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 Fauxoiseau: m. as Fauperdrieux; or (more generally) any rauenous bird which hath not the name of a Hawke.

Faux-pas. A false, or hollow peece of ground that sinkes vnder the feet in going; also, a slip, or misse in footing; a slipping, an error, a mistaking.

Fauxperdriau. as Fauperdrieux. Fayant: m. A Beech tree.

Fayerie: f. as Féerie; or, a fancie, imagination, illusion, or vision of Fairies.

Fayfort: m. A warranting of the goodnesse, and sufficiencie of sale-ware; or, as Le faict fort. Faymidroict. Base, or low iurisdiction; called so by the Customes of Solle. Fays. as Fais. ¶Langued. Faysse: f. A swath-band for a child. ¶Langued. Fazoils: m. Fasels, long Peason, Kidney Beanes, French Beanes, Romane Beanes.

Fé: f. as Foy; faith (an old word;) par la fé Dieu; (now turned by the countrey people into, Par la feste Dieu) by the faith I owe to God.  Fé Dieu (an Interiection of admiring;) si telle chose advint onc, Oh God man, or, Gods me, such a thing was neuer.

Feable. as Feal. Honest, trustie, faithfull; also, worthie of account, of reputation.  Onction feable. The pruining, or annointing, which a Hawke giues her feathers, by the moisture she sucks from her Crupper.

Feablement. as Fealement. Honestly, loyally.

Feage: m. Fee simple; or, an inheritance, or house held in fee simple.

Feal: m. ale: f. Faithfull, trustie, loyall, true, honest.

Fealement. Faithfully, trustily, loyally, honestly.

Feaulté: f. Fealtie; fidelitie, faithfulnesse, loyaltie, trustinesse.

Feauté. The same.

Febé: m. A double secret, or secret storie; a thing hidden; (Originally, this is the word thats spoken, or, as a question demaunded, in the Cakechoice of King and Queene at the later end of Christmas, by him that would haue a peece of the Cake.)

Feble. as Foible. Feeble, weake.

Febricitant. Sicke of an ague.

Febrifique: com. Ague-breeding; full of the feauer; aguish, apt for feauers.

Febril: m. ile: f. Feauerie; of a feauer; aguish, belonging to an ague.

Febve: f. A Beane. Febve Egyptiaque. The Beane of Egipt; a water plant that beares a Rose-coloured flower, and a verie great leafe; (the fruit, or Beane, and the root thereof (tearmed by some, Colocasia) are medicinable, and no ill meat;) also, the fruit of the Lote tree. Febve espesse. Orpine, Liblong, or Liuelong; (an hearbe.) Febves frittes. The Note, or Character ff  in the Ciuile Law, signifying Digesta; (tearmed so by yong Students.) Febve de mer. A kind of hard, ruddie, and writhen shell-fish. Febves peintes. French Beanes, or Beanes of Rome; as Febves de Rome. Febve Pontique. as Febve Egyptiaque. Febve de porc. The weed Henbane; so called in former times. Febves de Rome. Kidney Beanes, Sperage Beanes, French Beanes, Phasels, or long Peason. Febve sauvage. The wild Beane-plant, whose flowers be of a bright Crimson colour, and whose pease-like pulse is most vnsauorie.  Bailleur de febves à my-croist. A cousener, cheater, imposter, deceiuer, conycatcher.  Comme vne febve en la gueule d'un Lion. We say, like a Beane in a Monkes hood.  Trouver la febve au gasteau. To find what one looks for, to meet with a thing for his purpose.  Quand les febves sont flories les sots commencent leurs folies: Prov. When Beanes doe flower youth enters into follie.

Febveux: m. euse: f. Beanie, full of Beanes, yeelding Beanes.

Febvre: m. A Black-smith.  En forgeant on devient febvre: Prov. Continuall practise begets cunning.

Febrier: m. as Fevrier. Fecal: m. ale: f. Durtie, dreggie, vnsetled, vnfined.  La matiere fecale. Dung, or excrements.

Fece: f. Lees, dregs, grounds; any thicke substance setled in the bottome of liquor.

Fecond: m. de: f. Abundant, ranke, full, fertile, fruitfull, plentifull.

Fecondement. Fully, fertilly, fruitfully, abundantly.

Feconder. To make fertile, fruitfull; ranke, abundant.

Fecondité: f. Fruitfulnesse, fertilitie, store, fulnesse, plentie, abundance of fruits.

Fecot: m. The yongling of an Ewe (or of any other such beast) newly come out of her bellie.

Fecture. as Facture; the finishing, or making vp of.

Feculent: m. te: f. Thicke, muddie, dreggie.

Fée: f. A Fairie.

Feé: m. eée: f. Fatall, appointed, destined; also, taken, bewitched, or forespoken; also, charmed, inchaunted.

Féerie. Par féerie. Fatally, by destinie, by appointment of the Fairies.

Fein: m. ''Hay. See'' Foin. Feinct: m. cte: f. Fained, forged, supposed, &c; as Fainct. Feincte: f. A small, or yong Shad; the riuer Pilchard.

Feindre. To faine, dissemble, forge, cog, foist, counterfeit, pretend, play the hypocrite, make false resemblances, or offers; also, to imagine, suppose, deuise.  Il feignoit à marcher. He hung an ar[*?]se, dragd behind, came but slowly forward, or on.  Se feindre. To make shew of one thing, and doe another; to suffer of purpose his aduersarie to preuaile against him; to disable himselfe more then he needs; to proceed coldly in a matter; to come slowly forward; to drag behind; any way to forbeare, or doe lesse then he can doe.  Se feindre au train de derriere. A beast to fauour his hinder parts; or, to halt behind.  Sans se feindre. Diligently, seriously, carefully, indeed, in very good earnest, throughly, home.

Feine: f. Beech Maste; also, a kind of apple, the cyder whereof is a long continuance.

Feinte: f. An Apparition, or Phantasme; also, a dumbe shew; also, one that represents, or acts it; also, a Sharp, in Musicke.

Feintement. as Faintement; faintly; fainingly.

Feintise: f. Dißēbling, faining, cogging, &c; See Faintise. Feletin: m. Flannen; or, a stuffe like Flannen, whereof hangings are (sometimes) made.

Felice: com. Happie, luckie, blissefull, prosperous; fauourable; also, good, fat, fertile, fruitfull, abundant in increase.