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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.
Holland. Plinie, b. x. c. 74.

Be veil'd the savage reigns when kindred rage
The numerous once Plantagenets devour'd,
The race to vengeance vow'd! and when oppress'd
By private feuds, almost extinguish'd lay
My quivering flame.

Thomson. Liberty, pt. iv.

fet oft-times in his maddest mirthful mood
Strange pangs would flash along Childe Harold's brow,

As if the memory of some deadly fend,
Or disappointed passion lurk'd below.

FEUD, or

Feod.
FEUDAL.

Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, c. 1.

FEUDALITY.
FEU'DARY, adj.
FEU'DARY, n.
FEUDATARY, or
FEU'DATORY.
FEU'DIST.

See FEE, and FEOFF.
And see the quotations from
Spelman, and Blackstone,
infra.

That with which any one
is feoffed or enfeoffed; any
thing granted by one and
held by another upon oath or
pledge of fealty or fidelity.

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.
FE'VER, n.
FEVERISH.
FEVERISHNESS.
FE'VEROUS.
FE/VEROUSNESS.
FEVEROUSLY.

the whole body.

A hot distemperature of

And God on hem sendeth
Feveres other fouler hyveles.-Piers Plouhman, p. 42.
And some thou saidest haue a blaunch feuere
And praidest God, they should neuer keuere.
Chaucer. Troilus, b. ii.

A feuer it [jelousie] is cotidian,
Whiche euery daie wol come aboute,
Where so a man be in or oute.-Gower. Con. A. b. v.
Notwithstandynge vnnaturall or supernaturall heate de-
stroyeth appetite, and corrupteth digestyon, as it appears in
feuers.-Sir T. Elyot. The Castel of Helth, b. ii.
And feuerlike I feede my fancie still,

With such repast, as most empaires my health;
Which feuer first I caught by wanton wyll
When coles of kind did stirre my blood by stealth.

Gascoigne. Flowers. The Passion of a Louer.
What a monster man is, in his inebriations, a swimming
eye, a face both roast and sod, a temulentive tongue,

clammed to the roof and gummes; a drumming ear, a fea
voured body, a boyling stomach.-Feltham, pt. i. Res. 84.

My virgin thoughts are innocent and meek,
As in chaste blushes sitting on my cheek:
As in a fever I do shiver yet,

Since first my pen was to the paper set.

Drayton. The Lady Geraldine, to the Earl of Surrey.
Before the starry threshold of Jove's court
My mansion is, where those immortal shapes
Of bright aëreal Spirits live insphered
In regions mild of calm and serene air,
Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot,
Which men call earth; and, with low-thoughted care
Confin'd and pestered in this pinfold here,
Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being.

Milton. Comus.

And now of late came tributary kings,
Bringing him nothing but new fears from th' east,
With which his fev'rous cares their cold increased.
Crashaw. Steps to the Temple.

As in our bodies the members diseased and in pain draw
humours continually unto them, and all the corruption of
the parts neare unto them flow thither; even so, the tongue
of a babling fellow, being never without an inflamation and
a feverous pulse, draweth always and gathereth to it one
secret and hidden thing or other.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 160.
Nor [couldst thou] by the eye's water know a malady
Desperately hot, or raging feverously.-Donne, Elegy 7.
A rage of pleasures madden'd every breast,
Down to the lowest lees the ferment ran:
To his licentious wish each must be blest,
With joy be fevered; snatch it as he can.

Thomson. Castle of Indolence, c. 2.

To conclude all; if the body politic have any analogy to
the natural, in my weak judgment, an act of oblivion were
as necessary in a hot distempered state, as an opiate would
be in a raging fever.-Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel, Pref.
How pleasant is't, beneath the twisted arch
Of a retreating bower, in mid-day's reign
To ply the sweet carouse, remote from noise,
Secur'd of feverish heats. J. Philips. Cider, b. ii.
Satiety, perpetual disgust, and feverishness of desire, at-
tend those who passionately study pleasure.

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.

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Reclin'd and feverish in the bath

He, when the hunter's sport was up,
But little deem'd a brother's wrath
To quench his thirst had such a cup.
Byron. The Bride of Abydos, u. 2
O! what a wretch is he

Whose fev'rous life, devoted to the gloom
Of superstition, feels the incessant throb
Of ghastly panic. Smollett. The Regicide, Act v. sc. I.
FEUILLAGE, i. e. foliage, (qv.)

