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FACE, v. t. to brave,
bully; to trim a garment; to lie with effrontery FADGE, v.i, to turn out, to suit FADING, sub. burden of song FAIL, sub. failure, omission FAIRING, sub. a present FAIRY, sub. an enchantress FALL, sub. a cadence in music FALLOW, adj. yellowish brown FALSE, v. t. to falsify, perjure FAME, v. t. to make famous FANCIES, sub. love-songs, or songs in general FANCY, v .t. to love FANG, v. t. to seize, lay hold of FANGLED, adj. fond of finery FANTASTIC, sub. a dandy; fond of finery, FANTASTICAL, adj, imaginary; imaginative FANTASTICOES, sub. coxcombs FAP, adj. drunk FAR, adv. further FARCED, pt. p. stuffed out, full FARDEL, sub. a bundle, a pack [Ital. fardello] FARROW, sub. a litter of pigs FARTHINGALE, sub. a hooped petticoat FASHIONS, sub. a skin disease in horses, now called farcy FAST, pt. p. fasted FAST AND LOOSE, a cheating game FAT, sub. a vat; adj. heavy, unpleasant FAVOUR, sub. countenance, visage FAVOURS, sub. features FEAR, v. t. to frighten FEARFUL, adj. timorous, frightened FEATURE, sub. form, shape; perhaps thing composed FEDERARY, sub. confederate FEEDER, sub. a shepherd FEEDING, sub. pasturage FEE-GRIEF, sub. grief not shared by any FELLOWLY, adj. companionable, sympathetic FEODARY, sub. confederate FERE, sub. a spouse FERRET, v. t. to worry FERVENCY, sub. eagerness FETCH, sub. a trick, a stratagem FETCH OFF, v. t. to make away with FETTLE, v. t. to get into condition, prepare, FEWNESS, sub. rarity, or brevity FIELD-BED, sub. camp-bed FIG, v. t. to insult by thrusting the thumb between two fingers FIGHTS, sub. canvas hung up to screen the crew of a ship during action FIGO, sub, a turn of rhetoric; a method of fortune-telling FIGURE, sub. a turn of rhetoric; a method of fortune-telling FIGURES, sub. disquieting fancies FILE, v. t. to defile; sub. a list FILLS, sub. shafts FILTH, sub. term of contempt FINELESS, adj. without end FINICAL, adj. foppish FIRE-DRAKE, sub. a meteor, fiery dragon FIRK, v. t. to beat FIST, v. t. to grasp FITCHEW, sub. a polecat FITTED, pt.p. worked as if by fits. Sonnets FIVES, sub. inflammation of parotid glands in horses [French avives] FLAP-DRAGON, sub. a small burning body lighted and put afloat in a glass of liquor, to be swallowed burning; v. t. to swallow like a flap-dragon FLAP-EARED, adj. broad hanging ears FLAP-JACK, adj. a pancake FLAP-MOUTHED, adj. with broad hanging lips FLAT, sub. sandbank FLAT-LONG, adv. flat FLAW, sub. a crack; v. t. to break, crack FLAWS, sub. outbursts of passion; sudden gusts of wind; small blades of ice FLECKED, adj. spotted FLEWED, adj. 'Flews' are the large hanging chaps of a hound FLICKER, v. i. to twinkle FLIGHT, sub. a long, light arrow, FLIGHTY, adj. swift FLIRT-GILLS, sub. light wenches FLOCK, sub. a lock of wool FLOTE, sub. wave FLOURISH, sub. ornament; a sounding of trumpets, FOBBED, pt p. cheated FOIN, sub. a thrust; v i. to thrust in fencing FOISON, OR FOIZON, sub. plenty [Fr. foison] FOOT, v. t. to kick; to seize with the talon FOP, sub. a fool, K. Lear FORBID, pt. p. accursed FORDONE, pt. p. exhausted FOREDO, v. t. to lay violent hands upon, to destroy FORE-END, sub. the first part FORE-HAND, sub. advantage; the best part, the pick; adj. anticipated FORE-HAND SHAFT, an arrow for shooting point blank FORFEND, v. i. to forbid FORGETIVE, adj. inventive FORK, sub. the tongue of a snake; the head of an arrow FORSLOW, v. i. to delay FORTED, adj. fortified FORTH-RIGHT, sub. a straight path POSSET-SELLER, sub. a seller of taps FOUTRA, sub. expression of contempt Fox, sub. a broadsword FOXSHIP, sub. cunning and selfishness FRACTED, pt. p. broken FRAMPOLD, adj. unquiet, quarrelsome FRANK, sub. a sty; v. i. to shut up in a sty FRANKLIN, sub. a yeoman FRAUGHTING, part. adj. constituting the freight FREE, adj. innocent FRESHES, sub. springs of fresh water FRET, v. t. to adorn FRBTS, sub. the stops of a guitar FRIPPERY, sub. an old clothes shop FRONTIER, sub. an outwork, fortification FRONTLET, sub. a band for the forehead FRUSH, v. t. to break, bruise, or crush [Fr.froisser] FUBBED OFF, pt. p. put off with excuses FULLAMS, sub. a kind of false dice FUMITER and FUMITORY, sub. the plant fumaria FUSTILARIAN, sub. a term of reproach |