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FELLOE. Now applied to the circumferential segments (of wood) in which the spokes radiating from the nave are infixed, and which are surrounded by the (iron) rim or tire.

Forsothe the whelis weren siche, as ben wonte to be maad in a chaar; and the axtre of hem, and the spokys, and the felijs (L. V. dowlis, canthi), and the naue alle 3oten.

Wic. 3 Kings vii. 33. On silver spokes the golden fellies rolled (aurea summæ curvatura rota).-Sandy's Ovid. Met. ii. 107. FELLOW, v. FELLOWSHIP, v. Wiclif, Chaucer, and Earl of Wurcestre.

Wherfor whom euere Saul sau a strong man and able to bateil, he felawshipide him to him silf. (L. V. feloushipide, sociabat.)- Wic. 1 Kings xiv. 52; also v. 22-24.

Solytary vertue may not itself attayne to such things as ben hyghest, but joyned and felawshipped with other it mighte atteyne.-Tullius. De Amicitia, Wurcestre, c. 7. And if there bee any thyng that knitteth and felowshippeth (societ) himself to thilke middle poincte, it is constrained into simplicitie.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. iv. p. 6.

And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a luckie felowe, and continued in the house of his Master, the Egyptian. Bible, 1549. Gen. xxxix.

Of Moises, the felow that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become.-ld. Er. xxxii.

FELON.

And the dekene, hosebonde of the wijf that was slayn, was axid, how so greet felonye was doon (tantum scelus). Wic. Judg. xx. 3; also ix. 24. He af his lijf in to deth; and was arettid with felenouse (sceleratos) men; and he dide a wei the synne of many men, and he preiede for trespassouris.-Id. Is. liii. 12. So much rose the felony of the Romans (felness). Berners' Froissart, i. 510.

FEN. See Piers Plouhman in v. Be-slyme, supra. And he bildide a wal, forsothe thei dawbeden, or pargeten it with fen without chaffis (luto).- Wic. Ez. xiii. 10.

The hound turn azen to his castyng, and a sowe is waischung in walwyng of fenne. (E.V.cley, luti.)-Id. 2 Pet. ii. 12. FENCE.

From the wild waves he (Industry) won the Belgic land;
Where wide they foam'd, her towns and traffic stand;
He clear'd, manur'd, enlarg'd the furtive ground,
And firms the conquest with his fenceful mound.
Savage. Wanderer, c. i.

FENDE. See FIEND.

FER. See FAR.

FERD, s. i. e. Fear, qv. and the Quotations from Chaucer.

No man shal stoond azens tow; your dreed and feerd (L.V. outward drede and inward drede, terrorem et formidinem) shulen yue the Lord 3oure God upon al the lande, that ye ben to trede.- Wic. Deut. xi. 25.

And smoke stiede therof as of a furneis, and al the hil was ferdful. (E.V. feerful, terribilis.)-Id. Ex. xix. 18.

And ener be thou suffrynge fals callengis; and be thou oppresside in al daies, and wondriden at the ferdfulnes (E. V. drede, terrorem) of tho thingis whiche thin izen shulen see.-Id. Deut. xxviii. 34.

Suche ferde hau these louers in presence of their loues, and subjectes aforne their soveraines.

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Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. i.

For feere of hir tonge.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 12024.
And whan they were al foure in fere.

FERIE, n.

Lyfe of our Ladye, b. 7, c. 1.

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FIL

Of these things others quickly will dispose,
Whose pains have earn'd the far fet spoil.
Milton. Par. R. ii. 401.

Let me know if Aldemey's calf be sould yet, and what
he fought.-Hum. Clinker. Tabitha, B. Glostar, Ap. ii.
FETIS. Fr. Faictis. See FEAT.
FETTE. See FETCH.

FEW.

Whether not the fewenesse (paucitas) of my dajis shal ben endid in short? Wic. Job x. 20.

They (students at Cambridge) be content with a penny peece of beef amongst four, having a few pottage made of the broth of the same beef, &c. Ser. by Thos. Sonor, An. 1550, in Strype. FEWELL. FEUAGE, or FUAGE, from Fr. Feuage. A tax similar to our Hearth or Chimney Money. Skinner. And see FOUAGE, in Cotgrave.

So to this counsayle for reysing this fewage (they) weie called.-Berners' Froissart, i. 151.

FEY, v.

FERS, s. and pl. Ferses. For fere, and feres, thrown out.-Hol. Livy, p. 414.

A deale of snow there was to be digged, faied, and

Chessmen, see Chaucer in v. Check, supra.

Fers, The King's fere, i. e. the Queen. Feres, The
fellow pieces.

At chesse with me she gan to play;
With hire false draughtes ful divers,
She stale on me and took my fers.

Chaucer. The Duchesse, v. 654.
Parde; quod I;

Ne say not so, for, truely,
Though ye had lost your ferses twelve,
And for sorowe murdred your selve,
You shoulde be dampned in this case.-Id
FERTHYNG. See FARTHING.

FERVENT, ad.

1b. v. 723.

For he was stirid atens hem bi my feruent loue (zelo meo),
that Y my silf schulde not do awai the sones of Israel in
my greet hete (var. r. feruentnesse, in zelo meo).
Wic. Num. xxv. 11.
(Lest) the Lord forgyue not to hym, but thanne ful greetli
his strong veniaunce be feers, and the feruour (E.V.gelous,
zelus) azens that man and alle the cursis that ben writun
in this book sitte on hym.-Id. Deut. xxix. 20.
And golde betokeneth the feruence
That he to man had of affeccion.

