Forma, see In.
Forty Pence, see Jack Noble.
Founder, "our founder and chief—founder me no foundering" (R[186],b; 187c; 189a), patron, benefactor: see other volumes of this series.
Four Ears, see Horse.
Fragility? "of your nature and of your fragility" (M[14],a), frailty, weakness, proneness to fall. "Earnestly beseeching the dictatour to forgive this humane fragilitie and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius."—P. Holland, Livius, p. 307.
Fray, "how I fray" (R[202],c), fear. "The troubled ghost of my father Anchises So oft in sleepe doth fray me, and aduise."—Surrey, Virgil, Æneis, iv.
Frayry, "the demonical frayry" (M[8],d), friary, conventicle.
Fusion, "God send it His fusion" (M[15],d),? foison, fusoan, fusin = plenty, abundance: in original, fusyon.
Gan, "how God ... gan devise" (N[46],a), began: auxiliary with force of did. "Not with less dread the loud Ethereal trumpet from on high gan blow."—Milton, Paradise Lost (1667), vi. 60.
Gard, "freshly gard" (N[77],c), trimmed, edged. "Those of the forewarde vnder the Duke of Norffolke, were apparelled in blue coats garded with redde."—Stow, Henry VIII. (1544).