Qui le bien void, & le mal prend, fait folie en bon escient: Prov. He that sees what's good, and takes what's bad, is guiltie of wilfull ideotisme.
Folier. To play the foole, doe like an asse, behaue himselfe like an ideot. Il n'est si sage qui ne folie aucunes fois: Prov. The wisest man is foolish now and then. Si le fol ne folie il perd sa saison: Prov. A foole is most absurd when he playes not the foole.
Follasses: f. The hearbe Beets.
Follastrerie: f. as Folastrerie. Follet; or, Esprit follet. An Hobgoblin, Robin-good-fellow, Bugbeare.
Follettes. Orage, Atriplex, golden hearbe.
Follicule: m. A little bag, powch, or sacke; also, a huske, hull, peele, or skin inclosing seed.
Follier. as Folier. Folliner. To play the wanton, to vse lasciuious tricks.
Fomentation: f. A fomentation, or fomenting; a comforting, cherishing, easing, assuaging; a thing applyed in a bladder, spunge, &c, (if it be moist) or within a bag, or quilt (if it be dry) either to cherish, comfort, or ease the part it is layed on, or to make way, by opening the pores, for ointments, or plaisters to be layed on it.
Fomenté: m. ée: f. Fomented; cherished, comforted, refreshed, eased.
Fomenter. To foment; cherish, comfort, refresh, ease, or assuage the paine of; as in Fomentation. Foncé: m. ée: f. Furnished, well grounded, whose ground is strewed, or stored with; also, headed, that (as a peece of caske, &c) hath a head, or bottome set into it.
Fonceau: m. A little bottome, hole, hollow, or deepe place. Fonceau d'un Canon. The big, or broad end of a Canon bitt.
Foncer. To head a peece of Caske; to set a bottome, or head into any such vessell.
Foncier: m. ere: f. Fundamentall; or, of the soyle, for the soyle, belonging to the soyle. Cour fonciere. A Court Baron; or, Court of base Jurisdiction. Iustice fonciere. Low Iurisdiction, or a kind thereof, exercised by the Lords of Fiefs, for the recouerie of their rights from their vassalls; and often too farre strained, and therefore disallowed, and forbidden, by the Customes of diuers Prouinces. Rente fonciere. A Rent-seruice, Rent-charge, or Fee-farme-rent; an accession vnto Cens; or, a second charge imposed on land vpon the second graunt thereof, called thus, because the soyle is euer after lyable vnto it. Seigneur foncier. The (direct) Lord of a Fief; the Lord of the Soyle. Serfs fonciers. Such as hauing beene conquered by the auncient French, receiued lands of them, on the Condition of doing them any seruice; these were by no means permitted to change the habitation they first betooke them to.
Fond: m. A bottome, floore, ground, foundation, deepe, or depth; also, land, soyle, mould; a plot, or peece of ground; (vn fond.) also, the drawing out of a (cut) garment; also, the head of a Caske, or of any hollow vessell; also, a Marchants stocke, whether it be money, or money worth.
Fond de terre. So was the Tax, or Aide (which in the yeare 1412 should haue beene imposed on
euerie Arpent) called. Vn bon fond de deniers. A good round summe of money, gathered before hand for the hearing out of, or going through with, an action; and hence; Il n'a point de fond. He is not within, or not in the leather, or hath it not in the leather; he wants where-*withall; he hath made no prouision, or but small prouision of money. À fonds de cuve. Throughly, fully, largely, home. Fossé faict à fonds de cuve. Broad, and flat-bottomde. De fond en comble. See Comble; or, Fons. À fin fond de. From the verie middest; out of the depth, or bottome of. À plein fond. Large, deepe, side, full enough. Donner fond. To cast anker; or, to let fall an Anker. Labourer en fond. To plow verie deepe. Mettre à fonds. To sinke (a ship) &c. Au matin les monts, au soir les fonds: Pro. Looke Mont. Il est plus aisé se tirer de la rive que du fond: Pro. It is more easie to leaue a businesse in the beginning, then in the middest of it; or, a man may better desist when he hath but entered, then when he is farre engaged.
Fond de cire: f. The melting of wax.
Fondalité: f. Fundalitie; right of, or interest in, the soyle; the title or estate of the Lord of a soyle.
Fondamental: m. ale: f. Fundamentall; belonging to a foundation, or ground-worke. Pierre fondamentale. The principall stone, the chiefe strength of a foundation.
Fondamment. as Fondéement. Fondant. Founding, or grounding; also, melting, resoluing; consuming, wasting away; also, sinking, falling, or comming downe on a suddaine.
Fondateur. A founder, maker, creator, builder, first inuentor, chiefe deuiser, principall author of.
Fondation. A foundation, or ground-worke; the first building, or erection of.
Fonde: f. A sling, to cast stones with.
Fondé: m. ée: f. Founded, grounded; built; erected, established; resting in, consisting of. Fondé par dessoubs. Vnderset, vnderlayed, or layed vnder. Ie suis fondé en equité. The right is on my side; I stand on iust, and honest tearmes; my cause I am sure is good. Nous y sommes aussi bien fondez l'un que l'autre: Our causes are much of one goodnesse, or much after one; we haue both reason alike.
Fondéement. Pleurer fondéement. To weepe extreamely, to resolue, or melt, into teares.
Fondegue: f. A Marchants ware-house, or store-house.
Fondelfe. A kind of Engine for batterie; vsed in old time.
Fondement: m. A foundation, ground, ground-worke; a principall stay, chiefe meanes; good beginning, or way; also, a melting, resoluing; wasting, consuming away; also, the fundament. Il faisoit grand fondement de. He relyed, or built verie much vpon. Rien ne peut estre grand qui n'a bon fondement: Prov. Nothing that wants a good ground can be great.
Fonder. To found, ground, lay the foundation of, make a beginning to; to build, settle, rest, or stay vpon.