And franke bitokeneth the soverayn excellence,
In holinesse his conversasion.

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There are few reformations that would do more to
sweeten the breath of English society, than the removal of
this sore annoyance-the brooding fountain of so many
heart-burnings and so many festerments, by which the
elements of an unappeasable warfare are ever at work be-
tween the landed interest of the country, and far the most
important class of its public functionaries.

Chalmers. On the Constitution of Man, pt. i. c. 7.
FESTINATE.

Strive not to run a furlong in a breath; festination may
prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise-cunc-
tation and slowness no slothfulness.

FESTUE.

Browne. Christian Morals, pt. i. § xxxiii.

Lewed men may likne yow thus,
That the beem lith in youre eighen;
And the festu is fallen for youre defaute.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 6183.
But what, seest thou a festu, or a litil mote in the eize of
thi brother, and thou seest nat a beem in thin owne eise.
Wic. Mat. vii. 3.

FETCH, v. Written Fecche, fette, fet. A. S.
Feccian, fettian; D. Vaten; Ger. Fussen; Sw. Fatta,
prehendere. Ihre notices our different usage. The fol-
lowing seems more in accordance with that of our
Northern brethren. "31 Cople Conyse. Fett at bery,
i. e. 31 Couple of Conies taken at burrow or warren.'
Letters of Gray and Mason, by the Rev. J. Mitford.-
A Bill of Fare. Chrystmas Day in Lord Surrey's Time.
He wold fecche a feined mandement,
And sompne hem to the chapitre both two,
And pill the man, and let the wenche go.
Chaucer. Freres Tale, v. 6942.
The fend, quod he, you fecche, body and bones.
Id. b. v. 7126.

I see

What I can do or offer is suspect;
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Forsothe this wisdom is not from aboue comyng down, but ertheli, beestli, and feendli (animalis et diabolica). Wie. James iii. 15. FIERCE. Twenty junge men manly wenten to the wall, and with feerse inwitt goynge (feroci animo) thei stieden up. Wic. 2 Mac. x. 35. And yet ner the latere these thingus doende, thee myžten not swage the feerste (L. V. fersnesse, ferocitatem) (also written the feerse) of his breste.-Id. Judith iii. 11.

And Jacob bolnyde, and seide with strijf, For what cause of me, and for what synne of me, hast thou come so fersly (L. V. fulbrent, exarsisti) aftir me, and hast sout all the purtenance of myn hous.-Id. Gen. xxxi. 36. This Arcite tho.

As fers as a leon, pulled out a swerd.

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And thanne was he calledNoght holy Crist, but Jhesu,

A faunt fyn of wit,

Filius Mariæ.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 13187.

And the Lord of Oostis schal make in this hil to all puplis the feeste of fatte thingis, the feeste of vyndage of fatte thingis ful of merow, of vyndage wel fined (defacuta). Wic. Is. xxv. 6.

Than wold they never fine
To don of gentillesse the faire office.

Chaucer. Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6718.
But sithens of fine force I mote arise,
I shall arise as sone as er I maie.

Id. Troylus and Cressida, w. 42. Thou art too fine in thy evidence: Stand aside.

Shakespeare. All's Well that Ends Well, act v. sc. 3. Your Majesty was too fine for my Lord Burghley, i. e. refined, full of finesse, qv.-Bacon. Apophthegmes.

All their vowes and invocations upon the gods for their help would not serve, but only it was fine force and meere manhood must do the deede.-Holland. Livy, p. 434.

FINE. Finitude,-applied to created things, imports the proportions of the several properties of these things to one another. Infinitude, the unboundedness of these degrees of properties. Cheyne.

To imagine that I have completed (this high investigation) would be to forget at once the fulness of the creation, and the finitude of the creature. Chalmers. Constitution of Man, Ded.

FINT, i. e. Findeth. See FIND.
FIR. See FURZE.

For the thorny erbe that is clepid Saliunka schal steețen up a firr tree (abies).- Wic. Is. lv. 13.

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Forsothe he seide to hem, No but (nisi) I schal se in his hondis the ficching of naylis (L. V. fitchinge, fixuram), and schal sende my fyngris into placis and I schal sende myn honde in to his syde, I schal not bileue.- Wic. John xx. 25. FIZZ. Written Fyest in Skelton. See Dyce, Notes, p. 170.

FLAGITIOUS.

Forsothe thou cursid, and of alle men most flagiciouse (flagitiosissime), or fullist of yuil doyngus, and stiryngus, nyl thou veynly ben enhaunsid.- Wic. 2 Mac. vii. 34. FLAM, v.

Now before thou fliest to the old, stale, usual pretence, that thou canst do none of those things, consider with thy self, that there is a God who is not to be flammed off with lies, who knows exactly what thou canst do, and what thou canst not.-South. Sermons. The Will for the Deed.

FLAME, v. See Piers Plouhman, in v. Foster,

infra.

As wax and a weke

Were twyned togideres,

And than a fir flawmynge

Forth out of bothe.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 11778.
But of the fire and flambe funerall

In whiche my body brennen shall to glede,
I praie the take good heed

That all be well.

Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. v. v. 302.

FLANNEL.

In flannen robes the coughing ghost does walk.
Dryden. Suum cuique.

FLAP. The flodis shuln flappe for ioye with hond togidere (plaudent).- Wic. Ps. xcvii. 8.

