FOR-WORN, part. p. Worn out.
FOR-WORTHE, V. (.4.-S.) To perish.
FOR-WRAPPE, v. To wrap up.
FOR-WROGHT, part. p. Over-worked.
FOR-WYTTYNG, 8. Reproach.
FOR-YAF, pret. t. Forgave.
FOR-YAT, pret. t. Forgot.

FOR-YELDE, v. To repay; to requite.

FOR-3EDE, v. To forego; to lose; to omit.

FOR-3ETYLLE, part. p. Forgetful.
Pr. P.

Foss, s. A waterfall. Craven.
FOSSET, 8. (4.-N.) A faucet.
Foss-FOOT, S. The impression of a
horse's foot. Northampt.
FOSSICK, 8 A troublesome person.
Fossicking, troublesome. Warw.
FOSSPLE, 8. The impression of a
horse's foot on soft ground.
Cumb.

FOSTAL, 8. A paddock to a farmhouse, or a way leading to it. Sussex.

FOSTALE, S. The track of a hare.
FOSTER, 8. A forester.

To a herte he let renne;
xij. fosters dyscryed hym then.
MS. 15th cent.

And love as well the foster can,
As can the mighty nobleman.

Ballad 17th cent. Food;

FOSTRE,

FOSTRING,

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8. (A.-S.)

nourishment.

FOT, v. To fetch. West.

FOTE-HOT, adv. On the instant; immediately.

FOTE-SETE, 8. A footstool.
FOTEZ, 8. pl. Feet. Gawayne.
FOTH, 8. A fragment. Somerset.
FOTHER, 8. (A.-S.) A great quan-
tity; a burthen.

FOTHERAM, S. An open space behind the rack, where the hay is placed ready to supply it. FOTIVE, adj. (Lat.) Nourishing. FOT-LAME, adj. Lame in the foot. Fou, adj. Tipsy; full; few. North. FOUCH, v. To quarter a buck. A hunting term.

FOUCHE, v. To vouch. FOUDERSOME, adj. Cumbersome.

Cumb.

FOUDRE, 8. (4.-N.) Lightning. FOUDREL, 8. Apparently a sort of spice.

FOUGADE, S. (Fr.) A sort of firework.

FOUGHT, part.p. Fetched. Somers.
FOUGHTY, adj. Musty. Linc.
FOUL, S. An ulcer in a cow's foot;
any disease that produces ulcers.
North.
FOULDAGE, 8. The liberty of penning
sheep by night. Norf.
FOULDER, S. (4.-N.) Lightning.

Foultring, flashing like lightning. FOULE, adv. Greatly. "Than was Kynge Herode foule astonyed of theyr wordes." The Festival, fol. lxxv, 1528.

FOULEN, v. (4.-S.) To defile. FOULER, 8. A kind of ordnance. FOULMART, 8. A polecat. North. FOUL'S-MARE, s. An old name for the gallows.

FOULYNG, 8. A wretch.

FOUND, (1) v. To intend; to design. Westmorel. See Fonde. (2) v. To confound. See Greene's Works, ii, 200.

(3) v. To mix; to dissolve. (4) Supplied with food. FOUNDAY, 8. A space of six days. A term used by iron-workers to express the time in which they make eight tuns.

FOUNDE, v. (4.-S.) To go towards; to go.

FOUNDER, v. To fall down; to cause to fall; to give way. FOURBOUR, 8. A furbisher. FOURCHED, part.p. (A.-N.) Forked. FOUR DAYS. A person is said to be four days in a week, who has not quite the use of his reason; an idiot. Linc.

FOURINGS, S. An afternoon meal taken at 4 o'clock in harvest-time, Norf.

FOURMEL, v. To do according to rule.

FOUR-O'CLOCK, 8. A meal taken by harvest labourers at that hour. Northampt.

FOUR-RELEET, 8. The crossing of
two roads. Suffolk.
FOURRIER, S. (Fr.) A harbinger.
FOUR-SQUARE, adj. Quadrangular.
Suffolk.

FOURTE, adj. Fourteen.

FOURTE-DELE, s. The fourth part. FOURTNET, S. A fortnight. FOUSE, (1) s. A fox. Craven. (2) adj. (A.-S.) Ready; willing. FOUST, (1) adj. Soiled; mouldy; tumbled; particularly applied to hay which from damp smokes and stinks when opened and taken abroad. West.

