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 Fourmiant. frappement fourmiant. Such a soft, and gentle stroake as is giuen by the touch, or feet, of a creeping Ant.

Fourmier. as Fourmiller. Fourmiere: f. An Ants hole, or neast; a hillock, or banke full of Ants; also, a disease of hawkes, making the hornie part of their beakes to pill.

Fourmiller. To abound, or swarme in great troupes, as Ants in their neasts, or caues; also, to paine, or pricke, as the stinging of Pismeares.

Fourmilliere: f. An Ants hole, or neast; a hillocke, or banke full of Ants.  Vne fourmilliere de gens. A great number, a huge troupe, of people crowding together like Ants.  Souffler les fourmis dans leurs fourmillieres. To blow Ants into their holes; to striue against the streame, or draw on himselfe a mischiefe by striuing to expell it; (for the more one labours, by blowing, to get them in, the more he prouokes them, and makes them to come out.)

Fourmion: m. A little Ant, small Pismeare.

Fournage: m. The fee taken by a Lord of his vassalls, and tenants, bound to bake in his common ouen; or for a permission to vse their owne; also, as Foüage. Fournaillé: m. ée: f. Baked (in an ouen.)

Fournailler. To bake (in an ouen.)

Fournaise: f. A furnace.

Fournaiser: m. ere: f. Belonging to a furnace.

Fourneau. A little ouen.

Fournée de pain; A batch, or ouen full of bread.  Prendre vn pain sur la fournée. To get a snatch at his wench before she be maryed.

Fourni: m. A bakehouse.

Fourni: m. ie: f. Furnished, fraught, appointed, prouided of, supplied with; in a compleate fashion, with full equipage.  Lance fournie. Seeke Lance. Fournier: m. A baker; or one that keepes, or gouernes a common ouen.

Fourniere: f. A woman-baker, or she that keepes a common ouen.

Fournil: m. A bake-house.

Fournillé: m. ée: f. Baked (in an ouen, or bake-house.)

Fourniller: m. ere: f. Much in a bake-house; haunting the bake-house.

Fourniller. To bake (in an ouen, or bake-house.)

Fourniment: m. Full fraught, prouision, furniture; perfection; that which compleats, or makes vp a thing; also, a furnishing, or fraughting.  Le fourniment d'vne Pistole. A case for a Pistoll.  Le fourniment des reins. The muscles of the backe, about the kidneyes.

Fournir. To furnish, fraught, supplie, minister, find, prouide of, accommodate with.  Fournir à vn appointment. To performe, fulfill, or accomplish the conditions of an agreement.  Fournir la complaincte. Looke Resaisir. Autrement on n'en fournira pas. Otherwise one shall not get him, one shall haue no helpe, or vse of him.

Fournissement: m. A furnishing, or furnishment; a fraughting, supplying, fitting with, prouiding of, things necessarie; (In Law, C'est le sequestre de la chose contentieuse en matiere possessoire, & de complainte, & le restablissement des fruicts, qui doit estre faict es mains du Commissaire: ¶Ragueau.) Fournisseur: m. a furnisher, fraughter, prouider, supplier.

Fourniture: f. Furniture, fraught, prouision; a full measure, or supplie of necessarie implements, or equipage. Fournoyé: m. ée: f. Baked (in an ouen.)

Fournoyer. To bake (in an ouen.)

Fourquat: m. A kind of plough vsed in Languedoc. Fourque. as Fourche; A forke; a paire of gallowes.

Fourquier: m. A Brewers stirrer.

Fourrage: m. Forrage for horses; also, fodder for cattell.  Fourrage des corbeaux. A false knaue, a filthie lewd fellow, crowes-meat, one for whom the gallowes grones.

Fourragé: m. ée: f. Foddered; forraged, rauaged, forrayed.

Fourragement. A foddering; forraging, rauaging, forraying.

Fourrager. le four. as Fourragement. Fourrager. To fodder; also, to forrage, prey, forray, goe a forraging; to ransacke, rauage, boot-hale it.

Fourrageur: m. A fodderer; a forrager, a purueyor of victuall for horses, and cattle; also, a boot-haler.

Fourré: m. A kind of fish-net stretched out with hoopes in the forme of a whale-bone sleeue.

Fourré: m. ée: f. Furred; also, entred, thrust, or put far in; sheathed, cased; lodged within.  Coups fourrez. Interchanged blowes.  Paix fourrée. A counterfeit peace; a peace made with a purpose to be broken.

Fourreau. A sheath; a scabbard.  Le fourreau d'vne beste. The thicke skin wherein the yard, or pizzle of a beast is sheathed.  Le fourreau d'vne halebarde, harquebouse, pistole; &c. A case for a halbeard, harguebuse, pistoll, &c.  N'admirons le fourreau pour mespriser la lame. Let not a faire outside make th' inside lesse esteemed of.

Fourrelier: m. A scabberd maker.

Fourrer. To put, thrust, or throw into, to lodge in or hide within, a hole or hollow thing; Hence; to case; and to sheath; also, to furre; also, as Fourrager. Se fourrer en. To enter boldly, thrust freely, pierce far into; also, to ingage, or intangle himselfe in.  Se fourrer es biens d'autruy. To intrude vpon the gouernment of other mens goods; to dispose of them vnbidden, or whether th' owners will or no.  S'y fourrer iusques aux oreilles. To plunge himselfe vp to th' eares in.  Fourrer vn gasteau. To butter a cake.  Fourrer la main à. To bribe, to grease the fist of.

Fourreur: m. A Furrier; a Skinner; also, a Forrager.

Fourreure: f. See Fourrure. Fourrie: f. Pillage, forrage; rauaging, boot-haling, ransacking.

Fourier: m. An Harbinger.  Le fourrier de la Lune a marqué le logis. Appliable to a woman that hath her flowers.

Fourriere: f. A caue, or close seller, to lay wine, or oyle in.

Fourrons. An opprobrious name, or nickname, giuen by the Tholosains vnto the Sergeants, or attendants, of the Captaine of the watch.

Fourrure: f. Furre, furring, skins to furre with.

Fourser. To spawne, as carpes in a pond.

Fourvoyé: m. ée: f. Strayed, erred, swarued, gone out of the way; that hath missed, or mistaken the way.

Fourvoyement: m. A straying, erring, wandring, going out of the way.

Fourvoyer. To misse, or mistake the way; to erre in, swarue from; roue, wander, stray, or goe, out of, the way. Ce nous sera fort ioyeux, & si ne te fourvoyeras