Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
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Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
403, 950.
Folde, to beat, buffet, A. 813.
Fole, fowl, B. 1410.
Fole, fool, B. 202.
Fole, foal, B. 1255.
Foler, B. 1410.
Foles, acts foolishly, B. 1422.
{Folewande, Folwande,} following, A. 1040, B. 429, 1212.
{Folk, Folke,} people, B. 100, 542, 960.
Folken, of people, B. 271.
Folmarde. Properly the beech-martin, but commonly applied to the
pole-cat. O.Fr. _foine_, _faine_ (Lat. _fagina_), beechmast.
Folyly, foolishly, B. 696. See T. B. 575.
Folȝe, follow, A. 127; B. 6, 677, 918, 1752. A.S. _folgian_.
Folȝed, baptized, A. 654. A.S. _fullian_, _fulwian_, to baptize.
Foman, enemy, B. 1175.
Fon, ceased, _pret._, of _fyne_, A. 1030; B. 369. The northern form is
_fan_.
“Bot ai þe quils he ne _fan_
To behald þe leve maidan.” --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii, fol. 20a.)
Fonde, to found, establish, A. 939; B. 173.
Fonde, to go, proceed, A. 150.
Fonde, try, B. 1103. A.S. _fandian_.
Fonden, found, B. 356.
Fonge, take, receive, A. 439, 479; B. 540; _fongeȝ to the flyȝt_,
takes to flight, B. 457. A.S. _fon_. Ger. _fangen_, take, seize.
Goth. _fahan_.
Font, B. 164.
Fonte = _fond_, examined, A. 170, 327.
{Fooschyp, Foschip,} enmity, B. 918, 919.
For, from, B. 740; because, B. 323.
Forbede, forbid, A. 379; B. 1147.
Forbi, beyond, C. 483.
Forboden, forbidden, B. 826, 998.
Forbrent, burnt, A. 1139.
For-clemmed, starved, C. 395. Prov.E. _clem_, to starve, pinch with
hunger. Du. _klemmen_, to pinch, compress.
For-didden, did away with, A. 124.
For-dolked, severely wounded, A. 11. A.S. _dolc_, _dolh_, _dolg_,
a wound; _dilgian_, to destroy.
Forering, B. 3. See Note.
Forfare, destroy; also to perish, B. 1168; C. 483; _forferde_,
(_pret._), B. 571, 1051.
Forfete, A. 619, 639; B. 743.
Forfyne, lastly.
{Forgart, Forgarte,} = for-did, lost, _pret._ of for-gar, ruin,
destroy, lose, A. 321; B. 240. See _Gar_.
Forged, made, B. 343.
Forhede, forehead, A. 871.
Foriusted, overthrown, defeated, B. 1216. Fr. _jouster_, to tilt.
“So mony groundes he _for-justede_ & of joy broght.”
--(T. B. 296.)
Forlete, lost, A. 327.
For long, very long, A. 586.
Forlonge, furlong, A. 1030.
Forloteȝ = forleteȝ, forsake, B. 101.
“Þe laghes bath he (Adam) þan _forlete_
Bath naturel and positif.” --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 52b.)
Forloyne, forsake, depart, go astray, err, A. 368; B. 282, 750, 1155,
1165. Fr. _loin_, far.
For-madde, very mad (foolish), C. 509.
Formast, first, foremost, B. 494.
Forme, first, C. 38.
{Forme-fader, Forme-foster,} first-father, progenitor, A. 639; B. 257.
Fornes, furnace, B. 1011.
For-payned, severely troubled, A. 246.
Forray, forage, B. 1200. Fr. _fourrager_, to fodder, forrage, prey.
O.Fr. _fourrer_. Mid. Lat. _foderare_, _forrare_, from A.S. _foder_.
Ger. _futter_, food, victuals.
Forselet, a fortified place, B. 1200. “_Forcelet_, stronge place
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