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Obs.] If after Samuel's death the people had asked of God a king, they had not faulted. Latimer.

countenance or support; an abettor. [Obs.] The king and the fautors of his proceedings. Latimer.

too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep. Once in three years feed your mowing lands. Mortimer.

ll; a pelt. [Obs.] To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose. Mortimer.

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak.

yden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer.

Having a fin, or fins, or anything resembling a fin. Mortimer.

Fuel; firewood or coal. [Obs.] Mortimer. Firing iron, an instrument used in cauterizing.

about; to frisk; to whisk. [Obs.] He fisks abroad, and stirreth up erroneous opinions. Latimer.

civility; to leer. [Obs.] Grinning and fleering as though they went to a bear baiting. Latimer.

Light; superficially thin; not penetring deep, as soil. [Prov. Eng.] Mortimer.

One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows. [Obs.] Mortimer.

A sycophant. [Obs. & Humorous.] "Flatterers and flibbergibs." Latimer.

A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. [Obs.] Mortimer.

face. The flushing noise of many waters. Boyle. It flushes violently out of the cock. Mortimer.

To shoot into blades, as corn. The corn beginneth to fork. Mortimer. 1

Foxlike. [Obs.] "Foxly craft." Latimer.

w off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor. The heat will fume away most of the scent. Montimer. How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain! Young.

A distemper in swine; garget. Mortimer.

g.] Wright. That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. Latimer. Bever gear. See Bevel gear. -- Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See Mortise wheel, under Mortise. -- Expansion gear (Steam Engine), the arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke…