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 Fleuretis de paroles. Fine tearmes to small purpose; an idle flourish of words.

Fleurette: f. A little flower, small bloome, or blossome.

Fleuretté. Fleurettie (a tearme of Blazon;) also, vented, or winded.

Fleuretter. To vent, or wind; also, to sneake, or eaue-drop it; also, as Fleureter. Fleureux: m. euse: f. Flowerie; stored with choice of flowers; also, fragrant, odoriferous, sweet-smelling.

Fleuri: m. ie: f. Flourishing, flowred, blossomed.  Choux fleuris. Collie-florie; Cypres cole.  Pasques fleuries. Palme-Sunday.  Vieillesse  fleurie. White, or gray-headed.

Fleurin: m. as Florin; Or, a Low-Countrey coyne worth about ij. s. sterl. Fleurir. To blossome, bloome, flower, bring or beare, flowers; also, to prosper, excell, flourish, be renowmed, come into credit, haue much reputation in the world.

Fleurissant. Blooming, blossoming, flourishing, bearing many flowers; also, prosperous, renowmed, had in estimation.

Fleuron: m. A Fleuron, or Fleuret; a small flower, little blossome, young blowme.

Fleuronné: m. ée: f. Flourishing; decked, or set thicke, with yong flowers, bloßomes, bloomes.  Croix fleuronnée. A crosse botonie; (in Blazon.)

Fleuronner. To bloome, to blow; to beginne to blossome.

Fleurtis: m. A flourish, or flourishing.  Fleurtis des oysillons. The warbling of little birds.

Fleury. as Fleuri. Fleute: f. A flute; a pipe.  Le fleute d'vn Alambic. The beake, or nose of a Lim-*becke.  Fleute d'Aleman. A Lamprey; called so in some places by reason of the little holes which she hath in th' vpper part of her bodie.  Il y a de l'ordure dans leurs fleutes. All goes not wel with them; somewhat is amisse among them.  Ils ont accordé leurs fleutes. They are agreed vpon the matter.  Ce qui est venu par la fleute s'en retourne avec le Tabourin: Prov. What the pipe hath gathered the Taber scattereth; goods ill gotten are commonly ill spent.  Robin se souvient tousjours de sa fleute: Prov. Looke Robin. Fleuter. To play on the flute.

Fleuteur: m. A Fluter, a Piper.

Fleuteuse: f. A Fluteresse; a woman that playes on a flute.

Fleutrer. See Flatrer. Fleuve: m. A floud, streame, riuer.  Le fleuve passé le Sainct oublié: Prov. The danger once past our vowes are ill paid.

Flexible: com. Pliant, flexible; tractable; soone bent, quickly bowed, easily won or changed; good to be dealt with, fit to be wrought on.

Flexir. To bend, bow, plie; turne, wind about.

Flexueux: m. euse: f. Intricate, crooking or crooked, full of cranklings, that hath many turnings, winding in and out.

Flexuosité: f. Flexuositie; a most crooked, or manifold turning; an intricate, or often winding in and out.

Flez. A Flounder.

Flic: m. A iert, or ierke; a twang, a dash, a slat, or slamp ; also, an arrow, or shaft.

Fliche de larde: f. A flich, or side, of bacon.

Flin: m. A thunder-stone; a kind of stone wherwith Cut-*
 * lers furbush their blades; or as Esmeril. Flion. A kind of tender, and daintie shell-fish, not much vnlike a Cockle, but that the shell thereof is somewhat whiter, and much smoother.

Flique de lard. as Fliche: ¶Pic. Flis: m. A flight-shaft.

Flisquant: m. ante: f. Whisking, ierting, twanging.

Flo: m. The high-water marke, at sea; Looke Flot. À flo. Floating, or swimming vpon the sea.  Choses du flo. Flotsens, or flotzams; goods that lie floating, or swimming on the top of the water.

Floc de laine. A locke, or flocke of wooll.  Floc de Moine. as Froc. Floccard: m. A fashion of head-attire put on by the betrothed maidens of Lyons, and left off when they haue beene maried a twelue-month.

Floche. Looke Flosche. Flocon. as Floc. Flocquars: m. Tassels, puffes, or tufts, as of Sarcenet thats drawne out of, or cut vnder, another stuffe.

Flocquer. To puffe out, as Sarcenet in a breech cut after the Swisse fashion; to hang forth loosse, to sit bagging, flagging, or befrumpled, as an ouer-wide garment.

Flocquoir: m. A squirt.

Floflotant. Flowing, floating, surging; sounding like waues, or billowes.

Floflotement. A floating, or surging; a bubling, or tempestuous noise.

Flofloter. To float, surge, or waue vp and downe; also, to make a surging, bubling, or tempestuous noise.

Flon. as Felon; Also, a white-meat made of milke, egs, butter, and meale; or, as;

Flondelaict: m. A certaine baked-meat that somewhat resembles our flawne.

Floquer. See Flocquer. Floquet. gentil floquet. A sweet youth, spruce companion; minion, milk-sop: ¶Rab. Floquets de poil. Flockes, or lockes of haire.

Florable. The hearb Cheese-runnell, or Cheese-renning, our Ladies Bedstraw, pettie Mugwet, Maides-haire.

Floraux. Ieux Floraux. A certaine wittie, & pleasant contention among French Rimers, or Poets; a siluer Eglantine being the reward, or prize, for the best doer, and a Marigold for the second.

Florée: f. The blew scumme of woad boyling in the Dyers lead; which fleeted off, and dried vnto powder, serues Painters, and Silke-Dyers for diuers vses.

Florencé. croix florencée. A crosse flurt; (in Blazon.)

Floret: m. A foile; or sword with the edge rebated.

Flori: m. ie: f. Bloomed, blossomed, flourishing, in the flower; whence;  Quand les febues sont flories, les sots cōmencent leurs folies: Prov. Looke Febue. Floride: com. Liuelie, fresh, lustie, flourishing.

Florin: m. A Florin, or Franc; an ancient coine of gold in France, worth ij. s. sterl: not currant at this day; (though Languedoc, and the countries adioyning retaine the name still, in a peece thats worth 18. d. sterl.)  Florin de Metz. Is worth iij. s. sterl. Florin au traict. Wants somewhat of iij. s. (29. s. Tour.)  Florin de Vic. Goes for 33. s. Tourn. Qui a Florin, latin, roussin, par tout il trouve chemin: Prov. (Wherin, by florin, store of coyne is vnder stood.)

Flosche: com. Flaggie, weake, soft; as a bonelesse lump of flesh. Soye flosche. Sleaue silke.