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384 GLOSSARY.
Felrpypr cont.
was Latinised (Gl. Somn. p. 59 a, 58)
as feltrum, filtrum (John de Garlond,
p. 124); Dansk, filt, felt; Swedish, filt,
mase. feU; Germ., filz, masc. felt. The
drawing in MS. V. fol. 37 d, represents
the plant. " Filtrum terre, anglice lelt-
" wort vel molayn idem." Gl. Rawl.
c. 607. " Thapsus barbastus [read bar-
" hatus], G. moleyn, A. felwort." Gl.
Sloane, 5 ; so Gl. Sloane, 405. In Gl.
Somn. 63 b, 38, read Anadonia, yelrpypt.
Teltwort yel hegetaper, Gl.
Arund. 42.
Fepbjiypt, fem., gen. in -e. Lb. I.
Ixxxvii.
Fep>e, masc, sound part Lb. L i. 15.
" Probus ferth," Gl. M.M. p. 160 b, 20.
Leasyep'Snes, false probity, P.A. 59 b.
Sec yepe, Chron. 1016, and Layamon,
1052, 1075, 1055. But there is also a
syllable yep'Sin " j-eoluj-eja-S, torax." Gl.
C, that is, Oupa^, from perhaps Lorica,
p. Ixxii. Cf Gl. Cleop. fol. 85 b, and
yelufejiiS, ceniumpellio, Gl. Cleop. fol.
26 b, which appears to be an altered
form of centipedem. In these two words
it is possible that yeji-Se may signify
ring, which would suit Lb. well. So,
Fleoreubpa yep'S, C.E. 289, line 26, a
ring offloating ones. = ferci firci,^/,^^.^
Fic, Geps, masc, a disease known as ficus,
IvKri, '2,vKov, 'S.vKoiixa, 'S.vkuktis. In the
Lb. I. ii.
22, the disease " fig " is said to
be x^h'-^'^'-^^
^ moisture in the skin enclosing
the eyes (Florio), but without
exactly negativing that statement we
must bend to an overwhelming weight
of testimony, and accept it as an excrescence
like a fig with an ulcer, so called
from a fig bursting with fatness, " ficus
" hians prte pinguedine." It affects all
parts of the body which have hair, especially
the eyebrows, beard, head, and
anus ; and it was sometimes called
marisca. Dioskor. i. 100 ; Pollux from
Apsyrtus, iv. 203 ; Celsus, vi. 3 ; Paulus
^gineta, iii. 3 ; Psellus in Ideleri Phys.,
Fic
cont.
vol. i. p. 223, 704 ; Pollux, iv. 200
Aetius; Martialls; Hippokrates, p. 1085
H. ; Oribasius ap. Phot, p. 176, 3 ;
Schol. Aristoph. Pan., 1247. These
references I have taken from the Paris
ed. of Etienne. The name was in constant
technical use among mediaeval
medical writers.
'• Contra ficum arden-
" tem," "Contra ficum sanguinolen-
" tum," " Contra ficum corrodentem,"
" Contra ficum nomere facientem." MS.
Sloane, 146, fol. 28. Haemorrhoids are
ficblattern in the [H]ortus Sanitatis. In
Florios time (1611) fico in Italian had
been reduced to " a disease in a horses
"foot." Cotgrave (1673) has "fie, a
" certain scab, or hard, round, and red
" sore, in the fundament." " Fijck,
" tuberculum acutum cum dolore et
" inflammatione," (Kilian). It was a
running sore, Lb. I. xxxix. ; it was
equivalent to J^eopabl, Lb. I. ii. 22.
Written Uic, and masc, Lacn. 6 ; 44,
following the Latin usage.
" Dicemus ficus quas scimus in arbore
" nasci,
" Dicemus ficos, Cseciliane, tuos."
Martialis, I. 66.
Hie fygus, the fyge. Wrights Gl. p. 224.
Filb, Lb. I. Ixvii., with Filbcimib, Lb. III.
liii., may be taken to mean the milk
drawn at one milking from how many cows
soever; commonly called the mornings
milk, the evenings milk.
In a dairy every
several milking is kept separate. ^
FiUe, an apocopate form of cepplle, chervil,
anthriscus cerefolium, as clearly appears
from a comparison of the poetical names,
Lacn. 46, with the same in prose. " Cer-
" folium . i . cerfoil . i . villen," Gl. Harl.
978 (A.D. 1240).
FleaJ'e, )leo)e, fem., gen. -an, tvater lily,
Nymphcea alba, N. lutea. Lb. II. Ii. i. 3.
" Nimfea, 1 , fleaperr," MS. Ashmole,
1431, fol. 19. *' Nympha, fleathorvyrt,"
Gl. Dun. But " flatter dock, pondweed,
" potamogeiton," Gl. Chesh.