I shal do hem awei as powdre of the erthe; and as cleye of streetis I shall breek hem and to flappe (confringam). Id. 2 Kings xxii. 43.

FLASH, v.
Therein (a quiver) a flash of arrows feathered were.
Fairefar. Godfrey of Bulloigne, xi. 28.
FLATTER, v.

Alas, ye Lordes, many a false flatour
Is in your Court, and many a losengeour,
That pleseth you wel more, by my faith,
Than he that sothefastnesse unto you saith.

FLAW.

Chaucer. Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 15331.

So pent-the vapours with a trembling sound
Heave from below, and rend the hollow ground;
A sounding flaw succeeds.

Dryden. Virgil. Æneid, viii. 325.
Now held to be the spirit's flawless heart,
In better worlds.-Southey. Madoc, pt. ii. § 19.
FLEA.

For the Kyng of Yrael is goon out that he seche a quyk flize (L. V. fle, pulicem) as a patritch is pursued in hillis. Wic. 1 Kings xxvi. 20. Awake, thou coke, quod he, God yeve the sorwe, What aileth the to slepen by the morwe, Hast thou had fleen at night, or art thou dronke? Chaucer. Manciples Prol, v. 16966. My mistress sends away all her suitors, and puts fleas

their ears.-The Puritan, act iii. sc. 1.

FLEE.

And thou schalt make in to the usis of the auter, pannes to receyue aischis, and tongis, and fleisch hookis (fuscinulas), and resettis of fyris; thou schalt make alle vessilis of brasse.-Id. Ex. xxvii. 3.

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And this order constraineth by the proper stabilitie the movable thinges, or else thei shulden flete folily (temere fluituras).-Chaucer. Boecius, b. iv. p. 6.

Bats or flitter mise (are creatures) between birds and beasts.- Wats. Bacon, de Ang. 1. iii. c. 1.

FLOAT. See quotation from Shakespeare in Dictionary, and that from Dryden, infra.

Cast thi cure on the Lord, and he schal fulli nurische; and he schal not yue withouten end floteryng to a iust man (in æternum fluctuationem).- Wic. Ps. liv. 23. They flotteren without governour sine rectore fluitabunt. Chaucer. Boecius, b. iii. pr. 11.

And are upon the Mediterranean float
Bound sadly home for Italy.

FLOCK.

Dryden. Tempest, act i. sc. 1.

Also othere men weren gaderide togidere flocmeel (gregatim) and camen out of housis, bisechynge with opyn bisechyng for that-that the place was comynge to dispit. Wic. 2 Mac. iii. 18. FLOM. A river. See Robert of Brunne in v. Gate in the Dictionary.

FLOOD.

And he (Noe) was of sixe hundryd teeris, whanne the watris of the flood floweden upon the erthe (diluvii aque inundaverunt).- Wic. Gen. vii. 6.

Nakeden shal be the flod womb (L. V. botme of water, alveus rivi), and the ryueres fro ther welle.-Id. Is. xix. 7. And right as a sea yeneth flood, so draweth sea ebbe-and pulleth ayen under wawe-all the first out throwe. Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. ii.

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And whanne thei hadden bigun to trede on the drie erthe, the watris turneden ajen in to her trowe (in alveum suum), and flowiden as tho weren wont before.-Wic. Josh. iv. 18. Aftir that alle kyngis of Amorreys (Amorites) herden, that the Lord hadden dried the flowyngis (E. V. flodis, influenta) of Jordan bifor the sones of Israel, til thei passiden,

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the herte of hem was failid.-Id. Ib. v. 1.

FLOW, v. To rise to fulness. flate, puff out.

When Night

Met. to fill, in

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FOAM.

FOO

Maister, Y haue broust to thee my sone, that hath a doumbe spirit, and where euer he takith him, he hurtlith hym doun and he fometh. (E. V. frothith or vometh, spumat.)-Wic. Mark ix. 16.

(Ye shall) eete not o day, ne two, ne fyue, or tenne, ne
twenti forsothe, but unto the moneth of days to the tyme
that it come out bi joure noose thrillis, and be turnyd into
fomynge. (L. V. wlatyng, i. e. loathing, nauseam.)
Id. Num. xi. 20.

FODDER, v.
Forsothe that womman had a foddred calf (pascualem)
in the hows, and she hijede and slewz it.
Wic. 1 Kings xxviii. 24.

FOG.

All foggy fat she was.-Skelton. El. Rum. v. 483.
Their arms (were) untrimmed and loosely borne, their
horses foggy and lifeless (segnes equi).
Gordon. Tac. Hist. b. ii. c. 99.
FOISON, v. The old folio of Gower has in the
following passage forsoned, but the context requires
foisoned, i. e. plentifully given, well stored.
Foisonner. To abound. Cotgrave.

Forth with his wife haue him croned,
Where all good him was foisoned.

Fr.

Gower. Conf. Am. b. viii. p. 183, col. 2.
With prolific foison of all seeds
This holy plain is filled.
FOLD.

Cary. Dante, Purgatory, xxviii. 124.

And Symount bowide or folden (flerus), fante not ageinus hem, and overcamen not hem.-Wic. 1 Mac. xiii. 47.

The knee bowid or folden bifore hym; thei scornyden hym, seyinge, Hayle, Kyng of Jewes. (L. V. kneliden, genu fleru.)-Id. Mat. xxvii. 29.

FOLIACEOUS.

