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thrust, or weigh downe; to leane exceeding hard against; to presse, oppresse, foyle, ouercharge, extreamely. Fouler l'honneur de; To disgrace, or scandalize; to reproach, or vse opprobriously. Le cheval se foule. The horse is surbated, or heated of his feet.

Foulerie: f. as Foulement; also, as Fouloire. Fouleur: m. A treader (of grapes, &c;) a stamper, or trampler on.

Fouleure: f. A straine, or wrinch, in a ioynt. Fouleures. as Foulées. Fouliere. as Foulerie. Foulis. as Foulement. Foullage. Fullage; money payed for the thickening of cloth at a fulling Mill.

Foullé: m. ée: f. Fulled as cloth in a Mill; also, as Foulé. Fouller. To full, or thicken cloth in a Mill.

Foulleure. as Fouleure. Foullon. as Foulon. Foullonné: m. ée: f. Thickened, or fulled.

Foullonner. To full, or thicken cloth in a Mill.

Foullouaire. as Fouloire. ¶Rab. Fouloire. The round trough, wherein the wheele of a presse, often turning, or the treader, often stamping, crushes the stuffe that is in it.

Foulon: m. A fuller, or thickener of clothes; also, a fulling Mill; also, the great, and stinking Droane, or dorre-Bee. Chardon à foulon. The Teazle, or Fullers thistle. Herbe à foulon. Fullers hearbe, Sopeweed, Sope-*wort, Bruisewort.

Foulque. A Coote, moore-Henne, or fenne-Ducke.

Foulure: f. A treading, stamping, or trampling on; as Foulement. Foulz. Certain peeces of Venison cut out from betweene the necke, and the essay of a Deere; that part of the side which is next to the necke.

Foupi: m. ie: f. Crumpled, rumpled, crushed, trampled on, or crushed by trampling on.

Foupier: m. as Fripier. Foupir. To rumple, or crumple; to crush, or marre the fashion of, by sitting, or treading on.

Fouquer. To finger, lay hold on, get into his fingers. ¶Tour. Fouquet. The proper name of a man; also, a certaine game like ours, wherein one, setting a staffe against his nose, runnes tilting at a candle. Petit Fouquet. A leacherous, effeminate, licorous tayled fellow; a smell-smocke, wencher, muttonmonger. Et puis adieu Fouquet. And then we may euen goe hang our selues; or bid farewell to all goodfellowship.

Four: m. An Ouen; also, a Furnace; also, a great peece of timber in the prowe of a Ship, called, the Hooke.
  Four balet. A Maukin.
  Four à ban, ou bannal, ou bannier. A common Ouen for the tenants, or inhabitants of the Iurisdiction wherein it stands.
  Béer contre vn four. To halt before a criple.
  Ce n'est pas pour luy que le four chauffe. Tis not for him that this prouision is made; this is no meat for his mouth; no grasse for his mowing.
  Il ne peut estre ensemble au four, & au moulin. He cannot follow two businesses together; he cannot be here and there too.
  Mettre le pain en vn four froid. Looke Pain.
  Ils luy mettoyent vn pain au four. They raught him

a bone to gnaw on; or, they made him haue somewhat to doe. Il a monté dessus le four. He is at his full growth. Il en porta la paste au four. He bore the burthen of it; in whomsoeuer the fault was, the punishment fell only on him. Le four appelle le moulin bruslé: Prov. The micher tearmes the coward couetous; (and may be applyed to anie, that checks another for a fault whereof onely himselfe is guiltie.) C'est au four, & au moulin, ou l'on sçait des nouvelles: Pro. For while the bread bakes, and the corne grinds, people haue some leisure to tell how the world goes. En four chaud ne croist herbe: Prov. Hot Ouens breed no hearbes. Quand vn four est bien chaud la gueule s'en ressent: Prov. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Prodigue, & grand beuveur de vin, n'a du sien ne four, ne moulin: Prov. The swilling prodigall soone wasts, and sells, both Mill, and Ouen, and each good thing else.

Fourbe: f. A fib, ieast, fitton, gudgeon, mockerie, gullerie; a wyle, guile, deceit, imposture; a cousening, cheating, conycatching tale, or tricke.

Fourbi: m. ie: f. Furbished, polished, burnished.

Fourbir. To furbish, polish, burnish, make bright.

Fourbisseur: m. An Armorer; a Cutler; or, most properly, a furbisher, scowrer, burnisher, polisher. Teste à teste comme deux fourbisseurs. (Which commonly worke with their heads close together.)

Fourbisseure: f. A furbishing, scowring; polishing, burnishing.

Fourbouilly. Boyled, or stued meat with broth, or pottage.

Fourbure: f. The foundering of a horse.

Fourc: m. A Forke; or any other thing which, forke-like, makes a sharpe angle; also, a forkednesse. Le fourc d'un arbre. The twist of a tree; (Looke Fourcheure.) Le fourc d'un chemin. The angle, or corner of a way that parts in two; and the same partition, or the wayes that come thereof. Le fourc des doigts. The part that lyes betweene the setting on of euerie two of the fingers; or the parting thereof. Le fourc des ruës. That part of streets whereat they are parted in two.

Fourcelle: f. The breast blade, or heart-blade; also, the channell bone, or craw-bone; Looke Fourchette. Fourchage: m. A branch of a linage, familie, or kindred; any branch, member, or side of a stocke diuided.

Fourché: m. A forke, or forkednesse; also, the forked, or double-broched, top of a Deeres head.

Fourche: f. A Forke, Pitch-forke, or Prong; also, a gibbet,or paire of gallowes; whence;
  Fourche patibulaire. (An appurtenant, or marke of high Iurisdiction) standing on two pillars, it belongs to a Seigneur haut Iusticier; on 3, to a Lo. Chattelain; on 4, to a Baron; & on 6, to an Earle: (And yet by the customes of Blois the Moyen Iusticier may haue that with 2 pillars; and by the Customes of Auxerre, those that stand on 3 or 4, belong onely to Lo. Chattelains; but these proportions are nothing so proper, nor so generall, as the former.)