Fureter. To ferret; search, hunt, boult out; prie, looke, spie narrowly into euerie corner of.
Fureteur: m. A ferreter, searcher; prier, spier.
Fureur: f. Furie, rage, madnesse; fiercenesse, outragiousnesse; extreame wrath, anger, impatiencie.
Furfuré: m. ée: f. Brannie, scalie like branne.
Furfures. Dandriffe; the scurfe, or scales, which fall from the head in combing.
Furgon. See Fourgon. Furial: m. ale: f. Raging, furious, furie-like; horrible, outragious.
Furibond: m. de: f. Wood, madde, raging, furious.
Furie: f. Furie, madnesse, frenzie, woodneße. Furies. The Furies of hell.
Furieusement. Furiously, madly, ragingly, woodly, wrathfully, bedlam-like.
Furieux: m. euse: f. Furious, raging, most impatient, franticke, madde, wood, brainsicke, outragious.
Furiole. See Furole. Furlucqué: m. ée: f. Searched, ferreted, hunted out.
Furole: f. A little blaze of fire appearing by night on the tops of souldiers launces, or at sea on the sayle-*yards, where it whirles, and leapes in a moment from one place to another; some Mariners call it S. Hermes fire; if it come double tis held a signe of good luck, if single, otherwise.
Furt: m. A robbing, theft, stealth, filching, purloining, pilfering.
Furtif: m. iue: f. Filching, theeuish, felonious; also, nimbd, pilfered, imbezelled, stollen, conueyed away.
Furtivement. Theeuishly, feloniously, filchingly, by stealth; priuily, closely, vnderhand; at vnawares.
Furuncule: m. A felon, or whitlaw.
Fusain. Spindle-tree, Prick-wood, Pricke-timber.
Fusé: m. ée: f. Dissolued, melted; spred, scattered. Chaux fusée. Slaked, or sleckt lime.
Fuseau: m. A spindle; or spoole; also, as Fusée; also, a sticke to set Acornes with; also, (in cases of succession) the feminine line. Fuseau des champs. Wild bastard Saffron. Demesler vn fuseau. To handle, manage, deale in; or, to debate; vnpester, dispatch, rid away, a businesse. Ie sçay bien avec lequel i'ay à demesler ce fuseau. I know well ynough whom I haue to doe with in this businesse. Le fuseau doit suyvre le gorreau: Prov. While the husband labours abroad the wife must not idle it at home; or, a wife is to follow her husband in what course of his fortune soeuer.
Fusée: f. A spoole-full, or spindle-full, of thread, yarne, &c; also, a squib; also, as Fuzée.
Fusée avec ses pesons; as Astragale; because commonly the worke on it resembles many spooles and werbles threaded, or ioyned together.
Cela meslera nos fusées. That will iumble, confound, or make alike, our imployments, causes, occasions.
Recherchons le bout de nostre fusée. Let vs return vnto our matter.
Il en sçait toute la fusée. He is acquainted with the whole matter, he knowes it all from the one end to the other.
Commencement n'est pas fusée: Prov. He hath not done, that hath begunne, a businesse.
Sur petit commencement on fait grande fusée: Pro. Great mischiefes often haue but small beginnings.
Pour devider la fusée il faut trouver le bout du fil: Prov. Looke Devider.
Fuselé: m. ée: f. Spunne vpon a spindle, or spoole; also, made like a spindle, or spoole.
Fuselier: m. A spindle-maker, a maker of spooles.
Fusible: com. Fusible; meltable, which may be melted.
Fusier. as Fusain; Spindle-tree. Fusil: m. A fire-steele for a tinder-box; also, the steele wherewith a Butcher whets his kniues. Pierre à fusil. A flint-stone.
Fusiller. as Fureter. To search, or ferret euerie corner of.
Fusque: com. Duskie, browne, darke, swart, tawnie, of a Moores hew.
Fust: m. Any staffe, stake, stocke, stumpe, trunke, or log (thats headlesse; or, vnderstood without it head;) hence, the staffe of a speare; the steale of a dart; or iauelin; also, the frame, or carriage of a peece of Ordnance; also, the great beame of a wine-presse; also, fustines. Fust de selle. The tree of a saddle. Aulner fust à fust. To giue hard, strait, or scant measure, where ell is laid close vnto ell. Livrement de fust, & terre. A forme of Liuerie and seisin vsed in some parts of France. Mettre le doigt entre le fust, & l'escorce. Busily to meddle with, or take notice of, the differences which are betweene priuate, or neere friends.
Fustaille: f. Caske; vessells for wine.
Fustaillier: m. A Cooper, or Caske-maker.
Fustaine: f. Fustian. Fustaine frangée. Tufted fustian in fringelike rewes; therein differing from Fustaine houpée; which is tufted all ouer. Fustaine à grain d'orge. Bustian. Fustaine houpée, ou mouschetée. Tufted fustian; a course fustian-like stuffe thats tufted all ouer.
Fustainier: m. ere: f. Of fustian, belonging vnto fustian.
Fustaye. A wood, or forrest of high trees; and hence; Bois de haute fustaye. Great trees, high trees; properly such, as haue not been cut, nor lopt of (at the least) 30 yeares, or as some affirme of 100 yeares; for no lesse time serues to make of a Copse, vn Bois de haute, ou bonne fustaye. Vne chose de haute fustaye. A gallant, statelie, loftie, worthie, notable, thing.
Fuste: f. A foist; a light gallie that hath about 16, or 18 oares on a side, & two rowers to an oare; also, caske; any vessell, or peece, for wine; as a Pipe, Hogshead, &c. Fuste de selle. The tree of a saddle.
Fusté: m. ée: f. Fustie; tasting of the caske, smelling of the vessell, wherein it hath beene kept; also, stocked, branchlesse, without boughes, as a tree; also, rifled, ransacked, vnfurnished by violence of all it had, or held.
Fustée: f. Bois de fustée. Branchlesse wood; naked, or powled trees.
Fuster. To stocke a tree; to cut off, or bare it of, it branches; also, to rauage, ransacke, rifle, carrie away by violence all thats in a place.
Fusterne: f. Th'vpper part of a Firre tree, full of ioynts, or knots.
Fustier. Any Artificer that works in wood; as a Carpenter, Joyner, &c.
Fustigation: f. A whipping, scourging, breeching; also, a lamming, thwacking, basting with a cudgell.
Fustiger. as Fustiguer. Fustigué: m. ée: f. Whipped, lashed, scourged, breeched; also, cudgelled, lammed, curried, basted, bethwacked.
Fustiguer. To whip; scourge, lash, breech; also, to cudgell, belabour, currie, lamme.