Everlasting Staircase.—The treadmill.
Eye Water.—Gin.
F.
Face.—Impudence; To face it out. To persist in an assertion which is not true. To maintain without changing colour, or hanging down the head. Brazen-faced, without shame.—God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.—Shakespeare.
Fadge.—To suit or fit together—“How will this fadge?” also a street term for a farthing.
Family People.—Rogues and thieves of every degree: All of the same family or Kidney!—There is nothing but roguery to be found in villianous man.—Shakespeare.
Fancy.—Boxing, bull baiting, cock fighting, and sporting in general.
Fancy Piece.—A sporting phrase for a bit of nice game kept in a preserve in the suburbs. A sort of Bird of Paradise.
Fast trotters.—Rum prads, good horses.
Felt.—A hat.—“What manner of man? is his head worth a hat.”