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dyngan, deiicere, therefore deiectum, stercus. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, germ. Dünger.

2, 1.

scil. Eggs and butter were commonly eaten at 295. breakfast, before the introduction of tea. aHd. to Dup, to do up, to raise. H. 4, 5. Cf. to don, doff

Durance, duration; prison, confinement. bHd.
5, 5. TN. 5, 1. Robe of durance, aHd. 1, 2.
a lasting dress of leather.

to Dwindle, to shrink. M. 1, 8. where it is
joined with to peak and pine. aHd. 3, 3. with
bate. Kin to the gr. aneu, germ. ohne, lat.
vanus, anglos. aswunan, to swoon, old germ.
schweinen, schwinden, schwindeln, gr. deinō,
dinō, doneō, donaō, dendillō.
Dy'd, coloured. KJ. 2, 2. where Voss for dy'd
in the dying slaugther of their foes proposes
dipt in the d. etc. needlessly, as it seems.

E.

Each, At each, each joined to the other, put upon the other. KL. 4, 6.

Eager, sour, tart, poignant. S. 118. H. 1, 5. 1, 1. cHf. 2, 6. The lat. acer, kin to the gr. okos, acus.

to Ean, or yean, to bring forth young, particularly applied to ewes. MV. 1, 3. From the anglos. eanian, gr. gennän, to produce. Paronomastically it reminds the lat. agnus. Fanling, lamb just dropped or eant. MP.1, 8. to Ear, to plough, or till. Rb. 3, 2. AC. 1, 4. Kin to ar, arare, earth, germ. Erde, etc. Earing, tilling, cultivation. AC. 2. 2. Earnest, reality, seriousness. TG. 2, 1. MĀ. 5, 1. Rb. 5, 8; advancemoney given for the strike of a bargain. WT. 4, 3. He. 2, 2. 5, 2. alf. 5, 3. MA. 2, 1. Cy. 1, 6. Anglos. eornest, kin to the gr. eris, erizein, arrhabōn, arrha, northengl. earles.

Earth, land. RJ. 1, 2. Horne Tooke Div. of P.

II, 417.

to Eat one's words, to disown what one has said. MA. 4, 1. AL. 5, 4. Eaves dropper, listener, spy, properly under the penthouse. Rc. 5, 8. Eaves, oldgerm. aha, acha, aka, cimbr. eg, anglos. eac, rivers, eia, isle; avan, ahan, the persian Jzed of the water, welsh avon, river, pers. ab, engl. easings, fr. lat. eau, aqua, aequor, lowsax. oest, kin to ooze, are all together linked by relation. S. Radloff's Keltenthum. p.284. Kaindl die teutsche Sprache aus ihren Wurzeln, mit Paragr. üb. den Urspr. der Sprache (Sulzb. 1815. 8.) I, 47.

Ebbed, ruined, fallen, wained. AC. 1, 4. T. 2, 1.

to Eche, to eke, wh. s. to lengthen out. P. 3. ch. Spelt also eech, He. 2. ch. Ecstasy, every species of alienation of mind, whether temporary or permanent, proceeding from joy, sorrow, wonder etc. madness, a particular fit of it. CE. 4, 4; fixed insanity. H. 3. 1. 3, 4; sorrow. M. 4, 3; wonder and terror. T. 3, 3. From the gr. ekstasis. Edward shovelboards for Edward's Shovelboard shillings, a coin of Edw. 6. MW. 1, 1. Edge. S. age.

E'er, ere, anciently er, sax. aer, teut. air, before. T. 1, 2. KJ. 5, 3. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 407.

Eft. S. deft.
Egal, equal. TɅn. 4, 4.

Eggs for money, a proverbial expression, when a person was either awed by threats, or overreached, bullied, cheated by subtlety, to give money upon a trifling or fictitious consideration. WT. 1, 2. Thereat alludes the fool KL. 1, 4. give me an egg, nuncle, and I'll give thee two crowns. Grey compares the fr. phrase vendre des coquilles.

Eglantine, sweet briar. Cy. 4, 2. MD. 2, 2. Egma, a purposed corruption of enigma. LL. 3, 1.

Eight and six, alternate verses of eight and six syllables. MD. 3, 1.

Egyptian thief. TN. 5, 1. Thyamis in Heliodorus's Aethiopics. He was a native of Memphis, at the head of a band of robbers, and fell desperately in love with Chariclea. A stronger body of robbers coming down upon his party, he was in such fear for his mistress, that he had her shut into a cave with his treasure. There calling aloud in the egyptian tongue, so soon as he heard himself answered toward the cave's mouth by a Grecian, making to the person by the direction of her voice, he caught her by the hair with his left hand and supposing her to be Chariclea, with his right hand plunged his sword into her breast.

