For the least feather in her bounteous fan.
B. Jons. Cynthia's Rev., iii, 4.
Ravish a feather from a mistress' fan,
And wear it as a favour. Mass. Bondm., i, 1.

See Harr. Epig., i, 70. It was a piece of state for a servant to attend, on purpose to carry the lady's fan when she walked out; this was one of the offices of her gentleman usher. The Nurse in Romeo and Juliet affects this dignity. Act ii, sc. 4. The mistress must have one to carry her cloake and hood, another her fanne. Servingman's Comfort, 1598. It appears that men were sometimes effeminate enough to use such a fan. Phantastes, a male character, is so equipped in the old play of Lingua; and Greene reproaches the men of his day for wearing plumes of feathers in their hands, which in wars their ancestors wore on their heads. Farewell to Folly. Looking-glasses were sometimes set in these fans, in the broad part, above the handle, near the setting on of the feathers:

In this glasse you shall see, that the glasses which you carry in your fans of feathers, shew you to be lighter than feathers. Euph. Engl., Ffl. Lovelace addressed a copy of verses to his mistress's fan, which he describes as made of ostrich's feathers dyed sky-blue, with a looking glass set in it:

Poems, p. 34.

A crystal mirror sparkles in thy breast. Coryat very awkwardly describes Italian fans, which, as far as can be collected from his account, seem to have been such as are now in use, but were quite new to him:

Here will I mention a thing, that although perhaps it will seem but frivolous to divers readers that have

already travelled in Italy, yet because unto many that neither have beene there, nor ever intend to go thither while they live, it will be a mcere novelty, I will not let it passe unmentioned. The first Italian fannes that I saw in Italy did I observe in this space, betwixt Pizighiton and Cremona. But afterward I observed them common in most places of Italy where I travelled. These fannes both men and women of the country doe carry to coole themselves withall in the time of heate, by the often fauning of their faces. Most of them are very elegant and pretty things. For whereas the fanne consisteth of a painted peece and a little wooden handle; the paper which paper is fastened into the top is on both sides most curiously adorned with excellent pictures, either of amorous things tending to dalliance, having some witty Italian verses, or fine emblems written under them; or of some notable Italian city, with a brief description thereof added thereunto. These fannes are of a meane price. For a man may buy one of the fairest of them for so much money as countervaileth our English groate. Crudities, vol. i, p. 134.

of

He then proceeds to speak of um

brellas.

The ladies of ancient Rome used fans made of feathers, like those above described as worn by the English ladies. Propertius speaks of

Pavonis caudæ flabella superbæ. El., II, xxiv, 11.

FANCIES. A name for a sort of light ballads, or airs.

And sung those tunes to the over-scutcht huswives, that he heard the carmen whistle, and sware they were his fancies, or his goodnights. 2 Hen. IV, iii, 2. One part of the collection called Wit's Recreations, is entitled, "Fancies and Fantastics." Another publication gives us, "Wits, Fits, and Fancies." FANCY, s. Used for love, as depending much on fancy.

Fair Helena in fancy following me..
Mids. N. D., iv, 1.
In Troilus and Cressida we have it as
a verb:

Never did young man fancy
With so eternal and so fix'd a soul.

v, 2.

We may observe, therefore, that the famous passage supposed to delineate queen Elizabeth,

means, love."

In maiden meditation, fancy-free, Mids. N. D., ii, 2. "free from the attacks of

To FANCY. To imagine.

Hav. I fancy'd you a beating; you must have it. Cartwright's Ordinary, 1651. FAND. An irregular preterite of find, for found. It was very common with the Elizabethan poets.

At last, (nigh tir'd,) a castle strong we fand,
The utmost border of my native land.

Fairf. Tasso, iv, 55.
We conquer'd all the realme my foes we fand,
Which were in armes stout, valiant, noble wights.
Mirr. for Mag., p.

94.

The author means, "All whom we found my foes."

Spenser used it

What fangle now thy thronged quests to winne,
To get more roome, faith, goe to Iune and Inne.

Gayton, Fest. Notes, p. 230.
A hatred to fangles and the French fooleries of his
time.
Wood's Athena, II, col. 456.

FANGLED, part. Trifling.

A book? O rare one!

Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment
Nobler than that it covers.

