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 * mund royall, Osmund the Waterman, S. Christophers hearbe.  Feuchiere des chesnes. Oake-fearne, pettie fearne, mosse-fearne, pild Osmund.   Feuchiere femelle. She fearne, female fearne, common fearne, brakes.   Feuchiere masle. Male fearne, great fearne.

Feudal: m. ale: f. Of, or belonging to, a Fief, Mannor, Fee, or Fee simple; also, held in fief, or in fee; also, holding diuers Fiefs. Cour feudale. A Court Leet*, or Baron; the Lords Court, whereto his vassalls, and tenants owe suit and seruice.  Homme feudal. (Signifies both) a Lord that hath tenants holding of him; and (the more commonly) a vassall, or tenant.  Retraict feudal. The power of redemption which a Landlord hath by the priuiledge of his Seigneurie.  Seigneur feudal. A Lord Paramount, or chiefe Lord.  Fief de condition feudale. A Fee simple; or, an absolute, and hereditarie fief; (for some fiefs descend not.)

Feudalité: f. as Feodalité; Especially in the last sence.

Feudataire: com. Owing fealtie, holding by fealtie; also, held by fealtie, or, held of another.

Feve. as Febue; A beane.

Feverondes: f. The eaues, or easings of a house.

Feugiere. Fearne.  Feugiere de chesnes. The hearbe Oake-fearne, pettie fearne, pild Osmund.

Feuille; &, Feuillée. See Fueille; &, Fueillée. Feuillure. Seeke Fueillure. Feultre: m. Felt; a felt, a peece of felt; Looke Feutre. Feultré: m. ée: f. Made of felt; couered with, or, as with, felt.

Feultrer. To make of, couer with, felt.

Feulu. as Fueillu. Feur: m. The cost and charge a husbandman is at in the tilling, & reaping of his ground; also, as Foire; a Faire; also, a rate, or price set on a thing; and hence;  À feur de. According to, after the rate or proportion of.  Au feur l`emplage. The same.  Si boute tel feur telle vente. Looke Bouter. Fevre: m. A Blackesmith; Looke: Febvre. Fevrier: m. (The Moneth) Februarie.  La farine de Fevrier. Snow.  Fevrier le court pire de tous: Pro. Because it is commonly the foulest; and thereupon wee call it, Fill-*dike.  Aujourd'huy Fevrier demain Chandelier: Prov. Looke Chandelier. Pluye de Fevrier vaut esgout de fumier: Prov. We say, Aprill showres bring in May flowers.  Toute Chatte a son Fevrier: Prov. Euerie dog hath his day (say we) or (more properly) euerie woman hath her wanton fit.

Feurmariage. as Formariage: ¶Bourgognois. Feurolles. Night-fires; Looke Furole. Feurre. as Foarre; Straw.  Vn Seigneur de feurre combat bien vn vassal d'acier; Looke Seigneur. Feurs. The Plurall vnto Feur; onely in the two first sences.

Feustre. as Feultre; Or the thicke, hairen, and felt-like stuffe, vsed by Sadlers for stuffing, or in stiffenings. Feutraict. A man drawne out of his countrey, bounds, or borders; also, wine, corne, or such commodities taken thence.

Feutre: m. Felt; also, a filter; a peece of felt, or thicke woollen cloth to distill, or straine things through.

Feutré: m. ée: f. Wrought thicke, as felt; also, stuffed, or stiffened, with felt.  Feutré d'herbe. Set thicke, or ouergrowne, with grasse.

Feyturage: m. A charme, or inchauntment.

Fez. as Faix; A burden.

Fi. (An Interiection;) et fi fi va t'en d'icy; Fie vpon thee, get thee hence, I cannot abide thee; Looke Fy. Maistre fi fi. A Gold-finder, Dung-farmer, cleanser of iakes, feyer of priuies.

Fiable: com. as Feable; Trustie; or credulous, that easily trusteth.

Fiacre. The name of a Saint.  Fic, &, Fil S. Fiacre. Looke Fic, &, Fil. Mal S. Fiacre. A kind of scab, or great wart in the fundament; or in a womans priuities.

Fiançailles: f. A publicke betrothing of a couple before their full mariage; (and sometimes) also, mariage it selfe; whence;  Fiançailles chevauchent en selle, & repentailles en croupe: Prov. Repentance sits full close (or dwells next doore) to mariage.

Fiance: f. Trust, credit, affiance, assurance, confidence.  À ma fiance. Vpon my word.

Fiancé: m. ée: f. Affianced, betrothed, handfast, promised, sure vnto.  Fiancé à la corde. Condemned, or destined, vnto the gallowes; for whom the gallowes grone.

Fiancer. To affiance, betroth, promise, make fast, assure, vnto.

Fiansailles: f. A publicke betrothing of man and woman before full mariage; Looke Fiançailles. se Fiant. Trusting, beleeuing, hoping on, or in; intrusting vnto, committing to the trust of.

Fiat: m. Trust, assurance, affiance.

Fibres: f. The small strings, or haire-like threads of roots; also, the fibers, threads, or strings of muscles, & veines; in Lincolne-shire they are tearmed Cheyres.

Fibreux: m. euse: f. Fibrous; full of haire-like threads, or strings.

Fic: m. A certaine scab, or hard, round, and red sore, in the fundament, called also, Fic S. Fiacre. Ficelle: f. Packthread.

Fiche: f. A Gardeners dible, or setting yron.  Par ma fiche. By my fey.  Planter à la fiche. See Planter. Fiché: m. ée: f. Fixed, fastened, setled; thrust, planted, set farre in, firme, steadie, sure, sticking fast in; also, decreed, established, resolued on.  Croix fichée. A crosse Fitchet (in Herauldrie.)

Fichemént: m. A fixing, fastening, setting, setling.

Fichément. Fixedly; setledly.

Fiche-pain. The vermine called an Eare-wig; some also call so the Wood-louse.

Ficher. To fix, fasten, settle; to driue, sticke, set, thrust, plant fast, or farre in.

Fichet. arbre de fichet. A tree that is come of a twig, or tender scion planted.

Ficheur: m. A fixer, fastener, setler, or setter in.

Ficheure: f. A fixing, fastening, driuing, sticking, planting, setting, thrusting farre in.

Fichu: m. uë: f. as Saugrenu; Or absurd.

Ficotte. par ma ficotte. A diminutiue of, ma foy, or