fighten (A.S.) _to fight_. _pret. s._ faught, 391, 402. _pl._ foughten. _part. pas._ y-foughte, 126, 336
fyle (A.N.) 86, _a daughter, girl_, apparently used here in the sense of a _common woman_; as they say now in French, _elle n'est qu'une fille_, she is no better than a strumpet
fynden (A.S.) _to find, to furnish_. _pres. s._ he fynt, 73, 146, 305, 367. _pret. s._ fond, foond, 219, 304, 312
fithele (A.N.) 272, _to fiddle_. fithele, 165, _a fiddle_
flappen (A.S.) _to strike with a flail or with any flat loose weapon_. _pret. pl._ flapten, 128
flatten (A.N.) _to slap_. _pret. s._ flatte, 104
flawmbe, flaumbe (A.N.) 360, 362, _a flame_
flawme (A.S.) 243, _to emit a fetid exhalation_ (?)
flawmen (A.N.) 361, _to flame_. flawmynge, 360, _flaming_
fle, 40, fleen, 168, 366 (A.S.) _to fly_. _pret. s._ fleigh, 40, 351, 353, 402, 435. _pl._ flowen, 42, 128. fledden, 42
fleten (A.S.) 237, _to float, swim involuntarily_
flittynge (A.S.) 206, _disputing, flyting_
floryn (A.N.) 74, _a florin_ (a gold coin)
+foynes (A.N.) 468, _a kind of marten, of which the fur was used for dresses_
fold, foold (A.S.) 24, 141, 243, _the world, the earth_
folwe, folwen (A.S.) 355, _to follow_. _pres. pl._ folwen. _pret. s._ folwed, folwede, 353. _pl._ folwede, 301. _part. past_, folwed
fonden (A.S.) 238, _to try, tempt, inquire_. _pret. s._ fonded, fondede, 315, 344, 353
fondynge (A.S.) 291, _a temptation, undertaking_
foot (A.S.) _a foot_. foote, 354, _on foot_
for (A.S.) _for, for that, because_; for-thi, _because, therefore_
for-, in composition in verbs derived from the Anglo-Saxon, conveys the idea of privation or deterioration, and answers to the modern German ver-. It is preserved in a few words in our language, such as _forbid_, _forbear_, _forlorn_, &c. The following instances occur in Piers Ploughman:--
for-bete (A.S.) _to beat down, beat to pieces, or to death, beat entirely_. _part. past_, for-beten, 436
for-biten (A.S.) 332, _to bite to pieces_
for-doon, for-do (A.S.) 78, 163, 371, _to undo, ruin_. _pret. s._ for-dide, 340, 390. _part. past_, for-do, 262, for-doon, 371
for-faren (A.S.) 303, _to go to ruin, perish, to fare ill_
for-freten (A.S.) 332, _to eat to pieces_
for-yeten (A.S.) 362, _to forget_. _pret. s._ for-yat, 205