(2) s. A labourer's beer-bottle.
Linc.

FOUSTY, adj. Thirsty. Glouc.
FOUT, 8. A spoilt child. North.
FOUTER, (1) adj. (Fr.) A term of
contempt. North.

(2) v. To thrash grain. North.
FOUTH, 8. Plenty. Northumb.
FOUTNART, 8. A foulmart.
FOUTRA. (Fr.) A foutra for you,

an expression of contempt. FOUTRY, adj. Mean; paltry. East. FOUTY, (1) adj. Not fresh; fusty. North.

(2) s. (Fr.) A mean fellow; a scoundrel.

ordnance, carrying stone-shot,
many of which were distinguished
by the names of birds.
(2) Stone-bullets.

FOWER, (1)s. A fainting fit. North. (2) See Fueler.

FOWING, 8. Fodder. North.
Fowк, 8. Folk; people. Yorksh.
FOWKEN, 8. A falcon.
FOWKIN, 8. Crepitus ventris.
FOWLE, (1) v. To catch birds.
(2) s. A spoilt child.
FoWNCE, v. To indent.
FOWNDYNGE, s. Trial. See Fonde.
FOWTE, v. Fault; want.
Fox, (1) v. To make drunk.

Your Dutchman, when he's foxt, is like fox,

For when he's sunk in drink, quite earth to a man's thinking,

'Tis full exchange time with him, then he's subtles.

B. & Fl., Fair Maid of the Inn, Act ii, p. 363. Wel man'd, wel ship'd, wel victual'd, wel appointed,

Well in good health, well timbred and wel joynted:

All wholly well, and yet not halfe fox'd well,

Twixt Kent and Essex, we to Gravesend fell. Taylor's Workes, 1630.

No sooner was he below, but his friend arrests him at Mr. Fox's suit, and by all means would make him pay his groat for being drunk.

The Merry Exploits of Poor Robin, the Saddler of Walden, n. d. Then such as had but little coin Laid up in store to purchase wine, Must drink fair water, cyder, perry, Or mead instead of sack and sherry: Or have their throats with brandy drench'd, Which makes men fox'd e'er thirst is quench'd. Poor Robin, 1738.

(2) s. The old English broadsword.

gloves or pieces of leather tied at the end of strings. "A kinde of playe wherein boyes lift up one leg, and hop on the other; it is called fox-in-thy-hole." Nomenclator, 1585.

FOX-TAIL, 8. One of the badges of a fool. To give one a flap with a fox-tail, to deceive or make a fool of him.

Foxy, adj. A term for beer which

has not fermented properly. Linc. Foy, s. (A.-N.) Faith; allegiance.

(2) A merry-making given on particular occasions, as at parting. FOY-BOAT, 8. An assistant boat used in piloting a vessel.

FOYLE, (1) 8. (A.-N.) Paste, or crust, for pies, &c. (2) v. To fallow land. (3) v. To defile.

FOYLINGS, 8. The marks left on grass by deer.

FOYNE, 8. A heap, or abundance. FOYNED, part. p. Kicked. Gawayne. Foys, 8. A sort of tartlet. FOYTERERS, 8. Vagabonds; vagrants.

Fozy, (1) adj. Spongy; insipid; woolly. Var. d.

(2) s. A choice delicacy. Devon. FRA, prep. (A.-S.) From. FRACCHYNE, V. To creak. Pr. P. FRACCYON, S. (Lat.) Breaking. "When he was at masse, and had made the fraccyon, he sawe that blode dropped." The Festival, fol. li, recto.

FRACK, (1) adj. Forward. North. (2) v. To abound, or swarm. East. (3) s. A hole in a garment. Suff. (4) v. To fill to excess. Northampt. FRACTABLE, S. The wrought stones that run up the gable ends. FRACTED, part. p. (Lat.) Broken. FRACTIOUS, adj. Peevish. FRAG, 8. (1) A kind of rye. Somers.

(2) Low, vulgar people. Middx. FRAHDLE, V. To talk foolishly. Cumb. FRAID, 8. Fear.

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FRAIGHT, adj. Fraught. FRAIL, (1)v. To wear out cloth. East. (2) adj. Weak-minded. Linc. FRAILE, 8.(A.-N. frayel) A basFRAYEL, ket, made of rushes, or matting, used for fruit, as figs and raisins. "You have pickt a raison out of a fraile of figges." Lilly's Mother Bombie, 1632. "1636, pd. mending frayles, 2d." MS. Account Book Linc. Cathed. 70 tb are given as the weight of a frail of raisins, or figs.

