Faire les affres à. To fright, scare, affright, affray.
Faire aiguade. To water, or take fresh water into ships.
Faire ambezatz. To cast aumes-ace; Look Ambezatz.
Faire armes. To fight; also, to fight valiantly.
Faire l'asne. To play th' Asse; and particularly in a kind of card-play, to loose a double stake, by loosing a game which he vndertooke to win.
Faire la babaye; ou, la babou. Scoffingly to gape, or make a mouth at.
Faire la banniere. Il fait la ban: Said of a theeuish Tailor, who in cutting out a garment makes ouer-large shreds.
Faire barbe. To assemble together in troups; as bees do, before, or about, the doors of their hiues, when they purpose to seeke out a new lodging; a phrase in vse among the countrey people of Languedoc.
Faire la barbe à vn. To barbe one; also, to withstand, beard, or braue him to his teeth.
Faire barbe de foarre à. To contemne, scorne; cousen, delude; abuse.
Faire barriere à. To stop; raile, or hemme in; also, to backe; shrowd, or shield.
Faire de tout bois fleches. To make vse of anything that comes in his way.
Il ne sçait plus de quel bois faire fleches. He knows no longer what to doe, nor whither to betake him.
Faire bon pour. To answer, vndertake, or giue his word for; also, to play the game of.
Faire vn faux bond. Looke Bond.
Faire la bouche à. To instruct one, or giue him his lesson, beforehand.
Faire la petite bouche. To mince, or simper it; to make it goodly; to stand on nice tearmes; Looke Bouche.
Faire bourre voler. To play at tēnis; or, as in Bourre.
Faire vn bringue à. To drinke vnto.
Faire la buée. To lay, or wash, a bucke.
Faire la cavalcade. To course vp and downe on horse-*backe.
Faire de cent sous quatre. To bring a noble to nine-*pence; to consume a great summe quickly.
Faire vne chambre. To dresse vp a chamber.
Faire vne charruë de Regnards. To spend the time in most trifling imployments.
Faire les cheveux à. To powle, barbe, trim.
Faire ses choux gras de. Greatly to inrich, or improue his estate by.
Faire le contre. To second, or helpe forward; or as in Musicke, to beare a burden, or sing the plain song wheron another descants; also, at a card-play to hold, or vndertake, the game, as well as another.
Faire corvée. To doe a thing vnwillingly; or onely of duetie, without any hope of recompence.
Faire d'autruy cuir large courroye. To cut a wide sleeue out of anothers cloth; to spend freely on another mans purse.
Faire la cuisine. To dresse meat, as a Cooke in a Kitchin; or to dresse vp a Kitchin.
Faire la culbute. To play the tumbler, to flie top ouer taile.
Faire le demy sault. To caper on a paire of gallowes.
Faire le dessus. To domineere, to signorize it; also, to hold, or sing a treble part.
Faire d'vn Diable deux. To make an ill thing worse by striuing to amend it.
Faire le Diable de vauvert. To play reaks; to keep an old coile, a horrible stirre; to make a hurlyburly.
Faire ses diligences. Looke Diligence.
Faire la dormeveille. To counterfeit sleepe, to make as though he were asleepe.
Faire eau. To leake; also, to take in fresh water.
Faire de l'entend-trois. To answer from the purpose, as though he vnderstood not, or as one that will not vnderstand, what was demaunded.
Faire envers (quelqu'vn.) To deale with, to be a meanes vnto.
Faire l'escole buissonniere. To play the truant; to lurke among bushes when he should be at his booke.
Faire l'escroue d'vn prisonnier. To write his name in the Goalers booke.
Faire espaule à. To helpe, assist, backe, support, second, giue succour vnto.
Faire estat de. To purpose, or make account; also, to vse, or make a practise of.
Faire l'estat de. To execute, or enioy th' Office, or place of another.
Faire l'estat de sa maison. To settle, or set downe an order in; to looke into, or take a view of, the estate of his familie.
Faire son estat. To do his dutie; to execute, or exercise his Office; to performe whats fit for one of his calling, or place.
Faire le faict, & le desfaict. To doe and vndoe; to weaue Penelopes web.
Faire son propre faict de. To manage a businesse as well, or take as great care of it, as if it were his owne.
Faire faillite. To breake, or fall bankrupt.
Faire faillite à. To deceiue, disappoint, faile, breake with; also, to offend, or trespas against.
Faire faire. To cause, procure, or force to be done;
faire faire ses cheveux. To get himselfe powled*.
Faire faucée. To pierce, breake through, runne in vpon, runne through.
Faire faute à. To faile, or forsake.
Faire ferme. To stand fast; or, to make a stand; also, to stop, or make to stand.
Faire feste à. Looke Feste.
Faire feste de. To reioyce at, or ioy in; also, to brag, boast, be proud, make much, of.
Faire fin. To finish, conclude, end; also, to thriue, cheeue, prosper.
Faire le fin. To make it daintie, seeme strange where he would be bold, refuse a thing he would be inuited to take.
Faire finance. To giue money for an Office; also, to gather a stocke of money.
Faire folie. To play the wanton, tread her shooe awry.
Faire force. To indeuor, striue, inforce himselfe.
Faire force de. Looke Force.
Faire les forces. A horse to hold his mouth open, and often turne his chaps from one side to another.
Faire foy de. To giue credit vnto.
Faire vne frasque à. To gull, cousen, coniecatch, put a tricke vpon.
Faire fredon sur fredon. To vse many nice, or curious tricks one vpon the necke of another.
Faire la fringue. To iet, brag, spruce it, wantonnize it.
Faire les fruicts siens. Looke Fruict.
Faire gambades à la terre. To hang on a gallowes; or in chaines.
Faire gille. To flie, escape, giue the slip.
Faire glane. To gleane after reapers. Looke Glane.
Faire gloire. To take pride in.
Faire du grobis. To grow proud, or take a surlie state vpon him.
Faire le groin. To powt, lowre, gruntle, or grow sullen.