Sh. Cym., v, 4. Hence new-fangled, which is still in use, means properly, fond of new toys or trifles.

+FANKIT. Sheathed or confined?
Brave Parcy rais'd his fankit sword,
And fell'd the foremost to the ground.
The Death of Parcy Reed, a ballad.
The character

+FANTASTICALITY.
of being fantastic.

Which in mocking sort described unto Fido the fantasticallity of each man's apparell, and apishnesse of gesture. The Man in the Moone, 1609. FANTASTICO. A fantastical, coxcombical man. Ital. This is the word of the old editions, which had been changed without reason.

court our most happy and shining port, a port of refuge for the world, Sandys' Travels, p. 47. It is farced with fables, visions, legends, and relations Ibid., p. 54. +These might well farce and cram their mawes with far more aliment, because their ventricles, cels, veines, and other organs of their bodies were farre more ample and spatious. Optick Glasse of Humors, 1639. †To FARD. To paint the face.

That I assure you I thought they would have fleyed
me to search betweene the fel and the flesh for far-
dings.
Gascoigne's Works, 1587.

Who bare a rock in steed of royall mace,
And for a man with woman changeth grace
In gestures all; he frisles and he jards,
He oynts, he bathes, his visage he regards
In crystall glasse.

Du Bartas.

Her husband having been now three or four years beyond the seas (sick with absence from her whom his desires longed after), came over again, and found that beauty, which he had left innocent, so farded and sophisticated with some court drug which had wrought upon her, that he became the greatest stranger at home. Wilson's History of James I. FARDEL, or FARTHEL. A burden. Fardellus, low Latin; from which, probably, the Italian fardello, the French fardeau, and the Dutch far

deel.

Other men's sins we ever beare in mind,
None sees the fardel of his faults behind.
Herrick's Poems, p. 298.

To FARDEL, or FARDLE.
up.
From the noun.

To pack

these new tuners of accents.

I have revelled with kings, danc'd with queens, dallied with ladies, worn strange attires, seen fantasticos, convers'd with humorists.

Decker's Old Fortunatus, Inc. Dr, iii, 148. to mean

FAP seems by the context drunk, but has yet not been fully traced. It was probably a cant term. Why, sir, for my part I say the gentleman had drunk

himself out of his five senses and being fap, sir, was, as they say, cashier'd. Mer. W. W., i, 1. It has been attempted to derive it from vappa, but that, as Mr. Douce observes, is too learned. I have not met with it in any Glossary. To FARCE. To stuff. Farcer, Fr. The entertissued robe of gold and pearl, The farsed title running 'fore the king. Hen. V, iv, 1. Farced means there pompous or swelling.

And with our broth, and bread, and bits, sir Friend,
Y'ave farced well; pray make an end.

Herrick's Works, p. 169.
What broken piece of matter so c'er she's about, the
name of Palamon lards it, so that she farces every
business withal, fits it to every question.
Two Noble Kinsm., iv, 3.
Farcing his letter with like fustian, calling his own

At last resolving forward still to fare. Spens. F. Q., 1, i, 11. One knocked at the door, and in would fare, Ibid., I, iii, 16.

[To behave.]

His bottles gone, stil stands he strangely faring,
Hands heav'd, necke bent, mouth yawning, eies broad
staring.
Heywood's Troia Britanica.

FARLIES. Strange things. From faerlic,
strange, Saxon.
Ferly is in Chaucer,
C. T., 4171, and in Gavin Douglas.
Whilst thus himself to please, the mighty mountain

tells

Such farlies of his Cluyd, and of his wondrous wells. Drayt. Polyolb., 10, p. 847. It occurs in the old metrical version of the Ten Commandments, by William Wisdom, as an adjective. Attend my people and give eare, Of ferly things I will thee tell. Ps. by Sternh. & Hop. Minshew erroneously supposes it to be made from yorely. See Lye's Junius, where it is abundantly illus trated from the Scottish dialect. Ferly occurs also in Percy's Reliques, vol.

ii.

+FAST.

Thus are we become

As apes of Rome,

Of France, Spain, and all nations;

And not horses alone,

But men are grown

Diseased of the fashions.

Acad. of Compl., 1713, p. 218. Tenacious, retentive.

Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells, so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness, yea, though it bee in a morning's dew. Bacon, Essay xlvi, FAST AND LOOSE. A cheating game, whereby gipsies and other vagrants beguiled the common people of their money. It is said to be still used by low sharpers, and is called pricking at the belt or girdle. It is thus described:

A leathern belt is made up into a number of intricate
folds, and placed edgewise upon a table. One of the
folds is made to resemble the middle of the girdle, so
that whoever should thrust a skewer into it would
think he held it fast to the table; whereas, when he
has so done, the person with whom he plays may take
hold of both ends and draw it away. Sir J. Hawkins.
The drift of it was, to encourage
wagers whether it was fast or loose,
which the juggler could make it at
his option.

Like a right gipsey, hath, at fast and loose,
Beguil'd me to the very heart of loss.
Ant. and Cl., iv, 11.
Charles the Egyptian, who by juggling could
Make fast or loose, or whatsoe'er he would.
An old Epigr. quoted by Mr. Steevens.
In Promos and Cassandra, part i, the
hangman says,

At fast and loose with my Giptian I mean to have a
cast,
Tenne to one I read his fortune by the Marymas fast.
Act ii, sc. 5.

He like a gypsy oftentimes would go,
All kinds of gibberish he hath learn'd to know;
And with a stick, a short string, and a noose,
Would show the people tricks at fast and loose.
Drayton's Mooncalf, p. 500.
To this piece of the sharper's trade
Falstaff means to recommend Pistol,
when he says,

Go-a short knife and a thong,-to your manor of
Pickt-hatch-go.
Merr. W. W., ii, 2.
In Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft,
ch. xxix, p. 336, is described the

FATIGATE. Fatigued, wearied.

Then straight his double spirit
Requicken'd what in flesh was fatigate,
And to the battle came he.

Cor., ii, 2. +FAUCHIN. A faulchion, or sabre. Having (as I said) boarded our ship, hee entred on the larbord quarter, where his men, some with sabels which we call fauchins, some with hatchets, and some with halfe pikes. Taylor's Workes, 1630. FAVELL.

This corruption

Favour. seems only to have existed in the one phrase to curry favell. Now changed to curry favour. [It is a good old word.]

Whereunto were joined also the hard speeches of her
pickthanke favourits, who to curry favell, spared not,
&c.
Knowles, Hist. of Turks, p. 108.
But if such moderation of words tend to flattery or
soothing, or excusing, it is by the figure paradiastole,
which therefore, nothing improperly we call the
curry-favell, as when we make the best of a bad thing,
or turne a signification to the more plausible sence.
Puttenham, Art of Poesie, p. 154.
Yet sometimes a creeper and a curry-furell with his
superiors.
Ibid., p. 245.
This phrase has been traced to Chaucer,
and has been fully discussed by Mr.
Douce in his Illustrations of Sh., i,
474. Favel being a name for a
yellow (or light bay) horse, and
joined with curry, he supposes it
derived from the stable. But it was
originally fabel, so there is still some
doubt as to its origin. [Understood
to be from Lat. fabula.] To curry
favell, as derived from the stable,
could only mean to curry a favorite
horse of that colour. But why not to
curry a Bayard, or any other coloured
favorite?

+Were I oute of my hermyte wede,
Off thy faryll I wold not dred.

MS. Ashmole, 61, xv cent. +FAULT. At a fault, i. e. not as it ought to be; deficient.

A courtiers man came to queene Isabels harbinger,
and tolde him that the chamber which he assign'd
his maister was much at a fault; with that the har-
binger pointing him to a gibbet that stood before the
court-gate, answered: If your masters chamber be at
a fault, see yonder wher stands a gibbet.
Copley's Wits, Fits, and Fancies, 1614.
To commit a fault.

Shall we to the court, for, by my fay, I cannot reason. Haml., ii, 2.

Spenser, however, has used it without that connection:

From her unto the miscreant himselfe,
That neither hath religion nor fay.

Gasc. Works, F 8.

FAYLES.

Oh for some few offenders do not blame
All of their sex; let not a general shame

For some few faulters their whole brood inherit,
But every one be censured as they merit.

FAVOUR.

Ovid de Arte Amandi, 1677, p. Look, countenance.

64.

