Fourche à trois pointes. A Trout-speare, or Eele-speare. Coups de fourche baillez par quelques femmes à leurs maris: Hornes like forked tines. Panser vn cheval à la fourche. To dresse a horse but sleightly; or, to giue him blowes in stead of currying. Passer soubs la fourche. To yeeld his necke to the yoake; abandon his freedome; submit himselfe vnto thraldome. Traicter à la fourche. To swaddle, bast, lamme, swindge well fauoredly; to vse hardly, intertaine rudely, deale roughly with.
Fourché: m. ée: f. as Fourchu. Fourche-fiere: f. A long Staffe, or Quarter staffe, hauing at the one end a forke, and at the other a Pike. Fourche-fiere à trois pointes. A Trowt-speare, or Eele-speare.
Fourchelle. A little forke; or, as Fourchette. Fourchément. Forkedly; also, crookedly.
Fourcheon. A forket; the tooth, or graine of a forke.
Fourcher. To forke; to cleaue, or diuide in two; also, to stay, or make a stand, as a Muskettier does when he sets down his rest; also, to be hanged. Ce chemin fourche, ou se fourche. This way parts in two. La langue luy fourche. He stuts, or trips with his tongue.
Fourcheran. Drageon fourcheran. The (Vine) sprig that shoots out betweene two branches.
Fourchette: f. A forket, or small forke; also, the breast-blade, or heart-blade; (the forked, or triangular gristle which cleaues to the bottome of the breast-bone;) also, the putting of the neck-ioynts out of ioynt; also, a horses Fete-lock; also, a Musket-rest. Fourchette d'enhaut, ou superieure. The craw-bone, canell-bone, neck-bone, throat-bone.
Fourcheu. as Fourchu. Fourcheure: f. A forkinesse, or forkednesse; a fork-like diuision, or cleauing; also, that part of the bodie from whence the thighes doe part; (I thinke we call it the Twist.) Fourcheure d'un arbre. The twist of a tree; the top of the bodie, where it begins to be diuided by the maine branches.
Fourchier: m. A cord vntwisted in the middest, and (a stone being put thereinto) vsed as a sling. Fourchier à trois dents. (A triple-toothed forke) a Trout-speare, or Eele-speare.
Fourchon. as Fourcheon. Fourchon du raisin. The staulke of a cluster of grapes.
Fourchu: m. uë: f. Forked; diuided, or clouen in two. L'Arbre fourchu. A standing on the hands with out-*stretcht legs. Pied fourchu. Bestes à pied fourchu. Halfe-hoofed, or clouen-footed beasts; as Neate, Sheepe, Swyne, &c. L'Impost du pied fourchu. The toll that is payed in Fayres, or Markets, vpon the sale of any of those kind of cattell.
Fourchument. Forkedly, forke-like.
Fourchure: f. The part of a mans bodie, whence his thighes part; Looke Fourcheure. Fourdrines: f. Sloes; ¶Pic. also, wild, or mountaine, Plummes.
Fourdrinier. The blacke thorne that beareth Sloes; also, the wild, or mountaine, Plumme tree.
Fourgangnement: m. A recouering of, or a reentring
into, land, for non-payment of Rent. ¶Wallon. Fourgangner. To recouer, or to reenter into land, for non-payment of Rent. ¶Wallon. Fourgon: m. An Ouen-forke, (tearmed in Lincolnshire, a Fruggin) wherewith fuell is both put into an Ouen, and stirred when it is (on fire) in it. À telle paelle tel fourgon: Prov. One filthie knaue matcht with another. La paelle se mocque du fourgon: Prov. The Peele derides the Ouen-forke; one slouen, or neighbor another.
Fourgonner. To put fuell into an Ouen; also, (and the more properly) to tosse, or stirre it (being on fire) in the Ouen, with a Fruggin. Que fourgonnes tu la? What a stirre, what a rumbling, what a puddering, keepest thou there?
Fourgonneur: m. An Ouen-tender, or Ouen-stirrer; one that lookes to an Ouen, with a Fruggin, or forke, in his hand.
Fourmage: m. Cheese. Fourmage de Bans. A cheese made of Goats milke, or as the Angelot. Fourmage de Betune. A kind of cheese made of Sheepes milke. Fourmage de Loüans. A kind of hard cheese, made at a village of that name. Fourmage est bon quand il y en a peu: Prov. The lesse cheese the better; or, cheese is good when a miserable hand giues it; according whereunto they say also, Tout fourmage est bien sain qui vient de chiche main. Fourmage de taupe, & pain d'Argus: Pro. Heauie cheese, and light bread (are, commonly, the best.) Nul ne pele son fourmage qui n'y ait honte, ou dommage: Prov. No man pares his cheese without shame, or losse. Qui a fourmage pour tous mets, il le doit couper bien espez: Prov. He must not scant his cheese that hath nought else to feed on.
Fourmageon: m. A little cheese.
Fourmagere: f. A cheese-presse.
Fourmagerie: f. Cheese ware, a commoditie of cheese; also, a cheese-house, or cheese-dairie; a roome, or place, wherein cheese is vsually made.
Fourmageur: m. A cheese-seller, Cheesemonger, marchant of cheese.
Fourmageux: m. euse: f. Cheesie, full of cheese, belonging vnto cheese.
Fourmagier: m. A cheese-monger; also, a great eater of cheese.
Fourmagiere. as Fourmagere. Fourman. Vn grand pain fourman. A great wheaten, or white loafe; (so great, that the mouth of an ordinarie Ouen is filled withall.)
Fourme. A kind of net for water fowle.
Fourment. Wheat; See Froment. Fourmentée: f. Furmentie; boyled wheat.
Fourmenter. To yeeld, or bring forth, wheat.
Fourmentier: m. ere: f. Wheat-yeelding, wheatie, of wheat.
Fourmi: m. An Ant, Pismire, Emmot.
Fourmi d'Inde; ou, Dardoise fourmi. Looke Dardoise.
Ventre de fourmi. A swag-bellie.
Plus ioyeux que fourmis en grain. More frolicke then Ants in a heape of corne.
Souffler les fourmis dans leurs fourmillieres. To blow Ants into their holes. Looke Fourmilliere.
