Function, 1) office, employment, occupation: Meas. I, 2, 14. II, 2, 39. III, 2, 264. As II, 7, 79. Tw. IV, 2, 8. V, 164. Wint. IV, 4, 143. H5 I, 2, 184. III, 7, 41. H6A I, 1, 173. III, 1, 50. H8 I, 1, 45. Cor. IV, 5, 35. IV, 6, 9. Hml. II, 2, 582. Oth. IV, 2, 27. Used of the appropriate action of the organs of the body: Sonn. 113, 3. LLL IV, 3, 332. Mids. III, 2, 177. H8 III, 2, 187. Troil. V, 2, 123. Hml. III, 2, 184. Cymb. V, 5, 258.
2) the operation of the mental faculties: “f. is smothered in surmise,” Mcb. I, 3, 140. “as her appetite shall play the god with his weak f.” Oth. II, 3, 354.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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