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 Procureur fiscal. A Lord high Justicers ordinarie Atturney, who pleads, and prosecutes within his circuit, all causes wherein either the publicke, or his Lords inheritance, or both, be interessed.

Fiscalins: m. Children, or freed men maintained, or nourished in the Kings house, or vpon his land.

Fiscelle: f. Packthread.

Fiscellette: f. Small packthread.

Fisellé: m. ée: f. Fuzellie; or, bendie counterbendie; a tearme of Blazon.

Fisq: m. as Fisque. Fisque: m. The publicke purse; the publicke reuenew, or Treasure; a Treasurie, or Exchequer.

Fissaigne. A certaine tumbling tricke.

Fissau. A Fitch, or Fulmart.

Fissaye: f. A quicke, and violent daunce much vsed by the French.

Fisselle. as Fiscelle; Packthread.

Fissure: f. A cleft, rift, chinke, chop.

Fissuré: m. ée: f. Cleft, riuen, chinked.

Fist. il fist. He did; See Faire. Fisticin: m. ine: f. Of Pistachoes, or fisticke nuts.

Fistique. The Pistachoe, or fisticke nut.

Fiston: m. A little sonne, or boy.

Fistonneau. (The diminutiue of Fiston) a verie little sonne, or boy.

Fistule: f. A pipe, or flute; a tap, or faucet; also, the running sore called an Issue, or Fistula.

Fistuleux: m. euse: f. Full of Fistulaes; or of holes, like a spunge.

Fivatier: m. A vassall, copieholder, or customarie tenant, properly, the vassall, or tenant of a Lord Cavier. Fivele: f. A buckle: ¶Langued. Fixe: com. Fixed, setled, fastened, sure, steadie, vnmouable.

Fizain: m. Spindle-tree, pricke-timber.

Fizellé. as Fisellé. Flabellation. A fanning, airing, or giuing of wind vnto.

Flabellé: m. ée: f. Fanned, aired, blowne on, that hath wind giuen to it.

Flac: m. A slat, flap, stampe, or clap giuen by a thing that is violently thrown against a wall, or vnto the ground; and the report, or sound made by hands, &c, strucke, or hit, one against the other.  Mettre à la flac. To emptie a purse (of the sound an emptie purse makes) also, as Flacquer; or, suddainely (and with a hurrie) to ruine, cast downe, ouerthrow.  De grand vilain grand flac: Prov. He that liues villanously falls violently; or, the fall of a great rogue makes a great report.

Flaccide: com. Weake, flaggie, limber, flagging, hanging loosse; faded, withered.

Flaccon. as Flascon. Flacconner. To plie the pot; to quaffe, or tipple hard.

Flache: com. Weake, limber, flaggie; lolling, drooping, hanging downe the head; withered, faded; faint, effeminate.

Flacon. as Flascon; A (great) leatherne bottle.

Flacquer. To make a thing to flap, stamp, or clap, by casting it violently against a wall, or to the ground.  Il la vous flacca là. He squasht, slat, or squat her downe there; he gaue her an arseposse; he made her buttockes ring with the fall he gaue her; there he clapt her, and so left her.

Flafla. as Flagorneur; A blab.

Flagellation: f. A whipping, scourging, lashing, ierking. Flagellé: m. ée: f. Whipped, lashed, ierked, scourged.

Flageller. To whip, scourge, lash, ierke.

Flageol. as Flageolet. Flageoler. To pipe, or play on a whistle.  Flageoler en l'oreille. To flatter; to whisper.

Flageolet: m. A pipe, whistle, flute; also, as Flageollet. Flageoleur: m. A piper, a whistler; also, a cousener, cheater, coniecatcher, notable deceiuer.

Flageollet: m. Iris, flag, or Flowerdeluce.

Flagorner. To blab, tattle, tell tales, report idle newes; also, priuately to appeach, disgrace, detract from others, thereby to please the hearers.

Flagorneur: m. A blab, tell-tale, tatler, tale-carrier; also, a pickthanke, priuate detractor, secret accusor; one that by such base Offices hopes to win fauour.

Flagrance d'vn delict. Plaine apparencie, or palpablenesse, of an offence; the crying of a sinne.

Flagrant: m. ante: f. Flagrant, ardent, burning, flaming; earnest, feruent.  Prendre au faict flagrant. To take at it, or in the manner; to apprehend vpon the deed doing, or presently after.

Flaine: f. A ticke for a bed.

Flair: m. Sent, smell.

Flairé: m. ée: f. Sented, smelled, vented, winded; also, perfumed.

Flairement: m. A senting, smelling, sauoring, venting, winding.

Flairer. To sent, smell, vent, wind; also, to perfume, cast a smell, yeeld a sauor, breath out a sent.  On flaire cela. There is great doubt, or suspition had thereof; or, men begin to discouer it, vent it, find it, out.

Flaireur: m. A senter, smeller, venter.

Flaironné: m. ée: f. Sented, smelt, vented.

Flaironner. To sent, smell, vent; sucke vp his breath at his nosethrills often together.

Flaistri: m. ie: f. Marked, branded, burnt, as a rogue, in some apparent member, with an hot yron; also, publickly defamed, openly disgraced, knowne for a knaue.

Flaistrir. To burne in the hand, or eare, to brand in the forehead, to marke for a rogue, with an hot yron; also, to defame publickly, disgrace openly; blemish the reputation of, lay a foule imputation on; also, as Flestrir. Flaistrissure: f. A disgracefull brand, or marke; an open blemish; also, a fading, or withering.

Flaitrir. as Flaistrir. Flaman: m. A certaine reddish, long-bild, and long-legd, Sea-fowle; of the bignesse of a Stork, or somewhat bigger, and indifferent good meat.

Flambant. as Flaman. Flambant. Flaming, shining, glistering, yeelding a bright luster.

Flambart. as Furole; S. Hermes fire; also, the hearbe Water-torch, or Cats taile.

Flambe: f. A flame, a great blaze of fire; also, the blew Flowerdeluce (called otherwise) Garden flags; also, as Spase. Flambe bastarde. Sedge, Gladen, Glader, Sword-*grasse, Water-flag, yellow-Flag, Lauers, Leuers. Flambe blanche. The white Flowerdeluce; also, the Flowerdeluce of Florence, of whose Aromaticall root our Orice powder is made. Flambe de riviere. Water-flag, water Flowerdeluce; or, as Flambe bastarde.