For surely, sir, a good favour you have, save that you
have a hanging look.
Meas. for M., iv, 2.
But there's no goodness in thy face; If Antony
Be free and healthful,-so tart a favour

To trumpet such good tidings. Ant. & Cleo., ii, 5.
A tart favour, is a sour countenance.
See Todd, Favour, 9.

Appearance in general:

And she had a filly too that waited on her, Just with such a favour. B. & Fl. Pilgrim, v, 6. +1 well remember once I kissed Venus In Paphos ile, but I forgett her favour. The Play of Timon, p. 24. To FAVOUR. To resemble, to have a similar countenance or appearance. And the complexion of the element, It favours like the work we have in hand. Jul. Cæs., i, 3. Good faith, methinks that this young lord Chamont Favours my mother, sister, doth he not? B. Jons. Case is alter'd, iii, 1. The mother had been dead some time.

FAUSEN. Apparently, for coarse, clumsy, &c. It is explained by Kersey as a substantive, meaning a sort of large eel.

All of which were fausen sluts, like Bartholomew-fair
pig-dressers.
Gayton, Festiv. Notes, p. 57.

Mr. Todd quotes Chapman for it, in
the sense given by Kersey:

He left the waves to wash

The wave-sprung entrails, about which fausens and other fish

FAUTORS. Abettors, supporters. Lat.
Lewes the Frenche kinges sonne, with ali his fau-
tours and complices.
Holinsh., vol. ii, Q 3.
Her fautors banish'd by her foes so high.
Drayt. Mooncalf, p. 482.
It is rather an unusual than an obso-
lete word, being used in later times.
[It is commonly used in Chapman's
Homer for a patron or protector.]
+FAWKNER. A falconer.

Now negligent of sport I ly,
And now as other fawkners use.

F. Q., V, vii, 19.
A kind of game at tables.

He's no precisian, that I'm certain of,
Nor rigid Roman Catholic. He'll play
At fayles and tick-tack; I have heard him swear.
B. Jons. Every Man in H., iii, 3.
Mr. Douce has thus explained it from
a MS. in the British Museum :

It is a very old table game, and one of the numerous
varieties of back-gammon that were formerly used in
this country. It was played with three dice, and the
usual number of men or pieces. The peculiarity of
the game depended on the mode of first placing the
men on the points. If one of the players threw some
particular throw of the dice, he was disabled from
bearing off any of his men, and therefore fayled in
winning the game; and hence the appellation of it.
In Mr. Gifford's note on the above
passage of Jonson it is said: "It was
a kind of tric-trac, which was meant
by tick-tack in the same passage."
Mr. Douce refers also to the English
translation of Rabelais. Strutt men-
tions it, and refers to the same MS.,
but gives no particulars. Sports and
Pastimes, p. 283.

FEAKE. A word of which I have met with no example but this:

Can set his face, and with his eye can speake,
And dally with his mistres' dangling feake,
And wish that he were it, to kisse her eye,
And flare about her beauties deitie.

Marston, Sat., 1, repr., p. 138. So it is also in the original edition. The context seems to point to the hanging curl called a lovelock, or some part of the head-dress.

[It is here used in a different sense.] Three female idle feaks who long'd for pigs head. Bold's Poems, 1664, p. 134. To FEAR, v. a. To terrify, to frighten.

We must not make a scare-crow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey.

Meas. for M., ii, 1.

I tell thee, lady, this aspect of mine Hath fear'd the valiant." Merch. of F., ii, 1. And frame my steps to unfrequented paths, And fear my heart with fierce inflamed thoughts. Spanish Trag., O. PL., iii, 161,

Art not asham'd that any flesh should fear thee?

+FAWTING. Favouring.

They turne away their friendly fawting eye, And others cache as fixed foes defie. Mirour for Magistrates, 1587. FAY. Faith. Usually as an oath, by my fay.

Mad World, O. Pl., v, 381. A vain terror, a bugbear, fit only to terrify children. From the above sense of to fear.

As for their shewes and words, they are but feare babes, not worthy once to move a worthy man's conPembr. Arc., p. 299. FEARFUL. Dreadful, causing fear.

ceit.

