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 Flattir. To flat; to beat, or make flat.

Flatueux: m. euse: f. Flatulent, windie, full of windie humors.

Flatulent. as Flatueux. Flatuosité: f. Flatulencie, windinesse, fulnesse of wind.

Flavelle: f. Trifling. (v. m.) Flayau: m. A flaile to thresh with.

Fleau: m. as Flayau; Also, the beame of a great Balance; also, the tendrell, or tender shute of a vine, whereby it catcheth hold on what is next vnto it; It is also much vsed, by metaphor, for a scourge, plague, or iudgement of God.  Les Fleaux des poissons. The finnes of fishes.  Les Fleaux des rameaux des arbres. The small tops, or twigs, of branches.

Fleble: as Foible. Fleche: f. A shaft, an arrow; also, a peece of wood in the beakehead of a ship; the sprit sayle whereof it serues to hold in.  Fleche d'vn arbre. The trunke, or bodie of a tree.  Fleche de lard. A flich of bacon.  Faire de tout bois fleches. Looke Bois. Il ne sçait plus de quel bois faire fleches. He knows no longer what wood to make arrowes of viz: what stuffe to make vse of, what helps to relie on, what friends to recourse to.

Flecheurs. Benders, pliers, bowers; and (more particularly) the muscles that serue to bow the ioynts of the fingers.

Flechi: m. ie: f. Bent, bowed, plied; moued, turned; gone, awrie, or on th' one side.

Flechir. To bend, bow, plie; to moue; turne, goe, awrie, or on th' one side.  Facile à flechir. Gentle, pliant, flexible, tractable, turnable; tender; inconstant; mouable; soone bent, easily bowed.

Flechissant. Yeelding, plying, bending, bowing vnto.

Flechissement: m. A bowing, bending, plying.

Flechissure: f. A bought, or crookednesse; also, a bending, crooking, bowing.

Flection. as Flechissement. Flegart. A common place, or, way: ¶Pic. Flegmatique: com. Flegmaticke; full of fleame; breeding fleame; subiect vnto fleame.

Flegme: m. Fleame.

Flegmon: m. A hot, and red swelling, or inflamation of bloud, called by Physitians a Flegman.

Fleiche. as Fleche. Fleschade: f. A wound, or pricke of an arrow.

Flesche. as Fleche; Also, a kind of water grasse.

Fleschier: m. An Archer.

Fleschissant. as Flechissant. Flestri. as Flatré; Also, faded, withered; quailed, decaied.

Flestrir. as Flatrer; Also, to fade, wither; flag, droope; decay, or drie vp; to quaile, faile, or fall away.  Laisser flestrir pour graine. To let run to feed; See Graine. Flestrisseure: f. A withering, fading, quailing, decaying; a failing, drooping, flagginesse, falling away; also, as Flaistrissure. Fletan. as Flettan. Fletelet. A Hallibut, or holy-but fish.

Flettan. The greatest kind of Solefish.

Flette. A lyter; a small barke; also, a Flounder.

Fleve: com. as Foible. Fleumatique: com. Flegmatick, subiect vnto flegme.

Fleume. as Flegme.

Fleur: f. A flower; bloome, blossome; a catkin, or blowing. Fleurs. A womans monethlie flux, or flowers.  Fleur d'aage. The prime, or most flourishing time, of ones age.  Fleur d'amour. Flower-gentle, Flower-amour.  Fleurs blanches. The Whites; (a disease well knowne among women.)  Fleur des Chardons. Thistle-downe.  Fleurs cordiales. les trois fleurs cordiales. The three cordiall flowers; Roses, Bugloße, and Bourrage flowers.  La fleur du cuir. The graine, or vpper part of leather.  Fleur d'eau. The water Lillie, water Rose, yellow, or white Nenuphar.  Fleur d'erain. Little red, and shining graines, that fall from the smoake arising of cleere water cast vpon melted, liquid, and red-hot brasse; (of great vse in Physick, and Chirurgerie.)  Fleur de farine. Flower, or the finest meale; also, meal-*dust, or mill-dust.  Fleur d'huyle. as Mere goutte. Fleur S. Iaques. Ragwort, Staggerwort, Stauerwort, S. Iames-wort.  Fleur à jaulnir. Dyers weed, greening weed; wood-*waxen, base broome.  La Fleur de mouton. The best of the rack; & the ribs of the breast which be not vnder the shoulder.  Fleur de la pierre Assienne. The saltish mold, or hoare, that growes on that stone; an excellent preseruer of the things which are seasoned withall.  Fleur de sel. as in Sel. Fleur du vin. The mother of wine; the white, or mouldie spots that float on the top of old wine.  Choux fleurs. Collie-florie, Cypres Coleworts.  Couleur de fleur de Pescher. A Peach colour.  La noble fleur. Flower-gentle, Veluet flower, Flower amour, Flower valure.  À fleur. Blanchir de la toile à fleur. To bleach, or whiten linnen.  À fleur d'eau. Close by the water, betweene wind and water.  À fleur de terre. Close vnto, euen with, hard at, the ground.  La fleur n'est que cendre. The best is but trash; the fairest no better then a dead flourish.

Fleurage: m. Flourinesse; a heape, or aboundance of flowers.

Fleurant le plan de la terre. as à Fleur de terre. Fleurant comme le calemard d'vn retraict. Smelling, or casting a sent, like the funnell of an Aiax.

Fleurdelisé. Branded, or marked for a rogue, with the print of a Flowerdeluce, between his shoulders, &c.  Fleurdelisé d'or. Set, inriched, flourished, beautified, with golden Flowerdeluces.

Fleurdeliser. To set a Flowerdeluce betweene the shoulders with a hot yron (the marke of a rogue;) also, to flourish, beautifie, sticke, set thicke, with Flowerdeluces.

Fleurée: f. The froath, foame, or vpmost flowerie scumme of a thing that boiles.

Fleuret. Course silke; floret silke.  Mesler la soye avec le fleuret. To mingle good and bad, fine and course, deere and cheape, together.

Fleuretant. Sleightly running, lightly passing ouer; onely touching in the passing by; also, venting, or winding.

Fleureter. Sleightly to run, lightly to passe ouer; onely to touch a thing in going by it (metaphorically from the little Bees nimble skipping from flower to flower as she feeds;) also, as Fleuretter.