Page:A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew, in its several tribes, of gypsies, beggers, thieves, cheats, &c. with an addition of some proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c.djvu/66

 Room, opening the Windows. Fire-fanns, little Hand-Skreens for the Fire.

Fantastick, Whimsical, Freakish, or Capricious. A Fantastick Dress, very particular, remarkable,

Fardel, a Bundle.

Fardy, for Ferdinando.

Fare, Hire; also a litter of Piggs.

Farting-crackers, c. Breeches.

Fast-friends, sure or trusty.

Fastner c. a Warrant.

Fastnesses, Boggs.

Fat, the last landed, inned or stow'd of any sort of Merchandize whatever, so called by the several Gangs of Water-side-Porters, &c.

Fat Cull, c. a rich Fellow. All the Fat is in the Fire, of a miscarriage or shrewd Turn. ''Change of Pasture makes Fat Calves'', of him that thrives upon mending his Commons.

Faulkner, c. see Tumbler, first Part. Faytors, c. the Second (old) Rank of the Canting Crew. FE Feat, strange, odd. Feats of Activity, exercise, or Agility of Body in Tumbling, turning through a Hoop, Running, Leaping, Vaulting, Wrestling, Pitching of the Bar, Quoiting, &c. or Slights of Hand, Tricks, Legerdemain, &c.

Feats of Chivalry, Exploits of War, Riding the great Horse, Tilting, Tournaments, Running at the Ring, &c.

Feather-bed-lane, any bad Road, but particularly that betwixt Dunchurch and Daintrie. He has a Feather in his Cap, a Periphrasis for a Fool. Play with a Feather, of things that are gamesom and full of Play, as Kittens and Kids. To Feather his Nest, to enrich himself by indirect means, or at the Expence