Three frails of sprats carried from mart to mart,

Are as much meat as these, to more use

travell'd. B. & Fl., Queen of Corinth, ii, 4. Great guns fourteen, three hundred pipes of wine,

Two hundred frailes of figs and raisons fine. Mirror for Mag., p. 482. FRAINE, V. (4.-S.) To ask; to inquire. FRAINKLEY, adj. Comfortable. Staff. FRAISE, v. (4.-S.) To interrogate. FRAISTE, v. (1) To try; to prove. (2) To inquire; to seek.

FRAIT, 8. A bundle of straw, or hay. East.

FRAKE, 8. A man. See Freke. FRAKNES, 8. (A.-S.) Spots; freckles. FRAMABLE, adj. Pliable.

FRAMAL,8. Aband with which cattle are tied to their stalls. Lanc. FRAMATION, 8. (1) Contrivance; cunning.

(2) A beginning. North. FRAME, (1) part. p. (A.-S.) Effected; finished.

(2) 8. (4.-S.) Profit; advantage. (3) v. To speak or behave affectedly. In frame, very stiff, or formal. Frame-person, a visitor whom it is thought requisite to receive ceremoniously. East. (4) v. To set about a thing; to attempt; to begin. North. FRAMPOLD, adj. (1) Cross;

FRAMPEL, FRAMPUL, FRAMPARED, atious.

ill.

tempered. East. (2) Fiery; nettle

some; saucy; vex

FRAMPOLE-FENCES, & Such fences as a tenant in the manor of Writtle, in Essex, has against the lord's demesnes, whereby he has the wood growing on the fence, and as many trees or poles as he can reach from the top of the ditch with the helve of his axe towards the repair of his fences. Frampoles seem to mean poles to be reached fram or from the hedge. Kennett. FRAMPUT, (1) s. An iron ring to fasten cows in their stalls.

(2) T. To dispute. Lanc. FRAM-WARD, adv. In an opposite direction; back.

FRAMYNGE, S. Gain; profit. Pr. P. FRANCE, S. Frankincense. FRANCEIS, S. Frenchmen.

FRANCH, V.

To scrunch with the

teeth. FRANCHE-BOTRAS, 8. A buttress placed diagonally against the corner of a wall.

FRANCHEMOLE, 8. A dish in ancient cookery, composed chiefly of eggs and sheep's fat. FRANCHISE, 8. (4.-N.) Frankness; generosity.

FRANCOLEYN. See Frankelein. FRAND, v. To be restless. Oxfd. FRANDISH, adj. Passionate; obstinate. North.

FRANGY, adj. Irritable; ill-tempered; fretful. Linc. FRANION, S. (A.-N.) A wencher; a gay idle fellow.

FRANK, (1) 8. A small inclosure in which animals were fed to fatten. (2) adj. Luxuriant; thriving. Northampt.

(3) s. The common heron. Suff. (4) 8. A broad iron fork. Shropsh. FRANK-CHASE, 8. A wood, or park, uninclosed, but having similar privileges.

FRANKE, 8. Frankincense. FRANKED, adj. (1) Fattened. (2) Large; huge.

FRANKELEIN, 8. (A.-N.) A freeFRANKLIN, holder; properly, the son or descendant of a vilein who had become rich; the term was applied generally to small landholders.

FRANKLINE, 8. (Span.) The bird godwit. FRANK-POSTS, s. The piles of a bridge, &c. Linc.

FRANNEL, adj. Succulent; plentiful. Kent.

FRANT, v. To be careful. Somerset. FRANY, adj. Very ill-tempered. West.

FRAP, (1) v. (4.-N.) To strike. (2) s. Tumult; disturbance. (3) v. To brag, or boast. North. (4) v. To fall in a passion. Lanc. (5) 8. A violent gust of rage. FRAPE, (1) s. A company; a crowd. (2) v. To scold. Kent.

(3) v. To draw tight. Devon. FRAPLE, v. To bluster. FRAPPING, adj. Fretful. Somerset. FRAPPISH, adj. Capricious. FRAPS, S. (1) Noise; tumult. Craven. (2) A person who boasts much. FRARY, 8. (1) (A.-N.) A fraternity. Frary clerk, a member of a clerical brotherhood.

