Expect, wait.

Expiate, terminate.

Explicate, explain, unfold.

Extemporal, extempore, unpremeditated.

Extraction, essence.

Extraordinary, employed for a special or temporary purpose.

Extrude, expel.

Eye, “in—­,” in view.

Eyebright, (?) a malt liquor in which the herb of this name was infused, or a person who sold the same (Gifford).

Eye-tinge, least shade or gleam.

Face, appearance.

Faces about, military word of command.

FACINOROUS, extremely wicked.

FACKINGS, faith.

Fact, deed, act, crime.

Factious, seditious, belonging to a party, given to party feeling.

Faeces, dregs.

FAGIOLI, French beans.

Fain, forced, necessitated.

Faithful, believing.

Fall, ruff or band turned back on the shoulders; or, veil.

Falsify, feign (fencing term).

Fame, report.

Familiar, attendant spirit.

Fantastical, capricious, whimsical.

Farce, stuff.

Far-Fet.  See Fet.

FARTHINGAL, hooped petticoat.

Faucet, tapster.

Fault, lack; loss, break in line of scent; “for—­,” in default of.

FAUTOR, partisan.

FAYLES, old table game similar to backgammon.

Fear(ed), affright(ed).

Feat, activity, operation; deed, action.

Feat, elegant, trim.

Fee, “in—­” by feudal obligation.

FEIZE, beat, belabour.

Fellow, term of contempt.

Fennel, emblem of flattery.

Fere, companion, fellow.

Fern-Seed, supposed to have power of rendering invisible.

Fet, fetched.

Fetch, trick.

FEUTERER (Fr. vautrier), dog-keeper.

FEWMETS, dung.

Fico, fig.

FIGGUM, (?) jugglery.

Figment, fiction, invention.

FIRK, frisk, move suddenly, or in jerks; “—­up,” stir up, rouse; “firks mad,” suddenly behaves like a madman.

Fit, pay one out, punish.

Fitness, readiness.

Fitton (Fitten), lie, invention.

Five-and-fifty, “highest number to stand on at
primero” (Gifford).

Flag, to fly low and waveringly.

Flagon chain, for hanging a smelling-bottle (Fr.
flacon) round the neck (?). (See N.E.D.).

Flap-dragon, game similar to snap-dragon.

Flasket, some kind of basket.

Flaw, sudden gust or squall of wind.