TO FOYST. To pick a pocket.
FOYSTED IN. Words or passages surreptitiously interpolated
or inserted into a book or writing.
FRATERS. Vagabonds who beg with sham patents, or briefs,
for hospitals, fires, inundations, &c.
FREE. Free of fumblers hall; a saying of one who cannot
get his wife with child.
FREE AND EASY JOHNS. A society which meet at the Hole
in the Wall, Fleet-street, to tipple porter, and sing bawdry.
FREE BOOTERS. Lawless robbers and plunderers: originally soldiers who served without pay, for the privilege of plundering the enemy.
FREEHOLDER. He whose wife accompanies him to the alehouse.
FREEMAN'S QUAY. Free of expence. To lush at Freeman's
Quay; to drink at another's cost.
FREEZE. A thin, small, hard cider, much used by vintners and coopers in parting their wines, to lower the price of them, and to advance their gain. A freezing vintner; a vintner who balderdashes his wine.
FRENCH CREAM. Brandy; so called by the old tabbies and dowagers when drank in their tea.