Thus is all inuerted, many kings, and few subjects: none now in this vncertaintie paying their accustomed tenths, Intending rather mutuall feuds and battels betwixt their seuerall tribes and kindreds, then common fidelitie and allegiance.-Purchas. Pilgrimage, b. vi. c. 2. s. 3. Crowes and owles are at mortall feaud one with another. Be veil'd the savage reigns when kindred rage Thomson. Liberty, pt. iv. fet oft-times in his maddest mirthful mood As if the memory of some deadly fend, FEUD, or Feod. Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, c. 1. FEUDALITY. See FEE, and FEOFF. That with which any one Also he delyuered vnto them olde auncyent wrytynges sealyd with the sealys of the Kynge of Scottys, and of dyuerse lordys of that lande, both spyrytuell and temporall with many other chartyrs and patentes, by the whiche the Kynges of Scottis obligid theym to be feodaryes vnto the crowne of Englande.-Fabyan, vol. ii. an. 1327. As certaine of the lords and barons were busie to choose the said Ludowike for their king, the Pope sent thither one Gualo, the Cardinall of Saint Martin, to staie those rash and cruell attempts, charging the French king upon his allegiance, that he with all power possible should fauour, mainteine, and defend King John of England, his feudarie or tenant-Fox. Martyrs, p. 230. The English Nobility against King John. But before the releasment thereof, first he was miserablie compelled (as hath beene declared) to giue ouer both his crowne & scepter to that Antichrist of Rome for the space of fiue daies, & his client, vassale, feudarie, & tenant to receive againe of him at the hands of another Cardinal. Id. Ib. p. 230. King John resigneth his crown to the Pope. A feud is a right which the vassal hath in land, or some immoveable thing of his lord's, to use the same and take the profits thereof hereditarily rendering unto his lord such feodal duties and services as belong to military tenure: the mere propriety of the soil always remaining unto the lord.-Spelman. Feuds & Tenures, c. 1. And what greater dividing than by a pernicious and hostile peace, to disalliege a whole feudary kingdom from the ancient dominion of England. Milton. On the Articles of Peace with the Irish. Yea our owne King John being a feudatory to the King of France, was by Philip the French king in a full parliament there (during his absence in England) arraigned, condemned to death, and deposed from his crowne by the sentence of his peeres, for murthering of his nephew Arthur, (then subject of France) with his owne handes. Prynne. Treachery and Disloyalty, &c. pt. iv. p. 13. The one as he was Duke of Burgandy, the other of Bavaria, both which countries are feudatory to the empire. Howell, b. i. Let. 14. s. 2. But one thing I am persuaded of, that no King of Spain, nor Bishop of Rome, shall umpire, or promote any beneficiary, or feodatory king, as they designed to do, even when the Scots Queen lived, whom they pretended to cherish. Bacon. Observations on a Libel. I call it, as the feudists do, jus utendi prædio alieno; a ight to use another man's land, not a property in it. Spelman. Feuds & Tenures, c. 2. I shall only request of him, and of the other gentlemen of the city's council, to show me the opinion of one learned man of this kingdom, or any other nation, deliberately delivered upon the question, that fedatory and subordinate governments cannot, for any cause whatsoever, be forfeited O resumed. State Trials. The King and the City of London, an. 1682. It [the constitution of feuds] was brought by them from their own countries, and continued in their respective colonies, as the most likely means to secure their new acquisitions and to that end, large districts or parcels of land were allotted by the conquering general to the superior officers of the army, and by them dealt out again in smaller parcels or allotments to the inferior officers and most deserving soldiers. These allotments were called foda, feuds, fiefs, or fees; which last appellation in the northern languages signifies a conditional stipend or reward. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 4. The grand and fundamental maxim of all feodal tenure is this, that all lands were originally granted out by the sovereign, and are therefore holden, either mediately or immediately, of the crown.