FLAWN, custard.

Flea, catch fleas.

Fleer, sneer, laugh derisively.

Flesh, feed a hawk or dog with flesh to incite
it to the chase; initiate in blood-shed; satiate.

Flicker-mouse, bat.

Flight, light arrow.

Flitter-mouse, bat.

Flout, mock, speak and act contemptuously.

Flowers, pulverised substance.

Fly, familiar spirit.

Foil, weapon used in fencing; that which
sets anything off to advantage.

Foist, cut-purse, sharper.

Fond(ly), foolish(ly).

Foot-cloth, housings of ornamental cloth which
hung down on either side a horse to the ground.

Footing, foothold; footstep; dancing.

Foppery, foolery.

For, “—­failing,” for fear of failing.

Forbear, bear with; abstain from.

Force, “hunt at—­,” run the game down with dogs.

Forehead, modesty; face, assurance, effrontery.

FORESLOW, delay.

Forespeak, bewitch; foretell.

Foretop, front lock of hair which fashion
required to be worn upright.

Forged, fabricated.

Form, state formally.

Formal, shapely; normal; conventional.

Forthcoming, produced when required.

Founder, disable with over-riding.

FOURM, form, lair.

Fox, sword.

Frail, rush basket in which figs or raisins
were packed.

FRAMPULL, peevish, sour-tempered.

FRAPLER, blusterer, wrangler.

Fraying, “a stag is said to fray his head when he rubs it against a tree to...cause the outward coat of the new horns to fall off” (Gifford).

Freight (of the gazetti), burden (of the newspapers).

Frequent, full.

FRICACE, rubbing.

FRICATRICE, woman of low character.

Frippery, old clothes shop.

Frock, smock-frock.

Frolics, (?) humorous verses circulated at a feast
(N.E.D.); couplets wrapped round sweetmeats (Cunningham).

Frontless, shameless.

FROTED, rubbed.

FRUMETY, hulled wheat boiled in milk and spiced.

Frump, flout, sneer.

Fucus, dye.

FUGEAND, (?) figent:  fidgety, restless (N.E.D.).

Fullam, false dice.

FULMART, polecat.

Fulsome, foul, offensive.

FURIBUND, raging, furious.

Galley-foist, city-barge, used on Lord Mayor’s Day, when he was sworn into his office at Westminster (Whalley).

Galliard, lively dance in triple time.