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ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. 37 Faiten's e^en, ab. Shrove Tuesday. Fatigne, sb, hard wear or abuse. * That cloUi will HiAud/aligue.* Fault, V. to blame. Fauae face, a mask. Favour, v. to re8emT)le, as regards family likeness. 'That chilt* favours his father.' Feat, adj. neat ; tidy. Feather, sb, the lines and markings seen in polislied wood. Febberwerry, February. Feek, sb. a quantity ; the greater quantity or majority. Feerd, afraid. Feint a hate, devil a bit ; nothing at all. Felt, sb. a bird, the redwing : the fieldfare is here called the ' largi*. blue/«ft.' Fend off, v. to prevent a boat from striking against any object. Fend off post, sb, a post set in the ground to protect an object from injury by carts, &c., coming in contact with it. Feth if Heth i, faith yes. Feth and troth, by Mih and truth. ' Feth and troth, but I won't let you.' Fettle, V. to fix; to settle; to grind the rough edges from iron castings. Fettler, sb. a man who fettles castings. Fiery-edge, sb. the first or original edge on a knife or other cutting implement; the first eagerness on commencing a new thin^. *ril just eat a bit now to take tke Jitry^edge off my appetite.' It is some- times said of a new servant, * Oh wait till you see how he does, when the fiery-edge goes off him.' Fike, t7. to be busy in a trifling way. Fillaira, sb. a plant, valerian ; also called villera. Fined in, v. fined. ' He yrsa fined in 10#.' Finger-stail, sb. a finger-stall ; the finger of an old glove used as a protection ifor a sore finger. Fired. When black specks appear on the stem of growing flax, it is said to he fired (Mason, 1814). Firing, sb. a kind of mildew or disease to which young flax is sub- ject ; called by bleachers ' sprit' (DtJBoniUDiEiT's Antrim, 1812). Fissling, sb. a stealthy noise, such as a faint rustling. Fisty, sb. a nick-name for a person who has only one hand.