Agriculture -- England; Conduct of life; Home economics, Rural
Ewerie, _s._ ewery, place for pitchers, etc.; _note_ to 140/8.
Exaltation of the holye crosse, i.e. Sept. 14, 37/16.
Expende, _v._ to spend, 147/13.
Extende, _v._ to extend, reach to, 147/14.
Eyen, _s. pl._ eyes, 48/6; eien, 48/8.
Faculty, _s._ ability, wealth, 147/18.
Facyons, _s. pl._ fashions, kinds, 2/3.
Faldynge, _s._ a kind of frieze, or rough cloth, 44/14. See Chaucer,
C. T. 393.
Falowe, _v._ to plough, 16/3. See below.
Falowynge, _s._ ploughing land for the first time (for wheat), 4/42.
See 16/3.
Fan, _v._ to winnow corn, 35/6; fande, _pp._ 35/10.
Farcyon, _s._ the farcy, a disease of horses, in which swellings
appear on his body, 93/1. Cf. F. _farcer_, to stuff.
Faste, _adv._ very near, close, 25/32.
Fayne, _adj._ obliged, compelled, 151/14.
Feitergrasse, _s._ the name of a kind of grass (spelt _fettergrass_
in ed. 1598), 59/11.
Felle, _v._ to fell, 131/1.
Felow, _s._ fellow, _i.e._ neighbouring furrow, 9/9.
Fellyes, _s. pl._ pieces of wood joined together to make the circle
of a wheel, 5/9.
Felly-fole, _s._ filly-foal, filly, 68/52.
Female hempe, _s._ wild hemp, 146/57.
Fenbrede, _s._ mud-board, or mould-board, 3/4, 27. See note to 3/1.
_Fen_ = mud; as commonly in M. E.
Fence, _v._ to form a fence, 125/5.
Fenel-sedes, _s. pl._ fennel seeds, 20/18.
Ferny, _adj._ covered with ferns, 50/10.
Ferre, _adv._ far, 48/11, 150/6, 164/8.
Ferthermore, _adv._ furthermore, besides, 151/17.
Fetelockes, _s. pl._ fetlocks, 99/3.
Fette, _pt. s._ brought, 166/34.
Fettred, _pp._ fastened together, bound, 5/10.
Filberdes, _s. pl._ filberts, 136/3.
Flaine, _pp._ flayed, 58/21. See Fley.
Flanke, _s._ flank, 85/4.
Flasshes, _s. pl._ marshy places, 70/8. The usual sense is “pool.”
Flaxen wheate, _s._ flaxen wheat, a kind of wheat, 34/23, 25.
Flayle, _s._ flail, 5/33.
Fley, _imp. s._ flay, 38/11; _spelt_ flee, 58/8.
Flokes, _s. pl._ flukes, 56/16.
Floures, _s. pl._ flowers, 156/6.
Flyntered, _pp._ said of “small corn wrinkled and dried,” 34/43. Cf.
_flinders_, fragments; and cf. _splintered_.
Flytte, _imp. s._ remove, 148/15; flyte, _v._ 18/3; flytteth,
_pr. s._ 18/28. Lit. “flit.”
Fodered, _pp._ foddered, fed, 70/40.
Folden, _pp._ folded, 52/6.
Foled, _pp._ foaled, 118/10.
Foole, _s._ foal, 68/7, 11; fools, _pl._ 56/4.
Fooled, _pp._ foaled, 68/13.
Foolynge-tyme, _s._ foaling time, 68/40.
For, _prep._ against, to prevent, 18/33, 32/8, 35/8, 44/15, 51/9,
52/1, 70/46, 139/19. (Observe this use.)
For nothynge, _phr._ on no account, 124/14, 138/10.
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