I have done Homer's head, shadowed and heightened
carefully; and I enclose the outline of the same size, that
you may determine whether you would have it so large, or
reduced to make room for feuillage or laurel round the
oval, or about the square of the busto.
Pope. Mr. Jervas to Mr. Pope.
Fr. Feuille, and mort, a

FEUILLEMORT.

dead leaf.

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All which when Blandamour from end to end
Beheld, he woxe therewith displeased sore,
And thought in mind it shortly to amend:
His speare he feutred, and at him it bore;
But with no better fortune, then the rest afore.

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
therfore to worship ymages, or to crepe to crosse.
Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 3.
A fewterer

To such a nasty fellow, a robb'd thing
Of all delights youth looks for.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Woman's Prize, Act ii. sc. 1.
If you will be

An honest yeoman-fewterer, feed us first,
And walk us after.

Hil. Yeoman-fewterer!

Such another word to your governer and you go
Supperless to bed for't.

Massinger. The Picture, Act v. sc. 1.
Car. Faith, spending my metall in this reeling word
(here and there, as the sway of my affection carries me, and
perhaps stumble upon a yeoman-pheuterer, as I doe now.
B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, Act ii. sc. 1.
FEW.
Goth. Fanai; A. S. Fea, feawa,
FEWNESS. and feawnesse; in which Junius
thinks that traces of the Gr. Пavρoi, pauci, are
manifest; p (ut sæpe) omitted. Sw. Fae. Mr.
Tooke has produced from G. Douglas the expres-
sion (unusual enough to modern ears)" Ane few
menye," i. e. many; to show that few and many are
not (as is generally supposed) in meaning opposite
terms and contraries; many means mixed or
associated, (for that is the effect of mixing,)
subaud. Company, or any uncertain and un-
specified number of things." And few, must
restrict or restrain, confine or limit this number,
in the repetition of unity. And thus to denote-
Confined, limited, narrowed, small, minute; in
number or quantity.

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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,
And with forc't wind the fewell did inflame,
Another did the dying bronds repayre
With iron tongues.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7.

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.

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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.
Let it be, or be it, done. Applied to-
An order, command, decree, (sc.) that some-
thing be done.

Nought suffered he the ape to give or graunt,
But through his hand alone must passe the flaunt.
Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale.

What wealth in souls that soar, dive, range around,
Disdaining limit, or from place, or time;
And hear at once, in thought extensive, hear
Th' Almighty fiat and the trumpet sound?

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,
He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew:
Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain,
The creature's at his dirty work again.

Pope. Prologue to the Satires.
How smooth, persuasive, plausible, and glib,
From holy lips is dropp'd the specious fib!
Which whisper'd slily, in its dark career
Assails with art the unsuspecting ear.

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,
And from the fibres scoop'd the rooted ball,
Drove through the neck and hurl'd him to the plain.
Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xiv.

I saw Petræus' arms employ'd around
A well grown oak, to root it from the ground.
This way, and that, he wrench'd the fibrous bands;
The trunk was like a sapling, in his hands,

And stiH obey'd the bent.-Dryden. Ovid. Met. b. xii.

The muscles consist of a number of fibres, and each fibre

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On favel was hure fader. that hath a fykel tonge
And seilde soth seith.-Piers Plouhman, p. 25.
Thy loue, thy lande, and all thy gentilnes
I compted small in my prosperitie,
So effated I was in wantonnesse
And clambe vpon the fickell whele so hie.

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,
And teaches restless water constancy,
Which, under the warm influence of bright days,
The fickle motion of each blast obeys.

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
Like a young wasteful heir, mortgage the hopes
Of God-like majesty, on bankrupt terms,
To raise a present pow'r, that's fickly held
By the frail tenure of the people's will

Southern. The Spartan Dame, Act i. ac. 1.
Fancy now no more
Wantons on fickle pinion through the skies;
But fix'd in aim and conscious of her power,
Aloft from cause to cause exults to rise.
Creation's blended stores arranging as she flies.

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
Most mutable in wishes, but in mind

A wit as various,-gay, grave, sage, or wild,-
Historian, bard, philosopher, combin'd.
Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, c. 3
Fr. Fiction; It. Fizione;
Sp. Ficcion, from the Lat.
Fingere, fictum. See FEIGN.

FICTION. FICTIOUS. FICTITIOUS. FICTITIOUSLY. FICTITIOUSNESS. FICTIVE.

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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.

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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
Against the spiritual contradictions
Accompting them as fictions.