And this moves sober pens into suspensory and timerous assertions, not presently to obtrude them as Sibyl's leaves; which after considerations may find to be but folious appearances, and not the central and vital interiors of truth. Browne. Christian Morals, pt. iì. § iii.

FOLK.

Beside a fulke-men clepe Cimerie,
There slepeth aye this God (slepe) unmeri.

FOLLOW.

FOOT.

FOR

And Achab seith, Bi whom? And he seide to hym, Bi
the foot followeres of the pryncis (L. V. squyeris, pedisse-
quos) of prouynces.- Wic. 3 Kings xx. 14.

Leading her toward a footstool'd throne
Magnificent, which first he overspread
With linen, there he seated her.

Cowper. Odyssey, i. 167; also x. 386.

FOR. For to se (Wiclif); For to don, for to han
(Chaucer); For to make, for to synge (Gower),
admit of a like explanation. Cause-being to do, &c.
Somme shul sowe the sak, quod Piers,
For shedying of the whete."

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3811.
Of some contagious sicknesse he died, so that the owner
of the house, for defaming his house would bury him
secretly, and be not beknowen of it.

Hackluyt, v. i. R. Thorne to Dr. Ley.
i. e. the owner would bury him secretly-be-cause or the
cause being;-a defame on his house if buried publicly.
Such buildings as for standing by themselves are called
Isles, sunk into ruins when the waters returned.
Gordon. Tacitus, b. i. c. 86.

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With your forblowe blowynge vanyte?
FOR-BREAK.

And Richard vor brec there hys neeke atwo.
Robert of Gloucester, p. 375.
FOR-BRENT, i. e. For-burnt, utterly burnt.
And he seit that the buysch brente (arderet) and was not
forbrent (comburetur). Therfore Moyses seide, Y schal go
and schal see this greet sitt, why the buysch is not forbrent
(comburatur).—Wic. Er. iii. 2, 3.

FOR-BUY. To buy out, to redeem.

Y the Lord shal lede you out of the traueilous prisoun of
Egipciens, and delyuere fro seruage; and forbigge (L. V.
azen bie, redimam) in an ouerpassyng arm, and in greet
domes.- Wic. Er. vi. 6.

I wote (he, Job, seith) that my forbier (L. V. agenbier)
Chaucer. Prol. to House of Fame, v. 73. lyueth, and in the last dai l' am to aryse fro the erthe.
Id. Pref. Ep. p. 68.
FOR-CATCH, v. To catch fast.

tif forsothe no God of alle Gentilis and of regyouns myste deliuere his puple of my hond (Sennacherib) and of the hond of my fadirs, folowyngly (L. V. suyngli, consequenter) ne your God schal mown (poterit) delyuere you of this myn hond.- Wic. 2 Par. xxxii. 15.

But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve,
He taught, but first he folwed it himselve.
Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 530.

FOND.

The fifte, is moder of helthe,
A frend in alle fondynges (trials).

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 9512. He (a prelat) is seid fonned salt, not prophetable to eny thing. Wic. Prol. p. 31.

And Jetro seide, Thou doist a thing not good; thou art wastid with a fonnid trauel (E. V. foli, stulto), both thou and this puple, which is with thee.-ld. Ex. xviii. 18. And Y schal terre hem to yre in a fonned folk. Id. Deut. xxxii. 21.

And in the profetis of Samarie Isit fonnedness, and thei
profesieden in Baal and desceyueden my puple Israel.
(E. V. folie, fatuitatem.) Id. Jer. xxiii. 13.
He drew him to the fiere

And toke a light, and found his countenance
As for to loke upon an old Romaunce.

Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. iii. v. 981. How fonned and folysshe ben the old aged men that desyre or weeshe to be yong agayn.

The Boke of Tulle of Old Age, a. 52. Also i. 1.
What may be a more fonnysh thyng than whan men
haue grete plente of richesse, to pourveye such thynges as
they doo and forgete to pourveye them of frendes.-Tullius
de Amicitia, b. 8; also d. 22. Wurcestre, Erle of.
Thou seest

How subtly to detain thee I devise,
Inviting thee to hear while I relate,
Fond, were it not in hope of thy reply.

FOOL.

Milton. Par. L. b. viii. v. 209.

But and if I had doon foolhardili atens my soule, that myste the kyng unknowe, and thou shuldist stond forn azens.- Wic. 2 Kings xviii. 13.

It semeth betere thus, "thou and thi sones schulen suffre the synnes of youre presthod," that is, if ony men pressen forth hem silf bi joure necligence, not onely thei schulen be punyschid for her foolhardynesse, but ze schulen be panyschid for your necligence.

Id. Num. xviii. 1, marg. note.
Whiche foliously undirtoke the dede of entrepryse.
The Boke of Tulle of Old Age, h. 22.

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And foors (vim) thei maden to Loth moost hidowsly.
Wic. Gen. xix. 9.
And whan forsyng he (Naaman) made (L. V. strengthe,
vim faceret), utturly he (Elisee) assentyde not.
Id. 4 Kings v. 16.
And the forsemens or strengthis (munimenta) of thin heye
walles schul togidere falle, and be lowid.-Id. Is. xxv. 12.
After these thingis thou schalt come in to the hil of the
Lord, where is the stonding, that is forselet, of the Filis-
ties (statio).-Id. 1 Kings x. 5.

And atte laste by euyl company was ledde so that he

forced not openly to goo to the stewes.-Oracion of Cayus
Flammeus, e. b2. Wurcestre, Erle of.

