_campania_, from _campus_ = a field. "Worstershire, Bedfordshire, and
many other well-mixt soiles, where the Champaigne and couert are of
equall largeness."--G. Markham, Husbandman's Recreations, c. i.
Champions, 16/2, _s. pl._ inhabitants of counties where lands are open
and unenclosed.
Chancing, 9/30, _v._ happening, falling out.
Chapman, 19/27, _s._ bargainer, dealer. A.S. _ceapman_.
Charge, 84/2, _s._ trouble, expense. Compare All's Well that Ends Well,
ii. 3, 121: "She had her breeding at my father's charge."
Charged, 10/8, _pp._ burdened, busy, anxious.
Charges, 23/6, _s. pl._ works, troubles.
Charuiel, 45/4, _s._ the plant Chervil. _Chærophyllum temulentum_,
Linn. Whence A.S. _cærfille_, Fr. _cerfeuil_.
Chaunting, 16/31, _v._ crying, yelling.
Cheanie, 2/6, Jeanie, Jennie.
Cheere, 22/28, _v._ enjoy oneself.
Cheere, 57/26, _s._ enjoyment, merriment.
Chees, 48/20, _s._ cheese. Lat. _caseus_; whence O. H. Ger. _chasi_,
A.S. _cêse_.
Chein, 17/10, _s._ chain.
Cherie, 33/58, _s._ cherry. Lat. _cerasus_; whence A.S. _cirse_, Fr.
_cerise_.
Chikins, 38/33, _s. pl._ chickens, young fowls.
Chinke, 46/27, _s._ money. A word formed from the sound of coin
_jingling_ together.
Chip, 57/32, _s._ wood-choppings.
Chippings, 86/3, _s. pl._ fragments of bread. "_Chapplis_,
bread-chippings."--Cotgrave.
Choised, 57/34, _pp._ selected, chosen. Fr. _choix_, choice.
Chopping, 57/40, _s._ exchange, barter. "Choppe and chaunge,
_mercor_."--Huloet. A.S. _ceapan_.
Churle, 10/50, _s._ an ill-bred, disagreeable person. A.S. _ceorl_, a
freeman of the lowest rank.
Cinqfile, 45/5, _s._ cinquefoil. _Potentilla_, Linn.
Clap, 10/22, _s._ blow, stroke; "at a clap" = at once.
Clapper, 36/25, _s._ a rabbit burrow or warren. "Cony hole or
_clapar_"--Palsgrave. "A _clapper_ for conies, i.e. a heap of
stones, earth, with boughes or such like wherinto they may retire
themselves."--Minsheu. Fr. _clapier_. L. Lat. _clapa_.
Clarie, 39/9, _s._ meadow sage. _Salvia pratensis_.
Clauestock, 17/20, _s._ a chopper for splitting wood.
Cleerely, 16/25, _adj._ clear.
Clicket, 77/9, _v._ chatter. "If I disturb you with my _clicketten_,
tell me so, David, and I won't."--C. Dickens in David Copperfield. "A
tatling huswife, whose _clicket_ is ever wagging."--Cotgrave.
Clim, 56/23, _s._ ? Clement.
Clime, 57/30, _v._ climb. A.S. _climban_.
Clod, 114/37, _s._ earth, hence = landed property.
Clog, 89/1, _s._ charge, duty.
Closet, 14/3, _s._ retirement, seclusion.
Closeth, 62/5, _v. pr. t._ incloses, fences in.
Closier, page 2, _s._ enclosures. Fr. _closure_.
Clot, 33/24, _s._ clods. A.S. _clûd_. "Clodde or clotte lande,
_occo_."--Huloet.
*Cloughted, 89, _pp._ See Clouted.
Clout, 67/16, _s._ piece of cloth. A.S. _clût_, a little cloth. Mid.
Eng. _clout, clutian, clutien_, to patch.
Clouts, Cloutes, 17/10, _s._ an instrument similar to the _plowstaff_,
shod with iron and used for breaking large clods, etc.