Eisel, vinegar. S. 111. II. 5, 1. Even in the latter passage it needs not to impress any utopian river, like the Oesil, for to point out Hamlet's boisterous outbidding the sorrow and love of Laertes, which he enhances proceeding from difficulty to impossibility.

Eke, also, likewise. MW. 1, 3. MD. 3, 1. Anglosax, eac, teuton, ock, lat. ac, germ. auch, kin to the following word. Horne Tooke Div. of P. I, 177.

to

Eke, to augment, increase. To eke out, to even, level, supply. AL. 1, 2. AW. 2, 5. He. 3. ch. Anciently spelt also eek, ich (Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 198.) sax. eacan, lat. augere, gr. auxein, auxanein, lowsax. oken, iceľ. avoxtr, fruit, whence the germ. wachsen, sanscr. vijon,

seed.

Elbow. Out at elbow, impawned. MM. 2, 1. At mine elbow, close to me. MA. 3, 3. MV. 2, 2. Elbow room, free space. KJ. 5, 7. From the gr. ōlené, ōlēn, lat. ulna, teut. alleina, sax. eln, fr. aulne, and bow.

to Elbow, to push, drive. KL. 4, 3. Eld, old age, old people. MM. 3, 1. MW. 4,4. Anglos. eald, scot. eld, eild, from yldan, ildan, to remain, stay, continue, last, endure, delay. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 198. Elder, ebulus, ebulum L. To be crowned with elder was a disgrace. O. Pl. II, 150. XII, 385. Judas was hanged on a tree of that kind. LL.5, 2. Emblem of grief it is Cy. 4, 2. - Kin to the germ. Holder.

Element, the air, or visible compass of the heavens. TN. 1, 2. JC. 1,3. AL. 3, 2; initiation, previous practice. He. 1, 1.

Elements. Man was supposed to be composed of the four elements, the due proportion and commixture of which, in his composition, was what produced in him every kind of perfection, mental and bodily. The four temperaments were also referred to the four elements. TN.2, 3. JC.5, 5. S. 44. 45. AC. 5, 2.

to Elf, to entangle in knots; such as elflocks; to Enfeoff, to invest with possession, to give supposed to be a spiteful amusement of Queen Mab. KL. 2, 3.

Elflocks, locks clotted together in a manner as not to be disentangled. RJ. 1,4. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 180.

Elves, a species of the fairy tribe in the north, so called from the god of the year in bull's form from the hebr. eleph, whence Alp. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. 1, 25.

Else, the others. KJ. 2, 1. From the Sax. ales,
alys by alesan, dimittere; anciently spelt also
alles, alys, alyse, elles, ellus, ellis, ells, els,
kin to the gr. allōs, lat. alias. Horne Tooke
Div. of P. I, 181.

Ely, Bishop of Ely in the year 1478 was Dr. John
Morton, 1486 bishop of Canterbury, 1487 chan-
cellor of the empire, † 1500. Rc.
Emballing, the ceremony of carrying the ball
as queen at a coronation. Hh. 2, 3. Malone pro-
poses empalling i, e. being invested with the
pall or robes of state; Whalley embalming i
e. anointing at the coronation. At last the ex-
planation called 'offensive' by Nares is the best,

because best suited to the character of the old
lady, that speaks of venturing maidenhead for
a queen, of a far lesser district, and because
the matter was, not to venture a coronation for
little England, but a maidenhead empaled for
the crown of little England.

up. alld. 3, 2. From feoff, feudum, fee. Engine, warlike machine used for throwing arrows and other missiles. Co. 5, 4. TC. 2, 3; rack KL. 1, 4. Cf. ingene.

Engrossments, accumulations, heaps of wealth, burden. bHd. 4, 4.

to Engross, to make large, to heap together. bHd. 4, 4. to fatten, pamper. RJ. 5, 3. Rc. 3, 7. to Enkindle, to incite. M. 1, 3. From kindle, originally kenle, kendle, kin to cinder, lat. cinis, germ. zünden.

to Enmesh, to enclose in the meshes of a net. 0.2, 3.