And comming neere his foes, he sternly cries,
(As one that forst not all their strength a pin)
You outcasts of the world.

Fairefax. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. ix. st. 766.
Mac. Were they not forc'd by those that should be ours,
We might haue met them darefull, beard to beard,
And beate them backward.

Shakespeare. Macbeth, act v. sc. 5.
FOR-COUERID, v. To cover entirely.
And she dide about his hondis skynnes of litel kiddis,
and she forcoueride the nakide of the nak (necke) (pro-
terit).-Wie. Gen. xxvii. 16.

FOR-CUT. See FOR-CARVE, in Dictionary.
FORD.

And so boweth forth by a brook,

Til ye fynden a ford.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3639. And thei wenten doun after hym, and thei occupyeden the foordis (L. V. forthis, vada) of Jordan that ouersenden in to Moab.-Wic. Judges iii. 28; and xii. 5, forthis in both

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And Gyle was for-goer
And gyed (guided) hem alle.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 1256. Where the forgoere (L. V. bifore goere, precursor) for us entride in-Jhesus.- Wic. Heb. vi. 20.

FORE-GUESS. See PRESUME.

FOREIGN. A foreine (Chaucer). An outer court or yard.

Foreigner used by A. Marvel for one not a
townsman. See Coleridge, Northern Worthies.
The toure there this Theseus is throwe

Downe in the bottom derke and wonder lowe,
Was joyning to the wal of a foreine,

That longing was unto the doughtren tweine
Of Minos.-Chaucer. Ariadne, v. 1692.

FORE-KNOWLEDGE. Prior or preceding know

ledge.

That glorious shining light
Which in thine eies his glistring beames doth place,
Estranged hath from my foreknowledge quight
Thy countenance.

Fairefax. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. xiv. st. 6.
FORE-NENST, i. e. Fore-anenst. See FORE,
FORE-AGAINST.

Themselues forenenst old Raphias towne they fond. Fairefar. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. xv. st. 15. FORE-REVENGE, v. To anticipate revenge (of an injury to be done).

The murderer encompass'd now with swords, and desperate, fore-revenges his own fall with the death of another, whom his poniard reached home.

Milton. History of England, b. iv. An. 626.
FORE-SET, v. To set, settle, or fix before.
But when the time fore-set is fully come, all mountains
are laid low, and double-folded doors fly open.
N. Bacon. Historical Treatise, c. ii. p. 4.
FORE-SPEAK. Add-

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The most violent opponents of the King's (James VI.) government were forfeited; the rest were allowed still to hope for favour.

Robertson. History of Scotland, b. v. An. 1568. FOR-FEND, v.

Than for I spac to God, thee also I shal not forfende. (L. V. forbede, prohibebo.)—Wic. Job xxxiv. 31, et aliter.

FORGE.

In forging of gold-signe is of a smaragd. (L. V. the

She greuede (L. V. boonde, irretivit) hym with manye makyng, in fabricatione.)- Wic. Ecclus. xxxii. 8.

FOR

Lechis bihoten that that is of lechis; forgers (L. V.
smythis) treten of forgeable thyngis.-Id. Pref. Ep. p. 67.
Rather shewende you forgeris of lesingus (L.V. makeris,
fabricatores) and herieris of shreude techingis.
Id. Job xiii. 4.
Oh! quick and forgetive power! that sometimes dost
So rob us of ourselves, we take no mark
That round about us thousand trumpets clang.

FOR-GET.

FOR

FORN-HAD, i. e. had before.

jeeld to now the fornhad strengthe. (L. V. formere, pris-
tinam fortitudinem.)- Wic. Judges xvi. 28.

FORNICATE. Norris writes, Fornicarious.-
Theory of Love, pt. i. s. ii. § 13.

Thes (ten hornes) shulen haate the fornicarie womman
Cary. Dante. Purgatory, xvi. 13. (fornicariam), and schulen make hir desolat or discoum-
fortid.-Wic. Apoc. xvii. 6.

The dede was ver-gyte anon.-Robert of Gloucester, p. 314. Forsothe to whom thes ben not redy, he is blynd, and by hond temptynge, or assayinge, receyuynge forzettingnes of the purgynge of his old trespassis. (L. V. forgetith, oblivionem accipiens.)- Wic. 2 Pet. i. 9.

Many greate in werthinesse losed, han bee tofore this tyme that now out of memorie are sheden, and cleanly forgotten for defaute of writynges.

FOR-GIVE, v.

Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. i.

So wole Crist of his curtesie,
And men crye hym mercy,
Both forgyve and foryete.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 11850.
Kynde foryaf that tyme.-Id. Ib. v. 12227.
Be as be may (quod she) of forgiving,
I will not have no forgifte, for nothing.

Chaucer. Lucrece, v. 1852. One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit, which came in his way, but swept like a drag-net great and small.

Dryden. Preface to Fables.

FOR-GO, v. Forgon (Wiclif), i. e. Gon forth or away from, sc. the right path, the truth; misled, deceived.

Colocenses also, thei as Laodicensis ben men of Asye, and they were forgon by false Apostles. (L. V. disseyued.) Wic. Coloss. Prol.

Your friends all wearie, and your spirits spent,
Ye may your fortunes seek and be forwent
Of your kind cousins.-Bp. Hall. Sat. ii. 2.
FOR-KERVE. See FOR-CARVE.

FOR-LENT. Lent, gave, given,-forth, or

utterly.

Timias

That ladies love unto his lord forlent.

