‘F’
| New English |
Common English |
| Fain adj. |
Glad, rejoiced, well-pleased; hence necessitated, obliged; disposed willing, eager |
| Fair adj. |
Beautiful, agreeable, delightful, considerable, free from blemish, elegant |
| Faldstol n. |
An armless chair used by bishops and other prelates. 2. a movable, folding-stool or desk at which worshippers kneel |
| Fall in with vb. |
Adopt, comply with s.t. already existing, join |
| Fall out n. |
Consequences, blowback |
| Fallow n. |
Ground plough and harrowed, but left uncropped for a year or more. 2 Fallowness: the condition of being fallow, idleness |
| Fallow vb. |
Fade, wither, grow pale, blanch. 2. to plough |
| Fallow adj. |
Pale brownish or reddish yellow in colour |
| Fallow-finch n. |
The plant wheatear (saxicola oeananthe) |
| False adj. |
Erroneous, wrong, not according to rule or principle or law. Late OE. |
| Fane n. |
Pennant, banner, flag. 2. weathercock |
| Fang n, |
A catch, grip, capture. 2. that which is caught or taken; plunder, spoil. |
| Fang n. |
A tooth; fangless: toothless |
| Fang vb. |
To grasp, seize, hold on to, take hold of. 2. to fang up: to pluck up the heart; to take up, get, procure, as in to fang christian belief; to fang mankind: to become human in nature. 3. to welcome, receive a guest, promise, resolve, undertake; To fang to:to take one’s way, sponsor in. |
| Feathermonger n. |
One who deals in feathers, transfig; birds |
| Featherdom n. |
The realm of feathered creatures (birds); the bird words; birds collectively |
| Feoh n. |
Money, property, wealth, cattle. Livestock was the measure of wealth in the ancient world. |
| Fight-wite n. |
Fine for taking part in a fight |
| Fight-racked adj. |
Overthrown in battle |
| Fight-down vb. |
Overcome in battle,,settle dispute, drive off, fight back |
| Fight-out vb. |
To fight it out, settle dispute |
| Fight-shy adj. |
Lose confidence in battle |
| Fighting-field n. |
Battle field |
| Fighty adj. |
Warlike, aggressive |
| Fike n. |
Fig |
| Fike n. |
Flirtation, dalliance; fiking, fikiness |
| Fike vb. |
To vex, trouble. 2. flatter, fawn, act or speak with deceit; fikey |
| Fike adj. |
Restless, fidgetty, movey. |
| Film-free adj. |
Free from a filmy covering |
| Filst n. |
Assistance, support, furterance, aid, help |
| Filst vb. |
To assist, support, aid, help |
| Filth-hood n. |
Unclenliness, filthyness, squalor |
| Findy adj. |
Firm, solid, weighty; 2. (of a harvest): plentiful. |
| Findy n. |
Final issue, latter part, closing, end of life, close, death, 2. boundary, extremity. 3. outcome, result. |
| Findal n. |
That which is found |
| Finew adj. |
Mouldy, musty. Also finewing, finewed, finewness |
| Firebrand n. |
One doomed todie in the fires of Hell. 2. kindler of strife |
| Fire-swart adj. |
Blackened by fire |
| Fire-stick n. |
Firebrand, a piece of wood kindled at the fire. |
| Fire-iland n. |
Volcano |
| Fire-bote n. |
The right of a tenant to take firewood from off a landlord’s estate. |
| Fire-eyed adj. |
Fiery |
| Fire-flaw n. |
Lightning, a flash of lightning, a storm of thunder and lightning, fire-slaught, fulmination, Also: fire-flaught. |
| Fire-hot adj. |
Red-hot |
| Firk n. |
Sharp or sudden blow, |
| Firk vb. |
To bring, carry, conduct. 2. help forward in some way, urge, press, drive away, move briskly |
| First-hand adj & adv phr. |
From the first source of origin, original |
| Firsthood n. |
The position of one who is first, firstship |
| First-most adj, |
The first in time, most notable, best, chief, prominent, foremost |
| Firstness n. |
Equality of state |
| Firstborn adj. |
Eldest |
| Fisk vb. |
To move briskly, scamper about. |
| Flail n. |
Instrument to thresh corn by hand; a military weapon resembling a flail |
| Flail vb. |
To strike with a flail; to thresh corn with a flail |
| Flake n. |
Wattled hurdle, temporary gate, a stage or frame for drying fish, a snow flake |
| Flaught n. |
A lock of hair, or wool; flash of lightning, tongue or flame, sudden burst of wind. 2. spreading out, as wings in flight, outspread wings; 2. flock of birds. |
| Flaughten n. |
A flake of fine snow |
| Flaw n. |
Sudden burst of wind, fall of rain or snow with gusty winds,a short spell of rough weather. 2. a sudden burst of passion, as in flaw & fury |
| Fleam n. |
A stream, river, waterway, watercourse, mill, floss, fleet. |
| Flede vb. |
To flow |
| Fleech vb. |
To beguille, cajole, wheedle, flatter, fawn. beseech, entreat |
| Fleecher n. |
Sycophant, fawner |
| Fleet n. |
River, stream, often fast flowing |
| Fleet vb. |
To stay on the surface as opposed to sinking |
| Fleg vb. |
To frighten, scare |
| Fleme n. |
Flight, exile. 2. a fugitive, an exile, a runaway. Also Flemer one who puts others to flight. |
| Fleme vb. |
To cause to flee, to banish, put to flight |
| Flemensfirth n |
The act of harboring a banished person. |
| Flesher n. |
A butcher; also a flesh-hewer |
| Flesh-hood n. |
Incarnation, being in the flesh |
| Flesh-house n. |
A butcher’s shop |
| Fleshmonger n. |
A butcher. 2. hoon, pimp, panderer |
| Fleshquake n. |
A shaking, trembling, highly agitated person |
| Flesh-seamer n. |
Surgeon |
| Fly-wort n. |
Carasetum, formerly myanthus, used in potions prepared to ward off flies. |
| Fly-away adj. |
Flighty, extravagant, volatile |
| Flyleaf n. |
A blank leaf at the beginning of a book. |
| Flyness n. |
Wide-awakeness, alertness |
| Flyover n. |
a bridge or road over another |
| Fnast vb. |
To breathe, pant, breathe heavily. |
| Fneeze vb. |
To sneeze |
| Foam-fleck n. |
Wave |
| Foam-wrought n. |
The foom of a waterfall |
| Fodder n. |
Food in general, food for cattle, dried food, hay. 2. a child, offspring (rare). |
| Fodding n. |
A division |
| Fodneth n. |
Sustenance, food |
| Foe n. |
Personal enemy, one who hates and seeks to injure; a devil |
| Foe-god. n. |
Idol, afgod |
| Foe-like adj. |
Adversorial, hindering, hostile, inimical, feuding, foeish |
| Foe-hearted adj. |
Treacherous in intent, foeish |
| Foe-reaping n. |
Bringing in or causing hostility |
| Foehood n. |
Emnity, hatred, state of mutual strife, foeship |
| Foeless adj. |
Having no foes; foelessness |
| Folk-leasing n. |
Public slander, |
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