fidus Achates (L.), faithful Achates: a true friend.

fidus et audax (L.), faithful and bold.

fieri facias (Late L.), cause to be done—the name of a writ commanding the sheriff to distrain the defendant's goods.

fierté (Fr.), haughtiness, high spirit.

figurant, fem. figurante (Fr.), a supernumerary on the stage;—figurante, pl. figuranti (It.), a ballet-dancer.

filius nullius (L.), son of nobody, a bastard.

filius populi (L.), son of the people.

filius terræ (L.), son of the soil, one of mean birth.

fille de chambre (Fr.), chambermaid.

fille de joie (Fr.), a prostitute.