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 ripens not (especially if the tree be ouerladen) vntill it be scraped with an yron hooke: Also, a fig date; or any fig that opens of it selfe, and discouers it seeds, as it growes.  Figues primerouges. The first figs that come vpon the tree; starueling-figs.  Figue royalle. A Date.  Ces figues sont trop hautes. These dainties are aboue our reach; they cost too much, they grow too deere.  Il n'est ny figue ny raisin. He is neither fish nor flesh; hot nor cold; there is nothing in him.  Moitié figues moitié raisins. Betweene ieast and earnest; or, halfe th' one halfe th' other.

Figueraye: f. An Orchard of fig trees.

Figuerie: f. as Figuiére. Figuier: m. A fig tree.

Figuiére: f. A fig-yard; an Orchard of fig trees.

Figuratif: m. iue: f. Figuratiue, spoken by a figure.

Figure: f. A figure, shape, image, forme: fauor, likenesse; resemblance, representation, counterfeit; fashion, making of; also, a figure, or flourish of Rhetoricke.  Figure accordée. An exact suruey of land in controuersie, drawne by the consent of both parties.  Veuë figure. A description, of a place by the eye; or of a place which is present, and in th' eye.

Figuré: m. ée: f. Figured, fashioned, delineated, painted, represented, purtrayed; also, figuratiue, in figures, by a figure.  Velours figuré. Looke Velours. Figurement: m. A figuring, shaping, forming, delineating, representing, pourtraying.

Figurer. To figure, paint, picture, draw, delineate, pourtray, represent; to forme, shape, fashion; imagine, conceiue.

Figurine: f. A prettie little image, picture, counterfeit, figure.

Fil: m. Thread; also, a thread, line, or string; also, a streak, small dash, or stroke; also, a file, rank, order, course, row, ray; also, an infection, or imperfection in trees, whereby their barkes come to be gnawen, and eaten into. Fil d'archal. (Great) yellow wire, made of copper, or latten. Fil de caret. Packthread. Fil d'eau. à fil d'eau. With the streame. Fil d'entendement. Sharpnesse of wit, nimblenesse of apprehension, quicknesse of conceit. Fil d'vn espée. The edge of a sword; Looke Passer. Fil d'Espinay. A kind of loosse-twisted, and (somewhat) course thread; made at Espinay, a towne in Artois. Fil. S. Fiacre. A great wart, hard swelling, or excrescence of flesh. Fil de Florence. A fine, & hard-twisted thread, made in Florence. Fil d'or traict. The smallest gold wire. Fil perlé. Looke Perlé. De fil en aiguille. From point to point, from one end to the other, all wholly ouer. De droict fil. Directly on, straight forward, with the thread, as euen as a thread. Donner de droict fil. To hit iust; to passe right on. Tout d'vn fil. Wholly, altogether, without stop, or intermission. Bailler le fil. To cog, foist, sooth, flatter, smooth, deceiue, gull, gloze with. Bailler le fil à. To set an edge on. Cousu de fil blanc. Manifest, euident, apparent. Fourni de fil & d'aiguille. Furnished with necessa-* *ries, readie for all essayes.   À toile ourdie dieu mande le fil: Prov. ''The worke thats well begunne God helpes to end, or beginne thy worke, and God will helpe to end it. (Some expound it more prophanely.)''

Filace: f. Fine flaxe, dressed flaxe, flaxe made readie for the distaffe; Looke Fillasse. Filacier: m. ere: f. Fit, readie, or easie to be spunne.

Filamens: m. Filaments; little strings, threads, or hairs, in veines, plants, roots &c; the beard of a root.

Filamenteux: m. euse: f. Full of those strings &c.

Filandier. A man that spinnes.

Filandiere: f. A Spinster; a Flaxe-woman; also, a kind of small boat.

Filandié: m. ée: f. Streaked with, or full of, small threads, fibers; felanders.

Filandrerie: f. Spinstrie, spinning.

Filandres: f. The felanders; small wormes that breed in bruised, surfeited, or foule-fed, hawkes; also, nets to catch wild beasts with.

Filant. Twisting, or spinning.  Filant les moustaches. Twirling, twining, or often stroking, his mustachoes.

Filat: m. Congar; so tearmed about Marseilles. Filé: m. A net to catch wild beasts, or fishes with; a toile, hay, drag-net, &c; also, a snare, snarle, ginne.

File: f. A file, ranke, direct, and euen row of.  À la file. One after another, one by one, in due course, all on a row.

Filé: m. ée: f. Twisted, spunne, drawne out; made into thread.

Filée: f. The Eagle tearmed, a Bone-breaker.

File-habits. Clothes-spinning.

Filer. To twist, spin, draw out threads; also, to linger, delay; prolong, extend in length; also (among Mariners) to loossen, vndoe, and make vp.  Filer doux. To sooth, smooth, flatter, or giue faire words; also, to heare much and say little.  Filer gros. Ils filent bien gros. They worke rudely, deale grosly, proceed sottishly.  Filer prim. To runne thinne, or by little and little.  Filer de la soye. To take a purse; to rob by the highway side.  Faire filer quelque chose. To draw a thing out in length, to make it goe a great way.  Au temps passé Berthe filoit: Prov. In old time the greatest women were the greatest huswiues; Looke Berthe. Dame qui trop se mire peu file: Prov. Seeke Dame. Femme qui enuis file porte chemise vile: Pro. Beggerie, and sluttishnesse are the fruits of ill huswiferie, and of lazinesse.

Fileret. as Filleret. Filerie: f. A spinning; or, spinstrie; also, a friendly meeting play at many sorts of (actiue) games, while these both spinne, and looke on.

Filet: m. A little thread, string, or twist; also, as Filé; also, the fillet of a beast; also, a horses watering bit.  Filet carré. A small square part, or member of a piller; &c; a square fillet.  Filet d'huyle. A small drop, or threading of oyle.  Les Filets d'vn mords. as Bracelets. Avoir le filet. To be tongue-tied.  Fretaillé de filets. Looke Fretaillé. Filette: f. Yarne.

Fileul: m. A Godsonne.

Fileure: f. Thread spunne; or, the spinning thereof.