-Id Ib. Accordingly, we are indebted to this act of his [Cromwell] for the preservation of our laws, which some senseless assertors of the rights of men were then on the point of entirely erasing, as relickes of feudality and barbarism. Burke. Letter to a Member of the National Assembly. The granter was called the proprietor, or lord; being he who retained the dominion or ultimate property of the feud or fee; and the grantee, who had only the use and possession, according to the terms of the grant, was stiled the feudatory or vasal, which was only another name for the tenant or holder of the lands.-Blackstone. Com. b. ii. c. 4. The Greeks, the Romans, the Britons, the Saxons, and even originally the feudists divided the lands equally; some among all the children at large; some among the males only. Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 14. Fr. Fiebure; It. Febbre; Lat. Febris, a fervendo, (ferveo, ferbeo, ferbis, by transposition febris,) quia calida sit totius corporis intemperies, (Vossius.) FEVER, v. the whole body. A hot distemperature of And God on hem sendeth A feuer it [jelousie] is cotidian, With such repast, as most empaires my health; Gascoigne. Flowers. The Passion of a Louer. clammed to the roof and gummes; a drumming ear, a fea My virgin thoughts are innocent and meek, Since first my pen was to the paper set. Drayton. The Lady Geraldine, to the Earl of Surrey. Milton. Comus. And now of late came tributary kings, As in our bodies the members diseased and in pain draw Thomson. Castle of Indolence, c. 2. To conclude all; if the body politic have any analogy to Shaftesbury. Enquiry concerning Virtue. My old Lady Phelips is a constant water-drinker, and it hath preserved her (as she conceives) from a resort of feverous heats in her stomach.-Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 386. Reclin'd and feverish in the bath He, when the hunter's sport was up, Whose fev'rous life, devoted to the gloom I have done Homer's head, shadowed and heightened FEUILLEMORT. dead leaf. All which when Blandamour from end to end Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 4. FEUTERER. A dog keeper; from the Fr. Vautrier, or vauttrier; one that leads a lime-hound or grey-hound to the chase, (Whalley.) Cotgrave calls the Fr. Vauttre, a mungrel between a hound and a mastiffe. And see Menage, Le Orig. della Lin. Italiana, in v. Veltro, and Du Cange, in v. Canis Veltris. When these Pharisaicall foxe fewterers commande the To such a nasty fellow, a robb'd thing Beaum. & Fletch. The Woman's Prize, Act ii. sc. 1. An honest yeoman-fewterer, feed us first, Hil. Yeoman-fewterer! Such another word to your governer and you go Massinger. The Picture, Act v. sc. 1. And that by wordes but a fewe I shall by reason proue and shewe.-Gower. Con. A. b. ii. She [Hope] alway smyl'd, and in her hand did hold An holy-water-sprinkle, dipt in deaw, With which she sprinkled fauours manifold, On whom she list, and did great liking shew; Great liking vnto many, but true loue to few. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 12. Dispersed love grows weake, and fewness of objects vseth to unite affections: if but two brothers be left alive of many, they think that the loue of all the rest should survive in them.-Bp. Hall. Cont. Cain & Abel. Eue. Doe not beleeue it, fewness and truth, 'tis thus. Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Act i. sc. 5. Of all we read, the sacred writ is best; Where great truths are in fewest words exprest. Waller, The Fear of God, c. 2. Yet these, by reason of their fewness, I could not distinguish from the numbers of the rest, with whom they are embodied in one common name. Dryden. The Hind and the Panther, Pref. As to fewness of the executions, and the good effects of that policy. I ear.not, for my own part, entertain the slightest doubt.-Burke. Letter to the Lord Chancellor, in 1780. FE'WELL, n. FU'ELLED. Skinner says, Esca, seu pabulum ignis, q.d. Lat. FoFU'ELLER. cale; Fr. Feu;-and (Menage) the Fr. Feu, fire, from the Lat. Focus; as jeu from iocus, leu or lieu from locus. That which fireth or burneth, which kindleth fire; which inflameth, which continueth fire or flame. The 21 day we departed from Ordowil aforesayd, trauelling for the most part ouer mountaines all in the night season, and resting in the day, being destitute of wood, and therefore were forced to vse for fewell the dung of horses & camels, which we bought deare of the pasturing people. