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Glossarial Index. 



Estate, s. state, condition, 70/28 ; 



estates, //. wealthy persons, 153/9. 

 Euery, adj. every, 1 27/40. 

 Ewerie, s. ewery, place for pitchers, 



etc. ; note to 140/8. 

 Exaltation of the holye crosse, i.e. 



Sept. 14, 37/16. 

 Expende, v. to spend, 147/13. 

 Extende, v. to extend, reach to, 1 47/14. 

 Eyen, s. pi. eyes, 48/6 ; eien, 48/8, 



Faculty, s. ability, wealth, 147/i8. 

 Facyons, s. pi. fashions, kinds, 2/3. 

 Faldynge, s. a kind of frieze, or rough 

 cloth, 44/14. See Chaucer, C. T. 



393- 

 Falowe, v. to plough, I6/3. See below. 

 Falowynge, s. ploughing land for the 



first time (for wheat), 4/42. See I6/3. 

 Fan, V. to winnow corn, 35/6 ; fande, 



pp. 35/10. 

 Farcyon, s. the farcy, a disease of 



horses, in which swellings appear on 



his body, 93/i. Cf. F. Jarcer, to 



stuff. 

 Faste, adv. very near, close, 25/32. 

 Fayne, adj. obliged, compelled, 13I/14. 

 Feitergrasse, s. the name of a kind of 



gr^ss {s^Q\t fettergrass in ed. 1598), 



59/11. 

 Felle, V. to fell, 131/i, 

 Felow, s. fellow, i.e. neighbouring 



furrow, 9/9. 

 Fellyes, s. pi. pieces of wood joined 



together to make the circle of a 



wheel, 5/9. 

 Felly-fole, s. filly-foal, filly, 68/52. 

 Female hempe, s. wild hemp, I46/57. 

 Fenbrede, j. mud-board, or mould- 

 board, 3/4, 27. See note to 3/i. 



Fen = mud ; as commonly in M. E. 

 Fence, v. to form a fence, 125/5. 

 Fenel-sedes, s. pi. fennel seeds, 20/i8. 

 Ferny, adj. covered with ferns, 50/ 10. 

 Ferre, adv. far, 48/11, 150/6, 164/8. 

 Ferthermore, adv. furthermore, besides, 



151/17. 

 Fetelockes, s. pi. fetlocks, 99/3. 

 Fette, /^. s. brought, I66/34. 

 Fettred, //. fastened together, bound, 



5/10. 

 Filberdes, s. pi. filberts, 186/3. 

 Flaine, //. flayed, 58/21. See Fley. 

 Flanke, s. flank, 85/4. 

 Flasshes, s. pi. marshy places, 70/8. 



The usual sense is " pool." 



Flaxen wheate, s. flaxen wheat, a kind 



of wheat, 34/23, 25. 

 Flayle, s. flail, 5/33. 

 Fley, imp. s. flay, 38/ii ; spell flee, 



58/8. 

 Flokes, s. pi. flukes, 56/i6. 

 Floures, s. pi. flowers, 156/6. 

 Flyntered, //. said of "small corn 



wrinkled and dried," 84/43. Cf. 



jlinders, fragments ; and cf. splintered. 

 Flytte, imp. s. remove, 148/i5 ; flyte, 



V. I8/3 ; flytteth, pr. s. I8/28. Lit. 



"flit." 

 Fodered,//. foddered, fed, 7O/40. 

 Folden, //. folded, 52/6. 

 Foled, //. foaled, II8/10. 

 Foole, s. foal, 68/7, 1 1 ; fools, //. 56/4. 

 Fooled, pp. foaled, 68/13. 

 Foolynge-tyme, s. foaling time, 68/40. 

 For, prep, against, to prevent, I8/33, 



32/8, 35/8, 44/15, 51/9, 52/i, 70/46, 



139/19. (Observe this use. ) 

 For nothynge, pkr. on no account, 



124/14, 138/10. 

 Forecroppe, s. fore-crop, a part of a cow 



or bullock, 57/2. I learn that the 



fore-crop is the upper part of the fore 



quarter of an ox, and lies between 



the neck and the sirloin. ". . .it 



shews he is wel tallowed, and so 



doth the crop behind the shoulders ;" 



Markham, Husbandry, Of Oxen. 

 Fore-wedge, s. fore-wedge (before the 



coulter), 4/23. 

 Forowe, s. a furrow, 4/6. 

 Forther, adj. front, foremost, 92/2. 



" Forther-fete, the forefeet ; " Wright. 

 Fortune, v. to chance, happen, 3/i. 



120/17, 124/38, 153/24. 

 Fote, plough-foot, 4/i2. See Plough- 



fote. 

 Fote-teame, s. (apparently) the end of 



the drawing-gear which is fastened to 



a plough or haiTow, 4/37, 15/12. See 



W rethy ng- tem es. 

 Foughten, //. fought, 169/ii. 

 Foule, s. an ulcer in a cow's foot, 64/r. 

 Freeholders, s. pi. freeholders, I8O/22. 

 Freteth, pr. s. eats away, 20/7. 

 Fretter, s. a corrosive, 43/5. 

 Fully mart es, s. pi. polecats, 1 46/31. 



M.^.fulmart. 

 Fyfte, adj. num. fifth, 75/3. 

 Fylberdes, s. pi. filberts, I4O/4. 

 Fyled, //. defiled, dirtied, 41/i, 45/4. 

 Fyllettes, s. pi. fillets, 76/6. "Filet, 



the fillet of a beast;" Cotgrave. 



