Shakespeare Dictionary - F

Shakespeare's word

Meaning (in the sample usage)

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Reference(s)

Sample usage

fadge

turn out

2

TN 2.2

How will this fadge?

farm

lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds

12

Rich II 1.4

We are inforced to farm our royal realm

fault

usually in the modern sense, but also: break in the scent (hunting)

250

Shrew Ind.

Lear 1.1

V&A 114

Silver made it good /At the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault? /I would not lose the dog for twenty pound.

Do you smell a fault?

Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled/ With much ado the cold fault cleanly out;

fell

galled, angry, melancholy

142

Mids 2.1

For Oberon is passing fell and wrath

fet

fetch, get

3

Henry V 3.1

Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof

fetches

excuses, tricks, evasions

1

Lear 2.4

They are sick? they are weary? They have travell'd all the night? Mere fetches;

fleshment

excitement, battle-heat, pumped up

1

Lear 2.2

in the fleshment of this dread exploit

flews

pendulous or overhanging lateral parts of the upper lip of dogs, especially prominent in hounds

1

Mids

My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, / So flew'd

fond

foolish, (used only 3 times in modern sense, to be "fond of someone" )

75

Mids

Rich III 3.4

out of breath in this fond chase

For I, too fond, might have prevented this.

foot

To set on foot; to establish; to land

Lear 3.3;

Oth 2.1

there's part of a power already footed;

Whose footing here anticipates our thoughts

footed

walked

Lear 3.4

Withold footed thrice the old

fret

noun - part of a lute

32

Rich II 4.3

1 HIV 1.2

Shrew 2.1

Till they have fretted us a pair of graves

and he frets like a gummed velvet

Twas a commodity lay fretting by you

from

away from

Lear 2.1

I least thought it fit To answer from our home

furnishing

outward signs

1

Lear 3.1

perchance these are but furnishings

fustian

wretched, (cheap cloth?)

3

TN 2.5

A fustian riddle!