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 348. It happened vnto hym also (as it cannot otherwyse be) that many of his souldiers which were gone abrode into the woodes to fetch fewel & timber, were cut shorte by the Bodeyne approche of the ennemyes horsmen. Goldinge. Cæsar, p. 132. One with great bellowes gathered filling aire, Love's fuellers, and the rightest company Of players, which upon the world's stage be, Will quickly know thee !-Donne. Elegie on his Mistris. If the passions be raging and tumultuous and constantly fuelled, nothing less than he who has the hearts of men in his hand can settle and quiet such tumultuous, overbearing hurricanes in the mind, and animal oeconomy. Cheyne. On Health, c. 6. She is Fortune verely In whom no man should affy, Nor in her yefts haue faunce, She is so full of variaunce.-Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. And they had with theym theyr younge sonne, who hadde fyaunced the vere before Mary, doughter to the Duke of Berrey.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycie, vol. ii. c. 123. Howbeit, the Frenchemen sayd, it coulde nat be doone shortly bicause the lady was so yonge, and also she was fyansed to the Duke of Bretayn's eldest son. Id. Ib. c. 203. FIAT. Lat. Fiat, imperative of Fieri, to be done. Spenser writes Fiaunt, to rhyme with graunt. Nought suffered he the ape to give or graunt, What wealth in souls that soar, dive, range around, FIB, v. Young. The Complaint, Night 6. Skinner says Fibby, a diminutive of FIB, n. fable, from the Lat. Fabula. To fib, though common enough in speech, is not so in writing. To tell falsities or falsehoods, to speak falsely, to lie. Who shames a scribbler? Break one cobweb through, Pope. Prologue to the Satires. Criticisms on the Rolliad, pt. ii. The Lyars. FIBRE. Fr. Fibres; It. and Sp. Fibra; FIBRIL. Lat. Fibra. A finio, fiber, extremus. FIBROUS. (Scaliger, in Varr. lib. iv.) And Vossius thinks that fibres originally denoted-rei cujusque extremitates, and then more especially applied to the liver and to plants. As the "Fr. Fibres,-the small strings or hair-like threads of roots; also, the fibers or threads, or strings of muscles and veins," (Cotgrave.) He observes God in the colour of every flower, in every fibre of a plant, in every particle of an insect, in every drop of dew.-Glanvill, Ess. 4. Whereas to apply Christ, is not simply to take him into thy thoughts only, and to think thus and thus barely of him, but to strike forth a sprig or Abre from every faculty into him, to be rooted in him, to draw nourishment from him, to digest him, to give up thy soul to him, and to be one with him. John, xi. 56.-Goodwin. Works, vol. iv. pt. ii. p. 65. There are of roots, bulbous roots, fibrous roots and hirsute roots. In the fibrous the sap delighteth more in the earth, and therefore putteth downward. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 616. Full in his eye the weapon chanc'd to fall, I saw Petræus' arms employ'd around And stiH obey'd the bent.-Dryden. Ovid. Met. b. xii. The muscles consist of a number of fibres, and each fibre On favel was hure fader. that hath a fykel tonge Chaucer. The Complaint of Creseide I maruile what hath moued the fuckle heades of our doctours, so earnestly to mayntayne a matter by their doctrin, of so moch mischefe.-Bale. Apology, Pref. fol. 13. And this iourneing fro place to place, was not the disease of ficlenesse or of vnstablenesse: but it was the earnest affeccion to doe good vnto al men.