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FLAY-CRAKE ; a fcare-crow. 



FLEAKS ; wattles ; hurdles woven with twigs. 



FLECKED ; pied, as cattle. 



FLIG ; fledge ; able to fly ; analogous with to % 

 to lie. 



To FLIT ; to move, or remove, as tenants at quar- 

 ter-day. 



To FLOWTER ; to flurry, or confufe, with a de- 

 gree of fear. 



FOALFOOT ; tuffilagt farfara ; coltsfoot. 



FOG ; aftergrafs (hence per haps foggy, as applied to 

 a horfc). 



FOISTY ; mufty. 



FOLDGARTH (vulg. faudgarth) ; farm-yard. 



FOND ; weak, filly, fuolifh. 



FOND-PLUFE : It was formerly a cuftom, which 

 is not I believe yet laid afiJe, for the youth of each 

 parifh or townfljip to drag a plow from village to 

 village, on Twelfth-day ; collecting money to make 

 merry with in the evening. Each party is headed 

 by " Mab and his wife," in difguife, with their 

 faces blacked, and a kind of Harlequinean drefs. I 

 have met with no fatisfadtory account of the ori- 

 gin of this cuftorn. 



FOSS*} a waterfall. 



FOULMART (pron.foomart) i a polecat. 

 FOWTj a fool. 



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