FACINOROUS wicked

FACT guilt

FACTIOUS instant, importunate

FACULTY essential virtue or power

FADGE to suit

FADING a kind of ending to a song

FAIN glad

FAIN gladly

FAIR beauty

FAITOR a traitor

FAll to let fall

FALLOW fawn-coloured

FALSE falsehood

FALSING deceptive

FAMILIAR a familiar spirit

FANCY

FANCY-FREE untouched by love

FANG to seize in the teeth

FANTASTIC a fantastical person

FAP drunk

FAR farther

FARCED stuffed

FARDEL a burden

FARTUOUS used ridiculously for ' virtuous.'

FAST assuredly, unalterably

FAT dull

FAVOUR countenance Complexion Quality

FEAR the object of fear

FEAR to affright

FEARFUL subject to fear, timorous

FEAT dexterous

FEAT to make fine

FEATER comp. degree. more neatly

FEATLY nimbly, daintily

FEATURE beauty

FEDERARY confederate

FEEDER agent, servant

FEE-GRIEF a grief held, as it were, in fee-simple, or the peculiar property of him who possesses it

FEERE a companion, husband

FEHEMENTLY used ridiculously for 'vehemently.'

FELL the hide

FENCE art or skill in defence

FEODARY one who holds an estate by suit or service to a superior lord; hence one who acts under the direction of another

FESTER to rankle, grow virulent

FESTINATELY quickly

FET fetched

FICO a fig

FIELDED in the field of battle

FIG to insult

FIGHTS clothes hung round a ship to conceal the men from the enemy

FILE a list or catalogue

FILE to defile To smooth or polish To make even

FILL-HORSE shaft-horse

FILLS the shafts

FILTH a whore

FINE end

FINE to make fine or specious

FINELESS endless

FIRAGO ridiculously used for 'Virago.'

FIRE-DRAKE Will o' the Wisp

FIRE-NEW with the glitter of novelty on, like newly- forged metal

FIRK to chastise

FIT a canto or division of a song A trick or habit

FITCHEW a polecat

FIVES a disease incident to horses

FLAP-DRAGON raisins in burning brandy

FLAP-JACK a pan-cake

FLAT certain

FLATNESS lowness, depth

FLAW a gust of wind sudden emotion, or the cause of it

FLAW to make a flaw in, to break

FLECKED spotted, streaked

FLEET to float To pass away to pass the time

FLEETING inconstant

FLESHMENT the act of fleshing the sword, hence the first feat of arms

FLEWED furnished with hanging lips, as hounds are

FLIGHT a particular mode of practising archery

FLIRT-GILL a light woman

FLOTE wave, sea

FLOURISH an ornament

FLOURISH to ornament, disguise with ornament

FLUSH fresh, full of vigour

FOIL defeat, disadvantage

FOIN to fence, fight

FOISON plenty

FOND foolish, foolishly affectionate

FOOT-CLOTH a saddle-cloth hanging down to the ground

FOR for that, because

FORBID accursed, outlawed

FORBODE forbidden

FORCE to stuff, for 'farce.'

FORCED falsely attributed

FORDO to kill, destroy To weary

FOREIGN obliged to live abroad

FOREPAST former

FORESLOW to delay

FORFEND to forbid

FORGETIVE inventive

FORKED horned

FORMAL regular, retaining its proper and essential characteristic

FORSPEAK to speak against

FORSPENT exhausted, weary

FORTHRIGHT a straight path; forthrights and meanders, straight paths and crooked ones

FORWEARY to weary, exhaust

FOSSET-SELLER one who sells the pipes inserted into a vessel to give vent to the liquor, and stopped by a spigot

FOX a sword; a cant word

FOX-SHIP the cunning of the fox

FRAMPOLD peevish, unquiet

FRANK the feeding place of swine

FRANKED confined

FRANKLIN a freeholder, a small squire

FRAUGHT freighted

FRAUGHTAGE freight

FRAUGHTING to fraught. loading or constituting the cargo of a ship

FRESH a spring of fresh water

FRET the stop of a guitar

FRET to wear away To variegate

FRIEND to befriend

FRIPPERY an old-clothes shop

FROM prep. contrary to

FRONT to affront, oppose

FRONTIER opposition

FRONTLET that which is worn on the forehead

FRUSH to break or bruise

FRUSTRATE frustrated

FUB OFF to put off

FULFILL to fill full

FULL complete

FULLAM a loaded die

FULSOME lustful

FURNISHED equipped

FURNITOR furnitory, an herb