C. T. Onions, A Shakespeare Glossary, falsehood

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fa: - falsehood

fairest-boding:

falling sickness:

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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falsehood (obs. meanings are)

1. falseness, faithlessness, perfidy Tp. I. ii. 95, Gent. IV. ii. 8 “my to my friend,” Wint. III. ii. 142 “this is mere ,” John III. i. 95, 277, Troil. IV. ii. 107 “Make Cressid's name the very crown of falsehood.”

2. deception, imposture Meas. III. ii. 303 [295], Ant. I. i. 40, Sonn. cxxxvii. 7.

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

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