Faucon de bonne fin. A well-liking, or well-prouing hawke. À toutes fins. Of force, of necessitie, howsoeuer wee come by it, by hooke, or crooke, by any meanes whatsoeuer. La fin fait tout: Prov. The end does all in all. À la fin sçaura on qui a mangé le lard: Prov. The theefe will be at length discouered (howsoeuer he conceale, or, how cunningly soeuer he carrie, himselfe.) Telle vie telle fin: Prov. Such as his life such was his end.
Fin: m. fine: f. Wittie, craftie, subtile, cunning, wilie, fraudulent, cautelous, beguiling; also, fine, small, prettie, curious; perfect, exact, pure, exceeding good, of the verie best; also, most, very vtmost. Anguille fine. The female Eele; called so in Languedoc. Fin à dorer. A notable imposter, cheater, cousener, coniecatcher. Fin comme vne mouche. As craftie as a fox; and; Vne fine mouche. A subtile fox, or peece of flesh. Le mau fin feu de riqueraque; Looke Feu. Du fin fond. Out of th' vtmost depth, or bottome, from the verie middest of. Par le fin faiste. Strictly, straitly, exactly, by line and leuell, to a haire, or to th' vtmost, in all extremitie. Pour le fin moins. At the least. Chargé de la plus fine. Thats paied soundly, powdered throughly, that hath his load of the most delicate pockes; also, as in Chargé. Faire le fin. To be squeamish, make it daintie, seeme strange, refuse an offer (cunningly, and with a hope to be the more inuited.) Mais à fin contre fin. But craft met with cunning, or, two craftie knaues were therein verie well met. Fin contre fin n'est bon à faire de doubleure: Pro. Craft in both parties hinders all attonement.
Fin. Adverb. and hence. Fin à tel jour. Vntill such a day; and; fin que; vntill that, whilest that. Fin de conte. Finally, to conclude, to be briefe, to make short, to make hast. Fin de propos, il disoit, que. The last he said was, or in the end he said, that; or (as in Fin de Conte) to make an end; he said, that. Pour le fin moins. At the least. Tout fin. Euen now, straight; hard by; also, wholly. Tout fin à Noel. Verie neere to Christmas, when it was almost christmas. Tout fin mere nu. All discouered, starke-bellie naked; as naked as my naile.
Finablement. as Finalement. Finage: m. All the small cordage in a ship; tackling.
Finages: m. Th' vtmost limits or liberties, the furthest bounds or borders, of a countrey, or citie.
Finaison. Quand argent faut finaison nulle. No bargaine, or satisfaction, without money.
Final: m. ale: f. Finall, finishing, last, concluding, vtmost; also, subiect vnto a conclusion, or end; and hence; Creature finale. A mortall creature; a creature that must end one time or other (his dayes.) Fin finale. The last end of all; a peremptorie conclusion, or issue.
Finalement. Finally; at length, at the last; in summe, in conclusion, in the end.
Finance: or; Finances: f. Wealth, substance, riches, goods; also, a Princes reuenew, or treasure. (The French word Thresor signifies (most properly) the Kings de-*
*maine, which consists of ordinarie reuenewes; but Finance (more generall) comprehends both the demaine, and all extraordinarie leuies; as th' Aides, taxes, impositions, &c.) Perte de finance. Losse of publicke treasure by a robberie, &c; the ruine, or decay of a priuate estate by excessiue, or needlesse vsurie. Prendre à perte de finance. Looke Prendre. Faire finance. To giue money for an Office; also, to make, or gather, a stocke of money.
Financé: m. ée: f. That hath yeelded some treasure, or a reuenew (to the king;) or (more generally) disbursed.
Financer. To yeeld a reuenew, or treasure to the king, &c; also (more generally) to disburse; to giue, or pay money for.
Financier: m. A financer, or Exchequer-man; a Recciuer, vnder-Treasurer, or Teller, in th' Exchequer.
Fine de poules: f. Hennes dung, or ordure.
Finé: m. ée: f. Ended, finished, determined, concluded, accomplished; come to an issue.
Finemént: m. An end, issue, conclusion, expiration; or, an ending, determining, finishing of.
Finément. Subtilly, craftily, slily, wilily, cunningly; hence, also, industriously; prouidently, discreetly, warily, cautelously; & guilefully, deceitfully, fraudulently, or, with a fraudulent intent.
Finer. as Finir; To end; also, to obtaine, get, recouer; ouerrule, commaund, preuaile with; also, to furnish, or affoord; also, as Affiner; to trie, cleanse, fine. Ie ne me puis finer d'argent. I cannot come by any money. Homme de qui on fine aiséement. A gentle, or tractable fellow; one thats easily won, or soone preuailed with.
Finerot chemin fin. A way that is about 18 foot broad: ¶Bourgong. Finesse: f. Craft, subtiltie, guile, deceit, policie, cunning, fraud, sleight, slineße, wilinesse. Finesses de verre. Shallow trickes; such as are easily lookt into; or seene thorow.
Finet: m. finette: f. A pettie craftie slaue; a slie rogue, a wilie mate, a subtile companion.
Finfreluches: f. Shales, or scales, or scalie excrements; as dandriffe, &c; or, as Fanfreluches. Fingard: m. de: f. Lazie, lither, idle, slothfull, sluggish, dull, retchlesse, carelesse, negligent.
Fini: m. finie: Finished, ended, concluded, determined, accomplished; also, prescribed, limited, stinted; compassed, comprehended.
Finir. To end, conclude, finish, determine, accomplish; also, to define; prescribe, limit, stint; comprehend, compaße.
Finissant. Ending, determining, defining, limiting. Le cercle finissant. The Horizon; Looke Cercle. Finiteur: m. The circumference of a piller, from the top to the bottome thereof.
Finoinct. A kind of peare; good raw, or roasted.
Fins: m. The marches, borders, frontiers, vtmost ends, or limits of a countrey.
Fiole: f. A violl of glasse, &c.
Fiquatelle: f. A womans priuities.
Fique. par ma fique. By my fickins.
Fiquer. as Ficher; To fasten: ¶Pic. Firmament: m. The skie, welkin, firmament.
Firme: com. Firme, strong, stable; See Ferme.
Firmeté: f. Strength, firmenesse; Looke Fermeté.
Fiscal: m. ale: f. Fiscall; belonging, or comming to the publick purse, treasure; Treasurie, or Exchequer.
