fenthrush (fenthrush)

The mi el-thrush. C. Swains on. [North Hants, Eng.] fenugreek (fen'u-grēk), n. [Also sometimes fenugreck, formerly also written feni greek; ME. * fenigrek, ffeyngrek, venecreke, ffeyngrek to have of seede is to be so we In Ytalie ene in this Janes ende. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 45. Fenigreeke commeth not behind the other hearbs before specified in credit and account for the vertues which it hath the Greeks call it Telus and Carphos. Holland , tr. of Pliny, p. 207. 2182 Saxon law, a tax for the king's sustentation as he went through his realm. In every shire the king received, out of the produce of what had been the folk land contained in the shire, a com pens at i on for his sustentation, termed the feorm fultum. S. Dowell, Taxes in England, I. 10. fer1 (fèr), adv. and a. An obsolete or dialectal form of far1. fer2t, n. A rare Middle English form of fire. -fer. [L. adj. -fer, m., -fer a, f., -ferum, neut., tree. See- ferous.