FEATHER, "_feather_ my nest" (R183,_b_); this proverbial saying does not occur in Heywood. FELL, "the world, the flesh, and the _fell_" (M39,_c_), the devil (Furnivall & Pollard). FELLOWSHIP, "flee that _fellowship_" (M32,_b_), company, body of associates, confederacy, joint interest. "Parry felle in _felaschepe_ with Willyum Hasard at Querles."--_Paston Letters_, i. 83. "Antenor fleenge with his _felowschippe_."--_Trevisa_, i. 273. FEOFFED, "_feoffed_ thee with all" (N46,_a_), endowed. "May God forbid to _feffe_ you so with grace."--Chaucer, _Court of Love_. FERE, "create to be his _fere_" (N49,_b_), companion, partner, fellow. "He wod into the water, his _feren_ him bysyde."--_Political Songs_, p. 217. FESTINATION, "with all _festination_" (R204,_c_), speed, hurry, expedition. "Sweet Frank, when shall my father Security present me?" "With all _festination_."--Jonson and Chapman, _Eastward Hoe_ (1605), ii. 1. FETCHES, "beware the _fetches_ of Tediousness" (WS143,_a_), stratagems, tricks, contrivances, artifices: the word does not always carry a bad or unworthy meaning. FICHANT, "Ise cannot be _fichant_ enough" (R267,_c_), sufficient; _i.e._ better received and esteemed. Mr. Magnus suggests _Je m'en fiche_, as origin. FIDE, W[illiam] (M22,_d_), so given in the E.E.T.S. text, _Fide_ being _Fyde_. FIERCE, "a likely man and a _fierce_" (M27,_d_)--"how valiant ... and _fierce_" (WH293,_d_), strong, full of fire and ardour. "Yet have I _fierce_ affections."--Shakespeare, _Antony and Cleopatra_ (1608), i. 5. "The ships, though so great, are driven of _fierce_ winds; yet are they turned about with a very small helm."--_Bible_, Auth. Vers. (1611), _James_ iii. 4. FIRIBUSQUE, see Breadibus. FIST, "a good running _fist_" (M30,_b_), writing: an early example of a common present-day colloquialism. FLATERABUNDUS, "ye _flaterabundus_ you" (R188,_a_), see Clawback. FLEAR, FLEARING, FLEERETH (_passim_), mock, gibe, leer, smirk; and as _verb_ = to grin contemptuously or scornfully, sneer, smirk. FLEXIBLE, "Mankind is so _flexible_" (M33,_a_), pliant, easily influenced, wavering in disposition. FLITCHED, "hath _flitched_ the bishopricks" (R218,_b_), so in orignal, but? _filched_. Mr. Magnus says, "Cut up into strips." FLITTANCE (R183,_d_), "a ghost word for fleetings, _i.e._ skimmings" (Mr. Magnus quoting Prof. Skeat).