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HAMPSHIRE GLOSSARY. 31 Fetch [fech], sb, a trick. Fetch [fech], v, used with reference to churning butter. * To fetch the butter.' to raise the cream into a certain consistency. — ^Wise, New Forest Feyer [vei-ur], sh. a feir. Ex. 'Be'est a-gwine to feyer.* — K H. Fid [fid], sb, a piece. Ex. 'Afifl of cheese.' — J. Fig [fig], 8b. a raisin. A figghd cake, a plum-cake, made with raisins and currants. A figged pudding, a plum-pudding. File [feil], sb, a deep cunning person. So a hare is said ' to run her fiUy i, e. foil. — Cooper. Fingers-and-Thnmbs [fin'gurz-and-thumz], ab, ph Lotus corniculatvs, — J. B. Fiigy [finj'i], a corruption of *fen I [or rather of fend /] ; when some one of a number of boys had something unpleasant to do, the one who said fingy last had to do it. — Winch, Sch. 01. See Fen. Adams giyes it as finge, and imagines it to be the Latin rendering of feign. — Wykehamica, p. 423. Fir-apples [fur-ap*lz], sb. pi. cones of Plnus sylvestris. — HoUo way's Dictionary. — J. B. Fir-needles [fur-nee'dlz], sb. pi. the leaves of the Scotch Fir, Pinus sylvestris.—N. H. Fire-bladder [feir-blad-ur], sb. a pimple or eruption on the face. — » Wise, New Forest. See Bunch and Bladder. Firk [fnrk], t;. A dog ia said to firk himself when searching and scratching for fleas on his body.— -Wise. Fit [fit], adj. a fit time, t. e. a long time j fit deal of trouble, i. e. much trouble. — N. and Q. 1st S. x. 120. Fitten [fit-un], sb. a pretence. *Ak. Fitten [fitu], part. pres. fit, proper. — Cooper. Put for fitting i. e. fitting. Fiz-gig [fiz-gig], sb. a whirligig; a round piece of iron or brass, ser- rated at the nm ; through two holes near the centre, a piece of whip- cord is passed. When set in motion by the twisting of the string, either in the air or in water, it makes a whizzing, hissing, or fizzing noise. — F. M. Flags [flagz], sb. pi. (1) The pieces of turf which are pared off", in burning land. ' The practice of harrowing after burning shakes much earth from the flags.' — ^Dri vein's General View of Agriculture »n Hants (London, 1794), p. 88.— W. W. S. (2) The leaves of Typha latifolia. Dr. Bromfield's MSS.— J. B. Flannel-plant [flan-1-plaant], sb. Verbascum Thapsus. — Dr. Bromfield in Phytologist, O.S. iii. 698.— J. B. Flapper [flap-ur], sb. a young bird that has just taken wing, but cannqt fly fast. — Cooper. Applied in Hants to young wild-ducks, as, * To go a yfaj^per-shooting.' — Wise,