108 Contributions towards a Wiltshire Glossary. 
opposed to home-made. “A dirten floor,” a floor made of earth, beaten 
hard. “A tinnin pot.” “A glassen cup.” N. & S.W. 
*English Parrot. Picus viridis, the Green Woodpecker. (Birds of 
Wilts, p. 251.) S.W. (Salisbury.) 
Ether, Edder. The top-band of a fence, the wands of hazel, etc., woven 
along the top of a “dead hedge,” or wattled fence, to keep it compact. 
(A.B.) <A “stake and ether” fence. N.W. 
Ex, pl. Exes. An axle. N. & S.W. 
F, at the beginning of a word, is frequently sounded as 2, as fall, valZ; flick, 
vlick. 
Faggot, Fakket. (1) A woman of bad character is “a nasty stinking 
faggot.” Often used in a milder sense, as “ You young faggot ! [you bad 
girl] what be slapping the baby for P ” N. & S.W. 
(2) <A rissole of chopped pig’s-liver and seasoning, covered with 
“flare”: also Bake-faggot. N. & S.W. 
Fall down. Of arable land, to be allowed to relapse of itself into pasture- 
(Great Estate, ch. 1.) N.W. 
Fancy man. A married woman’s lover. N.W. 
sil th ang. To strangle, to bind a wounded limb so tightly as to stop the flow of 
blood. (A.B.H.) 
2d Fardingale. A quarter of an acre. (Zansd. MS.) Obsolete. 
Farewell Summer. The Michaelmas Daisy. N. & S.W. 
Fashion. The farcey. (A.) N.W. 
Featish. Fair, tolerable. (A.B.) Used of health, crops, etc. N.W. 
Fess. Of animals, bad-tempered, fierce. A cat with its back up looks “ter’ble 
fess.” N. & S.W. 
Fevertory. Fumaria, Fumitory, from which a cosmetic for removing 
freckles used to be distilled. S.W. 
“Tf you wish to be pure and holy, 
Wash your face with fevertory,”—Local Rhyme. 
Few. “A goodish few,’ or “a main few,” a considerable quantity or num- 
ber, N. & S.W. 
*Field. The space, or bay, between beam and beam in a barn, as “a barn 
of four fields.” (D.) 
Figged, Figgedy, Figgetty, Figgy, Made with a few “figs,” or 
raisins, as “ viggy pudden.” WN. & S.W. 
Fighting-cocks. Plantago media, L., and other Plantains. Children 
“fight” them, head against head. N.W. 
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