Clouted, 17/6, _pp._ "having the Axle-tree armed with Iron
plates."--T.R. O. Fr. _clouet_, dimin. of _clou_, a nail, from Lat.
_clavus_. See Nares, s.v. Clout.
Coast, 63/7, _s._ country, district. O. Fr. _coste_, from Lat. _costa_,
a rib, side.
Coast man, 36/22, _s._ masters of coasting vessels.
Cobble, 74/5, _v. imp._ patch, mend.
Cock, 53/4, _v. imp._ put into cocks, or small stacks.
Cocking, 95/5, _adj._ over-indulgent.
Cockle, 46/13, _s._ the weed corn-rose, _Agrostemma githago_, Linn.
Cockle or Cokyl is used by Wycliffe and other old writers in the sense
of a weed generally.
Cockneies, 92/4, _s. pl._ spoilt or effeminate boys. See note E460, and
Halliwell, s.v. Cockney.
Cocks, 57/16, _s. pl._ small conical heaps of hay or corn.
Codware, 19/26, _s._ all plants that bear pods (or cods); peas, beans,
etc. "Pescodde, _escosse de poix_."--Palsgrave. A S. _codd_. Welsh,
_cod, cwd_, a small bag.
Coeme, Coome, 17/7, _s._ a measure of half a quartern. A.S.
_cumb_.--Somner. "There is no such word in A.S. as _cumb_; it is one
invented by Somner, so that the (so-called) A.S. _cumb_ is really
derived from Eng. _coomb_"--Note by Rev. W. W. Skeat.
Cofer up, 10/61, _v._ to hoard up, lock up.
Cofers, 16/4, _s. pl._ money-boxes.
Cog, 63/14, _v._ cheat, defraud. "Cog a dye, to load a die."--Cotgrave.
"A cogger, _un pipeur_. To cogge, _piper_"--The French Schoolemaster,
1636.
Coile, 4/1, _s._ bustle, hard work; cf. Fr. _cuellée_, a mob, tumult.
Cold, 91/2, _adj._ cooling.
Cole, 57/31, _s._ turf, peat.
Colewort, 39/10, _s._ or collet, cabbage. _Brassica oleracea_, Linn.
Collembines, 43/4, _s. pl._ columbine. Lat. _columbina_, _adj._ from
_columba_, a pigeon, from the resemblance of its nectaries to the
heads of pigeons in a ring round a dish, a favourite device of ancient
artists.--Dr. R. A. Prior.
Comfort, 19/19, _s._ strength, fertility.
Commodities, 37/17, _s. pl._ advantages.
Compact, 112/1, _pp._ composed. Lat. _compactus_, from _compango_.
"Love is a spirit all _compact_ of fire."--Venus and Adonis, 149.
Compas, 47/3, _s._ manure, compost. O. Fr. _compost_, from Lat.
_compositum_.
Compassing, 56/1, _s._ manuring.
*Compast, 11, _pp._ manured.
*Compound, 11, _v. imp._ agree, arrange.
Confer, page 2, _v._ compare. Lat. _conferre_.
Confound, 67/27, _v._ destroy, spoil.
Conie, 15/20, _s._ a term of endearment.
Conies, 63/10, _s. pl._ rabbits. Welsh _cwning_. Irish _coinni_. Lat.
_cuniculus_, cognate with Lat. _cuneus_ (what cleaves, a wedge), and
comes from the Sanskrit root _khan_ = to dig.--Palmer.
Conserue, 91/3, preserve.
Constancie, 9/23, _s._ consistency, firmness.
Conster, 114/34, _v._ understand.
Contemne, 106/7, _v. pr. t._ despise. Lat. _contemnere_.
Continue, 19/35, _v._ to breed from, to keep up stock from.
Contrarie, 67/25, _v. imp._ oppose, contradict.
Cooples, 10/6, _s._ couples, husband and wife.
Coosen, 63/14, _v._ cheat, swindle. Shakespere's _cozen_.
Copie, 47/8, _s._ coppice.
Coresie, 19/24, _s._ annoyance, trouble.
Cornet plums, 34/7, _s._ cornel plums, cornel cherries.