Edmund shall souffer my frary clark of
London and Middx. to have a key, as
well to the said utter gate as of the inner
gate of the said Pardon Chapell, for
none other caus but for this caus only,
that he and other our frary clarks may
come to and fro the said chapell yarde,
for to bury in the said chapell yarde
there, as ther seme place convenient,
the bodyes of all dede people, by aucto-
rite of the pope's prevelege, after the
usance and custom of our frary, as
often as cause shall require in that
behalf, during the lyfte of the said
Edmond.
Grant, 1514.

(2) A fairy. East.
FRASCHED, adj. (A.-N.) Crushed.
FRASE, (1) 8. A froize, or pancake.
For fritters, pancakes, and for frayses,
For venison pasties, and minst pies.

How to Choose a Good Wife, 1634 (2) v. To quarrel. Cumb. (3) v. To break. Norf.

Gnawed.

FRASLING, 8. The perch. Chesh.
FRAST. See Fraiste.
FRAT, pret. t. of frete.
FRATCH, (1) v. To scold; to
quarrel. Fratcher, a scold, a
boaster. North.

(2) v. To sport, or frolic.
(3) s. A quarrel, or brawl.
(4) 8. A playful child.

(5) s. A rude quarrelsome fellow. FRATCHED, adj. Restive, vicious, as a horse.

FRATER, 8. One who begged under
pretext of seeking alms for a
hospital.
FRATER-HOUSE, s. The refectory
or hall in a monastery.
FRATISHED, adj. Benumbed with
cold. North.

FRATOUR, 8. The frater-house.
FRAUD, v. To defraud.
FRAUGHTE, V. (4.-S.) To freight
a ship.

FRAUNGE, (1) v. To fling; to wince.

(2) s. A merry frolic. Craven. FRAUZY, adj. Frisky; pettish. Linc. FRAWL, v. To ravel silk, &c. Suff. FRAWN, part. p. Frozen. East. FRAY, (1) v. To frighten; to terrify. North.

(2) s. Fright.

(3) v. To attack; to quarrel. (4) s. An attack or affray. North. (5) v. To crack, or break. Norf. (6) A deer was said to fray her head, when she rubbed it against a tree to cause the pills, or frayings, of her new horns to come off. FRAYMENT, S. A fright. FRAYTHELY, adv. Quickly. FRAZE, S. Half a quarter of a sheet of paper. North.

FRAZLE, v. To unravel or rend cloth. East.

FRAZY, adj. Miserly. Linc.
FRE, adj. (A.-S.) Liberal; noble.
FREAGE, S. A freak?

Or do but heare how love-bang Kate
In pantry darke for freage of mate
With edge of steele the square wood shapes,
And Dido to it chaunts or scrapes.

Lovelace's Lucasta, 1649.

FREAM, (1) s. Ploughed land too much worked.

(2) v. To grunt as a boar. FREAMING, 8. The noise a boar makes at rutting time.

FREAT, (1) v. To scold? See Frete.

Some others whilest disorderedly at him They freat and foyne, are crowded on by those that hindmost be.

Warner's Albions England, 1592.

(2) v. To be irritated, as the skin. "Freatynge or galoynge. Intertrigo." Huloet.

(3) s. A weak place in a bow or arrow. Weak places, which are likely to give way.

Freates be in a shaft as well as in a bowe, and they be much like a canker, creepinge and encreasinge in those places in a bowe, which be much weaker than other. Ascham, Toxoph., p. 156 (4) 8. Damage; decay. Craven. (5) s. A recipe. Linc, FREATHE, v. To wattle. Devon. FREATS, 8. The iron hoops about the nave of a cart-wheel. North. FRECKEN, 8. A freckle. FREDDE, part. p. Freed. FREDE, v. (4.-S.) To feel.

We seye hit wel ine oure fey, And fredeth hit at nede. William de Shoreham. FREDOM, 8. (4.-S.) Generosity. FREEDOM, 8. A term among boys at tops; one being pegged out of the ring, its owner gives one spin as a chance to his adversaries, which is called a freedom. FREED-STOOL, 8. (A.-S. frið-stol.) A seat or chair near the altar in churches, to which offenders fled for sanctuary.

FREEHOLDANDE, s. A freeholder. FREELEGE, S. Freedom. North. FREELI-FRAILY, 8. Anything um substantial or frivolous. East. FREELNES, S. Frailty.