Enridged, furrowed. KL. 4, 6. where the folio
has enraged, a glossema, as it seems, rejected
by Steevens and Malone.

to Ensconce, to fortify, protect as with a fort.
MW. 3, 2. 3, 3. AW. 2, 3. S. sconce.
to Enseam, to fatten, or grease. H. 3, 4. S.

seam.

to Ensear, ensere, to dry up. TA. 4, 8. From
sear, wh. s.
Enshield, enshielded, covered as with a shield.
MM. 2, 4. Some have conjectured inshelled.
to Entail, to bequeath. cHf. 1, 1. Middlelat.
talliare, from taille, kin to deal, germ. Theil.
Entail, fee tail, fee entailed. AW. 4, 3.
to Enter, to write down, to note. bHd. 2, 1.
to Enthrall, to subdue, overcome, niake slave.
TG. 2, 4. From thrall, wh. s.

Entrance, entry. But alf. 1, 1. Mason for No
more the thirsty entrance of this soil shall daub
her lips with her own children's blood corrects
Erinnys, Vess Vengeance, referring to TAn.
5, 2. bHf. 3, 2. Douce Ill. of. Sh. I, 412. en-
trails.

to Emblaze, to deck. bHf. 4, 10. S. to blaze. Embossed, swelling, strutting. TA. 5, 3. blown and fatigued with being chased, so as not to be able to hold out much longer; or rather swelled in the joints, galled, fretted, tumefied. AL. 2, 7. KL. 2, 4; foaming with rage. AC. 4, 11. The etymology of the word derived from boss, kin to the oldgerm. Bosse, ital. bozzo, bozza, to Entreat, intreat, to treat, or use well or ill. fr. bosse, bossu, gr. physa, physsa, lat. pusa, pusula, fr. pustule, provincial germ. pusten, to blow, justifies the general notion of blown, tumefied, that is confirmed also by the asso-nance of the lat. pus, ital. puzzo, gr. pythō, pyō, lat. puteo.

Rc. 3, 1; to use, pass time. RJ. 4, 1. Entreatment, entertainment, conversation. [H.

1, 8.

Entranched, cut in. AW. 2, 1; ensconced by trenches. allf. 1, 4. Envoy, S. l'envoy. Embowelled, drawn out the guts; Rc. 5, 1; Envy, hatred, illwill. Hh. 2, 1. 3, 1. MV. 4,1. exhausted AW. 1, 3. From bowels, fr. boyaux, S. Gifford's Ben Jons. IV, 318. V, 64. ital. budella, gr. kotylos, koilos, hollow, pro- Enviously, angrily, indignantly. H. 4, 5vincial germ. Kutteln, gr. cholades, all related to Enwheel, to encompass, clasp. 0. 2, 1. to kyō, chaō. to Enwrap, to veil, cover. TN. 4, 3. Embraced, (with fire) Co. 5, 2. may be as well Ephesian, a cantterm for toper, or jovial comsurrounded, encompassed, as inflamed; the one panion. MI. 4, 5. bHd. 2, 2. from the fr. embrasser, kin to brace, lat. bra- Equinox, balance, aequilibrium. O. 2, 3. chium, arm; the other from embraser, kin to Equipage, a cant word for stolen goods. MW, braise, ital. brace, bracia, engl. bright, germ. 2, 2. brehen, brinnen, bernen, brennen, to burn, by the gr. pyr, fire. Embrasures, embraces. TC. 4, 4. Embrewed, mingled, mixed as in brewing. TAn. 2, 4.

to Emmew, to restrain, keep in a mew, or cage,
either by force or by terror. MM. 3, 1.
Empery, kingdom. Cy. 1, 7; sovereign authori-
ty, dominion. He. 1, 2.

Empiricutie, empirical. Co. 2, 1. Either by
license, or intended error of the speaker, or
real error of the press.
Employment, implement. TN. 2, 5.
Enacture, action, effect. H. 3, 2.

to Encave, to hide as in a cave. 0. 4, 1.
Encompassment, verbosity, circumlocution.
H. 2, 1.

to Endart, to send in the dart. RJ. I, 8.

Eringoes, the young roots of eryngium campestre L. seasoned or stewed with sugar were esteemed to be stimulatives, MW.5.5. Gifford's Ben. Jons. II, 448.

Errand, message, commission, trust. CE. 2, 1. MA. 2, 1. bHd. 1, 1. Chaucer spells eraund. Perhaps kin to the gr. rhethen, from rheō, said. Murray philos. hist. of the europ. langu. I, 408 derives it from the teutonic air, anglos. aer, ur, messenger. Even so at last it would concord, when related to Iris.

