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 € HABIPSHIRE GLOSSARY. Fallals [fal'nlz], sb, pi. the mundua muliehns [a woman's omamentsj. Forby limits it to flaunting and flaring ornaments, and derives it from the Lat phaleroB ; but this is very doubtful. — ^F. M. Fardel [faa*dul], ah, a part. Certain classes were divided into three fardels t or parts, for the escamination. — Winch. Sch, QL Fashion [fash'un], sb. a corruption of farceyy a disease in horses. his grand-daughters appeared before him with any new piece of finerv, would ask what it all meant. The girls would reply, ^/ashiony e;i'an vather,' when the old man would rejoin, * Ha ! many a good horse has died o' th' fashion ! ' Fat flab [fat flab], sb, a cut off the fat part of a breast of mutton. — Adams* Wyktliamica^ p. 423. Fat hen [fat hen], ib. Chrysanthemum segetum [1]. — J. B. FaTOUr [faivnir], v, to resemble, to be like. Ex. ' He very much favours his mother.' — J. Fay [fai], v, to act or work notably. * It fays well ' ; it works well ; it answers. —Cooper. So also, *it don't /oy at alL* — Wise. C£ Fr. faire. FearfU j^eerfuol], acf/. timorous, timid ; '& fearful man/ a timid man. The word occurs in 3 Hen^ VI. v. 4. Feam [vee*urn], sb, fern. — N. H. Featish [fee'tish], adj, fair, tolerable, middling. Ex. ' How he'eeV ^Featish, thank 'e.* — * There's a. featish crop of grass yonder.' — Chaucer hoBfetis; Prol. 157. *Ak. Feck [fek], sb, a pointer. — J. Feck, adj, worthless. — J. Felling-bird [fel-ing burd, vel-ing burd], the wryneck, Tunx iorquilla. Sometimes called the stripping- bird. It derives these names from its note being flrst heard about the time (April) when oaks stre felled, and the bark stnpped. — N. H. Fen [fen], abbreviated from Fend or Defend ; an expression in fre- quent use amone schoolboys, and applied in various waysi See Let and SweaL *^. gives the form fend ; it is short for defend. See Fingy. Fenny [fen-i, ven-i], adj, mouldy. Ex. ' blue venuied cheese.' — J, Fern-owl [furn-oul], sb, the goat-sucker. See Puokeridge. Fescue [fes-keu], sh, a kind of grass (Lat. Festuca), — J. Fess [fes], adj, used among schoolboys to express — confident, pre- sumptuoua * You are y&ryfess,^ Probably a corruption of fierce^ — F. M. To be fess is to be set up, elated, in high spirits. — ^Wise. Fessy [fes-i], adj, (1) Proud, upstart. (2) Put out, flurried ; * fashed,' as the Scotch would say. — Wise, New Forest.
 * Ak. Akermann rehttes the following : — An old Wilts farmer, when