Corneth, 75/8, _v. pr. t._ preserve and season, cure.
Corps, 53/1, _s._ body.
Cost, 32/5, _s._ coast, country. See Coast.
Costmarie, 42/4, _s._ costmary, called also ale-cost, _Balsamita
vulgaris_.
Cote, 58/11, _v._ cogitate, reflect.
Coted, 2/8, _v. pt. t._ took note of, wrote down. "Howe scripture
shulde be _coted_ (quoted)."--Skelton, Colin Clout, l. 758.
Count, 10/21, _v._ reckon, "be to counte" = be of account, be worth.
Counterfait, 64/29, _adj._ counterfeit, sham, false.
Coursest, 55/4, _adj._ coarsest.
Court, 86/10, _s._ account, examination.
Cousleps, 42/5, _s. pl._ cowslips.
Couert, 63/5, covert, underwood.
Couertlie, 9/5, _adv._ closely.
Cowlaske, page 4, _s._ diarrhœa in cattle. See Fletcher's Differences,
1623, p. 33. Laske, _v._ = to _relax_, slacken. See Glossary to
"William of Palerne," E. E. Text Soc. edit. Skeat.
Coxcombe, 64/18; Coxcome, 10/48, _s._ The cap of the licensed fool
had often on the top a cock's head and comb and some of the feathers.
Therefore he "strives for a coxcome" = he will only succeed in proving
his own folly.
Crabs, 15/17, _s. pl._ crab apples.
Cracketh, 10/37, _v. pr. t._ half breaks, injures.
Cradle, 17/14, _s._ "A three-forked instrument of wood, on which the
corn is caught as it falls from the sithe."--T.R.
Crake, 18/21, _v._ brag, boast. Dutch _kraaken_.
Crakers, 54/4, _s. pl._ boasters.
Cram, 114/15, _v._ feed up, satisfy.
Creake, 47/2, "to cry creak" = "to be afraid," "to desist from any
object, to repent."--Halliwell.
Credit crackt, 4/1, credit or trust broken.
Creekes, 49/4, _s. pl._ corners, seek creekes = hide herself.
Creekes, 38/26, _s. pl._ servants.
Creepinglie, 9/32, _adv._ stealthily, by degrees.
Cresies, 40/5, _s._ cress. Fr. _cresson_. M. Lat. _crissomum_ from Lat.
_crescere_, to grow, "a celeritate crescendi."
Crome, 17/19, _s._ "Like a dung-rake with a very long handle."--T.R.
Crone, 56/46, _v. imp._ pick out the crones, i.e. the old ewes. The
meaning is, weed out your flocks.
Crones, 12/4, _s. pl._ "Ewes, whose teeth are so worn down that they
can no longer keep their sheep-walk."--T.R.
Crooked, 57/46, _adj._ deformed.
Croppers, 18/19, _s._ the best or most productive crops.
Croppers, 19/20, _s. pl._ persons who extract crop after crop from the
land.
Crosse, 46/9, _s._ a cross-piece.
Crosse, 9/29, _v._ happen, result unfavourably.
Crosses, 9/29, _s._ troubles, misfortunes.
Crosserowe, page 3, _s._ called also Christcrossrow; the alphabet. "A
is the name of the first letter in the _Crosrowe_."--Baret's Alvearie.
Crotch, 51/10, _s._ "a curved weeding tool."--T.R.
Crotches, 60/11, _s. pl._ crutches. A.S. _cryce_. L. Lat. _croccia,
crucca_. H. Ger. _krücke_.
Crotchis, 57/51, _s. pl._ crooks, hooks. O. Fr. _croche_.
Crowchmas, 50/36, _s._ St. Helen's Day, 3rd May, being the feast of
the Invention of the Holy Cross.
Crowe, 46/9, _s._ crowbar.
Cubboord, 89/5, _s._ cupboard.
Culters, 17/10, _s. pl._ coulters.
Cumbersome, 10/13, _adj._ troublesome, vexatious, oppressive.