Erst, formerly. Superlative of ere, kin to the gr. aristos, pheristos, first, germ. Fürst, erst. AL. 3, 5. bHf. 2, 4. He. 5, 2. TɅn. 4, 1. 5, 8. Escape, irregularity, transgression. TAn. 4, 2. CE. 5, 1. TN. 1, 2.

to Eschew, to avoid, shun, shift, wh. s. MW. 5,5

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to Escot, to pay. H. 2, 2. From scot, kin to Eye, small tint of colour. T. 2, 1; hole of a the sax. sceat, sceot, icel. skot, skat, fr. écot, needle. KJ. 5, 4.

ital. scotto, riscuotere, riscosso, germ. schies-Eyliads, ogles, wanton looks of the eyes. KL. sen, Schoss, Zuschuss. 4, 5. MIV. 1, 8. From the fr. oeillade.

Esperance, hope. TC. 5, 2. KL. 4, 2. ald. 5, 2.

Espial, spy. aHf. 4, 3. H. 3, 1.

to Estate, to promise by writing, penning
down. MD. 1, 1. T. 4, 1. AL. 5, 2.
Estimate, estimation, value. Rb. 2, 3.
Estridge, ostrich. aHd. 4, 1. AC. 3, 11. From
the fr. autruche, gr. struthos. Douce's Ill. of
Sh. I, 435.

Eterne, eternal. M. 3, 2. H. 2, 2.

to Even, to equal, make equal, AW. 1, 3. Cy.

3, 4.

Even, equal, fellow. H. 5, 1. like even servant in Wicliffe's Matthew. 18; as subst. that is the even of it. He. 2, 1. that is the matter, the true matter. It is the anglos. efen, even, lat. aequus, from the gr. hepō, hepomai, for hekō, hekomai, (like hippos, hikkos, equus), kin to eikos, eikelos, ikelos.

F.

to Face it with a card of ten, to stand
boldly upon a tenth card in some game. TS. 2, 1.
to Face, to outface, bully, attack by impudence
of face, to brave. TS. 4, 3. 5, 1. TN. 4,3. aHƒ.
5, 4.

Fact, crime. WT. 3, 2. Some would read sect,
some pack. But those of your facts will no doubt
Factor, agent, administrator. aHd. 3, 2. Rc. 3,
be for those your facts, that is crimes.
7. 4, 4. AC. 2, 6.

to Fade, to vanish. H. 1, 1. T. 4. Although it
is natural, to consider this word as a variety
of to vade, it remains yet to investigate deeper
its origin, which seems to be in its relation
with the gr. phthaō, phtheō, phthiō, phthēmi,
phthanō by petō, petaō, petanō, to fall, sink,
Fadge, to suit, fit. TN. 2, 2. LL. 5, 1. Kin
of course with to faint, whinid, wh. s.
to the germ. fugen, fügen, gr. pagō, pēgō,
pegnymi, anglos. gefegan.

Evil eyed, envious, malicious. Cy.1, 2. S. Vir-to gil. ecl. 30, 116. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 493. Examined, questioned, doubted. AW. 3, 5. Exception, contradiction, opposition, gain-Fading, an irish dance, and a common burden saying. TN. 1, 3. TG. 1, 3. He. 2, 4. Exchequer, treasury. TG. 2, 4. MW. 1, 3. Rb. 2,8. alld. 3,3. From the middlelat. scacarium, scaccarium, perhaps kin to the persian gaza, germ. Schatz.

Exclaim, exclamation. Rb. 1, 2.
Excrement, every thing that appears to vege-
tate or grow upon the human body. CE. 2, 2.
LL. 5, 1; beard WT. 4, 3. H. 3, 4.
Exercise, puritan weekday sermon. Rc. 3, 2.
Exhibition, stipend, allowance of money. TG.
1, 3. Cy. 1, 7. KL. 1, 2. 0. 1, 3.
Erigent, exigence, situation of difficulty, JC.
5, 1. extremity, end, termination. aHf. 2, 5.
Expect, expectation. TC. 1, 3.

1.

Expedience, expedition, celerity. Rb. 2,
He. 4, 3. enterprise, undertaking. aHd. 1, 1.
AC. 1, 2.

Expedient, expeditious, quick. Rb. 1, 4. KJ.
2, 1.