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FOR-SHAPE, v.
Forgyve be it nevere
That shente us and shedde oure blood,
For-shapte us, as it were.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 11945.
For-sleuthed, Piers
Sleuthed to an extreme, and

FOR-SLOW, FOR-SLOTH.
Plouhman, v. 3363.
thus rendered useless.
FOR-SMITE, v. To smite utterly; to destroy.
Antiochus, as men may witte,
With thonder and lightnyng is forsmitte.
Gower, Conf. Am. b. viii. fo. 1793.
FORSTER, i. e. Forester. See FOREST.
FOR-STORMED. See FOR-BLOW, in Dictionary.
FORSWAY, v. To sway to excess; met. be too
powerful.

(He) hath his angels him to serue,
Such as him liketh to preserue,
So that thei mowe nought forsweie,
But Lucifer he put aweie.

Gower. Conf. Am. b. viii. fo. 1731.
FOR-SWEAR, v., (in Tyndale) is used emph.
To swear, For or forth, without reservation. Sir T.
More uses the distinguishing epithet, False, to the

s. Forswearing. See FOR-BID.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. iv. v. 47.
They both together met

With dreadfull force and furious intent,
Careless of perill in their fiers affret,
As if that life to losse they had forelent.

FOR-LESE, v.

Id. lb. b. iv. c. iii. v. 6.

She held her selfen a forlost creîture.
Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. iv. v. 756.

Will ye not obey holy Church? Will ye not do the penance enjoined you by holy Church? Will ye not forswear obedience to holy Church? Beware, lest you fall into the indignation of holy Church, lest they curse you.-Tyndale. Answer to Sir T. More's Dialogue, p. 12. (Parker Soc. Ed.) The Lord spake to Moises and seide, A soule that synether makith fals chaleng, ether fyndeth a thing lost, and denyeth ferthermore and forswerith (pejeravit), &c.- Wic. Lev. vi. 3.

neth

FOR-LOOK, v. To look forth.
And God is the forlookere of hym (var. r. forth loker; forth, or forward to.
L. V. biholdere, prospector) that zeldeth grace.

Wic. Ecclus. iii. 34.

Manye forsothe ben the spies of the treccherous:
as the forlookere seende the fallende of his nezhebore.
Id. Ib. xi. 32.
FOR-LORE.

(The Brutons) her poer verlore.

Robert of Gloucester, p. 227.
FOR-LOYN, s. Fr. Forlonge, very far off. A
signal that the game was far away.
The houndes had overshot him all,
And were on a default yfal;
Therwith the hont full wonder fast,
Yblewe a forloyn at the laste.

Chaucer. Boke of the Duchesse, v. 386.

FORM. To formalize (in Hales, see in Dictionary); to speak or act according to set form; in North, infra, equal to-to stand upon ceremony; to be over-nice or scrupulous.

Kynde, quod Wit, is a creatour
Of all kynnes thynges,

Fader and formour

Of all that ever was maked.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 5202. For the sake of his (Bridgeman's) family, that gathered like a snowball, while he had the seal he would not have formalized with any tolerable compliance.

North. Examen, xxxviii. Quoted in Campbell, ii. 287.

FORMER. Dyce, on Skelton, says, first, highest. It is, prior, superior.

And he (Jacob) commaundide to the formere (E. V. forther, priori), and seide, If thou shalt mete my brother Esau, and, &c.- Wic. Gen. xxxii. 17.

Of honour and worshyp, which hath the former state.
Skelton, i. 395.

FOR-SYTH. Regardeth, Dyce. Seeth or looketh
Here is none forsyth, whether you flete or synke.

Skelton, i. 232.
FORTH. In comp.-Forth-clepe. See below. To
clepe or call forth, provocare; forth-go,-pass; pro-
cedere, proficisci. Forth-daies, forward in the day.
Wiclif.

And whanne it was forth daies (E. V. moche our was
maad now, hora multa fieret) his disciples camen.
Wic. Mark vi. 35.
FORTH, s, i. e. Way to pass, passage.
And
Bishop Jewell, ii. 306. (Jelf's edit.) Door, way.
Passage non he nam, the forthes wer with-sette.
Robert of Brunne, p. 187.
FORTHCLEPE. To clepe or call forth.

As an egle, forthclepynge his bryddis to flee (L. V. sti-
rynge, provocans), and on hem houyng (hovering) he spreed
out his weengis.- Wic. Deut. xxxii. 11.
FORTHGETTING, s.

Doth awei his forthgetingus (L. V. siouns, propagines), for thei ben not the Lordis.-Wic. Jer. v. 10.

FOR-THINK, v.

God seide,
That I makede man

It me forthynketh (pænitet me fecisse hominem).

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 5432. Sotheli he answerynge seith, I nyle; forsothe afterward he stirid by penaunce or forthenkynge wente (poenitentia), E.V. The L. V. is in the Dictionary.-Wic. Mat. xxi. 29. The Greek hath Metanoia and metanoite, repentance and repent; or forethinking and forethink. As we say in English, It forethinketh me, or I forethink; and, I repent, or it repenteth me. So now the Scripture saith, Repent, or let it forethink you.

Tyndale. Answer to Sir T. More, p. 12. (Parker Soc. Ed.)

FRA

FOR-TOP, s. Supreme or extreme top; summit.

Blessynge of hym that aperyde in the busshe come upon the heed of Joseph, and upon the fortop of Nazarez among his britheren. (L.V. cop, verticem.)- Wic. Deut. xxxiii. 18. FORTY.