Cummin, 45/6, _s._ cumin, a plant resembling fennel, cultivated for its
seeds, which have a bitterish warm taste, and are used like those of
anise and carraway. Arabic _kammûn_. Hebrew _kammôn_.
Cunnie, 36/25, _s._ rabbit.
Currant, 10/44, _adj._ current coin, good coin.
Currey, 64*/2, _v._ gain by flattery. On the origin of this phrase see
"Leaves from a Word-Hunter's Note Book," by Rev. A. S. Palmer, p. 63.
Custome, 77/1, _s._ custom, habit; of custome = as a matter of course.
Curtesie, 9/8, _s._ courtesy, respect.
D.
*Dablith, 27, _v. pr. t._ make wet and dirty.
Dads, 95/5, _s. pl._ fathers.
Daffadondillies, 43/7, _s. pl._ daffodils. _Narcissus pseudonarcissus_,
Linn.
Daieth, 62/8, _v. pr. t._ names some future day for payment, i.e. buys
on credit.
"The moste part of my debtters have honestly payed,
And they that were not redy I have gently _dayed_."
--Wager's Cruell Debter, 1566.
*Dainty, 94, _adj._ difficult, lit. choice, excellent.
Dallops, 54/5, _s. pl._ "A patch or bit of ground lying here and there
among the corn."--T.R. 57/17, "Tufts of corn such as are commonly seen
where dung-heaps have stood too long, or in shady places."--T.R.
Damsens, 34/8, _s. pl._ damsons, contracted from _damascene_ = the
_Damascus_ plum.
Dank, 22/11, _adj._ damp, wet.
Dare, 2/7, _v._ pain, grieve. A.S. _daru_, hurt.
Darnell, 65/1, _s._ darnel, the plant _Lolium perenne_. "Darnell or
Iuraye in Englishe also called Raye."--Dodoens, Newe Herball, 1578.
Darth, 63/24, _s._ dearth, dearness of food, etc.
*Daunger, 90/8, risk.
Daw, 99/2, _s._ simpleton, sluggard.
Day, 57/8, _s._ day-work, time-work.
Dead, 78/4, _adj._ flat (beer). Cf. "Pallyd, as drynke,
_emortuus_."--Prompt. Parv.
Deaw, 56/48, _s._ dew, damp.
Deckt, 106/2, _pp._ adorned, beautified.
Defende, 86/7, _v._ avoid, prevent.
Deintily, 19/37, _adv._ dearly.
Delaide, 66/7, _pp._ tempered, moderated.
Delue, 21/19, _v. imp._ dig. A.S. _delf, delfan_ = to dig, from Goth.
_dailjan_ = to deal, divide. Cf. Ger. _thal_, Eng. _dale_.
Deluing, 36/17, _pr. p._ burrowing.
Depart, 10/56, _v. imp._ give away, part with.
Descant, 68/5, _v._ comment. O. Fr. _deschanter_, from L. Lat.
_discantare_.
Despaire, 57/10; Dispaire, 63/9, _s._ injury, damage.
Despight, 106/12, _s._ despite.
Det, 114/38, _s._ debt.
Detanie, 45/8, _s._ Dittany or Pepperwurt, apparently a corruption of
Lat. _dictamnus_, of which Dodoens says:--"It is fondly and unlearnedly
called in English Dittany. It were better in following the Douchemen to
call it Pepperwurt."--Book v. c. 66. Welsh _Ddittain_.
Dew-retting, 16/25, _s._ steeping flax by leaving it out all night on
the grass. See Water-retting.
Diall, 68/7, _s._ sundial.
Dible, 46/24, _s._ a planting or setting stick, a dimin. of _dib =
dip_ and allied to _tip_ = a sharp point. "_Debbyll_, or settyng
stycke."--Huloet.
Dicing, 10/40, _s._ gambling.
Didall, 17/19, _s._ "A triangular spade, as sharp as a knife, excellent
to bank ditches, where the earth is light and pestered with a sedgy
weed."--T.R.
Dide, 114/11, _v. pt. t._ died.
Digest, 11/4, _v._ quiet, sooth.
