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 Le faict fort. The full price of the farme of moneyes; or the full rate of seigneuriage (agreed to vpon the farming thereof) yeelded vnto the King by the Maister of the Mint, whether he haue made any money, or no.  Les faicts nouveaux. Looke Nouveau. Faict à faict que ie l'escris. As fast as I writ it.  À faict, &, de faict. Seriously, throughly, roundly, in good earnest, vnto purpose, indeed.  De faict aduisé, ou de faict à pense. Aduisedly, wittingly, willingly, of purpose, to his knowledge, with his full consent.  Tout à faict. Throughly, wholly, alltogether.  Par voye de faict. By force, or violence.  Il fait bien son petit faict. He manageth discreetly his meane estate; or, by his diligence he improues, by his forecast he increases, the little he hath.  Faire son propre faict de. Looke Faire. Du dire au faict y a grand traict: Prov. There is great difference betweene words, and deeds; we haue an old, and triuiall rime somewhat to this purpose; Saying, and doing end both with a letter; saying is good, but doing is better.

Faict: m. faicte: f. Done, acted, made, wrought, forged, composed, framed; fashioned; performed, exploited; atchieued, compaßed; finished, accomplished.  Faict au hola. Dutifull, obsequious, readie, comming at a becke, running at one call.  Faict à i'en veux. chaperon faict &c. A bold, swaggering, and lasciuious queane.  Faict à la vieille mode. Seeke Vieil. C'est faict de moy. I am vtterly ruined, ouerthrown, vndone. C'en est faict. The matter is alreadie passed, dispatched, finished, at an end.  Cinq mille de nombre faict. Full fiue thousand.  Ie suis faict tout au rebours de vous. I am of a contrarie humor, or opinion; I thinke, or iudge otherwise then you.  C'est vn papelard tout faict. He is a ranke dissembler, a notable counterfeit, a verie hypocrite.  Son proces est faict. He is alreadie conuicted, and condemned.  Teste bien faicte. A well-bred spirit; a learned, and discreet headpeece.  Cela vault faict; or, la chose vault faicte. The matter is welnigh dispatched, or, as good as done.  Bien faict n'est iamais perdu: Prov. One seldome looses by a good deeds doing.  Toutes fois est faict ce qu'enuis ont faict: Prov. Though gainst their wills they did it, yet tis done.

Faictis: m. isse: f. Made according to, framed after the likenesse, forged vnto the resemblance, of, another; also, neat, feat, comelie, handsome, proper, well made, well featured, well set together.

Faictissement. Neatly, handsomely, featly, trimly, fitly, gayly, exactly, quaintly, with much comelinesse.

Faicture: f. as Facture. Faillance: f. A defection, failing; decaying.

Faille: f. The (round and out-bearing) vaile worne by Nunnes, and widowes of the better sort; also, a faile, misse, fault, or default; and hence;  Sans faille. Certainly, assuredly, without doubt; also, without missing of a iot, of a bit, of a haire, &c.

Failli: m. ie: f. Failed; slipped, erred, missed, mistaken; offended, gone astray, done amisse; also, imperfect, wāting; fainting; decayed, extreamly weakned; also, deceiued, or disappointed; also, ended, surceased, left off; also, broken, or, out at heeles, as a bankrupt. À iour failli. At darke night, whē day was euen done.  Encore n'a pas failli qui a à ruer: Pro. He hath not mist that hath one throw to cast; or, he hath not yet mist that hath once to throw.

Faillir. To faile; slip, slide; erre, misse; mistake, misunderstand; offend, goe astray, doe amisse; also, to omit; lacke, want; also, to quaile, decay, fade; faint, or tire; also, to deceiue, or disappoint; also, to surcease, leaue, end.  Faillir par le bec. To want words; or, to faile for want of words.  Faillir de promesse. To breake promise, to go from his word.  Faillir au style. To commit an errour in pleading, or in his plea.  Il faillit à. He was welnigh, or verie neere; he had like to haue.  Il faillit belle. He had a faire scape.  Il n'est si bon qui ne faille: Prov. The best men haue their faults, the honestest their errors.  Les plus sages faillent souvent en beau chemin: Prov. The skilfullest are often deceiued in ordinarie matters.

Faillite: f. A failing, as of corne, &c, in an vnseasonable yeare; a deceiuing, disappointing; decaying wasting; fainting.  Faire faillite. To breake, or fall bankrupt.  Faire faillite à. To cousen, deceiue, disappoint; breake his word with; frustrate th' expectation of.  Payer ses creanciers en faillites. To pay his creditors in papers.

Faillon. (Dieu Colas faillon.) as Compagnon: ¶Lorrain. ¶Rab. Faim: f. Hunger; a great appetite, or exceeding stomacke, vnto meat; and hence, an exceeding desire of, or great longing after, any thing; also, dearth, famine, extreame want of victualls.  Manger avec vne faim de biscuit. Looke Biscuit. La faim chasse le loup hors du bois: Prov. Hunger driues the wolfe out of the wood.  À la faim il n'y a point de mauvais pain: Prov. To him thats hungrie any bread seemes good; we say, hungrie dogs loue durtie puddings.

Fainct: m. cte: f. Fained, deuised, forged, adulterated, counterfeited, supposed; false, dissembled, seeming other then it is; Looke Feinct. Oeuvres fainctes. Things in Masonrie so ioyned vnto a wall, that the halfe, or part of them beares out, the rest being fastened, or supposed to be, within it.

Faindre. To faine, forge, dissemble; See Feindre. Faine: m. A Beech-tree.

Faine: f. Beech-mast, or Buck-mast; the fruit of the Beech-tree.

Faineance: f. as Faineantise. Faineant: m. An idle, drowsie, lither, slothfull luske; a heartlesse loytrer, a lazie fellow; one thats without wit, without vertue, without spirit; a droane, a dullard, a house-doue; also, a lewd companion, loose fellow.

Faineantise: f. Idlenes, lazines, loitring, slothfulnes, lithernes; drowsines; faintheartednes, heartlesnes; dulnes.

Fainin: m. A kind of coyne.

Faintement. Falsly, faintly, fainedly, fabulously, counterfeitly, with much dissembling.

Faintise: f. Dissembling, hypocrisie, faining, cogging, counterfeiting, forging, foisting; a false pretence, or colour.

Faire. To do, act, exploit, performe, effect, commit, work; to cause, make, forme, forge, compose, frame, giue a being, or fashion vnto; also, to counterfeit, resemble, imitate; also, to be; as Faire chaud, froid, beu temps; &c.