fowel (A.S.) _a fowl, bird_ fraynen (A.S.) _to ask, inquire, question_. _pret. s._ frayned, 18, 109, 151, 341, 370 +fraynyng (A.S.) 452, _questioning_ frankeleyn (A.N.) 398, _a large freeholder_, in rank in society classed with, but after, the _miles_ and _armiger_. See Tyrwhit's note on the Canterbury Tales, l. 333 frayel (A.N.) 252, _a wicker basket_. See note. In the romance of Richard Coeur de Lion, l. 1547, King Richard says:-- Richard aunsweryth, with herte free, Off froyt there is gret plenté; Fyggys, raysyns, in _frayel_, And notes may serve us fol wel. fraytour (A.N.) 192, 463, _a refectory_ freke (A.S.) 74, 87, 130, 132, 188, 203, 246, 250, 341, _man, fellow_ frele (A.N.) _frail_ freletee (A.N.) 46, frelete, 367, _frailty_ fremmed (A.S.) 303, _strange_ frere (A.N.) _a friar, brother_ frete (A.S.) 265, _to fret_ frete, freten (A.S.) 33, _to eat, devour_. _pret. s._ freet, 381 fretien (A.S.) _to adorn_. _part. p._ fretted fryth (A.S.) 224, 241, 355, _an inclosed wood_ frythed (A.S.) 112, _wooded_ frounces (A.N.) 265, _wrinkles_ fullen (A.S.) 322, _to full cloth_ fullen (A.S.) 176, _to become full_ fullen (A.S.) _to baptize_. _pret. s._ follede, 321. _part. past_, y-fulled, 398 fullynge (A.S.) 244, 322, 398, _baptizing, baptism_ furwe (A.S.) _a furrow_ fust (A.S.) 356, _the fist_ G. Y. gabben (A.N.) 53, _to joke, trifle, tell tales_. gabbyng (A.N.) 423, _joking, idle talk_ gadelyng (A.S.) 434, gedelyng, 165. _pl._ gedelynges, 171, gadelynges, 68, _a vagabond_. In Anglo-Saxon the word _gædeling_ means a companion or associate, apparently without any bad sense. Thus the romance of Beowulf speaks of the armour of one of the heroes:-- þæt Onela for-geaf, his gædelinges guð-ge-wædu. _which Onela had given him, the war-weeds of his comrade, the ready implements of war._ This, and most of the other similar Anglo-Saxon words, applied to their heroes and warriors, became degraded under the Anglo-Normans. We may mention as other examples the words, _fellow_, _renk_, _grom_, _wye_, &c. +gaynage (A.N.) 462, _profit_ gaynesse (A.N.) 178, _gaiety_ galoche (A.N.) 370, _a shoe_. The word occurs in Chaucer galpen (A.S.) 252, _to belch_ gamen (A.S.) _play_ gangen, gange (A.S.) _to go_ +garites (A.S.) 463, _garrets_ garnementz (A.N.) 379, _garments, ornaments_ gare (A.S.) _to make or cause to do a thing_. _pret. s._ garte, 22, 80, 135, 321, gart, 84, gerte, 428 gate (A.S.) 67, 171, 383, _way, going_. go thi gate, 351, 445, _go thy way_. this ilke gate, 354, _this same way_ yate (A.S.) 385, 406, _a gate_ geaunt (A.N.) 384, _a giant_ gentile (A.N.) 26, 174, 175, _gentle, genteel_ gentilliche (A.N.) 44, _beautifully, finely, genteelly_ gentrie (A.N.) 370, _gentility_ gerl (A.S.) _pl._ gerles, girles, gerlis, 17, 184, 369, _youth of either sex_. In the Coventry Mystery of the Slaughter of the Innocents (p. 181) one of the knights engaged in the massacre says:--