feyntise (A.S.) 77, _faintness, weakness_ feire (A.N.) _a fair_ fel (A.S.) _the skin_ fele (A.S.) _many_. fele fold, _manyfold_ fellen (A.S.) _to fell, kill_ felonliche (A.N.) 390, _like a felon, in manner of a felon_ +fen (A.S.) 476, _mud, mire_ fend (A.S.) _pl._ fendes, _a fiend, devil_. fyndekynes, 391, _little fiends_ fennel-seed (A.S.) 95, _the seed of sweet-fennel was formerly used as a spice_ fenestre (A.N.) 285, 370, _a window_ fer (A.S.) _far_ fere (A.S.) 140, _to frighten_ ferly (A.S.) _pl._ ferlies, _a wonder_, 196, 253, 376 ferie (A.N.) 270, _a week-day_ ferme (A.N.) 403, _adv._ _firmly_ fermed (A.N.) 177, _strengthened_ fernyere (A.S.) 103, 228, _in former times_ fernmerye (A.N.) 253, _the infirmary_ +ferrer (A.S.) 463, _further_ ferthe (A.S.) 413, _fourth_ festnen (A.S.) _to fasten_. _part. pas._ fest, 35 festynge (A.N.) _feasting_ festu (A.N.) 190, _a mote in the eye_. (festuca, _Lat._) fetisliche, 28, fetisly, 38 (A.N.) _elegantly, neatly, featously_ fibicches (A.N. ?) 186 (?) +fichewes (A.S.) 468, _a kind of weasel_, called a _fitchet_ in Shropshire +fyen (A.N.) 487, _to say, fy!_ The exclamation, _fy!_ was originally one of disgust, occasioned by anything that stunk, according to the old distich (MS. Cotton, Cleop. B. ix, fol. 11, v^o. of the thirteenth cent.):-- _Phi_, nota _foetoris_, lippus gravis omnibus horis, Sit _phi_, sit lippus semper procul, ergo Philippus! fiers (A.N.) _proud, fierce_ fighten (A.S.) _to fight_. _pret. s._ faught, 391, 402. _pl._ foughten. _part. pas._ y-foughte, 126, 336 fyle (A.N.) 86, _a daughter, girl_, apparently used here in the sense of a _common woman_; as they say now in French, _elle n'est qu'une fille_, she is no better than a strumpet fyn (A.N.) 403, _fine, clever_ fynden (A.S.) _to find, to furnish_. _pres. s._ he fynt, 73, 146, 305, 367. _pret. s._ fond, foond, 219, 304, 312 fir (A.S.) 360, _fire_. fuyr, _fire_ fithele (A.N.) 272, _to fiddle_. fithele, 165, _a fiddle_ flappen (A.S.) _to strike with a flail or with any flat loose weapon_. _pret. pl._ flapten, 128 flatten (A.N.) _to slap_. _pret. s._ flatte, 104 flawmbe, flaumbe (A.N.) 360, 362, _a flame_ flawme (A.S.) 243, _to emit a fetid exhalation_ (?) flawmen (A.N.) 361, _to flame_. flawmynge, 360, _flaming_ fle, 40, fleen, 168, 366 (A.S.) _to fly_. _pret. s._ fleigh, 40, 351, 353, 402, 435. _pl._ flowen, 42, 128. fledden, 42 fleckede (A.S.) 222, _spotted_ flesshe (A.S.) _flesh_ fleten (A.S.) 237, _to float, swim involuntarily_ flittynge (A.S.) 206, _disputing, flyting_ flobre (A.S. ?) 274, _to slobber_ (?) florisshe (A.N.) 291, _to adorn_ floryn (A.N.) 74, _a florin_ (a gold coin) +flurichen (A.N.) 479, _to flourish_ fode (A.S.) _food_ +foynes (A.N.) 468, _a kind of marten, of which the fur was used for dresses_ fold, foold (A.S.) 24, 141, 243, _the world, the earth_ fole (A.S.) _a foal_ follede, 321, _baptized_. see _fullen_ +folloke (A.S.) 489 (?) folvyle (A.N.) 410 (?)