Dight, 23/19, _pp._ prepared, treated. A.S. _dihtan_.
Dike, 3/7, _s._ ditch, dike, fence. A.S. _díc_.
Dill, 44/3, _s._ dill. A.S. _dil. Antheum graveolens_.
Dippings, 86/3, _s. pl._ dripping, grease, etc., collected by the cook.
Discharge, 53/3, _v._ relieve you of the trouble.
Discurtesy, 9/19, _s._ incivility, rudeness.
Dispaire, 57/53, _v._ injure, depreciate.
Dissurie, 114/26, _s._ the strangury.
Distaffe, 67/15, _s._ distaff.
Docking the dell, 10/40, dissipation. See Grose's Dict. s.v. _Dock_.
Docks, 17/11, _s. pl._ weeds.
*Dockes, 27, _s. pl._ ?
Dole, 33/16, _s._ share.
Doles, 48/6, _s. pl._ boundary marks, either a post or a mound of
earth; also, a balk or slip of unploughed ground.
Dolt, 33/37, _s._ stupid, fool.
Don, 106/21, _pp._ done.
Doo of, 33/39, _v. imp._ get rid of.
Doong, 19/29, _s._ dung, manure.
Doong Crone, 17/7, _s._ a crook or staff with hooked end for drawing
dung.
Doonged, 53/21, _pp._ dunged, manured.
Doted, 2/8, _v. pt. t._ became foolish, was silly. Fr. _dotter,
radoter_, to dote, rave.--Cotgrave. Cf. Piers Plowman, "Thou _doted_
daffe."
Doughtful, 115/3, _adj._ doubtful.
Douse, 10/7, _s._ strumpet, prostitute; the same word as _Doxy_.
Halliwell, _s.v._ Douce, quotes this passage, and renders _douse_ by "a
pat in the face," but s.v. Dowse he gives the correct meaning.
Dout, 87/7, _s._ danger, risk, difficulty.
Doues, 56/24, _s. pl._ doves, pigeons.
Dowebake, 79/2, _s._ dough, underbaked bread.
Drab, 77/5, _s._ sloven, loose woman.
Dragons, 45/7, _s._ the herb Serpentine, Serpentarie, or Dragonwort.
Dredge, 16/13, _s._ a mixture of oats and barley. "Dragge, menglyd
corne (drage or mestlyon), _mixtio_."--Prompt. Parv. See Note E91.
Drest, 49/8, _pp._ treated.
Dreue, 35/42, Driue, 33/42, _v._ follow you up, press you.
Dreuils, 114/12, Driuell, 79/1, _s._ wasters, spendthrifts.
Drift, 10/13, _s._ end, aim, design, 114/39, course, such drift to make
= to drift along in such a manner.
Drines, 53/20, _s._ dryness.
Drinke corn, 18/24, _s._ barley.
Driping, 35/14, _v._ dripping on, keeping wet.
Driue, 16/20, _v._ drive out of their hives for the purpose of taking
the honey.
Droie, 81/3, _s._ a drudge, servant. See note in Prompt. Parv. s.v.
_Deye_.
Drousie, 89/4, _adj._ the drowsy, the sleepy.
Drout, 14/3, _s._ drought, dry weather.
Drowseth, 62/13, _v. pr. t._ droops, gives way.
Drudge, 7/1, _s._ slave, mean servant.
Duck, 55/6, _s._ docks, dockweed.
Dun, 82/2, _pp._ finished, done for.
Dy, 35/24, _s._ a die, as close as a dy = as close as possible.
E.
Earthes, 35/50, _s. pl._ a ploughing. A.S. _earian_. Lat. _arare_, to
plough. In the Catholicon Anglicum we find "A dayserth or daysardawe,
_juger, jugerum_." See also Ray and Halliwell, s.v. _Arders_.
Easeth, 94/9, _v. pr. t._ indulges, pleases.
Eaw, 67/24, _s._ ewe.
Eb, 14/5, _s._ ebb. A.S. _ebba_.
Ech, 57/23, _adj._ each.