Thei (physiciens) would fowertie were sicke at ones.
Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 5736.
FOR-VISE, v. i. e. Fore advise; advise before-
hand. D. Veur-wijsen, præmonstrare; G. Vorwissen.
Skinner.

It nedeth me not long the forvise,
Men shal reioysen of a gret emprise

Atcheved wel.-Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. ii.

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Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 13586. I wote not, that thon be offendid in holi scripturis thurt symplenesse, and as thurs fouines of wordis. Wic. Pref. Ep. p. 73. And put thou it void upon coolis, that it wexe hoot, and the brasse therof melt, and the foulyng therof. (L.V.filthe, inquinamentum.)-Id. Ez. xxiv. 11.

FOUND, v. Lat. Fund-are, and fund-ere, both from fundus; fund-are, equivalent to fundum ponere, and fund-ere, to fundum jacere; or the latter may be from the Gr. xovw of the same signification. Fundus, pro imo dolii, fluminis, maris; equivalent to the Dut. Grond or gront. (Vossius.) See GROUND, that on which, &c.

FOUNES or FOWNES, s. Skinner, qd. Founds, inventa, devices, from the v. to find. Jun. Devices, imaginations, fancies, conceits, and suggests an affinity with fond, denoting too indulgent to children; also fatuous (qv.). He founde his countenance; (he framed his looke.) Chaucer, Troylus and Cressida, b. iii. v. 981. But see v. Fond, supra.

All other dredes weren from him fledde,
Ne in desire none other founes bredde
But arguments to his conclusion,
That she on him could han compassion.

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Golde, franke, and myrre, they yave hym al thre.
Lyfe of our Ladye. Carton, k. vi.

FRAUD.
Lo! the hijre of toure werkmen, that repiden youre cun-
trees, that is fraudid of zou, crieth (fraudata est).
Wic. James v. 4.

He (being) ateynt of the trespas shal telde alle thingis hoole that thurs frawde (per fraudem) he wolde with hoolde.-Id. Lev. iv. 5.

And he (a dispiside man) shal cum priuely, and shal weelde the rewme in fraude doynge. (L. V. bi gile, fraudulentia.)-Id. Dan. xi. 21.

The Egyptians were guilty of inexcusable fraudulency, which could not be commanded or authorized by a just God.-Geddes Crit. Rem. on Ex. c. xii. v. 2.

FRAY, v.

All sodainly as thing dying.

He fell at ones downe sowning;

That, for his wo, this Lady fraid,

Unto the Quene hire hyed.-Chaucer's Dreme, v. 521. Thy carkesse shalbe meate vnto all maner foules of the ayre, and unto the beastes of the erthe, and no man shall frage them awaye.-Bible, 1549. Deut. c. xxviii. FRAYNE.

But by a frayning for than

Faileth ther manye.-Piers Plouhman's Crede, v. 53. FREE, sc. Also without spot or blemish ; chaste, pure, unspotted, unblemished.

If thes thre thingis he do not, she shal goon out freelich (L.V. freli, gratis) with outen money.-Wic. Er. xxi. 11. And whan he hath late the sparow freliche (L.V. frely, libere) flee awey in the feelde, he shal preye for the hows, and thurg ryst it shal be madd clene.-Id. Lev. xiv. 53. FREELTEE. i. e. Frailty, Frailness. FREELNESS. SFRAIL

FREM.

He was a nygard

That no good myghte aspare

To frend ne to fremmed.

FREQUENT.

See

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 9900.

The favouring moon arose

To guard them on their flight through upland paths Remote from frequentage.-Southey Don Roderick, § x.

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Seie thou to wisdom, thou art my sistir, and clepe thou prudence thi frendesse. (E. V. lemman, amica.) Wic. Prov. vii. 4. Kisse he me with the cos of his mouth: that is Ywolde, that God schewe hym silf frendful to me bi signis and werkis, as a spouse to the spousesse.

Id. Song of Solomon, i. 1, (mar. note.) I trust that the frendlyhode of Scipio with Lelyus shalle be knowen to all them whiche shal come after us.

Tullius de Amicitia. Erle of Wurcestre, a. 52. Frendship forsothe is nothyng elles but the knyttyng to gydre of that thyng that is goodly, and of that thyng that is humayne with souerayne benyuolence and charyte. Id. lb. a. 62. With love to friend, th' impatient lover went. Dryden. Sigism, and Guiscard.

FRIEZE.

FUL

In dud frese ye war schrynyd With better frese lyuyd.—Skelton, i. 121, 1. 46. Dyce. Ed. FRITH. Hackluyt writes-Frete or straight of Magellan, Hack. iii. 11; and fret several times afterwards.

We first advertise, it [Euripus] generally signifleth any strait, fret, or channel of the sea, running between two shores.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 13.

The fret or channel of Euripus not ebbing or flowing seven times a day, according to common report.-Id. 16. FRITH. He is frythed in with floreyns And othere fees manye.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3668.
FROG. Written in Wic. Frosshe, (near to the
Ger.) as a various reading of Frogge, Ps. lxxvii. 45.
I made him (Friday) a Belt, with a Frog hanging to it,
such as in England we wear hangers in.
Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.

He drew a Hatchet out of a frog-belt.—Id.
FROM. Written Fra, Fro. See, in Dictionary.
Yet, saw I never (by my fader kin!)
How that the hopper wagges til and fra.
Chaucer. The Reves Tale, v. 4037.

