Fenouil: m. The hearbe Fennell; also, the seed thereof. Fenouil de Barbarie. Fennell giant, great Fennell, Barbarie Fennell. Fenouil doux. Sweet Fennell (in all respects bigger then the ordinarie one, and therfore distinguished from it.) Fenouil marin. Rocke Sampire, Crestmarin. Fenouil de porceau. Sow-fennell, Hogs-fennell, Hore-*strange, Horestrong, Sulpherwort, Brimstonewort. Fenouil Romain. The hearbe Annise, or Anniseed. Fenouil sauvage. Wild Fennell, horse Fennell, great Fennell.
Fente: f. A cleft, rift, slifter, chinke, slit, cranie, chap, choane. Fente en poil. A cleft in a bone, as small as any haire.
Fenugrec: m. The hearbe, or seed, Fenigreeke.
Feodal: m. ale: f. Feodall; of, or belonging to, a Fief; also, held (by homage and fealtie) as a Fief; also, possessing diuers fiefs; Looke Feudal. Seigneur feodal. A Lord Paramont, or chiefe Lord; one of whose fief diuers other fiefs are held, by homage and fealtie. Cela nous appartient par forfaiture du Seigneur feodal. We haue no possibilitie of right vnto that.
Feodalité: f. The estate of a Feodall, or chiefe Lord; the possession of, or Seigniorie ouer, diuers fiefs; feudalitie, or feodalitie; also, a tenure in fief; or, by homage and fealtie.
Feodé: m. ée: f. Inscoffed; giuen vnto in fief; also, held in fief, or in fee.
Sergent feodé. Looke Sergent.
Fer: m. Iron; also, the head of a Pike, Launce, Arrow, &c; also, the tag of a Point.
Fers. Shackles, fetters, boults, irons; also, horse-*shooes.
Fer d'archail. Jron wire.
Fer blanc. White Lattis.
Fer de cheval. Vn fer de cheval. A horse-shooe; Le fer de cheval. A kind of Axseed, or small Pulse, called Horse shooe.
Fer de guerre. The steelie, and sharpe head of a Pike, Launce, or horsemans staffe.
Fer maillé. Fenestre à fer maillé. An Iron-grated window, whose barres are not (or ought not to be) aboue foure ynches asunder.
Fer de Moulin. A Mill-ring, or Mill-rind; called by Heralds, an Inkmolyne.
Fer à ravaler. A Tanner, or Leather-dressers shauing knife, beame knife, or working knife.
Fer de richard. as Fil d'archal; or, great Iron wire.
Fer de rochet. A Burre; or, the blunt, or dulled head of a tilting staffe.
Vieux fers. Old Iron; old, or broken things of Iron; also, old rags; any ouer-worne trash.
À fer esmoulu. Extreamely; or, in good earnest; Looke Esmoulu.
Entre deux fers. In equall ballance; of a like, or iust weight, of the same substance, qualitie, proportion, goodnesse.
Elle n'a eu fer à Pied. She is vntainted, pure, vndefiled, she hath not yet beene manned; she hath not yet beene broken vp.
Batre le fer. To play at blunt, or at foyles.
On frotte tant le fer qu'a la fin il s'eschauffe: Pro. Cold Iron by much rubbing will grow hot; Applyable
vnto a dull spirit, which by much vrging enters into choller.
Fere: f. A wild beast.
Fercules: m. The things whereon Images, or Pageants are carried; also, Beeres for dead men.
Fereluche. as Freluche; a moat, &c.
Feri: m. ie: f. Hit, strucken; wounded, hurt.
Feriage. as Feage. Ferial: m. ale: f. Of, or belonging to, a holyday; idle, resting, vacant, vnoccupied; also, iocond, merrie, pleasant; also, ridiculous. Vn ferial beuveur. A square drinker, a faithfull drunkard; one that will take his liquor soundly.
Feriat: m. A vacation time; an idle, or play day.
Feries: f. Holydaies, feastiuall [*?feastiual] daies, resting daies, idle times, Wakes, Vacations, or vacant seasons; properly such holydaies as Monday and Tuesday in Easter weeke, &c.
Ferin: m. ine: f. Wild, sauage, beastlie, cruell.
Ferir. To hit, strike; wound, hurt. Mal iouë qui fiert la iouë: Prov. He makes but ill sport whose play tends to hurt.
Fermage: m. Farmage; the profit made of, reuenue comming in by, a farme.
Fermail: m. The claspe of a booke, &c.
Fermaille: f. A small buckle, or claspe. Fenestre à fermaille. A window that shuts with a haspe; or (in stead of, à fer maillé) as in Fer. Fermaillé: m. ée: f. Buckled; hasped; clasped; also, garnished, or set thicke with small buckles.
Fermailler: m. A Buckle-maker, or Claspe-maker.
Fermailler. To buckle, haspe, claspe; also, to set, or garnish with small buckles.
Fermaillet: m. A Carkanet, or border of gold, &c, such as Gentlewomen weare about their heads, or hoods; also, an inchaunted image, collar, or chayne, worne about the necke, as a preseruatiue against poyson, witchcraft, wounds, &c; also, a small buckle, or claspe.
Fermance: m. A certaine officer within the iurisdiction of La Solle. Fermant: m. A buckle, haspe, or claspe; also, a shutter; any thing that (surely) binds, fastens, closes.
Fermant. Shutting, stopping vp, closing, sealing, locking, fastening, making vp.
Fermative: f. An affirmation, asseueration, or protestation of right vnto a thing in controuersie, made before a Iudge, by him that pretends it.
Ferme: f. A Farme, or Lease; a thing farmed; a Toll, Rent, Mannor, or Demesne in farme; also, the farming thereof, or an estate therein by farme, or lease; also, a farme, or farme-house in the countrey; also, as Fermative. Les fermes du Roy. Those parts of his Reuenue, or Demesne, which may be let out.
Ferme: com. Firme, stable, sure, fast, steadie, setled, certaine, assured; constant, stedfast; also, decreed, ratified, confirmed, established. Faire ferme. To stand still; to make a stop, or stand; also, to stop, cause to stop, make to stand (faire ferme à.) Fermé: m. ée: f. Closed, shut, fastened, locked, sealed vp; inclosed, kept in; made vp.
Ferme, Adverb. (as Fermement;) and hence; Ferme à ferme (in Horsemanship) anie Aire done in a little roome, and a iust time.
Fort & ferme. Verie hard, verie much, amaine, stiffely; extreamely, excessiuely, exceedingly; fiercely, violently, vehemently; assuredly, confidently.