Edder, 33/13, _s._ "Such fence wood as is commonly put upon the top of
Fences and binds or interweaves each other."--T.R.
Edish, 18/4, _s._ stubble after the corn is cut. Roughings. _Edisc_ is
an old Saxon word signifying sometimes _roughings, aftermathes_. See
Glossaries, B 15, B 16, E. D. Soc.
Edmond, St., 20/12, St. Edmund's Day, 20th November.
Eie, 57/9, _s._ eye, attention.
Eiebright, 44/5, _s._ common eyebright, _Euphrasia officinalis_,
formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye.
Eies, 114/4, _s. pl._ eyes.
Eke, 66/6, _adv._ also, too, A.S. _eac, ec_.
Elfe, 114/14, _s._ creature; 86/11, a servant.
Elues, 22/3, _s. pl._ young cattle.
Embraid, 113/7, _v. imp._ upbraid, abuse.
Embrings, 12/6, _s. pl._ the Ember-days, being the Wednesday, Friday,
and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, the feast of Whitsuntide,
the 14th September, and the 13th December.
Endiue, 91/2, _s._ endive.
Enuite, 16/32, _v._ invite, call.
Er, 56/21, _adv._ ere, before. Er an = ere than = before that.
Erecting, 1/1, _pr. p._ sustaining, strengthening.
Erie, 57/11; Ery, 18/17, _adj._ every.
Estate, 10/3, _s._ condition, position.
Etch, 36/3, _s._ stubble, edish, q.v.
Exceptions, 19/25, _s. pl._ differences, distinctions.
Exeltred, 17/6, _adj._ furnished with an axle-tree.
Expulsed, 1/4, _v. pt. t._ expelled, drove away.
Extolst, 112/6, _v. pr. t._ praise, extol.
Ey, 99/2, _s._ attention, forgetting his eye = neglecting his duty by
staring or gaping about. See Eie.
F.
Fall, 35/32, _v. pr. t._ are born.
Falleth, 20/1, _v. pr. t._ falls off, loses flesh.
Falt, 35/43, _s._ fault.
Fansies, 2/13, _s._ fancies, whims.
Fare, 2/5, _s._ treatment.
Fare, 33/33, _v._ farrow, litter.
Fare, 10/32, _v._ prosper, fare. A.S. _faran_.
Farnesse, 14/4, _s._ distance, length.
Fasting daie, 10/51, _s._ a day on which it was forbidden to eat food
of any description.
Fat, 18/34, _adj._ fattened beasts.
Fat, 57/54, _s._ vat, vessel.
Fats up, 15/28, _v. pr. t._ fattens up.
Fautie, 99/2, _adj._ faulty.
Fauoreth, 52/24, _v. pr. t._ help, improve.
Fay, 77/4, _s._ faith, word. O. Fr. _fei_.
Feaw, 56/48, _adj._ few, a few.
Feawe, 50/1, _adj._ little time, while. A.S. _feawe_, few.
Fees, 33/12, _s. pl._ pay, reward.
Feft, 114/33, _pp._ enfeoffed, endowed.
Fellowes, 57/9, _s. pl._ companions, mates. O. Icel. _félagi_, a
companion.
Fellowlie, 10/55, _adj._ friendly, neighbourly. Cf.
"Mine eyes ...
Fall _fellowly_ drops."
--Tempest, Act v. sc. i. 64.
See also Abbot's Shaksperean Grammar, § 447.
Fence, 63/2, _s._ defence, protection.
Fenell, 39/13, _s._ fennel. _Fœniculum vulgare_.
Fennie, 35/44, _adj._ mouldy, vinewed. "_Moisi_; mouldy, hoary,
vinowed."--Cotgrave.
Ferme, 10/13, _s._ farm.
Fermer, 19/18, _s._ farmer.
Fetches, 64/2, _s. pl._ tricks, stratagems. Harrison, Descript. of
Eng., has: "it be a vertue to deal without anie suspicious _fetches_,"
p. 115, ed. 1587.
