the north of England down to Northampton (EDD.). ME.fremede, foreign (Chaucer). OE.fremede.
frenne,a stranger, Spenser, Shep. Kal., April, 28. ‘Fren’ is given as a Caithness word in EDD. ME.frend, foreign (Plowman’s Tale, 626). See above.
frequent,crowded, well-attended. B. Jonson, Sejanus, v. 3. 1; Dryden, Hind and Panther, iii. 25;f. to, addicted to, Wint. Tale, iv. 2. 36;frequent with, familiar with, Shak. Sonnet 117. L.frequens, crowded (Cicero).
freshet,a stream or brook of fresh water. Hakluyt, Voy. i. 113, l. 4 from bottom; Milton, P. R. ii. 345.
fret,to wear away; to chafe, rub; ‘Frets like a gummed velvet’, 2 Hen. IV, ii. 2. 2. (Velvet, when stiffened with gum, quickly rubbed and fretted itself out.)
friar’s lantern,Ignis fatuus, will-of-the-wisp. Milton, L’Allegro, 104. [Scott in Marmion, iv. i, following Milton, has taken the ‘friar’ to be Friar Rush, who had nothing to do with theIgnis fatuus, but was the hero of a popular story—a demon disguised as a friar.]
frim,vigorous; ‘My frim and lusty flank’, Drayton, Pol. xiii. 397; abundant in sap, juicy, id., Owle, 5; Worlidge, Syst. Agric, 224. In gen. prov. use in England in the sense of vigorous, healthy, thriving, in good condition, luxuriant in growth; also, juicy, succulent (EDD.). OE. *frym, cogn. w.freme, good, strenuous (BT.).
frisle,to ‘frizzle’, to curl the hair in small crisp curls. Gascoigne, Steel Glas, 1145; Twyne, tr. Aeneid, xii. 100. See EDD. (s.v. Frizzle, vb.2).
frith,wooded country, wood; often used vaguely; ‘In fryth or fell’, Gascoigne, Art of Venerie (ed. Hazlitt, ii. 306); Phaer, tr. of Aeneid, ix. 85 (L.silva). In prov. use in various parts of England (EDD.). ME.frith, ‘frith and fell’ (Cursor M. 7697). OE.fyrhð, a wood (Earle, Charters, 158).
fro, froe;seefrow.
fro,to go frowardly or amiss, to be unsuccessful. Mirror for Mag., Yorke, st. 23.
frolic,s., (prob.) a set of humorous verses sent round at a feast. B. Jonson, Devil an Ass, ii. 3 (Meer.).
froligozene,interj., rejoice!, be happy! Two Angry Women, ii. 2 (end); Heywood, Witches of Lancs., i. 1 (Whetstone); vol. iv, p. 173. Du.vrolijk zijn, to be cheerful.
fronted,confronted. Bacon, Essay 15, § 16.
frontisterion;in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, xi. 310. Seephrontisterion.
frontless,shameless. Chapman, tr. of Iliad, i. 159; Odyssey, i. 425; Dryden, Hind and Panther, iii. 1040. 1187.
frore,intensely cold, frosty; ‘The parching Air Burns frore’, Milton, P. L. ii. 595. Now only in poetical diction after Milton’s use. OE.frorenpp. offrēosan, to freeze. ‘Frore’ is still in prov. use in various parts of England for ‘frozen’, see EDD. (s.v. Freeze, 3 (11)).
frorn,frozen. Spenser, Shep. Kal., Feb., 243. In use in E. Anglia. See above.
frory,frosty. Spenser, F. Q. iii. 8. 35. A Suffolk word (EDD.).
frosling,a ‘frostling’, a gosling nipped or injured by frost. Skelton, El. Rummyng, 460. ‘Froslin(g’ is a Suffolk word for anything—plant or animal—injured by the frost (EDD.).
frote, froat,to rub, chafe; to rub a garment with perfumes. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Revels, v. 2 (Perfumer); Middleton, A Trick to Catch, iv. 3 (1 Creditor). In prov. use in the north country and Shropshire (EDD.). ME.frote, to rub (Chaucer, Tr. and Cr. iii. 1115, OF.froter(F.frotter).
frounce,to frizz or curl the hair; ‘An ouerstaring frounced hed’, Ascham, Scholemaster, bk. i (ed. Arber, p. 54); Milton, Il Penseroso, 123. F.froncer, to wrinkle the brow, to frown. See Dict. (s.v. Flounce, 2).
frow, frowe, fro,a Dutchwoman; a woman. London Prodigall, v. 1. 164; Bacchus’froes, Beaumont and Fl., Wit at Several Weapons, v. 1 (Wittypate). Du.vrouw; cp. G.Frau. See Stanford.
frowy,musty, sour, stale; ‘They like not of the frowie fede’, Spenser, Shep. Kal., July, 111. In use in E. Anglia and America, see EDD. (s.v. Frowy), and NED. (s.v. Froughy). Probably a deriv. of OE.þrōh, rancid (Napier’s OE. Glosses, vii. 193 and 210).
froy,brave, handsome, gallant; ‘And then my froy Hans Buz, A Dutchman’, B. Jonson, Staple of News, i. 1 (Thomas). Du.fraai, ‘brave, handsome, gallant, neat’ (Sewel). Cp. F.frais, ‘fresh, young, lusty’ (Cotgr.).
frubber,a furbisher, burnisher, or polisher. Said to a maid-servant, Chapman, Widow’s Tears, v. 3 (Tharsalio).
frubbish,to polish by rubbing; ‘To frubbish,fricando polire’, Levins, Manip.; hence,frubisher, a polisher, Skelton, Magnyfycence, 1076. F.fourbir, ‘to furbish, polish’ (Cotgr.).
