A'CES ABOUT. [a phrafe ufed in military ex- | FA'LSING. part. adj. [from to falfe.] Falfe. Fercises, and metaphorically] Change the fubject. Good captain, faces about; to fome other difcourfe. Faces about, to fome other discourse, I cannot relifh this. Marmion's Antiquary. "FACINE'RIOUS. adj. [corrupted by Shakspeare from facinorous."] Whether this corruption did not originate with the printer, commentators differ. "FACINOROUS. adj. --- Wicked." And magnified for high facinorous deeds. "FACTORY. n. T. Heyw. English Traveller. "2. The traders embodied in one place." Dr. Shaw refided 12 years in quality of chaplain to the British factory. FADING. n. An old Irish dance. Guthrie. I will have him dance fading; fading is a fine jig. "3. Deficience." See you yond' motion? not the old fa-ding, B. Jonfon's Epigrams. "FAIL. n. Goodly and gallant fhall be falfe and perjur'd' From thy great fail. Shaks. Cymbeline. 3. The beauty of a woman. My decayed fair A funny look of his would foon repair. Shaks. Comedy of Errors. FAKE'ER. n. An Indian felf-mortifying hermit. Cambridge. FARFET. part. adj. [old word for far-fetched.] 1. Brought from a diftance. Whofe pains have earn'd the far-fet spoil. Milton's P. Reg. Butler's Remains. Metaphors far-fet hinder to be underflood. B. Fonfon's Difcoveries. FA'RDED. part. adj. [from farder, Fr.] Painted. "FARE. n. 3. Expedition. Sherflone. That nought the morrow next mote ftay his fare. fure. That now the hurried wight was farforth spent. Armfrong. FATT (.) is a measure mentioned in the ftatutes to Termes de la Ley. contain eight bushels. "FAULTILY. adv. Improperly.' Wherein they had not fo faultily deviated from their predeceffors. Mafon. FAUN. n. [Faunus, Lat.] A kind of rural deity. Here han the holy Fauns recourse. Spenfer's July. Rough fatyrs danc'd, and Fauns with cloven heel From the glad found would not be abfent long. Milton's Lycidas. Ye Fauns, and virgin Dryads, hither hafte; Ye deities, who aid induftrious swains. Warton's Virgil. “FA'VOURABLENESS. n. Kindnefs; benignity." No example is produced. The word's more common sense is Conduciveness. Their feather-cintur'd chiefs and dusky loves. Gray. "To FEATURE. v. a. To refemble in counte "nance." For an example of this interpretation Johnfon adduces the paffage cited in this fupplement under FEAT; but firft altering feated into featured. As a commentator on Shakspeare he has himfelf rejected this featured; which indeed (fuppofing it the true reading) would not convey the fenfe affigned to it in the dictionary. There is no rectifying fuch articles as thefe, but by totally expunging them. FEATURED. adj. Graced with good features. How wife, how noble, young, how rarely featur'd. FEBRIFIC. adj. [from febris and facio, Lat.] Fe verish. The feb ific humour fell into my legs. Cheflerfield. FEDERATION. n. [from federate.] A league. Is he obliged to keep any terms with thofe clubs and federations who hold out to us as a pattern for imitation, the proceedings in France? Burke. FELL. n. [Sax. bilis.] Spleen. Sweet love, that doth his golden wings embay Sp. F.2. B.IH. C.XI. ft.2 FELL. . [a Northumbrian word.] A barren and ftony hill. Camden's Remains. Farmers and their families, efquires and their daughters haftening up from the dales, and down the fells. Gray's Letters. My young remembrance cannot parallel A fellow to it. Shakspeare's Macbeth. FE'LLOW-MEMBER. n. Member of the fame body or fociety. We fignify our being united, and knit not only to Christ our head, but alfo to each other, as fellow-members. Whole Duty. FELLOW-RAKE. n. Affociate in raking. Once fellow-rakes perhaps, now rural friends. FE'LLOW-STREAM. n. A ftream in the vicinity. Should the fedgy power Armfrong. Shenflone. Vain glorious empty his penurious urn O'er the rough rock, how muft his fellow-ftreams FE'LLY. adv. [from the adjective.] Fiercely Deride the tinklings of the boaftive rill. And charging him afresh thus felly him befpake. Sp. F.2. B.IV. C.III. ft. 10. FELON. adj. Cruel." 2. Refolute. It is impofible to underftand the laws which regulate landed property, without fome general acquaintance with the doctrine of feuds, or the feodal law. Blackstone. FEODALITY. n. Feodal fyftem. The leaders teach the people to reject all feodality as the barbarism of tyranny. Burke. "FE'ODARY. n. One who holds his eftate of "a fuperior lord. Hanmer." This interpretation feems a mistake for that of feodatary; at leaft, if the word really exifts at all, Shakfpeare ufes it for ، con• federate.' Told us, that Mr. Meanwell was new married, And thought it good, that we fhould gratify him, And fhew ourfelves to him in a Fefcennine. Cartawright's Ordinary. FE'STAL. adj. [Feftalis, Barb. Lat.] Feftive. Take great care, that no complaifance, no