F

F

• • Facinorous

  • wicked

  • Fact

  • guilt

  • Factious

  • instant, importunate

  • Faculty

  • essential virtue or power

  • Fadge

  • to suit

  • Fading

  • a kind of ending to a song

  • Fain

  • glad, gladly

  • Fair

  • beauty

  • Faitor

  • a traitor

  • Fall

  • to let fall

  • Fallow

  • fawn-coloured

  • False

  • falsehood

  • Falsing

  • deceptive

  • Familiar

  • a familiar spirit

  • Fancy

  • Fancy-free

  • untouched by love

  • Fang

  • to seize in the teeth

  • Fantastic

  • a fantastical person

  • Fap

  • drunk

  • Far

  • farther

  • Farced

  • stuffed

  • Fardel

  • a burden

  • Fartuous

  • used ridiculously for ' virtuous.'

  • Fast

  • assuredly, unalterably

  • Fat

  • dull

  • Favour

  • countenance
    Complexion
    Quality

  • Fear

  • the object of fear

  • Fear

  • to affright

  • Fearful

  • subject to fear, timorous

  • Feat

  • dexterous

  • Feat

  • to make fine

  • Feater

  • comp. degree. more neatly

  • Featly

  • nimbly, daintily

  • Feature

  • beauty

  • Federary

  • confederate

  • Feeder

  • agent, servant

  • Fee-grief

  • a grief held, as it were, in fee-simple, or the
    peculiar property of him who possesses it

  • Feere

  • a companion, husband

  • Fehemently

  • used ridiculously for 'vehemently.'

  • Fell

  • the hide

  • Fence

  • art or skill in defence

  • Feodary

  • one who holds an estate by suit or service to
    a superior lord; hence one who acts under the
    direction of another

  • Fester

  • to rankle, grow virulent

  • Festinately

  • quickly

  • Fet

  • fetched

  • Fico

  • a fig

  • Fielded

  • in the field of battle

  • Fig

  • to insult

  • Fights

  • clothes hung round a ship to conceal the men
    from the enemy

  • File

  • a list or catalogue

  • File

  • to defile
    To smooth or polish
    To make even

  • Fill-horse

  • shaft-horse

  • Fills

  • the shafts

  • Filth

  • a whore

  • Fine

  • end

  • Fine

  • to make fine or specious

  • Fineless

  • endless

  • Firago

  • ridiculously used for 'Virago.'

  • Fire-drake

  • Will o' the Wisp

  • Fire-new

  • with the glitter of novelty on, like newly-
    forged metal

  • Firk

  • to chastise

  • Fit

  • a canto or division of a song
    A trick or habit

  • Fitchew

  • a polecat

  • Fives

  • a disease incident to horses

  • Flap-dragon

  • raisins in burning brandy

  • Flap-jack

  • a pan-cake

  • Flat

  • certain

  • Flatness

  • lowness, depth

  • Flaw

  • a gust of wind
    sudden emotion, or the cause of it

  • Flaw

  • to make a flaw in, to break

  • Flecked

  • spotted, streaked

  • Fleet

  • to float
    To pass away
    to pass the time

  • Fleeting

  • inconstant

  • Fleshment

  • the act of fleshing the sword, hence the
    first feat of arms

  • Flewed

  • furnished with hanging lips, as hounds are

  • Flight

  • a particular mode of practising archery

  • Flirt-gill

  • a light woman

  • Flote

  • wave, sea

  • Flourish

  • an ornament

  • Flourish

  • to ornament, disguise with ornament

  • Flush

  • fresh, full of vigour

  • Foil

  • defeat, disadvantage

  • Foin

  • to fence, fight

  • Foison

  • plenty

  • Fond

  • foolish, foolishly affectionate

  • Foot-cloth

  • a saddle-cloth hanging down to the ground

  • For

  • for that, because

  • Forbid

  • accursed, outlawed

  • Forbode

  • forbidden

  • Force

  • to stuff, for 'farce.'

  • Forced

  • falsely attributed

  • Fordo

  • to kill, destroy
    To weary

  • Foreign

  • obliged to live abroad

  • Forepast

  • former

  • Foreslow

  • to delay

  • Forfend

  • to forbid

  • Forgetive

  • inventive

  • Forked

  • horned

  • Formal

  • regular, retaining its proper and essential
    characteristic

  • Forspeak

  • to speak against

  • Forspent

  • exhausted, weary

  • Forthright

  • a straight path; forthrights and meanders,
    straight paths and crooked ones

  • Forweary

  • to weary, exhaust

  • Fosset-seller

  • one who sells the pipes inserted into a vessel
    to give vent to the liquor, and stopped by a
    spigot

  • Fox

  • a sword; a cant word

  • Fox-ship

  • the cunning of the fox

  • Frampold

  • peevish, unquiet

  • Frank

  • the feeding place of swine

  • Franked

  • confined

  • Franklin

  • a freeholder, a small squire

  • Fraught

  • freighted

  • Fraughtage

  • freight

  • Fraughting

  • to fraught. loading or constituting the
    cargo of a ship

  • Fresh

  • a spring of fresh water

  • Fret

  • the stop of a guitar

  • Fret

  • to wear away
    To variegate

  • Friend

  • to befriend

  • Frippery

  • an old-clothes shop

  • From

  • prep. contrary to

  • Front

  • to affront, oppose

  • Frontier

  • opposition

  • Frontlet

  • that which is worn on the forehead

  • Frush

  • to break or bruise

  • Frustrate

  • frustrated

  • Fub

  • OFF to put off

  • Fulfill

  • to fill full

  • Full

  • complete

  • Fullam

  • a loaded die

  • Fulsome

  • lustful

  • Furnished

  • equipped

  • Furnitor

  • furnitory, an herb