FOUL, ugly. Derb.

FOUST, dirt; FOUSTY, dirty. Exm. In Gloucestershire FOUSTY or FUSTY is used for thirsty.

FOUTNART, or FOWMART, a polecat or fichet. N.
FRA, from. N..

FRAG, low, vulgar people. Middlesex.

FRAME, to set about a thing; as, he frames well. North.

FRAMPOLD, peevish, cross, fretful, froward. S.

FRAMPUT, an iron ring to fasten cows in their stalls. Lanc.

FRASE, to break. Norf.

FRATCH, to quarrel.

FRAWN, frozen. Norf. and Suff.

FRAZE of paper, half a quarter of a sheet, or a fraction. North. Called in the South a VESSEL of paper.

FREELEGE, privilege, immunity. N.

FREM'D, or FREMT, far off, not related to, strange, or at enmity with. N.

FRESH, a flood, or overflowing of a river. This heavy rain will bring down the freshes. N. FRESH, tipsy. North.

FRETCHED, cross, fractious. Heref.

FRIM, handsome, rank, well-living, in good case; as a frim tree or beast, a thriving tree or beast. N. FRIST, to trust for a time. N.

FRITH, or VRITH, underwood, fit for hurdles or hedges. W.

FROBLY-MOBLY, indifferently well. S.

FROGGAM, a woman slatternly dressed. York.
FROSH, a frog. N.

FROUGH, OF FROW, loose, spongy, brittle; froughwood, brittle wood. N.

FROW, brittle. Berks. See FROUGH.

FROWER, an edged tool, used in cleaving lathes. S. FRUGGAN, the pole with which the ashes in the oven are stirred. N.

FRUNDELE, two pecks. N.

FUDDER, a load; it relates properly to lead, and signifies a certain weight; viz. eight pigs, or sixteen hundred weight. N.

FUKES, locks of hair. N.

FULL-STATED; spoken of a leasehold estate that has three lives subsisting on it. Exm.

FUNNY, comical. North.

FUR, a furrow. Rig and fur. Northumb.

FURED; where fured you, whither went you? N.

FURZE-MAN-PIG, a hedge-hog. Glouc.

FUSTI LUGGS, a big-boned person. Exm.

FUSUM, handsome. N.

FUTHER, or FUDDER, a load of coals of a certain quantity of bushels. Northumb.

FUZZ-BALL, a species of fungus. N. Called in some parts of England a Puckfoist.

FUZZON, or FUZEN, nourishment, provision for a family. N.

FY-LOAN, a word used to call home cows to be milked. N.

G.

GABLE-END of a building, the end wall. General. See Baxter's Glossary, p. 1.

GAD, a long stick, a goad, a hunting gad; a fishing rod. Northumb.

GAFFLOCK, an iron crow. Derb.

GAIN, convenient, cheap; that field lies gain for me; I bought that horse pretty gain. Norf. GAIN-COPE, to go cross a field the nearest way, to meet with something. S.

GAINEST-WAY, the nearest way. N.

GAIN-SHIRE, or GAIN-SHERE, the barb of a fishinghook. Derb.

GAIRN, a garden. Kent. A hop-gairn, a plantation of hops.

GALE, an old bull, castrated. Hants.

GALE, or GUILE-DISH, a tun-dish, used in brewing. N.

GALE, or GUILE-FAT, the vat in which the beer is wrought up. N.

GALECLEAR, a tub of wort. N.

GALLIBAGGER, a bugbear. Exm.

GALLIED, frightened. Exm.

GALLIER; to stand a gallier, to fight. Glouc.

GALLIMENT, a great fright. Exm.

GALLOWAY, a horse under fifteen hands high. N. And used in general for all sorts of horses.

GALLS; sand-galls, spots of sand through which the water oozes. Norf. and Suff.

GALLY-LANDS, rather GALTY-LANDS, full of sandgalls.

GALLY-BAUK, rather GALLOW-BAWK, the same as RANDLE-BAWK, the iron bar in chimnies on which the pot-hooks or rekans hang, a trammel. N. See also Ray's Words.

GAME-LEG, a lame leg. N.

GAMMERELL, the small of the leg. Exm.

GAN, imperative mood of the verb To Go. N.
G'AND, or G'ENDER, go yonder.

Exm.

GANDER-MONTH, the month in which the wife lies in. Derb.

GANG, row, set, or company; as of teeth, sheep's trotters, rogues, &c. in which sense it is used all over England.

GANG, to go, to walk; gang your gate. N.

GANGRILL, or GANGERILL, a toad. N.

GANGWAY, a thoroughfare, entry, or passage. Kent. Now almost peculiarly a sea term.

GANNER, a gander. North.

GANNERHEAD, a stupid person, a dunce. S.

GANT, slim, slender. C.

GANTRIL, a stand for a barrel. N. Called also

a THRAWL.

GA'NNY, a turkey. Exm.

GA'O'WING, chiding. Exm.

GAPESNEST, a raree show, or fine sight. Exm.

GARE, to cause or force; I'll gar or gare him to do it, I'll force him to do it. Northumb. and Scots.

GARE-BRAIN'D, or HARE-BRAIN'D, heedless. S.

GARISH, frightened. South.

GARN, garner. Berks.

GARTH, a yard, a backside, a croft; a churchgarth, a church-yard; a stock-garth, a rick-yard. Also a hoop or band. N.

GARZIL, hedging wood. N.

GASTER, to startle, scare, or affright suddenly. Ess.

GATE, a way or path; gang thy gate, get you gone. N. A sea-gate, a way into the sea through rocks or cliffs. Kent.

GATTLE-HEAD, a forgetful person. S.

GATTRIDGE-TREE, prickwood. S.

GATTRIDGE-BERRIES, louse-berries. S.

GAVELOCK, an iron bar to make holes for fixing stakes. N.

GAULS, void spaces in coppices. Ess. and Suff.
GAULISH-HAND, the left hand. N.

GAUNTRY, that on which beer-barrels are set in a cellar; a beer-stall. N.

GAUSTER. See GOYSTER.

GAUL, a lever. Lanc.

GAWD, a custom, or habit. An ugly gawd. Derb. GAWFIN, a clownish fellow. Chesh.

GAWM; gawm well now; i. e. take heed.

GAWM, to understand; I dinna gawm ye, I don't understand you. Hence, possibly, gawmtion, or gumption, understanding. N. Also smeared over, as his face all gawm'd over.

GAWMING, awkward, lubberly. N.

GAWMLESS, stupid, awkward, lubberly. Yet a