good humour, no warmth of fetal mirth, ever make you feem even to acquiefce. Chefterfield. "FESTOO′N. n. &c.” Art thou a feodary for this act, and look'st So virgin like without? Cymbeline, A.III. fc.2. [But whether the proper reading here is not fed'rary (conformable to federary in the Winter's Tale) let the poet's commentators determine.] FE'ODATARY. (n.) is a tenant who holds his eftate by feodal fervice. Termes de la Ley. FE OFFER. (n.) is he that infeoffs, or makes a feoff-FEU'D. ment to another of lands or tenements in fee Termes de la Ley. fimple. In FERE. adv. [old Eng.] In company. Have drawn him and his hogs in fere W. Browne. FERME. n. [Feorm, Sax. hofpitum.] Lodging. His finfull foule with defperate difdaine Out of her flefly ferme fled to the place of paine. Sp. F.2.B.III. C.V.ft.23. [Spenfer's commentators (Upton and Church) were ftrangely puzzled with this paffage for want of that information which has been fince afforded by Mr. Manning's edition of Lye.] FERMIER. n. [Fr.] One who farms any public revenue of France. No cups nectareous fhall their toils repay, The priest's, the foldier's, and the fermier's prey. Jo. Warton. FERN-SEED. n. The feed of fern. We have the receipt of fernfeed: we walk invifible. Shak. Hen. IV. P.I. The mere flower painter is, we fee, the form of feflons. [from feodum, Barb. Lat.] allotment of land. obliged to study Shaftebury. A conditional The conflitution of fends had its original from the military policy of the northern nations. Blackfone. “FEU'DAL. n. A dependance, fomething held by "tenure; a fec; a feu." The compiler of thefe fheets apprehends, that all this (however got in) fhould be totally expunged; for it only feparates the following example from Hale from the preceding adjective, to which it belongs. Neither does there appear to be any fuch fubftantive as feudal. FEU'DIST. n. A writer on' feuds. Cujacius and the feudifts make proprietas, allolium, and hereditas to be all in one feodal fenfe. Spelman. "FEVERISHNESS. n." is ufed metaphorically. Satiety, perpetual difguft, and feverishness of defire, perpetually attend thofe, who paffionately ftudy pleasure. Shaftesbury. To FEU'TER. v. a. [from feutrer, old Fr.] To pre FIN Perhaps ftumble upon a yeoman feuterer, as I do now. B. Jonfon's Every Man out of his humour. FE'WMET. n. [Johnson has FUMET, but without an example.] Dung of a deer. By his flot, his entries and his port, FI'AT. [Lat.] A decree. The fire, that rules the thunder with a nod, Declar'd the fiat, and difinifs'd the god. Garth's Ovid. FI'AUNT. n. [fiant. Lat.] Warrant. Nought fuffer'd he the ape to give or graunt, But through his hand alone muft pafs the flaunt. Spenfer's Hubberd. FIDEJU'SSOR. n. [Lat.] A furety. They alfo take recognifances, or ftipulation of certain fidejuffors in the nature of bail. Blackfone. FIDGET. n. [a cant word, from the verb.] Reftlefs agitation. Cried the fquare-hoods in woeful fidget. "FIDUCIARY. adj. 3. In the nature of a trust. Gray's L. Story. The High Admiral himself cannot grant it for longer than his own time, being but a trust and fiduciary power. Spelman. FIELD-MA'RSHAL. n. Commander of an army "in the field." It is a rank of great eminence in the army, and does not at all depend on actual command in the field. FIELD-PREACHING. n. Preaching a fermon in a field or open place. No canting, no fly jefuitical arts, Cambridge. FIELD-SPORTS. n. Diversions of fhooting and hunting. All gaming, field-sports, and fuch fort of amufements I look upon as frivolous. Chefterfield. FIFTEENTH. n. An old tax, being the fifteenth part of all the moveables belonging to a subject. When of later years the commons granted the king a fifteenth, every parish in England immediately knew their proportion of it. Blackftone. FIGENT. adj. [from figo, Lat.] Retentive. Although the fig-tree fhall not bloffom, neither fhall fruit be in the vines. Habbakuk. Milton. The fig-tree. There foon they chofe FINANCIAL. adj. Relative to finance. "4. The end. It is feldom ufed but adverbially, in fine. Johnson has produced one paffage himself from Shakspeare, where fine is ufed in this fense, not adverbially and without in. He might have added more of the fame kind from the fame author, as well as from Spenfer and Fairfax. The fine is, I will live a bachelor. Shak. Much ade. Is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his re- Sp. F.Q. B.IV. C.III. ft.37. Fairfax. B.XIV. ft.19. FINE. n. [In law.] A final agreement, fometimes called a feoffment of record, of which there are divers kinds. A fine is fo called, because it puts an end, not only to the fuit commenced, but also to all other suits and controverfies concerning the fame matter. Blackflone. FINE-DRESSED. adj. Dreft in fine cloaths. Be