A mighty and a fearful head they are. 1 Hen. IV, iii, 2. My queen Upon a desperate bed; and at a time When fearful wars point at me. Cymb., iv, 3. Now like great Phoebus in his golden carre, And then like Mars the fearfull god of warre. Drayton's Matilda. But we must not give it this sense, as some commentators have, in the Tempest, where Miranda says of Ferdinand, "He's gentle, and not fearful." i, 2. Dr. Johnson's explanation is certainly best: "As he is gentle, rough usage is unnecessary; and as he is brave, it may be dangerous." This connects it with the preceding words, "make not too rash a trial of him."

+FEARFUL. Full of fear; timid.

For on their left hand did an eagle soar,
And in her seres a fearful pigeon bore.

Chapm. Odyss., XX.

FEARLE. Perhaps wonder, from the same origin as farlie.

By just descent these two my parents were, Of which the one of knighthood bare the fearle, Of womanhood the other was the pearle. Mirr. for Mag., p. 273. FEASTINGS EVEN. This obsolete term for Shrove Tuesday evening was perhaps peculiar to North Britain, as we find it only in an account of Scotland, and there explained in the margin.

The cattle of Roxburgh was taken by sir James
Dowglas on Feastings even.
Holinsh. Hist. of Scotl., sign. U 5.
The feasting of that season much
scandalised the worthy Bourne.
Popular Antiq., last

p. 232.

See

octavo ed.,

FEAT. Neat, dexterous, elegant. From the Fr. fait.

So tender over his occasions, true,
So feat, so nurselike.

Cymb., v, 5

And look how well my garments sit upon me, Much feater than before.

Temp., ii, 1.

Defined by Barrett, "proper, wellfashioned, minikin, handsome." Alvearie, in loc.

Used by Steele in the Tatler :

In his dress there seemed to be great care to appear no way particular, except in a certain exact and feat manner of behaviour and circumspection.

No. 48, p. 428, Nich. ed. To FEAT. To make neat, &c.

A sample to the youngest, to the more mature
A glass that feated them.

Cymb, i, 1.

I both know and well discerne your humour and genius; thou wouldest make me one of Diomedes or Antiphanes scholler, in imitating of these Ganimedes, finicall, spruce-ones, muskats, syrenists, feathercockes, vaineglorious, a cage for crickits. Passenger of Benvenuto, 1612. FEATHER-MAKERS. Feathers were much worn by gentlemen in their hats, by ladies in their fans, &c., so that a plume of feathers is used as a phrase for a beau. Love's L. L., iv, 1. The manufacturers of these commodities for sale were chiefly puritans, and lived in Blackfriars. See BLACKFRIARS.

Now there was nothing left for me, that I could presently think of, but a feathermaker of Black-friars, and in that shape I told them surely I must come in, let it be opened unto me; but they all made as light of me as of my feather, and wondered how I could be a puritan, being of so vain a vocation.

B. Jons. Masque of Love Restored, vol. v, p. 404. All the new gowns i' th' parish will not please her, If she be high-bred, (for there's the sport she aims at) Nor all the feathers in the Fryars.

B. and Fl. Mons. Thomas, ii, 2.

FEATLY. Neatly, dexterously, &c. Foot it featly here and there. Temp., i, 2. FEATURE is said, in a note on As you like it, iii, 3, to be synonymous with feat, or action. I do not recollect any instances of that usage; and the passage may as well be explained, by supposing only that the word feature is too learned for the comprehension of the simple Audrey.

Am I the man yet? doth my simple feature content you?

Aud. Your features! Lord warrant us, what features? iii, 3.

Feature is sometimes used for form, or person in general:

Bid him

Report the feature of Octavia. Ant. and Cl., ii, 5.
She also doft her heavy haberjeon,

Which the fair feature of her limbs did hide.
Spens. F. Q., III, ix.

As a magical appearance:

Stay, all our charms do nothing win
Upon the night; our labour dies!
Our magick feature will not rise.

B. Jons. Masque of Queens. On the preceding charm Jonson's own note says,

Here they speake as if they were creating some new feature, which the devil persuades them to be able to do often, by the pronouncing of words, and pouring out of liquors on the earth. 4th Charme. FEAZE. See PHEEZE. To FEAZE. To cause.

Faiser, Fr.

Those cager impes whom food-want fear'd to fight Mirror for Magist., p. 480.

amaine.

modern editions in general read

featured, till lately.

+FEATHER-COCK. A coxcomb.

federate.