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  Face d'Abbé. A red, or illumined face; a fierie facies. La face de l'architrave. The face of a (pillers) Architraue; a large fillet, or bend, that commonly, makes a fift part thereof. De prime face. At the first; at first sight; as soone as euer I saw him.

Facé. Fessed, or barred; a tearme of Herauldrie.

Facecie. as Facetie. Facendes: f. Businesse, doings, affaires, dealings in matters, trafficking, and plotting one with another.

Facet: m. A Primmer, or Grammer for a yong scholler.

Facetie: f. Wittie mirth, a merrie conceit, a prettie incounter in speech.

Facetieusement. Merrily, conceitedly, wittily, pleasantly.

Facetieux: m. euse: f. Facetious; merrily conceited, wittily pleasant.

Faciate: f. A forepart, or forefront.

Faciendaire: m. An Agent, or Negociator; one thats imployed in a businesse, or made th' instrument of effecting it, for another.

Faciendes: f. Looke Facendes. Facile: com. Easie, facile, ceth, prone; gentle, gracious, tractable, pliable, soone pleased, quickly intreated. Plus facile recompense. A recōpence sooner come by.

Facilement. Easily, with good facilitie, with little stirre, with small trouble, with no great adoe; also, lightly, quickly, readily; gently, pliably, tractably.

Facilité: f. Facilitie, easinesse; procliuitie, pliablenesse, aptnesse, promptnesse, readinesse; lenitie, courtesie, gentlenesse, good nature.

Facilité: m. ée: f. Facilitated, made easie.

Faciliter. To facilitate, or make easie.

Façon: f. The fashion; forme; outward frame, or shape; a making, proportion, workemanship; manner, behauior, order; custome, guise, wont. Les façons de la femme en la vigne. A womans worke in a vineyard, (is twofold; the binding of the plants, or yong shutes vnto their poles; and the ridding them of their superfluous, or noisome sprigs.) Les façons des terres labourables. As many seuerall breakings, or turnings vp, as the seed that is to be lodged in them requires. Les façons de la vigne. Are foure; la taille; le hoüage; le binage; & le terçage; (For which looke in their seuerall places.) C'est vn homme qui a ses façons. The man is a little humorous, or fantasticall. Il a toutes ses façons. He is fully prouided of, throughly furnished with, all things he hath need of; he hath all that he should haue; he hath his full due; also; Il luy a baillé toutes ses façons. He hath coursed him soundly, hamperd him throughly, paied him home; he forbore him not, he dallied not with him; he gaue him his due. Le livre est de sa façon. Is right of his phrase, or stile. Il trouva façon de faire cela. He found a meanes to doe that.

Facond: m. de: f. Eloquent, well spoken, of a gracefull vtterance, of a sweet deliuerie.

Faconde: f. Eloquence, readie vtterance, gracefull speaking, sweet deliuerie.

Facondement. Eloquently. Façonné: m. ée: f. Fashioned, formed, figured, proportioned, shaped, made, framed; also, mannered, behaued.

Façonnement: m. A fashioning; forming, figuring, proportioning, shaping; outward making, or framing.

Façonner. To fashion; forme, figure, proportion, shape, make, or frame (th' outside of;) also, to accommodate, adapt, or make fit for. Se façonner à. To applie, or conforme himselfe, vnto.

Façonnier: m. A Cloth-worker.

Facque: m. as Faquin. Facque: f. A little pocket, or pouch.

Facteur: m. A factor; an Agent; a dealer for another. Aujourd'uy facteur demain fracteur: Prov. To day a Banker, to morrow a bankrupt.

Facteure: f. Facture, workemanship.

Factieux. Factious, seditious, troublesome, contentious.

Faction: f. A faction, or sect; a side, or partie, diuided, or dissenting, from others; also, a mutinous companie, turbulent crue, seditious troupe; also, an enterprise, action, or matter in action.

Factionnaire: com. Factious, mutinous, turbulent, seditious, much giuen to sects, or siding.

Factiste: m. A maker, a Play maker, a Poet that writes Comedies, &c.

Factorerie: f. as Facturerie. Facture: f. The facture, workemanship, framing, making of a thing; also, a factorship; or, the dutie, and charge of a factor. Lettres de facture. Bills of lading.

Facturerie: A Factorie; a house for factors to trade, and abide in.

Faculté: f. Facultie; leaue, licence; aptnesse, readinesse; power, abilitie; occasion, force, opportunitie.

Facultez. Wealth, substance, riches, possessions, goods.

Fadas. as Fat; Sottish, foolish.

Fade: com. Vnsauorie, tastlesse, wallowish, waterish; weake, faint; witlesse.

Fadement. Vnsauorily, tastlesly; also, weakely, faintly; foolishly.

Fadese: f. Tastlesnesse, want of sauor, wallowishnesse, weaknesse, waterishnesse in tast. Fadeses. Follies, toyes, trifles, fopperies, fooleries, gulleries.

Fadeseries. as Fadeses. Fadeur: f. as Fadese. Fadoche. The name of a certaine peare.

Fadrin: m. The Maisters mate in a ship; in a gallie, the Officer that rules the slaues.

Fafelu: m. uë: f. Puffed vp; fat cheeked; a chops.

Faftelu: m. uë: f. as Fafelu. Fafiloches: f. Rauellings of linnen, or cloth.

Fagot: m. A fagot; a bundle of stickes. Les tripes du fagot. The smallest stickes of the fagot.

Fagotage: m. A heaping together, a trussing vp in bundles; fagot-making.

Fagoté: m. ée: f. Made into fagots; tied, or trussed vp in bundles, or fagots; huddled, or clapped vp together.

Fagoter. To make fagots; to tie, or trusse vp in bundles or fagots; to huddle, or clap vp together.

Fagoteur: m. A fagot-maker. Fagoteur de tabus. A contentious person: ¶Rab. Fagouë: f. A certaine kernell vnder the kannell bone (in men slender, thicke in beasts) also, the fag-peece, or kernellie part, next vnto the necke, of a Boare.

Fagoule: f. A Grit, grampell, pungar; ¶Marseil. Faguenat: m. A filthie rammish smell.

Fagule: f. The Crab-fish tearmed, a Pungar.

Faict: m. A fact, act, action, worke; deed; a feat, pranke, part; performance, atchieuement, exploit; also, an allegation, proposition, argument, or article, in pleading.