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;
Long since wise statesmen, now magicians thought;
Altars and arts are soon to fiction rais'd,
And both would have, that miracles are wrought
Davenant. Gondibert, b. ii. c. 5

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
true,
Though naked yet and bare (not having to content
The wayward curious ear) gave fictive ornament.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 6.

The fiction pleas'd: our generous train complies,
Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's, fair disguise.
The work she ply'd; but, studious of delay,
Each following night revers'd the toils of day.

Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xxiv.

With fancied rules and arbitrary laws
Matter and motion he [Man] restraines;
And studied lines and fictious circles draws.

Prior. An Ode, 1688.
Unmov'd

Mem. See where the master villain stands!
And harden'd in impiety, he laughs
At the fictitious justice of the Gods,
And thinks their thunder has not wings to reach him.

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,
Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie.

Chaucer. Prologue, v. 298.
And Dauid and al the house of Israel played before the
Lord with all maner instrumentes of fyrre woode, wyth
harpes, psalteries, timberelles, fyddelles and symbals.
Bible, 1551. 2 Kinges, c. 6.

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
Generall Councel? Whom meane ye, I praie you? Tinkers
and tapsters, fudlers and pypers, such as your ministers be?
Alas poore soules, what should they doo there? for there is
no tinkinge nor tippling, no fidlinge nor pypinge.
Jewell. Defence, p. 600.
And certainly those degenerate arts and shifts whereby
many counsilours and governors gaine both favour with their
maisters, and estimation with the vulgar, deserve no better
name than filling; being things rather pleasing for the time,
and gracefull to the professors themselves; then tending to
the weale and advancement of the state, whiche they serve.
Bacon. On Learning, by G. Wats, b. viii. c. 3.

As her wast stands, she lookes like a new fiddle
The favorite Theorbo, (truth to tell ye.)
Whose neck and throat are deeper then the belly.
Corbet. Iter Boreale.
willingly."
He sayes, "Sir can you spare me?" I said: "
"Nav, sir, can you spare me a crowne?" Thankfully I
Give it as a ransom; but as fiddlers still,
Though they be paid to be gone, yet needs will
Thrust one more jigge upon you; so did he
With his long complementall thanks vexe me.

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.
And that sweet tilting war, with eyes and kisses,
Th' alarms of soft vows, and sighs, and fiddle-faddle,
Spoils all our trade.

Beaum. & Fletch. Humourous Lieutenant, Act i. sc. 1.
Others import yet nobler arts from France,
Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
Pope. The Dunciad b. iv.

Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong,
Was every thing by starts, and nothing long,
But, in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.

Dryden. Absolom & Achitophel.

Sometimes your hair you upwards furl,
Sometimes lay down in favourite curl:
All must through twenty fiddlings pass,
Which none can teach you but your glass.

King. The Art of Love, pt. xii.
Is not this indeed the great work, the onely necessary
matter, in comparison whereto all other occupations are
niere trifling, or unprofitable fiddling aboute nothing.
Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 7.

And that somebody else would have been fiddled into it
again, if a certain treasonable Jacobite tune had not been
timely silenced by the unwearied pains and diligence of the
administration.-Chesterfield. Miscel. Common Sense, 18.

Oh, laugh or mourn with me the rueful jest,
A Cossack'd huntsman, and a fiddling priest!
He from Italian songsters takes his cue:
Set Paul to music he shall quote him too.

Cowper. Progress of Error.

But there is a substitute [for dance] in this country, well
known by the name of a hop. We all know the alarm which
the very word inspires, and the sound of the fiddle calls
forth a magistrate to dissolve the meeting.
Windham. Speech, April 18, 1800.

The fiddlers trembled as he look'd around,
For fear of some false note's detected flaw.

Byron. Beppo, a Venetian Story.
FIDELITY. Į Fr. Fidélité; It. Fidelità;
FIDELE, adj. Sp. Fidelidad, Lat. Fidelitas,
fidelis, fides; from fidere, and this from Gr. П10-ew,
Οι πειθ-ειν, or from the Æol. Πιττις, for πιστις.
The verb Пee, ex origine significabat ligare, to
bind; and Пioris, fides, quæ nos persuadendo
ligat: that which by persuasion binds or attaches.
It is applied to-

An attachment or adherence to a bond or obli-
gation, to any obligatory covenant, engagement or
connexion; an observance of, a regard to, good
faith.

We not only made his [Pole's] whole family of nought,
but enhanced them to so high nobility and honour as they
have been so long as they were true and fidele unto us.
Hen. VIII. to Sir T. Wyatt. March 10, an. 30.

