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 Qui a fait la faulte si la boive: Pro. Let him that did the wrong incurre the penaltie.  Tel fait la faulte qu'un autre boit: Prov. Th' one playes the pranke, and th' other payes for't.

Faultif: m. iue: f. Faultie, offending, misdoing, fayling, subiect, or apt to doe amisse.

Faultrage. as Preage. Faulveret. A little bird like a Reed-Sparrow, which buildeth her neast among Beanes; or, as Fauvette. Faulx: m. as Faux. Faulx: f. A Sythe (to mowe with.)  La faulx paye les prez: Prov. The keene Sythe giueth Meades their due.

Faulx: m. faulse: f. as Fauls. Faulx-bourgs: m. The suburbes of a towne; Looke Faux-bourgs. Favorable: com. Fauourable, gracious, propitious; kind, friendlie, louing.

Favorablement. Fauourably, propitiously, kindly, graciously, louingly.

Favori: m. A fauourite, or minion; one thats in fauour.

Favori: m. ie: f. Fauoured, graced, countenanced; kindly vsed.

Favorisant. Fauouring, gracing, affecting, cherishing.

Favorisé: m. ée: f. Fauoured, graced, countenanced; affected, loued, cherished.

Favoriser. To fauour, grace, countenance; affect, loue, cherish.

Favoriseur: m. A fauourer, supporter; furtherer.

Favorit. as Favori. Favorite: f. A Princes Mistresse; a Sweet-heart, or she-fauourite.

Favot de febves: m. A Beane-stacke; also, as Faval. Fauperdrieux: m. A Hawke somewhat lesse then a Kite, yet higher; her beake, and tallons not so crooked as those of other Hawkes; her legs small, and yellow; her traine, and tip of wings, blacke; the top of her head, and bottome of her throat, of a reddish white; the rest of a darke tawnie colour.

Fauquet: m. A shaling wry-legd fellow. ¶Pic. Fausonnerie: f. A forging, or falsifying of Euidences; a false counterfeiting of another mans hand.

Faussaire. as Faulsaire; or, an Impostor.

Faussé. Pierced, runne, thrust through; also, violently burst, broken, diuided; Looke Faulsé. Faussée: f. as Faulsée. Fausser. as Faulser. Fausset: m. A faucet, for a Hogs-head, &c.  Par le petit fausset. Niggardly, sparingly, scantly, in small measure.

Fausterne. The hearbe called, round Birthwort.

Faut. Il faut; it ought, it must, &c; See Falloir. Faute. A fault, offence; want of; See Faulte. Fauteur: m. A fautor, fauourer; furtherer, helper; supporter, protector; a partaker, a companion.

Fautier. as Faultif; faultie, blame-worthie.

Fautrage. Droict de f. Looke Droict. Fauve: com. Fallow, deepe-yellow, Lyon-tawnie, light-dunne.  Bestes fauves. (A generall word for) all kind of Deere, wild Goats, and such like beasts.

Fauveau: m. A dunne horse; also, a Puffin, or Fork-*fish. Tel estrille fauveau que puis le mord: Prov. Some make but bad return of a good turne; or, th' vngratefull vse those worst that haue beene best vnto them. Fauveau. Yellowish, darke yellow, dunne, somewhat fallow.

Fauvette: f. A yellowish bird somewhat lesse then the Nightingale, whereunto she resembles both in singing, and shape; some call her, a Linget.  Fauvette rousse. A certaine ruddie bird, which is no bigger then the end of a mans finger.

Faux: m. A Beech-tree; also, falsehood, falsenesse, or a falsifying; Hence, the Crime tearmed among Lawyers;  Le Faux. Which is the falsifying of Writs, Instruments, or Euidences; and the bearing of false witnesse; and the coyning of false money; and the wilfull vsing of false weights, or measures.  Faux à Connils. A Clapper, or imperfect Warren of Conies.  Faux du corps. The Wast, or Middle.  Le faux d'un harnois. The part thereof thats next vnto the Tasses; called so, because it is the weakest, or made the sleightest.  Peine de faux. Was, in auncient Rome, confiscation of goods, if the offendor were a freeman; and death, if a seruant, or slaue, by the Law Cornelia: But the Lawes of France, making no such difference, inflict Death, on all that forge Contracts, or beare false witnesse (in a Court of Iustice;) or falsifie the Kings Chauncerie Letters, and Seales; and vpon all Exchequer men, that haue falsified Accompts, Rolls, Acquittances, or Discharges, &c.  S'inscrire en faux. is, to vndertake, that an Euidence, &c, is false; or, to vndertake, in a Court of Justice, to proue it false, or falsified; also, to accuse of, or charge with, falsehood, or falsenesse, any thing.  Maintenir de faux. To challenge, or except against, a Deed; to offer to proue it false, or forged; (Celuy qui veut Maintenir de faux somme la partie que produit la piece, de declarer s'il s'en veut aider; & apres sa declaration de s'en aider, se fait l'inscription en faux contre la minute originale, laquelle l'accusé doit faire representer, & mettre au greffe.) Faux: f. as Faulx; a Sythe.

Faux: m. fausse: f. False; Looke Fauls. Faux. à faux. (Aduerbially) amisse, not rightly; to no purpose, vainely; and hence;  Ce coup tomba à faux. This blow was lost; or, hit not the intended place, but was defended, auoided, or put by.

Faux-bond. A false trick, a faithlesse part, a trecherous pranke; a deceitfull, or cousening, action.  Elle a fait vn faux-bond. She hath played false, or trod her shooe awry.

Faux-bourdon. The drone of a Bagpipe.

Faux-bourgs: m. The suburbes of a Towne; whence;  Iardin aux faux-bourgs vaut cent solz au rebours: Prov. A Garden in the suburbes is worth a hundred pound backwards; (which diuers of our fond citizens haue to their cost found true.)

Faux-feu. A fayling, missing, or not taking of effect; a deceiuing, or disappointing; also, a shrewd turne, or ill office, done vnder hand.

Fauxmarcher. To step, or goe awry; to set the foot ill in going; also, to slip, or stumble, by such going.

Faux-marchure: f. A wrinch, or strayne in a bone, or ioynt of the foote, &c, got by a slip, or wry step.