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foil, (b) anything that serves by ber With golden cherubins is
contrast to set off another thing fretted'); 2. 2. 305
to advantage; 5. 2. 253 FRIENDING, friendship; 1. 5. 185
FOND, foolish; 1. 5. 99 FRONT (sb.), brow; 3. 4. 56
FOOL, (i) ? baby (v. note); the word FRONTIER, frontier town or fortress
is commonly used by Sh. as a (v. N.E.D. 'frontier' 5); 4.4.16
term of endearment; 1. 3. 109; FRUIT, dessert; 2. 2. 52
(ii) dupe; 1. 4. 54. FUNCTION, bearing or action during
FOOT, V. at foot; 4. 3. 53 performance (of any kind);
FOR A NEED, at need; 2. 2. 543 2. 2. SS9
FORCED CAUSE (BY), by reason of FUST, grow mouldy; 4. 4. 39
compulsion; 5. 2. 381
FORDO, destroy; 2. 1. 100; 5. I. GAGED, engaged, staked; 1. I. 91
215 GAINGIVING (sb.), misgiving; 5. 2.
FOREST OF FEATHERS, the plumes 213
worn by tragedians (v. note 5. 2. GAIT, progress, going forward
96-7); 3. 2. 275 (a variant of 'gate'); I. 2. 31
FORESTALLED, prevented; 3. 3. GALL (vb.), (i) make sore from rub-
49 bing or chafing; 5. 1. 137;
FORGERY, invention (not in a bad (ii) vex; 1. 3. 395 (iii) graze}
sense; cf. M.N.D. 2. 1. 81 4. 7. 146
'These are the forgeries of GALLED, sore from rubbing or
jealousy'); 2. 1. 20; 4. 7. 88 chafing (cf. ungalled)', I. 2, 1555
FORM (sb.), (i) manners, gesture, 3. 2. 241
facial expression; 1. 4. 30; GAMBOL (vb.), leap or start. Used
2. 2. 308, 560; (ii) sketch (cf. of a horse shying (v. N.E.D. 1)}
K. yohn, 5. 7. 32 'I am a scrib- 3. 4. 144
bled form, drawn with a pen')} GARB (sb.), manner, form of be-
1. 5. 100 haviour (cf. Hen. F, 5. I. 80
FRAME (sb.), (i) form, order; 'He could not speak English in
3. 2. 310; (ii) (a) the framework the native garb'); 2. 2. 376
of the gallows, (A) the wooden GATHER, infer, make deductions}
frame made by a carpenter in 2. 2. 108
building a house; 5. I. 43 GENDER, sort, class, 'the general
FRANKLY, freely, without con- gender' = the common people}
straint; 3. 1. 34 4. 7. 18
FREE, (i) guiltless; 2. 2. 5675 GENERAL (adj.), of the public}
3. 2. 2405 (ii) voluntary, uncon- I. 4. 35; 2. 2. 5665 4. 7. 18
strained; 2. 2. 278; 4. 3. 60 GENERAL (sb.), the public, the
FRET (vb.), (a) anger, irritate, common people; 2. 2. 442
(b) furnish with frets, i.e. rings GENTRY, courtesy, elegance; z. z.
of gut or bars of wood to regu- 2255.2. 114
late the fingering, as in a guitar GERMANE (adj.), relevant, appro-
(v. Si. Eng. ii. 38); 3.2. 374 priate; 5. 2. 160
FRETTED, embossed (cf. Cymb. GIB, tom-cat (a term of reproach)
2. 4. 88 'The roof o* the cham- 3.4. 190