FRORE.
There the pale polestar in the North of Heav'n
Sits high and on the frory winter broods.
Dryden. Arthur, A. 3.

FROST.
And he slot in hail the vynes of hem, and ther mulberie
trees in frost (var. r. forst).- Wic. Ps. lxxvii. 47.
And brought two goslynges

That were noughte froslynges.

Skelton. El. Rum. v. 460.

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I as a vyne frutede swotnesse of smell, and my floures (ben) frutes of honour and of honeste. (L.V. made fruyt, fructificavi.)-Wic. Ecclus. xxiv. 23.

FRUMP, s. A mock, a scoff; applied to a crosstempered, scornful person, generally a female. Mrs. Cad. Our Bell came in and interrupted him, and methought she looked very frumpish and jealous. Foote. Author, ii. 1.

FRUSH.

So may ye safely pass
Between the mountains, which in endless war,
Hurtle with horrible uproar and frush
Of rocks that meet in battle.

Southey. Madoc, pt. ii. § xix.
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FRY. (These) schal be spreint with aile in the fring panne, and schal be fried (sartagine, frigetur).— Wic. Lev. vi. 21. FUDGE.

Foote. The Bankrupt, A. 3.

Marg. That last-suppose-is fudged in, Why should you cram these upon me? FUGITIVE. This (Wisdam) forsothe the ferr fugitif, or fleynge ristwis fro the wrathe of his brother (L.V. that fledde, profugum ira patris justum) ladde awei bi rizt weies; and shewede to hym the kingdam of God.- Wic. Wisd. x. 10.

FULFIL, v.

And there was a begger, Lazarus bi name, that lai at his gate ful of bilis and coueitide to be fulfillid (saturari) of the crummes, that fellen doun fro the riche mannis boord, and no man af to him.- Wic. Luke i. 23. And day by day her wombe gan to ryse Through the fulfillyng of the holy ghoost. Lyfe of our Ladye, d. vii. c. 1. FULK, i. e. Folk, qv. FULL. Wiclif renders the Lat. Valde by ful, and thus it is used as equivalent to—very, completely.

FUR

In Robert of Gloucester, Full sore is very sore.

In R. Brunne, full loud is very loud. And to ful brenne in Wic. exardere. Ful fat, incrassare. Ful fedyng, saturitas. See FULSOME. Ful is also frequently affixed to form a compound substantive, as Handful, handfuls; Spoonful, spoonfuls, &c.

And for to haue my fulle of that fruyt (I wolde) forsake alle othere.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 10814. Whanne hir guttes fullen.-Id. v. 5716.

FULL, v. The A. S. Full-ian is also-to baptize, to sprinkle. In Matt. iii. 1, John the Baptist is called Johannes se fulluhtere. The application is deduced from the operation of fulling by the action

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And tho that bicome cristene
By counseil of the baptisme
Aren frankeleyns, free men,
Thorugh fullynge that thei toke,
And gentil men with Jhesu;
For Jhesu was y-fulled;

And upon Calvarie on cros

Yerouned kyng of Jewes.-Id. v. 13041.

Why is thy clothyng rede and thy vestymentes as troden or fulled in a presse?- The Golden Legend, fo. 24, c. 3.

FULSOME. Baret, in his Alvearie, 1573, ex plains-Fruitefull, ranck, battle. In the edition of 1580, Sluttish, squalidus, nauseosus. Crasseaux. In Cotgrave we find Nideur and Nidoreux applied to the stench or fulsom savor of things broiled or burned. Skinner, who is followed by Johnson, derives from foul, and some. Minsheu, Wallis, and Tyrwhitt coincide with Junius, who explains the word to signify Nauseous, whatever from too great abundance provokes Nausea.

Nauseous, disgusting, offensive, from fulness, superabundance, or excess; gross, rank. See the Quotations from Caxton, Wurcestre, infra; Chaucer Elyot, and Godwin, in Dictionary.

For alwey God gaf hyr to her presence
So fulsome lyght of heuenly influence.

Lyfe of our Ladye. W. Carton, a. 5, col. 1.
Like as a fulsum welle

Shedyth his stremys into the ryuere.-ld. Ib. b. 5, col. 2.
And a. 5, col. 2, fulsum abundance.
Yeve hym plenty that is so plenteouse

Of fulsomeness angels to fede.-Id. Ib. i. 2.
Though he were sette in moost folsome plente.

Tullius de Amicitia. Erle of Wurcestre, b. 7, col. 2. There is not such fulsomenesse in frendship, as ther is in other thingis.-Id. Ib. col. 3.

The skilful shepheard pil'd me certaine wands,
And in the dooing of the deede of kinde,
He stuck them up before the fulsome enes.
Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 3, fo. 166'.
FUME.

To whom for curteyns of golde and sylke
(Were) the fume and stench of donge.

FURNACE.

The Golden Legend, fo. 10, c. 3.

Thanne when the sunne is gon down, ther was maad a derke clowd, and a furneys (clibunus) smekynge aperyde and a lawmpe of fijr.- Wic. Gen. xv. 17.

FURROW. See COULTER, Piers Plouhman, supra. If azen me myn erthe crie, and with it his forewis (sulci), bewepen; for whete be sprunge to me a brimbil; and for barli a thorne.- Wic. Job xxxi. 38.

But yf case be that my lande crye against me or that the then let thystles forowes therof make any complainte: growe in steade of my wheate, and thornes for my barleye.

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