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 Flot: m. A waue, surge, floud; or, the wauing, floating, or flowing of any water; also, a tyde, or the tyde; or, as Flo; the high-water marke at sea.  Le flot de Mars. The great Spring-tydes which come in about the Equinoctiall, or thirteenth, of March.  Le flot de Septembre. The like tydes, comming in about the Autumne Equinoctiall.  À flot griffe graffe. Floating, surging, swimming aloft on the waues.  Tout ce que vient d'Ebe s'en retournera de flot: Prov. What's got by one hand will be lost by another.

Flotage: m. A floating, surging, swimming on the top of.  Le premier flotage d'un Navire. The launching of a new ship.

Flotelant. as Floflotant. Floter. as Flotter. Floton: m. A tuft, locke, or puffe of.

Flottage. as Flotage. Flottant. Floating, flowing, surging, wauing, as water; also, sayling, or swimming on the water.

Flotte: f. A Brewers Cooler; also, a fleet of ships.  Flotte de gens. A crue, rout, a troupe, flocke, a companie, multitude, streame, of people.  Flotte de marrein. A raft, or float-boat of timber ioyned together, and sent downe a riuer.

Flotté: m. ée: f. Floating; set aflote; also, shaken, tossed, moued; carried vp and downe by, or on, the waues.  Bois flotté. Looke Bois. Flottement: m. A floating, swimming, wauing.

Flotter. To flote; houer, swimme aloft on the water; to boyle, flow, surge, rise in waues, or billowes.

Floüet: m. ette: f. Weake, washie, tender, delicate, nice. ¶Norm. Vne main floüette. A soft, or daintie hand.

Floüin: m. A Barke of some fortie, or fiftie tunne; higher decked then a Galley, and lower then an ordinarie Barke; and going both with sayles, and oares (without bankes) and fitted both for fight, and burthen; we may call it a Ry-boat, or a Ry-man (for the fashion of it came from Ry, sayes Nicot.) Flour. as Fleur; a blossome, or flower.

Flouré: m. ée: f. Flowrie (in Blason.)

Flourir. See Fleurir. Fluction: f. An issue, flux, flowing.

Fluctuation. A surging, floating, swimming; a doubting, wauering, vncertainetie, inconstancie.

Fluctuer. To float, surge, waue vp and downe, as the water; to be tossed, turmoyled, disquieted; also, to wauer, doubt, hold an vncertaine course, haue an vncertaine estate, be at no certainetie, behaue himselfe inconstantly.

Fluer. To flow, runne, slip, slide, glide, or passe along, as water.

Fluëurs de femme. A womans monthlie flowers.

Fluïde: com. Flowing, running, washie, flashie, moist, waterish; thinne, feeble, weake, as water; also, glib, currant, smoothly running along.

Fluïdement. Flowingly, running; moistly, waterishly; thinnely; weakely; also, currantly, glibly, smoothly along.

Fluïdité: f. A flowing, moistnesse, washinesse, waterishnesse; thinnesse; flashinesse; weakenesse.

Flusteau. A little Flute, or Pipe; Seeke Enter.

Fluste-bergiere. An hearbe, which some hold to be water Plantane. Flute. as Fleute; also, a certaine peece of small Artillerie.

Fluter, & Fluteur. See Fleuter & Fleuteur. Fluviatile: com. Of a riuer, streame, or water; belonging to, or bred in, a riuer, streame, or water.

Flux: m. A flowing, running, streaming, or rushing out; a current (or tide) of water; also, a flux, flix, laske, loossenesse; a (thinne, or liquid) issue; also, a flush, at Cardes.  Cela est encores en flux. That is as yet in action, or vpon th' increase.  Passe sans flux. Passe, I am not flush; also, let-goe, no matter, or not a pinne matter.

Fluxible: com. Fluxible, fluide, or flitting.

Fluxil: m. ile: f. Fluxie, fluent, flowing, flitting, running.

Fluxion: f. A fluxion; a running, flowing, or floating of waters; also, a flux, flix, or issue.

Foarre: m. Straw; also, litter, or fodder.

Foarreux: m. euse: f. Full of, well furnished with, straw.

Focile: m. The arme from the elbow to the wrist; the leg, or shanke from the knee to the ankle; each consisting of two bones.  Focile grand. Th' vpper of those two bones, being the longer, and greater.  Focile mineur; ou, petit focile. The vndermost, and lesse of them.

Fodine: f. A quarrey, or mine; a place or pit whereout any thing is digged.

Foetide. as Fetide. Stinking.

Foeu. Seeke Feu; A fire.

Fogat. A kind of engine to catch fish with.

Fogner. To grumble; powt, lowre.

Fogon d'vne navire. as Fougon. Foiblage de poids. Want of weight, scant weight.

Foible. com. Feeble, weake, strengthlesse, faint, forcelesse.  Foible comme vn festu. We say, as weake as water.  Le fort portant le foible. One with another, good and bad together, some better to make amends for the worse.  Qui a le ressort foible. That wants erection.

Foiblement. Feebly, weakely, faintly; without strength, without force, without vigor.

Foiblesse: f. Feeblenesse, weaknesse, want of strength; faintnesse, infirmitie; a fainting, or falling into a qualm; also, want of due weight, or, scant weight, in coine.  Foiblesse de coeur. Dastardie, faint-heartednes, cowardise, want of courage.

Foie. as Foye. Foignasse: f. Medicke fodder, Spanish Trifolie, Snaile Clauer.

Foigne: f. A long staffe that hath at th' one end a square casting-net; vsed most by sea-fishermen.

Foigner. To powt, lowre, grumble, murmure, or be offended, at; also, as Feindre; and hence;  Ils ne se foignoyent de gueres. They dissembled, or forbore, but a little.

Foin: m. Hay; also, a great white Moath, or night-flie, that somewhat resembles a Beetle. Foin d'arriere saisin. Fog, late Math, lateward Hay. Foin de Bourgongne. Spanish Trifolie, Medick fodder, Snaile Clauer. Foin dur. Hard Hay, S. Peters wort, square or great S. Iohns grasse. Foin Grec. (The hearbe, or seed) Fenigreeke.