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 Sain foin, ou sainct foin. Spanish Trifolie, Medicke fodder, Snayle Clauer.  Bailleur de foin à la mule. A Cheater, Cousener, Conycatcher.  Chapitreur de foin. A skarre-crow; one that seemes better then he is, or assumes more then he should.  Bailler foin en corne. To deceiue, gull, cousen, sell a bargaine, giue a gudgeon.  Bailler de l'avoine pour du foin. To loose by an exchange, to giue cake for bread.  Botté de foin. Rusticke, rusticall, clownish, Boore-like, rude; also, ignorant, simple, sillie.  Il y a du foin, il n'y a que les bestes qui s'y amusent. Your hopes are verie meane, or vaine; the thing you gape for's most vnworthie of you.  Se remplir de foin, ou de paille. To stop his guts with, to glut himselfe on, any thing; (from a horse, that wanting Hay falls to his Litter.)  Tirer du foin aux chiens. To spue, cast, vomit (after a surfet.)  Tourner les truyes au foin. To answer from the matter, to speake from the purpose.  Foin en corne: Prov. A good warning, or marke, for the auoiding of a dangerous person; a thing worne to giue notice that the wearer is not to be safely accoasted; (from the auncient Romanes, who vsed to ty a wispe of Hay about the one horne of a shrewd, or curst Beast;) and hence;  Il a du foin aux cornes. He is a dangerous beast; a fierce, proud, sturdie, surlie, vnsociable, fellow.  De mauvais payeurs foin, ou paille: Prov. For a desperate debt take any satisfaction, of an ill paymaister any thing.

Foine. as Fouinne. A Foyne, or Polecat.

Foine. A Pigeon-house, that hath one entrie on the top, without other hole, or window for light, or ayre; also, as Faine; Beech-Mast.

Foinil: m. A Hay-stacke, Hay-reeke, Hay-mow; Hay-loft, Hay-house.

Foirard: m. A shitten fellow; also, a kind of white Vine, or grape of no great worth; so tearmed, of the propertie it hath to loosen the bellie.  À cul de foirard tousiours abonde merde: Prov. A filthie tale seld wanteth filthie Auditors.

Foire: f. A Faire; a Mart; a generall Market.  Il s'est bien trouvé de la foire. He hath made a good match, or market; he hath sped very well; (Applyable vnto one that hath gotten a good wife.)  On ne s'en va pas des foires comme du marché; Looke Marché. Foire: f. Squirt, thinne dung; a laske.  Faire barbe de foire  à. To disgrace, violate, wrong extreamely, abuse egregiously.  À saincte Foire chandelle de merde: Prov. A gift agreeable to her nature, or humor; fit (and filthie) Lettuce for her (stinking) lips.

Foirelle: f. French Mercurie, garden Mercurie.

Foirer. To squirt, to shite thinne, as in a laske; also, to besquirt, or beray with squirting.

Foiret: m. as Foret. Foireux: m. euse: f. All to beshitten, or berayed with squirting; also, hauing the squirt, troubled with a lask, loose behind.

Foirolle: f. as Foirelle. Fois: m. Le fois du corps. The waste, or middle.

Fois: f. A time, turne, course, bout; (A word that hath euer another before it.) L'autre fois. Th' other time; Les autres fois, th' other times; & Autre fois (an Aduerbe, and most vsed as one word;) heretofore, in times past; while-eare; sometimes, at another time.  Quelque fois. Sometimes, one time or another.  Toutes fois. Neuerthelesse, notwithstanding.  Toutes fois & quantes. Euerie time and tide; as often as.  Vne fois; once: deux fois; twice: trois fois; thrice: quatre fois; foure times; (and so forward, reckoning by so many times.)   De fois à autre. Eftsoones, now and then, euer and anon; one time after another.  Par fois. Sometimes, or by times, now and then.

Foison: f. Store, plentie, abundance, great fullnesse, enough.  À foison. Copiously, plentifully, abundantly.

Foisonnant. Abounding with, hauing plentie of.

Foisonner. To abound, be full, haue plentie of.

Foisonneux: m. euse: f. Plentifull, abundant, full of, well stored with.

Foite-cul: m. A Pedant; a whip-arse.

Foiter. as Fouëtter.

Fol: m. A foole; asse, goose, calfe, dotterell, woodcocke; noddie, cokes, goosecap, coxcombe, dizard, peagoose, ninnie, naturall, ideot, wisakers; also, a Bishop, at Chesse; also, a kind of great Canarie bird, so called, because she neuer linnes wagging her head. Il en est plus assotté qu'un fol de sa marotte. He dotes more on it then a foole on's bable (which, we say, hee'le not giue for the Tower of London.) Fol est qui se coupe de son propre cousteau: Pro. He is an asse that hurts himself with his own helps; or, abuses his owne good parts to his owne destruction. Fol est qui s'enyvre de sa propre bouteille: Prov. Of the same sence; or, he is an asse thats besotted on his owne good parts. Fol est qui est esperonné, & à cheval dit hai: Prov. He is an asse that hauing sufficient, doth vse insufficient helpes. Fol est qui est à table, & n'ose manger: Prov. He is an asse that hauing wealth enough dares not vse it; or being where tis to be had, dares not put for it. Fol est qui iette à ses pieds ce qu'il tient en ses mains: Prov. He is an asse that throwes at his heeles what hee holds in his hands; viz. that neglects his own (whatsoeuer.) Fol est qui perd la chair pour les os: Prov. He is an asse that looses flesh for bones; viz. that leaues important, to follow paultrie, matters. Fol est qui de son poing fait coing: Prov. He is an asse that presumes too much on his owne strength, or knowes not the right vse of his owne things. Fol & avoir ne se peuvent entr'avoir: Pro. A foole and wealth cannot possesse each other. Fol qui beaucoup desire choisit, & prend le pire: Prov. The greedie foole that all would purse, by hastie choise lights on the worse. Fol se doit nommer en face qui bien assis se desplace: Prov. He should be call'd a foole to his face, that being well doth quit his place. Fol quiert iusques au crever ce qui ne se peut trouver: Pro. (Meant especially of the Alchymist.) Fols sont sages quand ils se taisent: Prov. Fooles are wise vntill they speake. Le fol est sot quant & quant, mais tout sot n'est pas fol: Prov. All fooles be sots, but all sots be not fooles. Le fol reste apres la feste: Prov. Looke Feste.