Expediently, expeditiously. AL. 3, 1.
Exposure, or exposture. TC. 1, 3. Co. 4, 1.
the being exposed, plight, wh. s.
to Expulse, to expel, drive out. alf. 3, 8.
Exsufflicate, exsuffolate, exufficate pro-
perly whispered into the ears, contumelious,
and therefore contemptible, abominable. 0.3,
3. where exsufflicate and blown abuses show
sufficiently, that the word is from the french
souffle, ital. soffiare, zufolare, lat. sufflare,
to blow. The learned exposition of an old eccie--
siastical rite of renouncing the devil in the bap-
tism seems far fetched and superfluous.

to Extend, to seize. AC. 1, 2; to praise, extol.
Cy. 1, 1. 1, 5.

Extent, seizure. AL. 3, 1; violent attack. TN. 4, 1.

Extern, external, outward. O. 1, 1.

to Extirp, to extirpate. MM. 3, 2. aHf. 3, 3. Extracting, drawing away, or off. TN. 5, 1. Extravagant, wandering about, going beyond bounds. H. 1, 1. O. 1, 1.

yas, a young unfledged hawk. H. 2, 3. MWV. 3, 8. From the fr, niais, ital. niaso, by the gr.

nossos, neossos.

for a song. WT. 4, 3. S. Gifford's Ben Jons.
VH, 210.

Fail, failure. Cy. 3, 4. WT. 2, 3. 5, 1.
Fain, obliged; willingly. KL. 1, 4. bHf. 2, 1.
cHf. 4, 7. Compare the icel. fegin, anglos. fae-
genun, fuegn. Horne Tooke Div. of P. I, 473.
and the gr. guio, ganō, ganymi. Faign means
fidging, a sign of mirth. Hence the scot. poets
'I'm fidging fain to see you.

Fair, fairness. CE. 2, 1. S. 18. MD. 1, 1. AL.
3, 2. Kin to the icel. fagr. glossy, anglos. fae-
to Fair, to make fair, or beautiful. S. 127.
ger, gr. phōs, phaidros.
Fair play, greeting, courtesy. RJ. 5, 2.
Fairy circles, certain green circles, frequently
Fairings, presents given at a fair. LL. 5, 2.

visible on short grass and supposed to have
been made by the dancing of fairies; in reality
by the growth of a particular fungus. T. 5, 1.
Douce's Ill. of Sh. 180. 184.

Fairy. Fairies no doubt are related to the per-
sian peris, as they are described by Hammer
Gesch. der pers. Redekünste p. 21. f. Shk's fai-
ries are immortal, mean things, whose employ-
ments. s. MD. 2, 1. 3, 2. Cy. 2, 2. 3, 6. 4, 2.
MIV. 4, 4. Drake II, 802. Douce's Ill. of Sh.
I, 198. 885. 204. 185. 180. 184. 83.
to Faith, to give credit to. KL. 2, 1. 'Anglos.
faegth, thath which one covenants or engages,
from faegan, paugere; fr. foi, ital. fede, lat.
fides, by the gr. peithō.

Faitor, malefactor, traitor. bld. 2, 4.
to Fall, active, to strike down, or let fall. MM.
2, 1. KL. 2, 4. AL. 3, 5. 8. Douce's Ill. of Sh.
I, 808. 124. to fall out with, to quarrel, to
break off, to be at odds. TÇ. 3, 1. KL. 2, 4.
MD. 4, 1; to fall to, to serve one's self at table.
Rb. 5, 5; to begin. bHd. 5, 5. H. 5, 1.
Fallow, broke and ploughed, but not sowed.
MM. 1, 5. He. 5, 2. Kin to the greek aloa.
to False, to falsify, betray. Cy.2, 3.

to Falter, to stutter, stammer; to fall, sink,
to be defeated. Rb. 3, 2.

to Famous, to make famous, to celebrate. S. 25.

Fathom, measure of six feet; skill, ability. 0. 1, 1. Anciently fadom, gr. pythmen, pyndax, fundus, kin to bosom. Fathomdeep Hh. 2, 2. KL. 3, 5. T. 1, 2.

Fan. The fans in Sh's time were more costly to Fate, to decree, send by fate. KL. 3, 4. than now, composed of ostrich feathers, with AW. 1, 1. T. 1, 2. AW. 4, 4. a roundish handle; the richer sort of gold, Fate, Fortune. LL. 5, 2. silver, or ivory of curious workmanship. MW. 2, 2. with Steevens. It was a piece of state for a servant to attend, on purpose to carry the lady's fan, when she walked out. RJ. 2, 4. Looking glasses were sometimes set in the broad part, above the handle, near the setting on of the feathers. Effeminate men used such a fan.

to Fan, to sift, clean, bolt. Cy. 1, 7. WT.
4,3.