And bad me bide till his abilitie,
Might better gwerdon my fidelitie.

Where ha you ben fidging abrode, since your neele lost?
Gammer Gurton's Needle, Act i. c. 4.

So at this booth, which we call Dublin,
Tim, thou'rt the Punch to stir up trouble in;
You wriggle, fidge, and make a rout,
Put all your brother puppets out.

Swift. Dialogue between Mad Mullinia & Timothy.
Tim, with surprise and pleasure staring,
Ran to the glass, and then comparing
His own sweet figure with the print,.
Distinguish'd every feature in't,

The twist, the squeeze, the rump, the fidge in all,
Just as they look'd in the original.

Id. Tim and the Fables.

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FIDUCIAL.
FIDUCIALLY.
FIDUCIARY, n.
FIDUCIARY. adj.
habentis, (Gesner.)

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
(which by them that affirm good works to be an effect of
faith is ordinarily given) that it is a fiducial assent to the
promises of Christ.-Hammond. Works, vol. i. p. 725.

The fiduciarie, having resolved faith to be the only in-
strument of his justification, and excluded good works from
contributing any thing toward it, proceeds to define his faith
to be a full perswasion, that the promises of Christ belong
to him, or an assurance of his particular election.
Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 480.

This servant, if he aime only at his own ends, cherishes
and aggravates the divisions of a family, but if he be
sincerely faithfull and upright, certainly he deserves much,
so as to be reckoned as one of the brethren; or at least to
Bacon. On Learning, by G. Wats, b. viii. c. 2.
receive a fiduciary administration of the inheritance.

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.

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Montesquieu. The Spirit of Laws, b. xxvii. c. 1. Note.
FIE, or Lye observes, that Fian, A. S. is
FYE. Odisse, to hate;" and Tooke asserts,
that it is the imperative of the Gothic and A. S.
See FOE.

Gascoigne. The Fruites of Warre. verb.

Who presently, upon so good report,
Relying on his friends fidelity,
Conveys himself out of the French king's court
Under pretence to go to Britany.

Daniel. Civil War, b. i.

You knowe that none is admitted to anye degree here in
Cambridge, but the same is first presented to the Uice-
chancelor, and to the Uniuersitie, by some one of that
facultie, who giueth his fidelilie for them.
Whitgift. Defence, p. 137.

For he who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done,
and fears not to declare as freely what might be done better,
gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity; and that his loyal-
est affection and his hope waits on your proceedings.

Milton. Of Unlicensed Printing.

Verbal translations are always inelegant, because always
destitute of beauty of idiom and language, for by their fide-
lity to an author's words, they become treacherous to his
reputation.-Grainger. Advertisement to Elegies of Tibullus.

The sacrament of the supper is the oath of fidelity. Let
us dispose ourselves for celebrating it, by taking a view of
the rewards which await the faithful.-Blair, vol. ii. Ser. 9.
The Sw. Fika is,-tendere ali-
FIDGE, v.
FIDGET. V. quò, citato cursu ferri; but fidge,
FIDGET, n.
or fig, is probably the same word
FIDGETY. as fag, and feaque, (qv.)

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Of all swiche cursed stories I say fy.

Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Prologue, v. 450L

And when that Pertelote thus herd him rore,
She was agast, and saide, Herte dere,
What aileth you to grone in this manere?
Ye ben a veray sleper, fy for shame.

Id. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 14,808.

I will not tell what shrieks and cries,
What angry pishes, and what fies,
What pretty oaths then newly born
The list'ning taper heard there sworn.

Cartwright. The Ordinary, Act iv. sc. 5.
But fie, my wand'ring Muse, how thou dost stray !
Expectance calls thee now another way.

Milton. At a Vacation Exercise, v. 53.

FIEF. See FEOFF.

FIELD.

FI'ELDED.

FI'ELDISH.

A. S. Feld; Dut. Veld; Ger.
Feld; Sw. Felt. Helvigius, inge-
niously, says Wachter, derives
FIELDY. from fallen, i. e. that which has
fallen by lot, because the ancients divided fields
(agros) by lot. And hence, says Minshew, the
expression,-" My lot has fallen to me in a good
ground." Somner, perhaps from woA-e, colere
terram. Tooke, "This word by Alfred, Gower,
It is
Chaucer, &c. was always written Feld.
merely the past part. felled, fel'd, of the verb, to
fell, (fæll-an, be-fal-an.) Field-land is opposed

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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
To deye rather in feld, than the batayle fle.

