GLOSSARY 



287 



Farowe, farewyn, pharo- 

 WYN, farrow, bringing forth 

 young pig, 47, 48, 68 



Farsyn, farsine, farcy, 69^ 92 



Fasson, passion, fashion 



Faund, fawned 



Faus, false 



Fausmanche, false sleeve 



Faut, fault 



Fechewe, fitchew, polecat 



Feeldes, fields, 158 



Feerne, fern 



Felaues, fellows 



Fele, many ; also sensible, 

 feeling 



Felle, fierce, cruel, treacherous 



Felle, FELE, wise, sensible, feel- 

 ing; also cunning, 30, 115 



Felnesse, cruelty, fierceness, 71 



Femellis, females 



Fencemonth, the month when 

 deer had their young and 

 were left undisturbed, App. 



Fermyd, firm, 162 



Ferre, far, 16 



Ferrettis, ferrets, 72 



Ferrtest, farthest 



Fers, fierce, 47 



Fersliche, fiercely, 86 



Fesawnt, pheasant 



Feueryere, February 



Fewes, FEWTE, track, trace, 

 foot. Some animals were 

 called of the sweet foot, others 

 of the stinking foot, 10. See 

 Appendix. 



Fewterer, feutreres, few- 

 trees, man who leads grey- 

 hounds, 129 



Fiants, also Lesses, excre- 

 ments of the wild boar, App. 



FiSTOLES, fistula, 92 



Fixen, vixen, O.G.fuchse?i, 64 



Flay, flean, flene, to skin 

 deer and certain other game, 



174 

 Flayssh, flesh, 5 



Flux, dysentery 



Foillyng, stag going down- 

 stream when hunted, 32, 173 



FoLiES, foly, folly, lesser 

 deer, not hart or buck, 196 



FOLTISCH, foolish, 45 



FOORME, FORME, FOURME, 



form of the hare, 14, 17 



FORAGLE, strangle, straggle 



FORCHE, FOURCHED, forked, 

 said of stag's antlers, 140, 177 



Forloyne, forlogne, for- 

 LONGE, a note sounded on 

 the horn, to denote that the 

 quarry or hounds or both had 

 distanced the hunters, 173 



FORSTERS, foresters , 148 



FORSWONG, M.E. Forswhtger, 

 bruised, beaten (tucked up), 88 



Fort, the thick part of woods 



FORUN, forewarn, 148 



FOTYDE, footed 



FouAiLL, the reward given to 

 the hounds after a boar hunt, 

 consisting of the bowels 

 cooked over a fire, App. 



Foumart, faulmart, fol- 

 MERT, polecat 



FOWTRERES, FEWTERERS, 



huntsmen who led grey- 

 hounds, slippers 

 Foxen, ffixen, A.S. Jixen — 



vixe?i, a bitch fox, 64 

 Foyne, weasel 

 Fraied, rubbed, 135 

 Fray, frighten, scare, 149 

 Fray, to rub off the velvet on 



stag's antlers, 26, 135 

 Fraying-post, the tree against 



which it was done 

 Freyn, excrements of the wild 



boar, App. 

 Froot, frotid, rub, 53, 94, 95, 



146 

 Fuants, excrements of the 



fox, martin, badger, and 



wolf, App. 



