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Endiue, 91/2, s. endive. 
Enuite, 16/32, v. invite, call. 
Er, 56/21, adv. ere, before. 
ere than= before that. 
Erecting, 1/1, 47. £. sustaining, strength- 
ening. 
Erie, 57/11 ; Ery, 18/17, adj. every. 
Estate, 10/3, s. condition, position. 
Etch, 36/3, s. stubble, edish, q.v. 
Exceptions, 19/25, s. gl. differences, 
Er an= 
distinctions. 
Exeltred, 17/6, adj. furnished with an 
axle-tree. 
Expulsed, 1/4, v. At. ¢. expelled, drove 
away. 
Extolst, 111/6, v. gy. ¢. praise, extol. 
Ey, 99/2, s. attention, forgetting his 
eye =neglecting his duty by staring 
or gaping about. See Hie. 
F, 
Fall, 35/32, v. pv. ¢. are born. 
Falleth, 20/1, v. Zr. ¢. falls off, loses 
flesh. 
Falt, 35/43, s. fault. 
Fansies, 2/13, s. fancies, whims. 
Fare, 2/5, s. treatment. 
Fare, 33/33, v. farrow, litter. 
Fare, 10/32, v. prosper, fare. 
Jaran. 
Farnesse, 14/4, s. distance, length. 
Fasting daie, 10/51, s. a day on which 
it was forbidden to eat food of any 
description.” 
Fat, 18/34, adj. fattened beasts. 
Fat, 57/54, s. vat, vessel. 
Fats up, 15/28, v. gr. ¢. fattens up. 
Fautie, 99/2, adj. faulty. 
Fauoreth, 52/24, v. pr. ¢. help, improve. 
Fay, 77/4, s. faith, word. O. Fr. fez. 
Feaw, 56/48, adj. few, a few. 
Feawe, 60/1, adj. little time, while. 
A.S. feawe, few. 
Fees, 33/12, s. fl. pay, reward. 
Feft, 113/33, A. enfeoffed, endowed. 
Fellowes, 57/9, s. £/. companions, 
mates. O. Icel. ffagi, a com- 
panion. 
Fellowlie. 10/55, adj. friendly, neigh- 
bourly. Cf. 
““Mineeyes . . . 
Fall feZlowly drops.”’ 
Tempest, Act v. sc. i. 64. 
See also Abbot’s Shaksperean 
Grammar, $ 447. 
Fence, 63/2, s. defence, protection. 
A.S. 
Glossary. 
Fenell, 39/13, s. fennel. Faeniculum vul- 
gare. 
Fennie, 35/44, adj. mouldy, vinewed. 
** Moisi ; mouldy, hoary, vinowed.” 
— Cotgrave. 
Ferme, 10/13, s. farm. 
Fermer, 19/18, s. farmer. 
Fetches, 64/2, s. A/. tricks, stratagems. 
Harrison, Descript. of Eng., has : 
“it be a vertue to deal without 
anie suspicious fetches,” p. 115, ed. 
1587. 
Fetherfew, 43/9, s. feverfew. So named 
from its supposed febrifugal quali- 
ties. A.S. feferfuge. 
Fetters, 17/21, s. A/. chains for the feet. 
Fewell, 50/30, s. fuel. O.F r. fouazlle, 
from L. Lat. focale, from Lat. 
Jocus, a hearth. 
Fide, 21/21, Ap. purified, cleansed. 
Fie, 20/21, uv. cleanse. Icel. fegza. 
Cf. Ger. fegen. 
Fieing, 53/18, v. cleaning out. 
Feying, ‘‘ Cleaning a Ditch or Pond, so 
as the water may come clear.”— 
AN, SES le 
Fiemble, 55/8, adj. a corruption of 
Jemale, the female hemp. 
*Fierbote, 65, s. the right to take wood 
for burning. See Peacock’s Gloss. 
of Manley and Corringham, E.D.S. 
Filbeards, 34/9, s. A/. filberts. Various 
derivations have been given for this 
word: one, the most probable, 
from fudZ and beard, referring to 
the long deard or husk with which 
it is provided: cf. Ger. dart-nusz 
=bearded nut. 
Filbellie, 10/40, s. extravagance in food. 
Filchers, 10/54, s. /. pilferers. Scot. 
pilkk=to pick. ‘‘She has pilkit 
his pouch.”—Jamieson. 
Filcheth, 63/13, v. Zr. ¢. steals, pilfers. 
*Fildes, 38, s. A/. fields. 
Fisgig, 77/8, s. a worthless fellow: a 
light-heeled wench.—Craven. ‘‘A 
fisgig, or fisking housewife, évo¢zére.”” 
—Howell, 1660. Still in use in 
Lincolnshire. 
Fishdaie, 10/51, s. a day in which fish 
is allowed to be eaten, but no flesh. 
Fitchis, 53/11, s. A/. tares, vetches. 
Fitly, 92/3, aa. suitable, fit. 
Flacks, 50/16, s. flax. A.S. fleax. O. 
H. Ger. flaks. 
Flaies, 18/3 s. Av. flails. 
Flap, 85/7, s. a stroke with the flail. 