-Udal. Luke, c. 5. Which makes me loath this state of life so tickle, And love of things so vain to cast away; Whose flowring pride, so fading and so fickle, Short Time shall soon cut down with his consuming sickle. Spenser. Faerie Queene. Of Mutabilitie, c. 8. It will concern the multitude, though courted here, to take heed how they seek to hide or colour their own fickleness and instabilite with a bad repentance of their well-doing, and their fidelity to thy better cause, to which at first so cheerfully and conscienciously they join'd themselves. Millon. Answer to Eikon Basilike. Thus winter fixes the unstable sea, Halifax. On the Death of Charles II. And when this fickleness was laid to his [Raphael] charge, he excused himself, that what he wrote before, he wrote ea aliorum mente, and ad ingenii exercitationem. Strype. Memorials. Hen. VIII. an. 1532. Keep up that spirit still, and do not now Southern. The Spartan Dame, Act i. ac. 1. Beattie. The Minstrel, b. iL When he [Lucas] came to the English, he painted a naked man with cloth of different sorts lying by him, and a pair of sheers, as a satire on our fickleness in fashions. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 7. The one was fire and fickleness, a child A wit as various,-gay, grave, sage, or wild,- FICTION. FICTIOUS. FICTITIOUS. FICTITIOUSLY. FICTITIOUSNESS. FICTIVE. A portraiture or image, (sc.) of a likeness or resemblance: an invention or pretence (of a likeness or of an incredible number of fibrils bound together, and resemblance,) and thus, a dissimulation, a giving divided into little cells.-Cheyne. Phil. Principles. or displaying of a false appearance, a false colour ing. Fictile,-Lat. Fictilis, made, worked, manufactured (a figulo) by the potter. Men say they haue prescriptions Skelton. The Boke of Colin Clout. And so fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth, and dry wood than green.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, s. 841. There Persian Magi stand; for wisdom prais'd; FID Among other tenents of the first times, they hold the ten Sibylls to be fictitious and fabulous, and no better than Urgauda, or the Lady of the Lake, or such doting bedlams. Howell, b. iv. Let. 43. Beside these pieces fictitiously set down, and having no copy in nature; they had many unquestionably drawn, of inconsequent signification, nor naturally verifying their intention.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 20. And therefore to those things whose grounds were very The fiction pleas'd: our generous train complies, Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xxiv. With fancied rules and arbitrary laws Prior. An Ode, 1688. Mem. See where the master villain stands! Rowe. The Ambitious Step-Mother, Act iii. Under the title of lyars, are primarily comprehended all idolaters: that is, all who pay religious worship where it is not due; applying themselves to false and imaginary objects, whether they be fictitious Gods or fictitious Mediators. Clarke, vol. ii. Ser. 122. The letters ascribed, fictitiously I believe, to Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, are rather verbose, and in the composition too elaborate, but in other respects of very considerable merit. Beattie. Elements of Moral Science, pt. iv. c. 1. s. 4. Thus, some make Comedy a representation of mean, and others of bad men: some think that its essence consists in the unimportance, others in the fictitiousness of the transaction.-Rambler, No. 125. F'IDDLE, v. A. S. Fithele, fidicula; fitheler, FIDDLE, n. fidicen; Dut. Ved-cle; Ger. FIDDLER. Fidel; Sw. Fidel; a musical FIDDLING, n. instrument, fidibus tensum. The Lat. Fidicula and Ger. Fidel are both also applied to an instrument (ex nervis) of torture. Ihre thinks that this instrument and the name of it were both of northern origin; and suggests the Goth. and Island. word Fidra, also written Fidla, and fitla, as the parent root. To use, to play upon, a fiddle; (met.) to play, to trifle, to act triflingly, inefficiently. Fiddle faddle,-i. e. fiddle fiddle, an augmentative or emphatic repetition. For him was lever han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his Philosophie, Chaucer. Prologue, v. 298. The merye noyse of theym that play vpon harpes, lutes, and fydeles, shall no more be hearde in the to the delyght of men-Bale. Image, pt. iii. Whether they be Jew or Greeke, free or bounde, friar or Adler.-Barnes. Workes, p. 244. Ah syrs, woulde ye haue the common people come to the As her wast stands, she lookes like a new fiddle FID Ye may as easely Outrun a cloud, driven by a northern blast, As fiddle-faddie so.-Ford. The Broken Heart, Act i. sc.3. Beaum. & Fletch. Humourous Lieutenant, Act i. sc. 1. