_Feinting, or Falsifying_, to deceive the Adversary, by pretending to thrust in one Place, and really doing it in another. _Fence_, c. to Spend or Lay out. _Fence his Hog_, c. to Spend his Shilling. _A Fence_, c. a Receiver and Securer of Stolen-goods. _Fencing Cully_, c. a Broker, or Receiver of Stolen-goods. _Fencing-ken_, c. the Magazine, or Ware-house, where Stolen-goods are secured. _Ferme_, c. a Hole. _Fermerly Beggers_, c. all those that have not the Sham-sores or _Cleymes_. _Ferret_, c. a Tradesman that sells Goods to young Unthrifts, upon Trust at excessive Rates. _Ferreted_, c. Cheated; also driven out of Holes and lurking Places, and hunted as Conies, by a little, Fierce, red-eyed Beast. Hence _Ferret eyed_, or Eyes as red as a Ferret. _Fetch_, a Trick or Wheedle. _A meer Fetch_, that is far fetched, or brought in by Head and Shoulders. _Fetids_, Vegetables, or Animals, rank and strong-scented; as Garlick, Assa fœtida, _&c._ Pole-cats, Foxes, Goats, _&c._ _Fewmets_, Deers Excrements. _Fib_, c. to beat; also a little Lie. _Fib the Cove’s quarons in the Rum-pad, for the Lour in his Bung_, c. Beat the Man in the High-way lustily for the Money in his Purse. _Fickle_, mutable, or changeable, of many Minds in a short time. _Fiddle_, c. a Writ to Arrest. _Fiddle-faddle_, meer silly Stuff, or Nonsense; Idle, Vain Discourse. _Fidlers-pay_, Thanks and Wine. _Filch_, c. to Steal. _Filchers_, c. Thieves, Robbers. _A good Filch_, c. a Staff, of Ash or Hazel, with a Hole through, and a Spike at the bottom, to pluck Cloathes from a Hedge or any thing out of a Casement. _Filching-cove_, c. a Man-thief. _Filching-mort_, c. a Woman-thief. _File_, c. to Rob, or Cheat. _The File_, c. a Pick-pocket. _Fine-mouth’d_, nice, dainty. _Finical_, spruce, neat. _Finify_, to trick up or dress sprucely. _Fire-drakes_, Men with a Phenix for their Badge, in Livery, and Pay from the _Insurance-Office_, to extinguish Fires, covering their Heads with an Iron-pot, or Head-piece; also a Fiery Meteor, being a great unequal Exhalation inflamed between a Hot and a Cold Cloud. _Fire-ship_, a Pockey Whore. _Fire-side_, a Health to the Wife and Children. _Firkin of foul Stuff_, a very Homely coarse corpulent Woman. _Fishing Bill_, in Chancery, to make what Discoveries may be. _Who Cries Stinking Fish?_ or who dispraises his own Ware? _Good Fish when it is Caught_, of what is not got so soon as reckoned upon. _All is Fish that comes to Net_, of him that flies boldly at all Game. _I have other Fish to Fry_, I am otherwise taken up, engag’d, or have other Business on my Hands. _Fixen_, a froward, peevish Child; also a She-Fox. _Fizzle_, a little or low-sounding Fart. _Flabby_, flimsy, not sound, firm or solid.