Fancy, a sort of light ballads, or airs. bHd.
3, 2; love, as depending much on fancy, MD.
4, 1. From phantasia. Hence fancy free, free
from the attack's of love MD. 2, 2.
to Fancy, to love. TG. 3, 1. TC. 5, 3.
Fane, temple. Cy. 4, 2. From the lat. fanum.
to Fang, to tear or seize with teeth or fangs
(AL. 2. 1. TN. 1, 5.) KL. 3, 7.

Fatigate, fatigued, wearied. Co. 2, 2. Faultiness, badness, viciousness. AC. 3, §. Favour, feature, countenance. MD. 1, 1. MM. 4, 2. AL. 5, 4. AW. 1, 1. TN. 3, 4. Rb. 4, 1. aHd. 3, 2. JC. 1, 2. TC. 1, 2. 4, 5. KL. 1, 4. H. 5, 1. O. 1, s. 3, 4. His favour is familiar to me for favour supposes Voss Cy. 5, 5. Favoured, framed, like, resembling. JC..1, 3. Fay, faith; usually as an oath. RJ. 1, 5. H. 2, 2.

to Fear, to terrify, frighten. MM. 2, 1. TS.1, 2. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 328. Goth. faurthan, sax. forhtian, forht, lat. vereri. Fearful, dreadful, causing fear. aHd. 3, 2. Fangled, trifling, or rather modern, fashion-to Feast, te delight. MM. 2, 2; to treat sumped, fond of trifles. Cy. 5, 4. Perhaps from the germ. finden, or the sax. fengan, to attempt. Fantastico, fantastical, coxcombical man. RJ. 2, 4.

Fap, drunk, fuddled. MW. 1, 1. From vappa.
to Farce, to stuff. He. 4, 1. From the lat. far-
cire, fr. farcer.

Fardel, farthel, burden. WT. 4, 3. H. 3, 1.
Ital. fardello, fr. fardeau.

to Fare, to live. TS. ind. 2; to f. with, to deal
with. cHf. 2, 1.

Far fet, far fetched, deep, sly, cunning. bнƒ.
3, 1.
Farthingale, fardingale, whalebone circle,
which ladies of old wore on their hips, and
upon which they tied their petticoats. MW.
3, 3. From the fr. vertugade, vertugale, ital.
guardinfante, all, as it seems, kin to verti-
cillum, Wirtel, Wirbel, of course to wirren,
werben, the gr. gyros, crank, wh. s.
Farthings. Threefarthings, a coin with Eliza-
beth's head, aud a rose behind; of silver, and
extremely thin, therefore very liable to be
cracked. KJ. 1, 1. From the sax. feorthung,
middlelat. ferto, fertum, from feower, icel.
fior, germ. vier. S. Horne Tooke Div. of P.
II, 28.

to Fashion, to dispose. JC. 2, 1.
Fashions, corrupted from farcins, fr. for the
farcy, a disease of horses. TS. 3, 2.
Fast and loose, a cheating game, whereby
gipsies and other vagrants beguiled the common
people of their money, still used by the low
sharpers, and called pricking at the belt or
girdle. A leathern belt is made up into a
number of intricate folds and placed edgewise
upon a table.
One of the folds is made to
resemble the middle of the girdle, so that
whoever should thrust a skewer into it, would
think he held it fast to the table, whereas,
when he has so done, the person, with whom
he plays may take hold of both ends and draw
it away. Hawkins.' AC. 4, 11. The drift of
it was to encourage wagers, whether it was fast
or loose, which the juggler could make it at
his option.

to Fasten, to make fast, to join, to force upon
by persuading. O. 2, 3.

Fasting, longing, hungry, wanting. LL. 4, 3. Fat, dull, gross, obscene. TN. 5, 1. Kin to the sax. fedan, füttern, föden.

tuously. AC. 2, 2. From the lat. festum, kio
to the gr. hestiaō.

Feat, neat, dexterous, elegant, brisk, pert,
proper, wellfashioned, minikin, handsome,
lively. Cy. 5, 5. T. 2, 1. From the fr. fait.
to Feat, to make neat. Cy. 1, 1. Featured is
there glossem.

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Feather, plume; kind, sort. TA. 1, 1. LL. 4. 1. cHf. 2, 1; fan, wh. s., of course, affectation, mincing, effeminateness. Hh. 1, 3. where these remnants of fool and feather.' Kin to the gr. petomai, petamai, ptěmi, pteron, germ. Feder.

Featherbed. To be in peril of life by the
edge of featherbed, denotes the danger of mar-
riage. MV. 2, 2.