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Dryden. Absolom & Achitophel. Sometimes your hair you upwards furl, King. The Art of Love, pt. xii. And that somebody else would have been fiddled into it Oh, laugh or mourn with me the rueful jest, Cowper. Progress of Error. But there is a substitute [for dance] in this country, well The fiddlers trembled as he look'd around, Byron. Beppo, a Venetian Story. An attachment or adherence to a bond or obli- We not only made his [Pole's] whole family of nought, And bad me bide till his abilitie, Where ha you ben fidging abrode, since your neele lost? So at this booth, which we call Dublin, Swift. Dialogue between Mad Mullinia & Timothy. The twist, the squeeze, the rump, the fidge in all, Id. Tim and the Fables. FIDUCIAL. Couper. Conversation. Lat. Fiducia, from Fides, faith. (See FIDELITY.) Fi delitas, virtus fidelium. Fiducia, constantia fidem Having faith or trust, trusting, confiding; having or holding upon faith or trust; confidential. I will suppose this definition of faith to be given me The fiduciarie, having resolved faith to be the only in- This servant, if he aime only at his own ends, cherishes Faith causes the soul fiducially and strongly to rely and cast itself upon God in prayer; love to sin causes the soul to depart and fly off from God.-South, vol. ix. Ser. 10. Augustus, for particular reasons, first began to authorize the fiduciary bequest, which in the Roman law was called fidei commissum. 66 Montesquieu. The Spirit of Laws, b. xxvii. c. 1. Note. Gascoigne. The Fruites of Warre. verb. Who presently, upon so good report, Daniel. Civil War, b. i. You knowe that none is admitted to anye degree here in For he who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, Milton. Of Unlicensed Printing. Verbal translations are always inelegant, because always The sacrament of the supper is the oath of fidelity. Let To be restlessly active; like an over-busy, overlabouring person; to have the quick, unsteady Donne, Sat. 4. motion or action of such a person. Of all swiche cursed stories I say fy. Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Prologue, v. 450L And when that Pertelote thus herd him rore, Id. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 14,808. I will not tell what shrieks and cries, Cartwright. The Ordinary, Act iv. sc. 5. Milton. At a Vacation Exercise, v. 53. FIEF. See FEOFF. FIELD. FI'ELDED. FI'ELDISH. A. S. Feld; Dut. Veld; Ger. to wood-land; and means, land where the trees have been felled," (Div. of Purley, ii. 41.) The examples given below from Gower are produced by Tooke, and he observes in confirmation of his etymology, that in the collateral languages the same correspondence subsists between the equivalent verb and the supposed substantive. Ger. Fellen, feld; Dut. Vellen, veld; Dan. Fælder, felt; Sw. Faella, felt. Field, therefore, is Land whose trees have been felled, and thus fitted, prepared for cultivation; tilled or cultivated land; producing corn or pasture. Again,— Cleared or open land, open space, ample room, and thus fitted for armies, battalions or battle; (met.) for action or execution. And a field,The time or season passed in the field; a campaign; the events of a field; a battle. That sole by hete hym tho echon, prest vor to be R. Gloucester, p. 125. If the grasse which is to day in the felde, and to morow shalbe cast into the fornace, God so clothe; how much more wyll he clothe you, O ye endued wyth lytle faythe? Bible, 1555. Ib. And Jhesus cam doun fro the hil with hem, and stode in a feeidy place, and the cumpany of hise disciples. Wiclif. Luk, c. 6. And he came doune with them and stode in the playne felde with the cōpanye of his disciples.-Bible, 1551. Ib. But soth is said, gon sithen are many yeres, In woodde, in felde, or in citee, Thus robbery goth to seke, Gower. Con. A. b. v. In woodes, and in feldes eke, Whereas he may his purchas finde Id. Ib. Id. Ib. My mother's maides when they do sowe and spinne, Likewise I caused the two small field-pieces which I had left me, to be trimmed in such sort, as if in approching to the fort they had not cryed that it was Captayne Ribault, I had not failed to haue discharged the same vpon them. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 350. And there-withall he fiercely at him flew, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 6. But manhood lost and number wonne, Warner. Albion's England, b. iv. c. 21. Sackville. Ferrex & Porrex, Act v. sc. 2. Now Mars, I pray thee make vs quicke in worke, Romeo, good night, I'le to my truckle-bed, Id. Romeo & Juliet, Act ii. sc. 1. Some departed into the countrie of the Hernikes, other some to the territories of the Latines, for to raise booties and make spoile: leaving behind them rather a competent guard for defence of the campe, then a sufficient power to maintain a field-fight.-Holland. Livivs, p. 129. The Romanes made stay in the enemies land, the rather to traine them both, and draw them to a field-fight. Though all the Nine Id. Ib. p. 239. Might well their hearts and heavenly voices join, To sing that glorious day, When bold Bavaria fled the field, And veteran Gauls, unus'd to yield, On Blenheim's plain imploring mercy lay. Congreve. Ode. What God but enters yon forbidden field, Who yields assistance, or but wills to yield; Back to the skies with shame he shall be driven, Gash'd with dishonest wounds, the scorn of heaven. Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. viii. Architecture, the most suitable field in which the genius of a people, arrived at a superiority, may range, seems reviving.-Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. Pref. FIEND, n. FI'ENDFUL. FI'ENDLY. FI'ENDISH. sharp as fire," (Pl. T. v. 39,) and (quod propius accedit,)" As fierse as any fire," (Test. Cr. 185.) See FEROCIOUS. According to the etymology of Lennep,-applied properly to those animals which run after or pursue, (sc.) their prey; and generally Impetuous, rapid, ravenous, eager to attack or destroy; fearless, vehement, furious, violent, in attack or pursuit: and generally, furious, violent. And in B. Jonson, violent, excessive, (credulity.) And the Erl of Penbroc, and the Erl of Storgoil that was so fers.-R. Gloucester, p. 513. Goth. Figands, fiands; A. S. Feond, fynd; Dut. Viiande; Ger. Feind; Sw. Fiend: from the Goth. Fig-an; A. S. FeogFI'ENDISHNESS. an, fean, fian, odisse, to hate, (Junius, Wachter, and Ihre.) Tooke, also, considers it to be the present part. of the verb, fian, goodnesse of God into thee, if thou dwellist in goodnesse. to hate, meaning (subaudi, some one, any one,) hating. See FIE, and Foɛ. A hater, (sc.) of good; and thus, a worker of evil; applied, emphatically, to the devil and his ministers. Cambinhoy beres him coy, that fende's wheip, And Jon answerde and seyde, comandour, we sighen a Chaucer. The Sompnoures Prologue, v. 7256. Id. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,781. Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5171. This woman was so fendish, that the Diuell perceuing her nature put her in the minde, that she shoulde anger her husband so sore, that she might giue him occasion to kil her, and then should he be hanged for her. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1187. That cursed man, that cruell feend of hell Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 6. Marlow. Tragical History of Dr. Faustus. Ye scowling shades who break away, FIERCE. Rowe. Ode for the New Year, (1716.) He calls for famine, and the meagre fiend Blows mildew from between his shrivel'd lips, And taints the golden ear. Cowper. Task, b. ii. Fr. Fier, farouche; It. Fiero, FIERCELY. feroce; Sp. Feroz; Lat. Ferus, FIERCENESS. from Fera, (ol. φηρα, pro θηρα, a celeritate dictum, from Oe-ev, currere, to run.) Ferus and ferox, Vossius observes, differ: that animal is called ferum, quod nullo septo, aut custode, servatur; ferox autem ad mores pertinet. Junius suggests, whether Chaucer may not allude to the origin of this word in the expressions-" As Therfore se the goodnesse and the fersnesse [severitatem] of God, ghe the fersnesse unto hem that felden doun, but the Wiclif. Romaynes, c. 9. Then armed they hem comenly And set the castel all about.-Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. You must thinke that ye haue to do wyth wylde beastes, whiche being fierce of nature whe they be firste taken, must bee shutt vp and tamed with tyme. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 143. Being come ouer to that side of the riuer where we were, they saddled their horses, and being mounted vpon them with their lances charged, they came very fiercely running at vs.