frump,to mock or snub. Fletcher, Maid in a Mill, iii. 2 (Franio); ‘Sorner, to jest, boord, frump, gull’, Cotgrave; ‘Hee frumpeth those his mistresse frownes on’, Man in the Moone (Nares); a scoffer, Gascoigne (ed. Hazlitt, i. 24); a taunt, a biting sarcasm, Harington, Epigrams (Nares); Beaumont and Fl., Scornful Lady, ii. 3. ‘To frump’ is in prov. use in many parts of England, meaning to flout, jeer; to scold, speak sharply or rudely to, see EDD. (s.v. Frump, vb.2).
frush,to bruise, batter. Tr. and Cr. v. 6. 29;frusshid, dashed in pieces, Caxton, Hist. Troye, leaf 78. 28. OF.fruissier,froissier, to break to pieces.
frush,fragments, remnants. Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, i. 39. A Scottish word, see EDD. (s.v. Frush, sb.14).
fub,a cheat, a fool. Marston, Malcontent, ii. 3 (Malevole).
fub(gen.withoff), to put off deceitfully. 2 Hen. IV, ii. 2. 37;to fob off, Coriolanus, i. 1. 97. Cp. Low G.foppen, ‘Einen zum Narren haben’ (Berghaus). See EDD. (s.v. Fob, vb.4).
fubbed,fobbed, cheated. B. Jonson, Alchem. iv. 1 (Subtle).
fucate,artificially painted over, disguised. Sir T. Elyot, Governour, bk. iii, c. 4, § last but one. L.fucatus, pp. offucare, to paint the face; fromfucus; see below.
fucus,paint for the complexion, a cosmetic. B. Jonson, Sejanus, ii. 1 (Eudemus); Beaumont and Fl., Laws of Candy, ii. 1 (Gonzalo). L.fucus, red dye. Gk. φῦκος,rouge, prepared from seaweed so called.
fuge,to flee, flee away; ‘I to fuge and away’, Gascoigne, Works, i. 231. (The construction seems to be—I(gan)to fuge.) L.fugere.
†fulker,a pawn-broker. Gascoigne, Supposes, ii. 4 (Dulipo). Cp. Du.focker, ‘an engrosser of wares’ (Hexham). See Fog (to traffic).
fullam,a loaded dice. Merry Wives, i. 3. 94. Speltfulham. Butler, Hudibras, ii. 1. 642.
fulmart,a ‘foumart’, pole-cat. B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, i. 4 (Lady Tub); alsofullymart, Fitzherbert, Husbandry, § 146. 31. ME.fulmard,fulmerde, a polecat, OE.fūl, foul, andmearð, marten, see Dict. M. and S. Seefoumerd.
fum,to play or thrum (on a guitar) with the fingers. Westward Ho, v. 2; Dryden, Assignation, ii. 3.
fumado, fumatho,a smoked pilchard; ‘Cornish pilchards, otherwise calledFumados’, Nash, Lenten Stuff (1871), p. 61 (NED.);fumatho, Marston, The Fawn, iv. 1 (Page); ‘Their pilchards . . . by the name of Fumadoes, with oyle and a lemon, are meat for the mightiest Don in Spain’, Fuller, Worthies, Cornwall, 1. 194. Span.fumado, pp. offumar, to smoke; L.fumus, smoke. See EDD. (s.v. Fair-maid).
fumbling,rambling in speech, hesitating. North, tr. of Plutarch, J. Caesar, § 43 (in Shak. Plut., p. 98, n. 2); ‘Thy fumbling throat’, Marston, Antonio’s Revenge, i. 1 (Piero).
fumer,a perfumer. Beaumont and Fl., Triumph of Time, sc. 1 (Desire).
fumish,angry, fractious. See EDD. and Nares.Fumishly, with indignation, ‘Toke highly or fumishly’; Udall, tr. of Apoph., Philip, § 14.
fumishing,variant offewmishing, the dung of a hart or deer. Turbervile, Hunting, c. 23; p. 65. Seefewmets.
funambulous,narrow, as if one were walking on a tight-rope; ‘This funambulous path’, Sir T. Browne, Letter to a Friend, § 31.
furacane, furicane,a hurricane; ‘These tempestes of the ayer . . . they caule Furacanes’, R. Eden, First three E. Books on America (ed. Arber, p. 81).Furicanes, Heywood, Iron Age, Part II, vol. iii, p. 405. O. Span.furacan(Sp.huracan), Pg.furacão, from the Carib word given by Peter Martyr asfuracan. See NED. (s.v. Hurricane).
furbery,a trick, imposture. Howell, Foreign Travell, sect. viii, p. 43. F.fourberie, a trick.
fur-fare,to cause to perish, destroy. Morte Arthur, leaf 95, back, 30; bk. vi, c. 6. Seeforfare.
furniment,furniture, array. Spenser, F. Q. iv. 3. 38. F.fourniment, provision, furniture;fournir, to furnish (Cotgr.).
furniture,equipment. Tam. Shrew, iv. 3. 182; trappings, All’s Well, ii. 3. 65.
†furny;‘I have a furny card in a place’, Lusty Juventus, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, ii. 78. Meaning doubtful; perhaps = F.fourni, provided.
fustick,the name of a kind of wood. Ascham, Toxophilus, p. 123; Dyer, The Fleece, bk. iii. 189. The name was given totwokinds of wood: (a) that of the Venetian sumach (Rhus Cotinus); (b) of theCladrastis tinctoriaof the W. Indies. F. and Span.fustoc, Arab.fustuq; from Gk. πιστάκη, pistachio.
futile,unable to hold one’s tongue, loquacious. Bacon, Essay 20, § 4. L.futilis, that easily pours out, ‘leaky’.
fyaunts;seefiants.