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tearme in that sence applied vnto that onely fish;) also the frie of any fish. Le menu fretin. The least size, and worst sort, of Cod; of people, the meanest commoners, rascall vulgar, base rout.

Fretinfretailler. as Fredinfredailler. Fretrots. A Sect of Religious men, and women (which wore a secret Crowne on their heads) incestuous, as the Adamites, by night, and suppressed in the yeare 1310.

Fretté. Frettie; a tearme of Blason.

Frettin: m. as Fretin. Freux: m. A Rooke, or white-billed Crow.

Frez: m. as Frescheur; Coolenesse. Frez: m. Fresche: f. New, fresh, recent, raw, greene; sound, lustie, newly come, lately done; also, coole; also, fresh, or without salt. Bouche fresche. A lickorous, or hungrie palate; one whose stomacke is alwayes readie, whose appetite euer awake; also, as in; Tant vous avez la bouche fresche. What fine tearms you vse; what goodlie words you come out with; (Ironically.) Gueule fresche. One that hath a notable good stomacke.

Frezaye. A Scrich-owle.

Freze: f. A calues chalderne; also, a ruffe. Entrer en freze. Silke-worms to begin to mount vpon the boughes layed for them (In which mounting they spinne their silke.)

Frezé: m. ée: f. Set, as a ruffe; or, (more properly) ruffled, or set rufflingly, after the manner of the (thicke) French ruffe; Febves frezées. Pilled, or shaled beanes.

Frezillon: m. Priuet, Primprint.

Friable: com. Bruiseable, easie to be broken.

Friand. vn fr. A sweet-lips, picke-morsell, curious feeder, lickorous companion, daintie-mouthed fellow; an eat-*nell, slap-sauce, lick-dish.

Friand: m. de: f. Saucie, lickorous, daintie-mouthed, sweet-toothed; also, delicate, of a pleasing smacke, tast-inticing, delicious in tast. Navire friand à la voile. A ship that sayles exceeding well; an excellent sayler. Trebuchet friand. An alluring trap, sweet poison, pleasing bait. De femme volage, & friande en tout temps bon heur nous defende: Prov. Looke Femme. Friandeau: m. A sweet-lips; Looke Friand. Friandement. Saucily, lickorously; sweetly, deliciously.

Friander. To feed daintily, tast curiously, eat lickorously, picke the best morsells out of meat; to loue, or to liue on, sweet and daintie acates.

Friandise: f. Daintinesse, or lickorousnesse of tast; a curious choice, or chusing of meats; also, delicious fare, and hence; Friandises. Dainties, Jonkets, sweet meats, curious acates. Qui a le nez tourné à la friandise. Said of a light housewife; (belike from the affinitie thats betweene a lickorous tongue, and a leacherous taile.)

Fribours: m. A kind of counterfeit Doubles; (The Huguenots haue also beene tearmed so by such as accounted them counterfeit stuffe:) ¶Poictevin. Fric. On ne trouve chez luy ny frac ny fric. There is no prouision to be got, no intertainment to be had, at his house.

Fricandeaux: m. Short, skinlesse, and daintie puddings,

or Quelkchoses*, made of good flesh and hearbes chopped together, then rolled vp into the forme of Liuerings, &c, and so boyled.

Fricassé: m. ée: f. Fried; also, spent, or squandered away.

Fricassée: f. Any meat fried in a panne; also, a kind of charge for a Morter, or murdering peece, of stones, bullets, nailes, and peeces of old yron closed together with grease, and gunpowder.

Fricasser. To frie; also, to spend, or squander all away.

Friche. en friche. Wild, vntilled, sauage, desert, neglected, vnhusbanded, vnmanured. Bois en friche. Wood newly lopt*, or cut, and let stand vntill it be growne vp againe. Terre delaissée en friche. Land vntilled; or once tilled, and afterwards neglected; whereby it becomes ouergrowne with shrubs, and weeds.

Friction: f. A friction, or frication; a frigging; rubbing, chafing.

Frid. as Frit. Fries: f. The view, or footing of a Deere.

Friez. terres laissées en friez. Looke Friche. Frigaler. To feed curiously, daintily, lickorously; to picke (onely) the best morsells out of a peece of meat.

Frigalet: m. A lickorous, or daintie-mouthed youth; a slap-sauce, picke-morsell, sweet-lips.

Frigalleries: f. Dainties; lickorous morsells, lushious acates.

Frigoule: f. The hearbe Time: ¶Langued. Friller. To shiuer, chatter, or didder for cold.

Frilleux: m. euse: f. Chill, cold of nature.

Frimas; ou Frimats: m. A rime, or thicke mist, which in Winter most commonly falls, and leaues behind it a whitish, or frothie hoare. Avalleurs de frimats. Cousening knaues, idle companions, loytering rogues; also, a nickname for Judges; who vsing to rise, and goe abroad early, swallow a great deale of mist in their dayes.

Frime. Il n'en fit point de frime. He shewed no passion, he seemed not to be moued, at it.

Frime. bled frime. Cow-wheat, Ox-wheat, Black-wheat, Horse-flower. Fringant. Gay, spruce, compt, gallant, fine.

Fringoter. To quauer, to diuide in singing; also, as Fringotter. Fringoteries: f. Frets; cranklings, wrigled flourishings, in caruing, &c.

Fringotter. To fret; or worke frets in gold, siluer, &c.

Fringue. faire la fringue. To frig, or wantonnize it, &c; as Fringuer. Fringuer. To iet, or braue it; to be fine, spruce, trimme, neat; also, to minionize, or wantonize it; and (more particularly) to leacher, or lasciuiously to frig with the taile, in leachering.

Fringuereau: m. A ietter, spruce minion, gay fellow, compt youth; also, a licentious, or lasciuious person.

Fringuerie: f. A ietting, sprucenesse, trimnesse; also, leacherie, taile-frigging, sensuall wantonnesse.

Frinson. as Pinson. Friolé: m. ée: f. Consumed; rauiued, deuoured (cracklingly, or with a noise, as stubble by the fire.)

Frioler. To consume, rauine, deuour, (cracklingly, or with a noise, as fire does stubble) also, to braue it.

Friolet. A lickorous boy; or as Vn-friand.

Frioller. as Frioler.

Fripaillé: m. ée: f. Foiled, or torne, with wearing, and handling; ragged, or full of iags.