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 476. And whan theyr courage was chaufed, or that by fiersnesse of the beast they were in daunger, than force constrayned them to strike with the sworde. Sir T. Elyot. The Governor, b. i. c. 18. Lup. Ay, Cæsar, this is he. Cas. Let him be whipped. Lictors, go take him hence; And Lupus, for your fierce credulity, One fit him with a pair of larger ears: 'Tis Cæsar's doom, and must not be revoked. B. Jonson. Poetaster, Act v. sc. 1. With that he drew his flaming sword, and strooke At him so fiercely, that the upper marge Of his seuen-folded shield away it tooke, And glauncing on his helmet made a large And open gash therein. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 5. The Gauls charged the right wing more fiercely, so that hardly they might have been abidden, had not by good hap the dictator been there in person.-Holland. Livivs, p. 259. But euermore those damzels did forestall Their furious encounter, and their fiercenesse pall. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c: 4. At the first the Gaules only were sharp set and eger for battaile but afterwards the Roman soldiours, by rushing into fight and skirmish, exceeded farre the fearcenesse and forwardnesse of the French.-Holland. Livivs, p. 257. They that had sail'd from near th' antarctic pole, Waller. Of our late War with Spain. Then, fiercely rushing on the daring foe; [This] from the dying youth the warrior tore, Pitt. Virgil. Eneid, b. xii. The body of the king shook with fear, and forgetfuluess seized his fierce-minded confidence. 3 Macc. vi. 18. Bp. Wilson's Bible by Crutwell. Yet let a Poet (Poetry disarms The fiercest animals with magic charms) Risk an intrusion on thy pensive mood, And woo and win thee to thy proper good. So when his chaggy mane a lion shakes, And with loud roar his slumbering fury wakes; Hoole. Jerusalem Delivered, b. viii. FIFE. Also written (by Hackluyt) Phiph, FIFER.phipher, (qv.) Fr. Fifre; It. Piffero; Ger. Pfeiffe, which Wachter derives from Puffen, or pfuffen, to blow. Fife, in Shakespeare, is-the fifer; and he is called a wry-neck'd musician, because he always looks away from his instrument. See Mr. Boswell's note on the play. With outeries every where The clamours, drums, and fifes to the rough charge do sound, Together horse and man come tumbling to the ground. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 22. And when you hear the drum And the vile squeaking of the wry-neckt fife, Clamber you not vp to the casements then, Nor thrust your head into the publique streete To gaze on Christian fooles with varnisht faces. Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act ii. sc. 5. Astonish'd at the view, he cross'd the road, (Tho' gorg'd and reeling with the nauseous load) Commands the drums and shriller fifes to cease, And thus begins, when all was hush'd in peace. Lewis. Statius. Thebaid, b. iv. From ev'ry vessel in a blended sound FIFTEEN, i. e. five and ten. See FIVE. As in the zer of grace tuelf hundred & fiftene R. Gloucester, p. 509. Men gaf fiueten schillynges for a goos or hen. R. Brunne, p. 174. Endlene hondred zer and fifti and two, After that God an erthe com, this spousinge was ido. And Leulyn is fulle fayn to pray Edward for pes, R. Brunne, p. 237. Who receiuinge their pledges, committed them to the kepinge of Phradates, and from thence the fyftye day retourned agayne to nys campe. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 148. Let worse follow worse, till the worst of all follow him laughing to his graue, fifty-fold a cuckold. Shakespeare. Antony & Cleopatra, Act i. sc. 2. This fiftieth yere shal be a yere of jubile unto you, ye shall not sowe, nether reape that which groweth of it self, nether gather (the grapes) therof, that are left vnlaboured. Advance thy golden mountain to the skies; Pope. Imitations of Horace, b. i. Ep. 6. Rubens set out with such a train that the duke apprehended the expence of entertaining so pompous a visitor, with a present of fifty pistoles. and wrote to stop his journey, accompanying the excuse Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. c. 3. FIG, n. A. S. Fic; Dut. Fiighe; Ger. Feige; Fr. Figue; It. Fico; Sp. Higo; Lat. Ficus; perhaps from the Gr. Zukn, or, as Vossius rather thinks, from the Heb. D, grossus; the fig-tree producing (grossus) green fruit or fugs when other trees produce flowers. See Vossius and Martinius, in v. Ficus. But of the fige-tre lerne ye the parable whanne now his braunche is tendre and leves ben sprungun out, ye knowen that somer is nygh.