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 Futile: com. Light, vaine, vnprofitable, foolish.

Futur: m. ure: f. Future, succeeding, hereafter, to come.  Examen à futur; Looke Examen. Fuy: m. ye: f. Fled, escaped, gone, euaded, slipt aside, runne away.  Tous les prisonniers s'en sont fuys de sa bourse. All the prisoners are got out of his purse; viz. he is purse pennilesse, or he hath not a pennie left him.

Fuyant. Flying, escaping, euading, got away; shunning, auoiding, eschewing; excusing, delaying; loathing, loth to deale with; also, momentarie, of small continuance, quickly past, soone gone.

Fuyard: m. A kind of Stock-doue.

Fuyard: m. A coward, a flyer, a runne-away; also, a shunner of companie; also, a halter, flincher, delayer, shifter, one that draweth backe when a matter comes to an vpshot, or to the pinch, and point of tryall.

Fuyard: m. de: f. Momentarie, soone gone, flitting, running, passing away; also, cowardly flying, running away for feare; whence;  Fuyard en lievre. Scudding away like a Hare (with dogs at her heeles;) or gone vpon the first, or least, apprehension of danger.

Fuye: f. A Pigeon-house; also, a flight of Pigeons.

Fuyeur: m. A flyer, coward, runneaway; runner; flincher.

Fuzain: m. Spindle tree, Prick-wood, Pricke-timber.

Fuzé: m. ée: f. as Fusé. Fuzée: f. as Fusée; also, the barrell, or the axletree of a Crane. Fuzelier: m. A Spindle-maker.

Fuzil. as Fusil. Fy. as Foy; Faith; ¶Pic. Par ma fy. By my fecke.

Fy. (Interject.) Fy, away, fy away, fy fy, out vpon it.  Maistre fy fy. A Dung-farmer, Gould-finder, feyer of Priuies.   Fy d'avoir qui n'a ioye, & d'amours sans monnoye: Pro. Fy vpon meanes without mirth, and a mistresse without money.  Fy de ieunesse, & de beauté desgarnie d'humilité: Prov. Fy vpon youth, and beautie deuoid of humilitie.  Fy de manteau quand il fait beau: Pro. Fy vpon a cloake in faire weather.  Fy de plaisirs, d'estats, & d'or, qui de vertu n'a le thresor: Prov. Out vpon honor, wealth, and pleasure, which of vertue want the treasure.  Fy de science, & d'art, qui en raison n'a part: Prov. Fy on Knowledge, and on Art, which in reason haue no part.

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Gaban: m. A cloake of Felt, for raynie weather; a Gabardine.

Gabaonite: m. A maker of such Cloakes, or Gabardines.

Gabarre: f. A Lighter; the boat whereby ships are loaden, and vnloaden.

Gabarrier: m. A Lighter-man.

Gabellage: m. A customing; an imposing, or paying of custome.

Gabelle: f. (Any kind of) impost, imposition, or custome; especially that which is payed vnto the King vpon sale of salt; and hence; Gabelle de sel. The Impost of salt; first begun by Philip the Long, who took for it a Double (ij d Tour:) vpon the pound; after whō Philip de Valois doubled that; and Charles the seuenth raised it vnto vj d, which was doubled by Lewis the eleuenth; since whose time it hath been altered, from so much vpon the pound, vnto a rate vpon euerie Muid; as vncertaine as the former (being sometimes 30 pound, sometimes 44 poūd, and sometimes 45 pound) and rising, or falling, at the will and pleasure of the Prince.  Gabelle de Tonnieu. A certaine Impost taken by the Duke of Buillon vpon euerie Tunne, and Hogshead of Wine transported, or sold by Great.

Gabellé: m. ée: f. Customed for; on which an Impost is layed.

Gabeller. To pay custome for; also, to impose a custome, lay an Impost, on.

Gabellier: m. A leuier, or gatherer of, Impost.

Gabeloux: m. A scoffing knaue, gibing marchant; cogging companion.

Gaber. To mocke, flout, ride; cog with; to gull, cheat, cosen, fetch ouer.

Gaberies: f. Mockes, flouts; tales, fibs, foists, gleekes, gudgeons, gulleries.

Gabes. as Gaberies. Gabet: m. A white leaper; so called about Bourdeaux. Gabeur: m. A mocker, flouter; cogger, foister; cheater, cousener; seller of bargaines.

Gabgregeux: m. Rogues, varlets, rascals, scowndrels, base fellowes.

Gabian. as Gavian. Gabie: f. The vpper part of a Mast whereto the shrouds are fastened; the head of the Mast.

Gabinet: m. A Cabinet.

Gabion: m. A gabion; a defence for Canoniers, made of great baskets filled with earth.

Gabionnade: f. A ranke, or defence, of gabions.

Gabionné: m. ée: f. Gabioned; fenced, or fortified with gabions.

Gabionner. To defend, or fortifie with gabions; to make a defence of gabions.

Gabors: m. The Ribbes, or Knees of a Ship.

Gabot: m. A white leaper; as Caquot; also a red fish, or Gurnard; also, as Gavot. Gaboux: m. ouse: f. Full of flouts, mocks, ieasts, derision, scoffes.

Gache. as Gasche. Gacher. as Gascher; also, to feed, or surfet on. Gachis: m. A dashing, or flashing of water; also, the stroake of an Oare, or noise which it makes in rowing.

Gades: f. Red Gooseberries, beyond-sea Gooseberries, bastard Currans, common Ribes.

Gadille. as Gadrille. Gadiller. To padle; iog, or stirre vp and downe.

Gadoüard: m. A Gould-finder, Iakes-farmer, feyer of Priuies; also, a Scauinger.

Gadouë: f. Durt, filth; dung, ordure.  La charrette de la gadouë. A common Dung-cart; or Scauingers Carre.

Gadriers. as Gades. Red Gooseberries.

Gadrille: f. The little bird called a Robin-red-breast.

Gadriller. (A wench) to raump, or play the rig.

Gadrouillette: f. A minx, gigle, flirt, callet, Gixie; (a fained word, applyable to any such cattell.)

Gaffe: f. An Iron hooke wherewith sea-men pull great fishes into their ships.