Fetherfew, 43/9, _s._ feverfew. So named from its supposed febrifugal
qualities. A.S. _feferfuge_.
Fetters, 17/21, _s. pl._ chains for the feet.
Fewell, 50/30, _s._ fuel. O. Fr. _fouaille_, from L. Lat. _focale_,
from Lat. _focus_, a hearth.
Fide, 21/21, _pp._ purified, cleansed.
Fie, 20/21, _v._ cleanse. Icel. _fægja_. Cf. Ger. _fegen_.
Fieing, 53/18, _v._ cleaning out. Feying, "Cleaning a Ditch or Pond, so
as the water may come clear."--T.R. See _Fie_.
Fiemble, 55/8, _adj._ a corruption of _female_, the female hemp.
*Fierbote, 65, _s._ the right to take wood for burning. See Peacock's
Gloss. of Manley and Corringham, E.D.S.
Filbeards, 34/9, _s. pl._ filberts. Various derivations have been
given for this word: one, the most probable, from _full_ and _beard_,
referring to the long _beard_ or husk with which it is provided: cf.
Ger. _bart-nusz_ = _bearded nut_.
Filbellie, 10/40, _s._ extravagance in food.
Filchers, 10/54, _s. pl._ pilferers. Scot. pilk = to pick. "She has
pilkit his pouch."--Jamieson.
Filcheth, 63/13, _v. pr. t._ steals, pilfers.
*Fildes, 38, _s. pl._ fields.
Fisgig, 77/8, _s._ a worthless fellow: a light-heeled wench.--Craven.
"A fisgig, or fisking housewife, _trotière_."--Howell, 1660. Still in
use in Lincolnshire.
Fishdaie, 10/51, _s._ a day in which fish is allowed to be eaten, but
no flesh.
Fitchis, 53/11, _s. pl._ tares, vetches.
Fitly, 92/3, _adj._ suitable, fit.
Flacks, 50/16, _s._ flax. A.S. _fleax_. O. H. Ger. _flaks_.
Flaies, 18/3 _s. pl._ flails.
Flap, 85/7, _s._ a stroke with the flail.
Flawnes, 90/5, _s. pl._ "A custard, generally made in raised paste.
Fr. _flan_, a custard or egg-pie." "A _flawne_ or custard."--Baret's
Alvearie, 1580.
Fleering, 64/17, _v. pr. p._ laughing, grinning. "To _fleer_ and
scorn at our solemnity."--Shakspere, Rom. and Jul. i. 5. "I _fleere_,
I make an yvell countenaunce with the mouthe by vncoveryng of the
tethe."--Palsgrave.
Fleming, 37/22, Flemming, 18/37, _s._ Dutchmen, Dutch coasting traders.
Flixe, 18/41, _s._ a flux.
Floted, 49/1, _v. pt. t._ skimmed off the cream. "Flet, as mylke or
other lyke, _despumatus_."--Prompt. Parv. "_Escréme_, fleeted as
milk."--Cotgrave.
*Flotte, 72/_e_, _pp._ skimmed.
Flower, 52/14, _s._ ? floor.
Flower armor, 43/10, _s._ The "floure gentill or purple velvet
floure."--Lyte's Dodoens, p. 168. Fr. _Floramor_, in Cotgrave _la noble
fleur_, from its resemblance to the plumes worn by people of rank.
_Amaranthus tricolor_.
Flower gentle, 43/12, _s._ a species of Amaranth. _Amaranthus spinosa_.
Flower de luce, 43/11, _s._ Iris, or flower-de-luce. Fr.
_fleur-de-lis_. A plant of the genus _Iris_, in particular _Iris
pseudacorus_, the yellow Iris or water flag.
Foison, 35/4; Foizon, 114/37, _s._ plenty. "Foyzon is winter
food."--T.R. Fr. _foison_, from Lat. _fusionem_, from _fundere_.
Cotgrave gives "_Foison_: f. store, plentie, abundance, great
fullnesse, enough." The word still exists in the Scotch _foison_ or
_fusion_, and the adj. _fusionless_ or _fissenless_. Forby explains it
as "Succulency, natural nutritive moisture," as _e.g._ "there is no
_foison_ in this hay."