cautiously upon your guard against the infinite number of fine-dreffed and fine fpoken chevaliers d'industrie. Chefterfield. FINE-SPO'KEN. adj. Affectedly polite. See FINE DRESSED. FINELESS. adj. Unlimited. But riches finelefs is as poor as winter, Shakfp. Othello. It remains only to confider the proofs of financial abi- To FINISH. v. n. [from finis, Lat.] To come to an lity furnished by the prefent French managers. Burke. "FINANCIER. n. 66 public revenue.' One who understands the A pious and venerable prelate to take upon himfelf the place of grand financier of confifcation, and comptroller general of facrilege. Burke. end; to die. I had you down, and might have made you finish. Shak. Cymbeline. FINISHING. n. [from finish.] The last touch of a compofition either of artift or penman. When fome rough ftrokes of the pencil have made the FIR-CROWNED. adj. Covered with firs. FIR-TREE. n. The tree called Fir. banon. Shenfione. Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of LeIfaiah. C.XIV. FIRE-BOTE. n. [fire and bore, Sax. compenfatio.] Sufficient firing. Fire bote is neceffary wood to burn, which by the common law leffee for years or for life may take in his ground. Termes de la Ley. "FIRE-DRAKE. n. --- A fiery ferpent." 2. Ignis fatuus or Will a' wifp. Who fhould be lamps to comfort out our way. And not like fire-drakes to lead men attray. Mileries of Inforced Marriage. FIRE-O'RDEAL. n. Trial by fire. Ordeal was of two forts, either fire-ordeal or water-ordeal, the former being confined to perfons of high rank, the latter to common people. Blackfione. FIRM. n. [from the adj.] The name or names under which any houfe of trade is established. A commercial word. The agents for the GLOBE DEPOSIT BANK at Liver. pool, Leeds, Glasgow, Halifax, Hull, and fifty other great trading towns, would become the substitutes for the refpectable Firms, who are now found to be the fitteft depofitaries of the furplus cafh of the furrounding districts. Stonefreet's Portentous Globe. FIRMAN. n. A declaration in writing iffued by Afiatic potentates. They are moftly grants of privileges. FIRMLESS. adj. [the noun firm and lefs.] Detached from fubftance. Does paffion ftill the firmless mind controul. Pope. FIRST-FRUITS [in law] are the profits of every fpiritual living for a year, which were anciently given to the pope, but are now transferred to the king. Termes de la Ley. FISC. n. [fifcus, Lat.] Public treasury. They had refolved to appropriate to the fife a certain portion of the landed property of their conquered Burke. country. FISCAL. adj. [from fifc.] Concerning the public FLE Come to the bride; another fit B. Jonfon's Underwoods. Yet fhow, firs, of your country wit. FIVE-FOLD. adj. Five in one. And bids his men bring out the five-fold twist. "FIVES. n. - W. Browne. 1. A kind of play with a bowl." Did Johnson or his editor really not know the difference between a bowl and a ball? FI'XURE. n. [from fix.] Stable state. The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixure. Shaky. Troilus and Creffida. [Johnson has arbitrarily altered this word into fixture, in order to produce this paffage as an example of a third meaning of that word.] FLAGELLANTS. n. pl. [flagellantes, Lat.] A fe& of Chriftians that ufed to fcourge themselves. "To FLAME. v. n. "3. To burst out in violence of paffion.". FLA'ME-COLOUR. π. Sp. F.Q.B.V. C.I. ft. 14. The colour of flame The firft was Splendor in a robe of flame colour. B. Jonfon's Mafques at Court. FLAP-JACK. n. [a provincial term for] An applepuff. We'll have flesh for holy-days, fish for fafting-days, and moreover puddings and flap-jacks. Pericles. A. II. fc. 1. Cream and Custards, flap-jacks and pan-puddings. Jovial Crew. One employed to flap another. FLA'PPER. n. I will pofitively not keep you a flapper. You may read in Dr. Swift the defcription of thefe flappers, and the ufe they were of. Cheferfield. "FLASKET. n. 2. A long thallow basket. Ray. This indeed is the most common ufage of the word. FLA'T-CAP. n. [at one time, from their wearing flat caps.] A London fhopkeeper. Wealthy flat caps pay for their pleafure the beft of any men in Europe. Marfton's Dutch Courtezan. FLATLING. adv. Flatly. Tho with her fword on him fhe flatling ftrooke. Sp. F.2. B.V. C.V. ft.18. FLA'X-WENCH. n. [poffibly for fome reafon no longer exifting.] An incontinent female. My wife's a hobby horse, deferves a name As rank as any flax-wench, that puts to Before her troth-plight. Shaky. Winter's Tale. "To FLECKER. v. a." The exiftence of this word refts folely on a mif-quotation of Johnson's from Romeo and Juliet; where the editions which bear his own name jointly with that of Steevens have flecked and not flecker'd. after intermiffion." M2 Spenfer's Colin Clout. Ere |