R. Gloucester, p. 125.
That men with the bestes in feldes thei tham fedde.
R. Brunne, p. 7.
That lawe shal be a laborer. and lede a felde of donge.
Piers Plouhman, p. 71.
And if God clothith thus the hey that to day is in the
feeld; and to morowe is cast into an ovene: how much more
you of litil feith.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 12.

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,
That feld hath eyen, and the wood hath eres.
Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1524.

In woodde, in felde, or in citee,
Shall no man stele by no wise.

Thus robbery goth to seke,

Gower. Con. A. b. v.

In woodes, and in feldes eke,

Whereas he may his purchas finde

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Id. Ib.

My mother's maides when they do sowe and spinne,
They sing a song made of a feldishe mouse:
That for bicause her liuelod was but thinne,
Would nedes go see her townish sister's house.
Wyatt. Of the Meane and Sure Estate. To John Poins.

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,
And with important outrage him assayld;
Who, soon prepar'd to field, his sword forth drew,
And him with equall value countervayld.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 6.

But manhood lost and number wonne,
The Danes they got the fielde:
And Osbret dyed valiantly,
That not to liue would yield.

Warner. Albion's England, b. iv. c. 21.
Women and maides, the cruel souldiers sword
Shail perse to death, and sillie children, loe,
That playing in the streetes and fields are found,
By violent hand shall close their latter day.

Sackville. Ferrex & Porrex, Act v. sc. 2.

Now Mars, I pray thee make vs quicke in worke,
That we with smoaking swordes may march from hence
To helpe our fielded friends.
Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act i. sc 4.

Romeo, good night, I'le to my truckle-bed,
This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep.

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,
Ther with craft he has tham raft, it may not help.
R. Brunne, p. 281.
He shal haue my soule. that al soules made
And defende hit fro ther feende.-Piers Plouhman, p. 133.
The ymage of ypocricie ymped vpon fendes.-Id. Crede.
Feondes and foendekenes. by for me shullen stande
And be at my byddyng.
Id. Vision, p. 361.

And Jon answerde and seyde, comandour, we sighen a
man castinge out fendis in thi name, and we han forboden
him for he sueth not thee with us.-Wiclif. Luk, c. 9.
This frere bosteth that he knoweth helle,
And, God it wot, that is but litel wonder,
Freres and fendes ben but litel asunder.

Chaucer. The Sompnoures Prologue, v. 7256.
He semed frendly, to hem that knew him nouht,
But he was fendly, both in werk and thought.

Id. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,781.
This letter spake, the quene delivered was
Of so horrible a fendliche creature,
That in the castle non so hardy was
That any while dorste therein endure.

Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5171.
For through the fendes sleight him thought,
Amonge other goddes mo,
That Serapis spake to him tho,
Whom he sigh there in great araie.-Gower. Con. A. b. v.
Sith that the whole kyngdome of Deuyls, sayeth he, is
agaynste the kyngdome of God, howe may it then bee that
Sathan casteth out Sathan? excepte peraduenture the fiendes
make battayle and goe together by the eares among them-
selues.-Udal. Mark, c. 3.

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
Furor, oh Furor, hath me thus bedight.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 6.
Regard his hellish fall,
Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise
Only to wonder at unlawful things.

Marlow. Tragical History of Dr. Faustus.
Dames under a cloake of modesty and devotion, hide no-
thing but pride and fiendishnese.
Bp. Hall. An Holy Panegyricke.
The very fiends know for what crime they fell,
And so do all their followers that rebel :
If then a blind, well-meaning Indian stray,
Shall the great gulf be show'd him for the way.
Dryden. Religio-Laici.

Ye scowling shades who break away,
Well do ye fly and shun the purple day,
Every fiend and fiend-like form,
Black and sullen as a storm.

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
Of such armour, as to hem fell.
Whan they were armed, fiers and fell
They went hem forth all in a rout

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,
Their treasure safe, and all their vessels whole,
In sight of their dear country ruin'd be,
Without the guilt of either rock or sea!
What they would spare, our fiercer art destroys
Surpassing storms in terrour and in noise.

Waller. Of our late War with Spain.

Then, fiercely rushing on the daring foe;
His lifted arm prepares the fatal blow:
But, jealous of his fame, Apollo shrouds
The godlike Trojan in a veil of clouds.

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And the refulgent prize in triumph wore.
His eyes fierce-flaming o'er the trophy roll
That wakes the slumb'ring vengeance of his soul.

