FOOL. A fool at the end of a stick; a fool at one end, and a maggot at the other; gibes on an angler. FOOL FINDER. A bailiff. FOOLISH. An expression among impures, signifying the cully who pays, in opposition to a flash man. Is he foolish or flash? FOOT PADS, or LOW PADS. Rogues who rob on foot. FOOT WABBLER. A contemptuous appellation for a foot soldier, commonly used by the cavalry. FOOTMAN'S MAWND. An artificial sore made with unslaked lime, soap, and the rust of old iron, on the back of a beggar's hand, as if hurt by the bite or kick of a horse. FOOTY DESPICABLE. A footy fellow, a despicable fellow; from the French foutue. FOREFOOT, or PAW. Give us your fore foot; give us your hand. FOREMAN OF THE JURY. One who engrosses all the talk to himself, or speaks for the rest of the company. FORK. A pickpocket. Let us fork him; let us pick his pocket.--'The newest and most dexterous way, which is, to thrust the fingers strait, stiff, open, and very quick, into the pocket, and so closing them, hook what can be held between them.' N.B. This was taken from a book written many years ago: doubtless the art of picking pockets, like all others, must have been much improved since that time. FORLORN HOPE. A gamester's last stake. FORTUNE HUNTERS. Indigent men, seeking to enrich themselves by marrying a woman of fortune. FORTUNE TELLER, or CUNNING MAN. A judge, who tells every prisoner his fortune, lot or doom. To go before the fortune teller, lambskin men, or conjuror; to be tried at an assize. See LAMBSKIN MEN. FOUL. To foul a plate with a man, to take a dinner with him. FOUL-MOUTHED. Abusive. FOUNDLING. A child dropped in the streets, and found, and educated at the parish expence. FOUSIL. The name of a public house, where the Eccentrics assemble in May's Buildings, St. Martin's Lane. Fox. A sharp, cunning fellow. Also an old term for a sword, probably a rusty one, or else from its being dyed red with blood; some say this name alluded to certain swords of remarkable good temper, or metal, marked with the figure of a fox, probably the sign, or rebus, of the maker. FOX'S PAW. The vulgar pronunciation of the French words faux pas. He made a confounded fox's paw. FOXED. Intoxicated. FOXEY. Rank. Stinking. FOXING A BOOT. Mending the foot by capping it. FOYST. A pickpocket, cheat, or rogue. See WOTTON'S GANG. TO FOYST. To pick a pocket. FOYSTED IN. Words or passages surreptitiously interpolated or inserted into a book or writing. FRATERS. Vagabonds who beg with sham patents, or briefs, for hospitals, fires, inundations, &c. FREE. Free of fumblers hall; a saying of one who cannot get his wife with child. FREE AND EASY JOHNS. A society which meet at the Hole in the Wall, Fleet-street, to tipple porter, and sing bawdry. FREE BOOTERS. Lawless robbers and plunderers: originally soldiers who served without pay, for the privilege of plundering the enemy.