_Foreboding-signs_, tokens, Presages of ill Luck; as _spilling of the Salt_, _a Hare’s crossing the Way_; _Croaking of Ravens_; _Screaking of Screach-Owls_. Or of ill Weather, either natural Signs or artificial; as, Aches, Corns, Cry of a Peacock, Water-galls, Weather-Glasses, _&c._ _Forecast_, contrivance or laying a design; Precaution, or the Wisdom of Prevention, which is beyond the Wisdom of Remedy. _To Forecast_, to contrive, or digest Matters for Execution. _Foreman of the Jury_, he that engrosses all the Talk to himself. _Forestall_, to antedate or anticipate. _Fork_, c. a Pick-pocket. _Let’s fork him_, c. let us Pick that Man’s Pocket, the newest and most dextrous way: It 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. _Fork is often Rakes Heir_, or after a scraping Father comes a scattering Son. _Forlorn-hope_, c. losing Gamesters; also in another Sense, a Party of Soldiers, _&c._ put upon the most desperate Service. _Fort_, the broad Part of the Sword-blade nearest to the Hilt. _Fortune_, a rich Maid, or wealthy Widdow, an Heiress. _Fortune-hunters_, Pursuers of such to obtain them in Marriage. _A Creature of Fortune_, one that Lives by his Wits. _A Soldier of Fortune_, the Heir of his own Right-hand as the Spaniards call him. _A Gamester of Fortune_, one that Lives by shaking his Elbow. _He has made his Fortune_, he has got a good Estate. _Fortune-Tellers_, c. the Judges of Life and Death, so called by the Canting Crew: Also _Astrologers_, _Physiognomists_, _Chiromancers_, &c. _Founder’d_, { _Horse_, _Lame_. { _Ship at sea_, that sprung a Leak and Sunk down-right. _Foundling_, a Child dropt in the Streets for the Parish (the most able) to keep. _Foul Jade_, an ordinary coarse Woman. _Foul Wine_, when it stinks; also when unfine, or Lees flying in the Glass. _Fox_, the second Year; also a sharp cunning Fellow. _Fox’d_, Drunk. _He has caught a Fox_, he is very Drunk. _An old Fox_, after the second Year; also a subtil old Fellow; also an old broad Sword. _A Fox-blade_, a Sword-blade with a Fox (or some thing like it) Grav’d on it, esteem’d good Metal. _Foxkennelleth_, Lodgeth. _Foy_, a farewell or taking leave, usually a Parting-glass. _To Pay his Foy_, to make his Friends Merry, before he leaves them. _Foyl-cloy_, c. a Pick-pocket, a Thief, a Rogue. _Foyst_, c. a Cheat, a Rogue; also a close strong Stink, without Noise or Report. _Fraters_, c. the eighth Order of Canters, such as Beg with a Sham-patents or Briefs for Spitals, Prisons, Fires, _&c._ _Fray_, an Encounter, or Disorder. _Better come at the latter end of a Feast, than the beginning of a Fray._ _To Fray_, to scare or frighten; also to break or crack in wearing. Hence frail, brittle or soon broke; and when Deer rub and push their Heads against Trees to get the pells of their new Horns off. _Freak_, a Whim or Maggot.