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 13. Learne a similitude of the fugge-tree. When his braunches are yet tender, and hath broughte forth leues, ye knowe that sommer is neare.-Bible, 1551. Ib. And whan they knewe that they were naked, they sowed of a fig-tree leves in manner of breches. Chaucer. The Persones Tale. And thus hauing more respect vnto his present then to his person, because I perceiued him to be vain-glorious, I bade him welcome and gaue him a dish of figs. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 278. So counsel'd hee, and both together went Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xii. But the objector makes himself diversion about their sewing fig leaves together for aprons: "having, it seems, (says he with a sneer) all things necessary for sewing." I apprehend what he means: they wanted needle and thread, and perhaps thimble too.-Waterland. Works, vol. vi. p. 36. If by those oaks with roving steps you wind Thus cochinille FIGENT. Perhaps from Fidge or Fig, q. d. Fidging. Unsteady, unfixed, quick. Vert. I have known such a wrangling advocate, Beaum. & Fietch. Little French Lawyer, Act iii. sc. 1. Quick. I will carry a sailor's gown and cap, and cover her; and a player's beard. Sir Pet. And what upon her head? Quick. I tell you, a sailor's cap: 'slight, God forgive me, what kind of figent memory have you? Sir Pet. Nay then, what kind of figent wit hast thou? Eastward Hoe, Act iii. A. S. Feohtan, fight-an; Dut. Vechtan; Ger. Fechten; Sw. Fekta. Verba pugnandi plerumque formantur a manu, says derives from the Gг. ПUKтEVCI, | FIGHT, v. FIGHT, n. FIGHTER. FIGHTING, n. Geneva Bible, 1561. Leviticus, xxv. 12. | Wachter, and pugnare, and that from us, the fist. And thus, to fight, will be To strike or hit, or beat, with the hand or fist; to engage in, carry on, contend in battle, in war; to war, to combat. Tho this strong mon was slawe, that so strong was in fygt, Id. Ib. Vor hii ne couthe of fygtenge. The long day with speares sharp yground Chaucer. Trotlus, b. iv. Id. Ib. b. iv. Thus thei defenden vs the vices, And sitten him selfe all amidde, To flea and fight, thei vs bidde. The Erle of Warwick after long fight, wisely did perceiue his me to be ouerpressed with the muititude of his aduersaries wherfore he caused new men to relefe thim, that fought in the forward, by reason of the whiche succors, Kyng Edwardes parte gaue a little backe (whiche was the cause that some lokers on, and no fightirs galoped to Londo, saying that therle had wonne the feld.) Hall. Edward IV. an. 10 Warne the-that they speake euill of no man, that they be no fighters, but soft, shewynge all mekenes vnto all men. Bible, 1551. Paul to Philemon, c. 3. They seldome or neuer fall out among themselues, and, as for fightings or brawlings, wounds or manslaughters, they neuer happen among them.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 55. I maruaile why wise men leauing the plaine and manifest doctrine of Christ, whereby he teacheth patience, do seek corners of their owne imagining, to the intent they may approoue fightings and warres. Fox. Martyrs, p. 447. The Storie of Walter Brute. He put downe all the Jewes and lyberties of ye Jewes, and set up the wycked statutes. He durst make a fightyngescole vnder the castel.-Bible, 1551. 2 Maccabees, c. 4. Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought Of Truth, in word mightier then they in armes. And verily, when I call to mind and remember the conflicts and fights at sea, in the first Punick warre, for the space of xxiiii. yeares, with the Carthaginians, I suppose the whole age of Alexander would hardly have brought about and finished that one warre, and against one of those two states.-Holland. Livivs, p. 327. Nor be thou forgot My first poor bondman, Geta, I am glad Beaum. & Fletch. The Prophetess, Act iv. sc. 6. Of fighting sparks some may their pleasures say, Dryden. Essay on Satire An hour and more, like tides, in equal sway Id. The Flower and the Leaf And fighters with full stomachs mad.-Churchill. Ghost |