Francs fiefs. Free, or affranchising fiefs; or as in Franc. Menu fief. An inferior fief, of small value, and altogether without iurisdiction; opposed vnto; Plein fief. A full, or whole fief; an intire Knights fee; of iurisdiction, and good worth. Clerc des fiefs. Looke Clerc. Entrer de fief servi. The homage, &c, due by a vassall at his first entrie, done well-ynough by another; as by th' eldest brother for the yonger, by a husband for his wife, &c; and thereby the Lords entrie preuented. Hommes de fief. Freeholders; or Lords of inferior) fiefs, bound to assist the Bailli of the Jurisdiction in the Courts he keepes, and answerable, or finable, for all wrongfull iudgements giuen therein. Sergent du fief. Looke Sergent. De son domaine faire son fief. A vassall to alien part of his fief, and therof create a new tenure, or cause it to be held of him by a mesne tenure. De son fief faire son domaine. To reunite vnto his demaine a fief that held of him. Exploicter le fief à pure perte. To make a full, or absolute seisure of the inheritance forfeited vnto him. Relever vn fief. Seeke Relever. Tenir fief. To enioy an inheritance feodall; to be seised of land in his demesne as of fee. Tenir en fief. To be seised of a right, or priuiledge, in fee, or in the qualitie of a fief. Qui fief nie fief perd. He that denies his tenure, forfeits his estate.
Fieffal: m. ale: f. Feoffall; of a fief; in fee, held in fee; Looke Iurisdiction. Fieffe: f. as Fief: ¶Norm. Fieffé: m. ée: f. Infeoffed; giuen, or granted in fee; held as a fief, or in fee. Domaine fieffé (ou non fieffé.) A Noble inheritance held by homage and fealtie; (or an vnnoble one for which no homage is due:) ¶Norm. Goutteux fieffez. A fit Epithite; for the gowt, most commonly, descends, which way soeuer the land goes. Heritiers fieffez. Whom the Lord puts in possession; or to whom he makes liuery and seisin, of th' inheritance belonging to them. Sergent fieffé. Looke Sergent. Fieffer. To infeoffe; to grant, passe, alien, a fief, or an inheritance in fee.
Fiefferme. A fee farme.
Fieffvé; &, Fiefvé. as Fieffé. Fiefvement: m. A feoffement, or an infeoffing.
Fiel: m. Gall; or, the Gall. Fiel de terre. The hearb Earthgall, Feuerwort, small Centorie, common Centorie, Centorie the lesse. Pierre de fiel. Seeke Pierre. Fieller. To make bitter.
Fielleux: m. euse: f. As bitter as gall; full of bitternesse, or of gall.
Fiens: m. Dung, ordure; mucke, manure. Fiens de chien, & marc d'argent seront tout vn au iour de Iugement: Prov. All will be one at the later day, say we.
Fiente f. Dung, turd, filth, ordure, excrements of man, or beast; especially of vermine, as Foxes, Badgers, &c.
Fienté: m. ée: f. Dunged, fed or filled, couered or compassed, manured or mingled, with dung; also, shitten, or beshit.
Fienter. To dung, shite, scumber; also, to fill, feed, couer, compasse, mingle, or manure, with dung.
Fienteux: m. euse: f. Full of dung, turds, ordure.
Fientifié: m. ée: f. Beshitten, berayed, beturded.
Fier: m. ere: f. (of one sillable) Proud, arrogant, insolent, scornefull, disdainfull, high-minded; also, fierce, eager, bloudie, cruell, sauage, vnmercifull, inhumane; also, bold, stout, confident, couragious, audacious. Il en est fier comme vn asne d'vn bast neuf. He is as proud of it as an Asse of a new packesaddle (which if he were not an Asse he would not be proud of.) Femme fiere en toute saison, veut estre maistre de sa maison: Prov. Looke Femme. se Fier. (of two sillables) To trust, or intrust vnto; to beleeue or haue affiance, to put his hope or confidence, in. De qui ie me fie dieu me garde: Pro. God preserue me from him whom I trust.
Fierement. Proudly, insolently, hautily, arrogantly; fiercely, cruelly, sauagely, inhumanely, vnmercifully; also, boldly, stoutly, audaciously.
Fieret: m. ette: f. Somewhat loftie; a little fierce.
Fiereté: f. Pride, insolencie, statelinesse, arrogancie, surlinesse, disdaine, scornefulnesse; crueltie, fiercenesse, inhumanitie; also, boldnesse, audacitie, stoutnesse, mettall, spirit.
Fierettement. Somewhat hautily, insolently, arrogantly; a little fiercely, sauagely, cruelly.
Fier-humble. Stoutly-humble; a stout heart humbled.
Fiert. A Verb Impersonall; Cecy fiert à. This is like vnto, or, agrees well with.
Fierté. as Fiereté. Fierte: f. A shrine, or coffin wherein the bones of Saints are inclosed.
Fieul. as Filz; A sonne: ¶Pic. Fievre: f. An ague, a feauer. Fievre ardente. A burning feauer. Fievres blanches. The agues wherwith maidens that haue the greene sicknesse are troubled; and hence; Il a les fievres blanches. Either he is in loue, or sicke of wantonnesse. Fievre continuë. See Continu. Fievre de Dol. The French pockes. Fievre intermittente. Any ague that comes and goes by fits. Fievre de veau. (qui tremble quand il est saoul.) Trembling after meat; sicknesse vpon surfetting. De fievre en chaud mal. From ill to worse, out of the frying-pan into the fire. Tes fortes fievres. A pestilence take thee, a plague choake thee.
Fifre: m. A Fife; a Flute, or little pipe accorded with a Drumme, or Taber.
Figé: m. ée: f. Fixed, setled, fastened; compacted, closed together. Laict figé. Milke thickened, or curded, as with the runnet. Sang figé. Bloud clotted, or cluttered together, as when it is cold.
Figement: m. A fixing, fastening, closing; (and hence) also, a thickning, curding, or curdling.
Figer. To fix, fasten, setle, close, or compact together. Se figer. To thicken, curd, clutter, curdle, coagulate.
Figon: m. A louer, or ordinarie eater, of figs.
Figue: f. A fig; also, the disease in a horses hoofe, called, the fig.
Figue de Caresme. A drie fig, a Lenten fig.
Figue folle. The fruit of th' outlandish Siccamore, or Mulberrie-fig tree; it resembles the wild fig, but is, withall, the sweeter of the two, and without seeds: It
