FACE-MAKING. Begetting children.
NO FACE BUT HIS OWN: a saying of one who has no court cards in his hand.
FAGGOT. A man hired at a muster to appear as a soldier.
FAITHFUL. One of the faithful; a taylor who gives long credit.
FART CATCHER. A valet or footman from his walking behind his master or mistress.
FAULKNER. A tumbler, juggler, or shewer of tricks; perhaps because they lure the people, as a faulconer does his hawks.
FEAGUE. To feague a horse; to put ginger up a horse's fundament, and formerly, as it is said, a live eel, to make him lively and carry his tail well.
FELLOW COMMONER. An empty bottle: so called at the university of Cambridge, where fellow commoners are not in general considered as over full of learning. At Oxford an empty bottle is called a gentleman commoner for the same reason.
FICE, or FOYSE. A small windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs.
FINGER POST. A parson: so called, because he points out a way to others which he never goes himself. Like the finger post, he points out a way he has never been, and probably will never go, i.e. the way to heaven.
FLASH THE HASH. To vomit.
FLY SLICERS. Life-guard men, from their sitting on horseback, under an arch, where they are frequently observed to drive away flies with their swords.
FOGEY. Old Fogey. A nickname for an invalid soldier: derived from the French word fougeux, fierce or fiery.
FOOTMAN'S MAWND. An artificial sore made with unslaked lime, soap, and the rust of old iron, on the back of a beggar's hand, as if hurt by the bite or kick of a horse.
FRENCHIFIED. Infected with the venereal disease.
FRIBBLE. An effeminate fop.
FUSTY LUGGS. A beastly, sluttish woman.
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