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ouerseene, or too blame; to take a dram too much; to drinke vntil he stare againe; also, to founder, as a horse, by drinking when he is verie hot.

Forbours. as Faulxbourgs. Suburbes.

Forçable. Forceable, compellable.

Forçat: m. A galley-slaue; also, a game at draughts, wherein one must take his aduersarie when he may, or else he himselfe is taken.

Force: f. Force, might, strength, power, abilitie, vigour, vehemencie; vertue, effect, operation, energie, efficacie, powerfull working; violence, constraint, compulsion, rauishment; (also, store, plentie, aboundance, many of; whence, Force escus; force arbres.) Force forcée. Of force, of necessitie, will he nill he, in spight of his teeth. À force. With great might, with much indeauor; whence, Couru à force. Hardly, eagarly, or extreamly, pursued. La force luy en est demeurée. He hath got the victorie; the vpper hand, the better end of the staffe, in the matter. Ce que luy sera force. Which he shall be faine, or forced, to doe. Faire force. To indeauor, labour, striue, inforce, himselfe. Ie ne fais point force de cela. I care not for, I force not of, I am not mooued by, that thing. Mieux vaut engin que force: Pro. Better be wise then strong.

Forcé: m. ée: f. Forced, compelled, constrayned; also, rauished, as a woman; also, burst open, broke through; also, hard layed too; brought vnto a narrow strait, hard pinch, ill passe. Force forcée. Of necessitie; Looke Force. Forcement: m. A forcing; a compelling, or constrayning; also, a bursting open, or breaking through.

Forcenant. Chien forcenant. A dog thats eagar in chace, hot after his game, and will stand long.

Forcené: m. ée: f. Mad, wood, frantick; raging, furious, out of his wits.

Forcenement: m. Madnesse, raging, furie, woodnesse, frenzie.

Forcener. To be mad, franticke, furious.

Forcenerie. as Forcenement. Forcer. To force, compell, vrge, constraine; also, to violate, force, or rauish (as a woman;) also, to breake open (as a dore;) also, to lay hard vnto, or bring into extremitie (as dogs doe a deere after a long chace;) also, to ouercome, subdue, force, passe through by force; (forcer lesgardes d'une porte.) Forcer de la laine. To pick, or tease wooll: v.m. Forces: f. A paire of sheeres. Faire les forces. A horse to hold his mouth open, and turne his chaps often from one side to the other.

Forcette: f. A cizar, a small paire of sheeres.

Forceur: m. A forcer, compeller, vrger, constrainer; a violent subduer, conqueror, ouercommer.

Forchasser, come vn arc. To cast, or shoot awrie, as a bow, that is stronger on one side then of another.

Forcheminé. Wandered, gone out of the way.

Forcheminer. To wander, stragle, take a wrong course, goe out of the way.

Forchette. Looke Fourchette. Forclorre. To exclude, reiect, expel, shut out; to dismisse from, or, not admit vnto.

Forclos: m. ose: f. Excluded, reiected, expelled, shut out; dismissed, or debarred from.

Forclusion: f. An exclusion, or shutting out; a dismissing;

or debarring from.

Forcommand: m. A putting out of possession, or a voiding of possession, by order, or commaund of a Court.

Forcommandé: m. ée: f. Voided, outed, or put out, of possession.

Forconseillé: m. ée: f. Ill aduised, counselled amisse.

Forconseiller. To giue ill counsell.

Forconte: m. A misreckoning, or miscounting.

Forconté: m. ée: f. Misreckoned, counted amisse.

Forconter. To misreckon, or count amisse.

Fore: f. as For; a Court.

Foré: m. ée: f. Bored, pierced; wherein holes are made.

Forer. To bore, pierce, make holes in.

Fores. De fores. Without, forth of.

Forest: m. Looke Foret. Forest: f. A Forest; a great, (and priuiledged) wood, or wooddie wildernesse; Some (Frenchmen) haue generally interpreted it (from the Latine words foris, & sta) a Place whereto the accesse, and entrie is forbidden, by the owner, vnto others; and hence, it seemes, that priuiledged fishings, or large waters (wherein none but the Lords thereof could fish) were also tearmed, Forests. Forestain: m. ine: f. Wooddie, wild, forrest-like.

Forestier: m. A forrester, or foster; a Keeper of, or in, a forrest; a Raunger, Woodman, or Wood-warden; an Officer that lookes to the Kings woods, or forrests; (In old time the Gouernours of Flanders (for the French) were tearmed Forestiers;) also, a forrainer, alien, stranger.

Forestier: m. ere: f. Woodie, forrest-like; of, or belonging to, a forrest; wild, sauage; also, forraine. Sergent forestier. Looke Sergent. Foret: m. A Gimblet, or Piercer.

Forfaict: m. A crime, sinne, fault, misdeed, offence, trespasse, transgression.

Forfaict: m. cte: f. Offended, sinned, misdone, trespassed; also, offending, sinning, misdoing.

Forfaicture. as Forfaict; a transgression; also, a forfeiture, or confiscation. Cela nous appartient par forfaicture du seigneur feodal. Thereto we haue no possibilitie of right.

Forfaire. To sinne, offend, commit a fault, misdoe, transgresse, trespasse against; also, to forfeit. Si truye forfaict les pourceaux le souffrent: Pro. Pigs fare the worse for harmes done by the Sow.

Forfaiture. as Forfaicture. Forfait. as Forfaict. Forfan: m. A knaue, rogue, rascall, rakehell, varlet, villaine, vagabond, base fellow, filthie slaue, naughtie packe, leud companion.

Forfanter. To play the rogue; to marre all he meddles with.

Forfanterie: f. Roguerie, knauerie, villanie; also, a crue of rakehellie scowndrells.

Forgagé: m. ée: f. Redeemed, had from pawne.

Forgager. To redeeme, or fetch out, a pawne, &c.

Forgas: m. A seisure, or sale of goods, vpon execution. ¶Norm.
  Temps de forgas. Certaine dayes after the open sale of goods in execution, giuen vnto the executee to proue the execution wrongfull, and recouer them with costs; or to satisfie his creditor; or to haue his goods againe for the money which was bid for them; which time if he neglect, they are gone for euer. ¶Norm.

Forge à fer. A Smithes Forge.