Glossary.
Letter 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
- FAIN
- gladly
- FAIR
- beauty
- FAITOR
- a traitor
- FALLOW
- fawn-coloured
- FALSE
- falsehood
- FALSING
- deceptive
- FAMILIAR
- a familiar spirit
- 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
- 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
- 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