C. T. Onions, A Shakespeare Glossary, forked

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fa: - falsehood

falsely: - fast-lost:

fastly: - federary:

fiddlestick: - first

first-conceived: - flesh'd:

fleshly: - folly-fall'n:

fond - forehand

forehorse: - foulness:

foundation: - fretful

friar: - furniture:

furrow: - fustilarian:

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forked (2 and 4 are common Eliz.)

1. cleft at the summit Ant. IV. xii. [xiv.] 5

2. (of an arrow) barbed AYL. II. i. 24.

3. two-legged Lr. III. iv. 111 “a poor, bare, animal” ; cf. 2H4 III. ii. 337 “like a forked radish.”

4. ‘horned’, cuckolded Wint. I. ii. 186.

A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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