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.

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So when his chaggy mane a lion shakes,

And with loud roar his slumbering fury wakes;
If chance he view the man whose soothing art
First tam'd the fierceness of his lofty heart,
His pride consents th' ignoble yoke to wear.

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.
And sweetest songster of the winged kind,
What thanks, said he, what praises shall I find
To equal thy melodious voice? in thee
The rudeness of my rural fife I see.-Philips, Past. 5.
To fifes and trumpets clear

From ev'ry vessel in a blended sound
Reply the concave shores.--Glover. The Athenaid, b. xx.

FIFTEEN, i. e. five and ten. See FIVE.

As in the zer of grace tuelf hundred & fiftene
Contek bi gan bi tuene hom.

R. Gloucester, p. 509. Men gaf fiueten schillynges for a goos or hen.

R. Brunne, p. 174.

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Endlene hondred zer and fifti and two,

After that God an erthe com, this spousinge was ido.
R. Gloucester, p. 466.

And Leulyn is fulle fayn to pray Edward for pes,
Gyues Edward for his trespas fifti thousand marks.

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;
On the broad base of fifty thousand rise;
Add one round hundred, and, (if that's not fair,)
Add fifty more, and bring it to a square.

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
Into the thickest wood; there soon they chose
The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd,
But such as at this day to Indians known
In Malabar or Decan spreds her armes
Braunching so broad and long, that in the ground
The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow
About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade
High overarch't, and echoing walks between.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ix.
Close by, a rock, of less enormous height
Breaks the wild waves, and forms a dangerous strait :
Full on its crown a fig's green branches rise,
And shoot a leafy forest to the skies.

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
An image fresh of fig-tree formed you'll find;
Though cloth'd with bark, three legg'd and void of ears,
Prompt for the pranks of pleasure he appears.
Fawkes. Theocritus, Ep. 4.

Thus cochinille
Feeds on the Indian fig; and, should it harm
The foster plant, its worth that harm repays.
Granger. The Sugar Cane, b. ii.
They dropped into the yolk of an egg the milk that flows
from the leaf of a young fig-tree, with which instead of water,
gum, or gumdragant, they mixed their last layer of colours.
Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 2.

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FIGENT. Perhaps from Fidge or Fig, q. d. Fidging.

Unsteady, unfixed, quick.

Vert. I have known such a wrangling advocate,
Such a little figent thing; O, I remember him,
A notable talking knave.

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,
Ys men bi gonne to fle and fayn that heo mygt.
R. Gloucester, p. 121
Catigen, the kynge's brother, myd hys men echone,
Asailede Hors and hys host, so that heo fougte faste,
So that this Catigen yslaw was atte last.

Id. Ib.

Vor hii ne couthe of fygtenge.
Ther vor into Normandye he let hem sone brynge.
Id. p. 299.
Right vnto the gate with the targe thei gede,
Fightand on a gate vndir him thei slouh his stede.
R. Brunne, p. 183.
And whilk did wrong & whilk ryght,
And whilk mayntend pes & fight.-Id. App. to Pref. p. 97.
By my power Peers ich plygte the my treuthe
To defende the in faith. fyghte thauh ich sholde.
Piers Plouhman, p. 129.
And lo a whyt hors, and he that sat on him was clepid
feithful and soothfast, and with ryghtwisnesse he deemeth
and fightith.—Wiclif. Apocalips, c. 19.

The long day with speares sharp yground
With arrows, darts, swerds, and maces fe!
They fight, & bringen horse, & man to ground,
And with her axes out the braines quei.

Chaucer. Trotlus, b. iv.

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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
The better fight, who single hast maintained
Against revolted multitudes the cause

Of Truth, in word mightier then they in armes.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi.

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
Thou art turn'd a fighter.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Prophetess, Act iv. sc. 6.
For there's the folly that's still mixt with fear,
Cowards more blows than any hero bear:

Of fighting sparks some may their pleasures say,
But 'tis a bolder thing to run away.

Dryden. Essay on Satire

An hour and more, like tides, in equal sway
They rush'd, and won by turns, and lost the day:
At length the nine (who still together beld)
Their fainting foes to shamefull fight compell'd,
And with resistless force o'er-ran the field.

Id. The Flower and the Leaf
She sees new verdure all the plain o'erspread,
Where the fight burn'd, and where the battle bled.
Pitt. On the Approaching Congress of Cambrap
Whether repletion is not bad.

And fighters with full stomachs mad.-Churchill. Ghost

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