Featly, neatly, dexterously. T. 1, 2.
Feature, form, person. C. 2, 5.
Federary, accomplice, confederate. WT. 2, 1.
Fee, feof, lease, pawn, pledge. KJ. 2, 1; war
pay; in general meet, regular salary. H. 2, 2.
emoluments, or perquisites of a place. RJ.1, 4.
KL. 1, 1. From feudum, by the gr. paō, boskō,
lat. pasco, germ. weiden, füttern, engl.
food, feed, foy, foison, cimbr. foedsla. Hence
fides, foedus, goth. faihu, sax. feo, feoh, gr.
poy, as notions of faith and bondage, are later
historical transformations, whereas the general
notion is possession or property, as far as it
feeds, or furnishes livelihood, whether it be
cattle, pasture, or field.
Feefarm, charter of farm. TC. 3, 2.
Feegrief, private grief, appropriated to some
single person as a fee, or salary. M. 4, 8.
Fecsimple, fee absolute. AW. 4, 8. RJ. 3, 1.
to Feeble, to weaken. KJ. 5, 2. Co. 1, 1.
Feeder, servant. AC. 3, 11. TA. 2, 2. AL. 2,4.
with the bynotion of eater, cormorant.
Gifford's Ben Jonson II, 168. III, 408.
Feeding, pasturage, tract of pasture. WT.
4. 3.

S.

Fell, skin, generally with hair. AL. 3, 2. M. 5,5. KL. 5, 3. (Kin to pellis, vellus, engl. felt, germ, Fell, Filz, Vlauss); cruel. MD. 2, 1. TC. 4, 5. TAn. 5, 3. Cy. 1, 5. KL. 2, 1. 0. 5, 2. where fell and wroth are joined. Kin to Felon, stealth. bHf. 3, 1. S. Dufresne voc. felo. Kin to the gr. pheloō, phallō; sphallō, to deceive, fr. filou, it. fellon.

Felly, felloe or circumference of a wheel. H. 2, 2. From the lat. falx, germ. Felge.

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Fig of Spain, a poisoned fig, employed as a secret way of destroying an obnoxious person. He. 3, 6. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 492. sq. Fifteen, the fifteenth part of all moveables of a subject. bHƒ. 4, 7.

Fellow, companion, even a female. T. 3, 1.
bid. 1, 2.
Fellowly, sociable, sympathetic. T. 5, 1.
Fen, marsh, moor, morass, pool, mire. T. 1, 2.
bog, flats. Co. 3, 3. KL. 2, 4. Formerly and
properly any corrupted, decayed, spoiled sub-
stance. S. faint, whinid. Horne Tooke Div.
of P. II, 176. Then icel. fen, lows. Fenne,
goth. fani, sax. fenn, ital. fango, fr. fange,
kin to the gr. pinos.

Fennel was considered as an inflammatory herb;
whence to eat conger and f. as two high and
hot things together, was esteemed an act of
libertinism. bHd. 2, 4. Ophelia H. 4, 5. distri-
butes it either to the old as a cordial, or to the
courtiers as an emblem of flattery.
Feodary, one who holds a feod, or feud, on
the tenure of feudal service. MM. 2, 4; sub-
ordinate agent. Cy. 3, 2.

to Fer, firk and ferret, quibbles on the french
fer. He. 4, 4.

Fere, feere, pheare, phaer, companion, partner, husband, lover. TA. 4, 1. From the sax. gefera, germ. Gefährte.

Fernseed was supposed to make invisible, by a mistake or abuse of far. aHd. 2, 1. Ferret, redhot. JC. 1, 2.

Ferryman, one who keeps a ferry. Rc. 1, 4. Kin to bear, gr. pherein, pharein, barein, engl. ford.

to Fester, to suppurate, grow virulent, to run with matter. Rb. 5, 3. Co. 1, 9. RJ. 4, 3. Kin to the gr. pyos, pyon, pyō, pyzō, pythomai, lat. puteo, foeteo.

Festinate, hasty. KL. 3, 7.

to Fet, to fetch. He. 3, 1.

Fights, wastcloaths, which hang round about the ship, to hinder men from being seen in fight; close fights are bulkheads, or any other shelter, that the fabric of a ship affords. MW'. 2, 2.

Filbert, small nut, corylus avellana, or abellina, of which fil is a corrupted form for avell, with bert, berde, oldgerm. fruit, from bear, bären, to produce. T. 2, 2.

to Filch, to steal cunningly. O. 3, 3. MD. 1, 1. MW. 1, 3. From the gr. phelikizō, phēloō, phelissu. S. felon.

