mouse _s._ a bat (Ger. _Fledermaus_)
Flook _s._ a flounder; also a parasite in the liver of sheep
Flush _adj._ fledged, in full feather _adv._ even with
Foase _v._ to wheedle, to deceive _adj._ false
Fob _s._ froth, slaver _v._ to put off with a pretence
Fog _s._ old, withered or spoilt grass
Fog-earth _s._ bog-earth, peat
Foggy _adj._ fat, corpulent
Fooase, or Vooase _v._ to force, to oblige
Footer _s._ a worthless shabby fellow _adj._ footy
Fore-spur, or Vore-spur _s._ the fore-leg of pork
Fore-right, Vore-right _adj._ rash, head-long, head-strong
Forrel _s._ the cover of a book, the selvage of a handkerchief
Forware, or Verware _v._ to indemnify
Forweend _adj._ hard to please, wayward, spoilt in nursing
Frame _v._ to form, fashion the speech, ex. If I wur axed I could'nt
frame to spake it so
Frange _s._ fringe (Fr. _frange_)
Free-bore _adj._ free, free-born
French-nut _s._ walnut
Fret _v._ to eat, as the lower animals (G _fressen_, A S _fretan_, as
opposed to G _essen_, A S _etan_, applied to man): ex. The moth fretteth
the garment; a use of the word retained in the West, and usually applied
to the browsing of cattle
Furcum, or Vurcum _s._ the whole, even to the bottom
Furr, or Vurr _v._ to cast a stone far
Fump _s._ the whole of a business
Fuz, Fuzzen, Furze _s._ gorse, prov.
When fuz is out o' blossom
Kissing's out o' fashin
Fuz-pig _s._ hedge hog
Gad _s._ a fagot-stick; Spar-gad a twisted stick picked at both ends to
spar (Ger. _sperren_) or fasten down thatch. Near Bath, spick-gad
Gain _adj._ handy; Gainer more handy
Gale _s._ an old bull castrated
Gall _s._ a wet place, abounding in springs
Gally, Gallow _v._ to frighten; Gallied frightened Shak. K. Lear, iii,
2, "Skies gallow the wanderer"
Gally-baggur _s._ bug-bear, a trace of the time when gallows were a more
common sight
Gamble _s._ a leg, (Ital. _gamba_)
Gambril _s._ a crooked stick used by butchers to suspend a carcase
Gammets, Gamoting _s._ whims, tricks, pranks
Ganny-cock _s._ a turkey-cock
Ganny-cock's nob _s._ the appendage to a turkey-cock's beak
Gapes-nest _s._ an idle spectacle
Gare _s._ gear; Ire-gare _s._ plough-gear, iron-work
Garn, or Gearn, Gearden _s._ a garden
Gatchel _s._ the mouth
Gate-shord, or sheard _s._ a gate-way, a place for a gate
Gatfer _s._ an old man (good father)
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