Foistines, 57/5; Foistnes, 21/5; Foystines, 20/5, _s._ mustiness,
mould. O. Fr. _fust_, a cask, _fusté_, tasting or smelling of the cask,
musty.
Foisty, 19/39, _adj._ musty.
Fondlie, 10/26; Fondly, 67/9, _adv._ foolishly. _Fon_ = to play the
fool. Jamieson, Scott. Dict.
For, 9/9, _prep._ in spite of, regardless of.
For, 9/18. Here and in numerous instances in Tusser _for_ means "for
fear of," "to prevent."
Forbearer, 13/3, _s._ one who refuses.
Forborne, 13/2, _pp._ withheld, refused.
*Forehorse, 94, _s._ one who is always in advance with his work, never
behindhand; the opposite to a procrastinator.
Forke, 22/9, _s._ pitchfork, hayfork.
*Fornight, 51, _s._ a fortnight.
Forrough, 16/15, _s._ furrow. A.S. _furh_.
Foyson, 10/6, _s._ plenty. See Foison.
Fough, 102/5, _interject_, faugh! phew! an exclamation.
Fraid, 2/8, _v. pt. t._ frightened, made afraid.
Fraie, 53/22, _s._ quarrel, fray.
Fraight, 114/24, _s._ freight, cargo.
Frailnes, 10/62, _s._ frailty, uncertainty.
Frame, 57/1, _v._ make.
Framed, 2/15, _pp._ arranged, composed.
Fransie, 88/4, _s._ madness.
Fraud, 62/15, _v._ obtain by fraud.
Fraught, 64/5, _pp._ laden, freighted.
Fray, 77/4, _s._ disturbance, trouble.
Freat, 23/2, _v. imp._ be vexed.
Freat, 51/11, _v._ damage, decay, eat away.
"As doth an hidden moth
The inner garment _fret_."
--Spenser, Faery Queene, ii. 34.
See Wedgwood's Dict. _s.v._ Fret.
Freeseth, 35/1, _v. pr. t._ freezes. A.S. _freosan_. O. Icel. _friosa_.
Dan. _fryse_.
Frier, 86/14, _s._ friar.
Fritters, 90/3 _s. pl._ small pancakes with apples in them. "Frytoure,
_lagana_ (a pancake)."--Prompt. Parv. "A fritter or pancake; a kind of
bread for children, as _fritters_ and wafers."--Baret's Alvearie, 1580.
Froth, 35/3, _adj._ tender, perhaps originally = pulpy.
Frower, 17/8, _s._ a frow, an iron instrument for rending or splitting
laths. Also called _Frommard_.
Fumetorie, 44/7; Fumentorie, 91/3, _s._ Fumitory. _Fumaria
officinalis_, so called from its rank disagreeable smell: formerly used
as an anti-scorbutic: it is called _erthesmok_ [earthsmoke] in MS.
Sloane 5, f. 5.
Furmentie pot, 90/7, _s._ hulled wheat boiled in milk, and seasoned
with cinnamon, sugar, etc. See note E458.
G
Gadding, 10/51, _v._ going about gossipping.
Gaffe, 22/18, _v._ man, gaffer. "Formerly a common mode of address,
equivalent to _friend, neighbour_."--Halliwell.
Gage, 94/13, _s._ pawn, sweepeth to gage = hurries to pledge or place
in pawn.
*Gage, 53, _v._ assert, maintain.
Galling, 57/31, _v._ causing sore or bare places.
Gallond, 19/42, _s._ gallon.
Gap, 114/20, _s._ an opening, cause.
Gaping, 57/45, _pr. p._ being greedy, grasping.
Garlike, 21/12, _s._ garlic.
Garmander, 42/8, _s._ germander. Fr. _gamandrée_, from Lat. _chamædrys_.
Garson, 33/41, _s._ boy, lad. Fr. _garçon_.
Gasing, 99/1, _pr. p._ gazing, staring.
Gate, 64/17, _s._ walk, gait.