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Subject: Fwd: TIP #81 - A FEW MORE DEFINITIONS
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 17:36:59 -0400 (EDT)

These come from my good friend Sandi Gorin of South Central Kentucky
discussion list. She has given me blanket permission to print her info to
the lists I have as well as my Rhea newsletter. If you are not interested in
these, you have a button to take care of that. DELETE.

Pat
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Date: 97-09-02 07:10:34 EDT

TIP #81: Some more definitions:

I've been asked to slip in some more of those definitions of the old
words and terms we come across ... glad to do it before proceding with our
regular series. I'm skipping around and these start with the letter "F" -
no good reason!

Fabrick Lands:Land given for the maintenance, building, repairing of
churches or earlier, cathedrals.
Factor:One appointed by law and who is charged with caring for an
estate.
Fancy man:A male lover.
Fancy woman:A prostitute or mistress.
Fanning mill:A machine used to separate dust and chaff from grain by
using a stream of air.
Fardingale:1/4th of an acre.
Farmer:In addition to being one who farmed, the term also could
apply to a tax collector.
Farren:1/2 of an acre.
Fashion baby:A doll - used like a manequin today to show the latest
clothing styles - used by stores and traveling salesmen.
Fashioner:Tailor.
Faverer:Norman name for February.
F.C.P.Free person of color.
Feather merchant:A loafer or idler who does not have an occupation.
Federalist:Member of a political party which endorsed the adoption
of the Federal Constitution.
Feeder:Servant.
Feller:One who chopped down trees.
Felling axe:The axe used by a feller.
Fellmonger:One who removes hair from animal hides to prepare for
tanning.
Feman:Outlaw, fugitive.
Feme-covert:Married woman - wife.
Feme sole trader:Unmarried woman who was allowed by law to hold, buy,
sell, trade or dispose of property in her own name.
Fence viewer:One who suprevised boundary lines and construction of
fences/walls along these boundaries.
Feefee:Grantee.
Feoffer:Grantor.
Festing penny:Earnest money.
Ficicion:Doctor.
Field bed:Either a small canopy bed or one used for sleeping
outdoors.
Field Officer:An officer who was out in the field with their troops
unlike the commanding officers who stayed in their quarters.
Filia:Daughter.
Filia fratris:Niece - brother's daughter.
Filial Portions:A child's inheritance.
Filia Vsororis:Niece - daughter of your sister.
Filia vitrici:Step-sister.
Filius populi:Bastard child - "a son of the people."
Fingerboards:A sign with a pointing finger on it showing the
direction to the next town.
Fireship:Prostitute.
Five Civilized
Tribes:Used to designate the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cree,
and Seminole Indians - considered to be more civilized.
Flat milk:Skimmed milk. Also called fleet milk.
Flirt-gill:A woman with low moral standards.
Flirting &
Removing:Moving to another house.
Flock bed:The matress is stuffed with cotton or wool pieces discared
from sewing and cut into small pieces.
F L T:Found on tombstones of those belowing to the IOOF - stood for
Friendship, Love, Truth.
Fluttergrub:One who labored in the fields.
Fly-land:A small amount of land.
F.M.Free mulatto.
F/O:Father of.
F.O.E.:Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Folio:Both sides of one page are used - sometimes the reverse side
was not numbered but considered as part of the first.
Foot pad:A thief that is on foot.
Fore-elders:Ancestors.
Forestaller:Broker.
Form:Found in Quaker records - meant formerly.
Forsary:One who worked in the kitchen as a slave.
Foss:A pit full of water used to drown criminals.
Fox Indians:Found on both sides of the Mississippi River - part of the
Algonquin tribes.
F.P.C.:Free Persons of Color.
Frail ladies:Prostitutes.
Frank:Pig sty or to fatten up an animal, possibly for butchering.
Frank marriage:The right of a man and wife to hold land that has been
given to the wife by one of her blood relatives - before or after the
wedding. It was tax free until the land had descended to the couple's
great great grandchildren.
Freedman:One released from slavery, usually always male.
Free State:Any state where, before the Civil War, slavery was
forbidden.
Friendly Society:Originally, an insurance company. Later other
associations were called this where one could purchase insurance
against illness, death, etc.
Friends:Quakers.
Frock coat:A coat that was knee-length and fit snuggly. It was
vented in the back and was either single or double-breasted.
Frodmortell:A pardon for murder or manslaughter.
From bed & board:A woman who has left her husband - his support and
bed.
Full cousin:One's first cousin.
Funeral Gifts:Gifts of rings, gloves, etc. were expected by those
invited to a funeral as a tribute to the deceased.
Funeral meats:Food served after a funeral.
Funeral Trolley:A special trolley car built to tranverse muddy
streets. It carried coffin, pall bearers and mourners to the cemetery.
Furniture:Any moveable property.

Gableck:Prybar or crowbar.
Gaffer:old man, grandfather, head laborer, workman.
Galding:Vagabond.
Galloping:Medically speaking, meant disease or illness had
progressed rapidly.
Galluses:Suspenders.
Gammer:Old woman, old wife, grandmother.
Gangsman:The foreman.
G.A.R.:Grand Army of the Republic - former Union soldiers belonged
to this.
Gardeen:Guardian.
Gardydoo:A warning shouted to people outside under a window that
slop buckets were being emptied.
Garnish:A prison paid a fee before entering jail.
Garrison house:A house, usually log, which was fortified against
invasion. Every village had one - it was well constructed, had a low
door and small slits in order to fire through.
Gate Room:A yard or a horse's paddock.
Gatling Gun:Appeared ca 1862 - light, mounted on a pair of wheels and
was mobile, able to be fired rapidly.
Gauky:One who was a clown or awkward and clumsy.
Gazette:Newspaper.
Gemelli:Twins. Also spelled Geminum.
Gemman:Gentleman.
Geneat:Tenant farmer.
Gentleman of
Fortune:A pirate.
Genus:Ancestry.
German:One's brother.
German Baptists:Also called Brethren and Dunkers.
Gib Door:A door of the dutch style where one could let out the family
cat or dog.
Ginner:Cotton gin operator.
Glass Tax:A tax once imposed on glass windows.
GLO:General Land Office.
Glove Money:Tips given to slaves.
Goat House:Brothel.
Gold Finder:A privy cleaner!
Good Brother:A brother-in-law.
Goodfather:Father-in-law or a step-father.
Goodman:Used to represent a male head of the house in Colonial days.
Goodsire:Grandfather.
Goodsister:Sister-in-law.
Goodson:Son-in-law.
Goodwife:Housewife.
Good Woman:Wife.
Goose Feast:Christmas.
Goosehouse:A temporary prison.
G.O.P.:Grand Old Party.
Gospeller:Evangelist.
Gossone:God-son.
Grace Wife:Midwife.
Graduate:Physician.
Gramfer/Grammer:Grandfather and grandmother.
Granny:Midwife or nurse, sometimes a grandmother or old woman.

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