3. (Eton).—See Wall.
The Field, subs. (Sherborne).—See Fields.
Fields, subs. (Sherborne: obsolete).—The playing-ground: seventeenth century. The modern term is “The Field,” though there are five separate grounds.
Fifteens, subs. (Winchester).—A football match. See Six-and-six.
Fifty, The, subs. (Tonbridge).—The chief football ground; the next immediately below it is the Middle Fifty, then the Lower Fifty, and the Fourth Fifty. Cf. Hundred, which is now obsolete.
Fighting-green, subs. (Westminster).—The old battle-ground in the western cloister.
Figures, subs. (Stonyhurst).—The Second Form: formerly Great Figures. See Little Figures.
Fin, intj. (Christ’s Hospital).—A form of negative. Ex. “FIN the small court” = “I won’t have, &c.” [Lat. fend.] See Fains.
Find, subs. (Harrow).—A mess of, usually, two upper boys which takes breakfast and tea in the rooms of one or other of the set: a privilege of the Sixth Form. Whence FIND-FAG = a fag who lays the table for the upper boys. [Find (dial.) = to supply; to supply with provisions.] Also as verb.
1867. Collins, The Public Schools, p. 316. Immediately a certain number of rolls (FINDS they were called—etymology unknown) were ordered at the baker’s, and were rebaked every morning until they were pretty nearly as hard as pebbles. At nine o’clock on the morning fixed for the rolling in, the members of the hall ranged themselves on the long table which ran along one side of the room, each with his pile of these rolls before him, and a fag to pick them up.