Glossary 6
6
F.
1 Faʼ, v. [faw] fall, n. lot; portion
Factor, n. agent, manager
Faddom, n. fathom
Fae, n. foe
Fain, a. anxious; wishful
Faʼin, v. and n. [fawin] falling
Fell, a. heroic; admirable
Fend, v. subsist
Fendin, n. necessary food
Fail, v. dwindle, faint
Fair faʼ, interj. well betide!
Fank, n. tangle; knot
Farder, a. farther
Fardin, n. farthing
Fash, v. and n. trouble
Fauld, v. and n. fold
Faun, v. fallen
Faund, v. found
Fawn-oot, v. fallen out, quarrelled
Fause, a. (soft s) false
Faut, n. and v. fault
Fecht, v. and n. (gutt.) fight
Feck, n. principal part
Feckless, a. useless; without spirit or strength
Fee, n. wages, hire, reward
Ferlie, n. and v. wonder
Fesh, v. fetch
Fettle, n. condition, order
Firlot, n. fourth part of a “boll”; (about a bushel)
Fire-flaucht, n. (gutt.) lightning; flash
Fit-brod, n. footstool
Fivver, n. fever
Flaff, v. shake off; flutter
Flauchtit, v. (gutt.) wafted
Fleechin, v. persuading in a flattering way
Fleyʼt, v. affrighted
Flytin, v. and n. chiding; scolding
Foggage, n. herbage
Forsworn, a. perjured
Fowrteen, a. fourteen
Forby, prep. besides
Forrit, adv. forward
Forritsome, a. forward
Forasmuckle, conj. forasmuch
Forebears, n. parents; ancestors
Forfouchten, a. (gutt.) exhausted
Fornent, prep. opposite; in front of
Forgather, v. meet together
Forgien, v. forgiven
Forlyin, n. adultery
Forpet, n. fourth part of a peck
Forwander, v. stray away
Frae, prep. from
Frappin, v. frapping; undergirding a ship
Freend, n. friend
Fremd, a. strange; alien
Frute, n. fruit
Frutins, n. fruitings, crops
Fuʼ, fou, a. full, drunk
Fushionless, a. pithless, weak
Fyfteen, a. fifteen
Fyve, a. five
Fyle, v. defile
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Translated by Rev William Wye Smith. Published in Paisley, Scotland in 1904.