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 de rien. This will be a great pleasure to vs, and no hinderance vnto you, or no whit out of your way.  Il ne se fourvoit point qui à bon hostel va: Prov. He goes not out of his way that goes to a good Inne.  Qui trop se haste en cheminant, en beau chemin se fourvoye souvent: Prov. He that makes too much hast oft wanders in plaine way.

Fousser. as Fouïr; To dig; & (more particularly) to dig, or turne vp, a vineyard, somewhat before the vines begin to bud.

Foussette. as Fossette. Fousteau. as Fouteau. Fouteau: m. A Beech tree. Foutoir: m. A (battering) Ramme; also, a rammer; or, a rammer head for a peece of Ordnance.

Fouton: m. A Snite; so called, because she wags her taile verie much.

Foutouër: m. The warlike Engine called a Ramme, wherewith, in old time, walls were battered; Looke Foutoir. Foutre. To leacher.

Foutu. vn foutu. A scowndrell; a fellow of small accompt.

Foutu: m. uë: f. (The Participle of Foutre.) Fouyasse. as Fouace: ¶Bourbon. Fouyer: m. The harth (of a chymney.)  Le Fouyer d'une arquebuse. The fire-pan, or touch-*pan of an Harguebuse.  Fouyer de Galere. The Cooke-roome in a galley.  Ce que l'enfant oit au fouyer est bien tost cogneu iusques au Monstier: Pro. Little pitchers haue wide eares (wee say; and it seemes by this prouerbe that) little children haue long tongues.

Fouynne. as Fouïnne. Fouzil. as Fusil. Foy: m. Le foy du corps. The middle, or wast.

Foy: f. Faith, trust, confidence, assurance, beliefe in; credit giuen; also, loyaltie, faithfulnesse, trustinesse; also, fealtie; also, fee simple; also, a ring closed with a hand in hand.  Demission de foy. Looke Demission. Homme de foy. A vassall, tenant, subiect, that owes, or holds by, fealtie.  Possesseur de bonne foy. He that possesses a thing vpon a title which he knowes, and is, good.  Possesseur de mauvaise foy. Is he, that either by force detaines another mans goods, or vses them, knowing that they belong to another.  En bonne foy? ''Is it possible? is there any such matter? can it be so?''  En bonne foy. (without interrogation) In good earnest, in good sooth, in good sadnesse.  Il y va à la bonne foy. He goes roundly, plainly, simply, sincerely, to worke.  Il y va aussi à la bonne foy que le loup qui mangea la chevre. (Said of a great deceiuer.)  Faire foy de. To beleeue, trust, giue credit vnto.  Mis sous sa foy. Left to his owne discretion, or gouernment; giuen ouer to himselfe.  Tomber, ou venir en foy tierce. An inheritance to fall into a third hand, or come vnto the hands of a third heire; Looke Tiers. Foy de Granes: Prov. Treacherie, or treason.  Nul n'a trop pour soy de sens, d'argent, de foy: Prov. No man hath for himselfe too much wit, faith, or pelfe.

Foye: m. The liuer. Foye marin. The sea Liuer; a kind of Breame-like fish, that is but seldome seene; also, a stinking excrescence resembling a sodden liuer, and cleauing, in the bottome of the sea, vnto the weed Alge.  Iamais homme ne mange foye que le sien non ait ioye: Prov. The liuer of the liuer-eater, is comforted and much the better.

Foyer. as Fouyer. Foyes: f. The slot of a Stag, the view of a Bucke, the footing of either.

Foyne. as Faine; Beech mast: ¶Bourbonnois. Foynne. as Fouïnne; A Foine, or Polecat.

Frac. On ne trouve chez luy ni fric ni frac. There's nothing to be had, or gotten, at his house.

Fracas: m. Violent breaches; extreame bruises; wracks, destruction; hauocke, hurlyburly.

Fracassé: m. ée: f. Broken, crashed; extreamly crushed; wracked; battered; ruined, made hauocke of.

Fracasser. To crash; to breake, batter, bruise, or crush, extreamely; to wracke, destroy, ruine, make hauocke of.

Fracasseur: m. A crasher, violent breaker, batterer; or crusher.

Fracein: m. as Vlcere ambulatif. Fracteur: m. A breaker; also, a bankrupt; and hence the prouerbe;  Aujourd'uy facteur demain fracteur. Fraction: f. A fraction, or fracture; a breaking, bursting; rending, tearing in peeces.

Fracture: f. A fracture, breach, or bursting.  Fracture faicte en raifort. Looke Raifort. Fracturé: m. ée: f. Burst, broken.

Fragate: f. A Frigate.

Fragile: com. Fraile; brittle, soone burst, easily broken, weake; mortall.

Fragilité: f. Frailtie, fragilitie, brittlenesse; weakenesse.

Fragment: m. A fragment; a peece, or parcell, of a broken thing; a gobbet, or shard.

Fragrant. Fragrant, odoriferous.  En fragrant delict. While th' offence is fresh in memorie; or, presently after the committing thereof.

Fraiche. The feminine of Frais; Looke Frais; or Frez.

Fraile: com. Fraile, brittle, weake, easily broken.

Fraille. as Fraile. Fraillé: m. ée: f. Crumbled in peeces, broken into small crumlockes, or mammocks.

Frailler. To crumble in peeces, to breake into small crumlockes (brittle things.)

Frain: m. A bit; the part of a bridle which is in the horses mouth.  Prendre le frain aux dents. To be verie earnest; or, to goe forward notwithstanding any commaund, or aduice, to the contrarie.  Ronger son frain. To bite of the bit.  À vieille nul frain doré: Pro. Said in derision of an old woman, that hath newly, trimd vp, or sleeked ouer, her selfe.

Fraire. To surfet; to fill full; also, to swell, rise, or increase, as a womans dugs, when the menstruall bloud begins to dilate the veines of the matrix.

Frairie: f. A Frierie; a brotherhood.

Frais. as Fraiz. Frais. le fr. (d'vn homme.) The fresh, new, or late steps, tract, or footing of a man.

Frais: m. Fraische: f. Coole; fresh; young, new, lustie; vnfoiled; vntoiled; also, fresh, or, without salt; Looke Frez.

Fraischement. Freshly; See Freschement.