File, list, catalogue, number. MM. 3, 2. M. 5, 1. Co. 2, 1. AW. 3, 3; rank. Cy. 5, 3. AC. 1, 1. The lat. filum.

to File, to grind, wet, sharpen, polish. TN. 3, 3. LL. 5, 1. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 232. to defile, taint. M. 3, 1. Compare filth, foul,

lat. vilis.

Fill, thill, the shafts of a cart or waggon. TC. 3, 2. (true reading for filles, fils, files. So fillhorse MV. 2, 2. for philhorse, pilhorse, thillhorse. Hence gaze your fill. TS. 1, 1. mind your business. Thill sax. thisl, germ. Deichsel, and fill however seem to be two different words, confounded only, because occurring in a related series of notions. Fillhorse reminds foale, germ. Füllen, Fohlen, gr. polos, and seems one of those tautologies arisen from the endeavour of explaining a less common word by an other more current.

only, of hounds that hunt not. O. 2, 8. end. to Fillip, to rap on the nose. bHd. 1, 2. TC. 4, 5. Co. 5, 3.

to Fetch about, to turn, change, shift, as to Fill up the cry, to supply the cry, to bay the wind. KJ. 4, 2. to fetch off, to circumvent. 'bHd. 3, 2. Kin to the sax. feccan, fraude acquirere, adducere (Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 853.) the gr. petō, patassō, lat. petessere, austr. feksen, fächsen, to crop, gather fruits, gr. piezō, piazo, icel. fae, germ. fuhen, fassen.

Fetch, cunning trick, feint in fencing, cheat,
fraud. KL. 2, 4. H. 2, 1.

Fetlock, taft of hair behind the pastern joint
of horses. He. 4, 7. cHf. 2, 3.
Feud, hostility, quarrel, contest, debate,
hatred. TC. 4, 5. From the oldgerm. fien,
goth. fijan, sax, fian, figiun, to hate, whence
feond, fah, engl. foe, fiend, oldgerm. Wigant,
goth. fiand, fijand, sax. feond, fynd, ital.
sfidare, to challenge.

to Fever, to put into a fever, to seize like a
fever. AC. 3, 11.

Fewness and truth, a quaint affected phrase
for in few words and true. MM. 1, 5.
Fickle, changeable, unconstant, variable. RJ.
3, 5. KJ. 2, 2. aHd. 5, 1. He. 3, 6. allf. 4, 1.
From the sax, wicelian, lat. vacillare, germ.
wackeln, the labial form of the gr. eikein,
germ. weichen, kin to peak, weak, the lowsax.
fege, near to death. Dental form is sick,
germ. siech, schwach, correlate to quick,
germ. keck.

Fico, a fig, term of reproach. MW. 1, 5.
Fierce, sudden, precipitate. KJ. 3, 4. The
lat. ferus, ferox.

Fig. An expression of contempt or insult, which consisted in thrusting the thumb between two

Film, a thin skin, web, or pellicle. RJ. 1, 4.
From filamen.

Fin, wing of a fish. Co. 1, 1. From the lat.
pinna, penna.

Finchegg, a term of reproach, no doubt
equivalent to coxcomb. TC. 5, 1.

Find faults, faultfinder, censurer, caviller.
He. 5, 2.

to Find, term proper of coroners. H. 5, 1.
AL. 3, 4.

Fine, handsome, neat; artful, cunning, sly
AW. 5, 3. Kin to venus, venustus, gr. phaei-

nos.

Fine, mulct, pecuniary punishment. MA. 1, 1. From the gr. poině, poena; end. AW. 4, 4. from finis.

to Fine, to adorn, make fine, to colour, to
cover with pretext. He. 1, 2. to make an end
of. TL. 134.

Fineless, endless. O. 3, 3.
Finger. To put f. in the eye, to weep. TS.
1, 1. CE. 2, 2.

Finical, affected, minced. KL. 2, 2.
Finisbury, open walks and fields near Chis-
wellstreet, London wall by Moorgate, famous
for the exercise of archers, the common resort
of the citizens. aHf. 3, 1.
Firedrake jocularly a man with a red face.
Hh. 5, 3.

Firenew, newly come from the fire, said
originally of things manufactured in metal
new coined. LL. 1, 1. TN. 3, 2. Rc. 1, 3. KL.

of the closed fingers, or into the mouth,
whence bite the thumb. He. 3, 6. bHd. 5, 3.5, 8.

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