List of Old English Words in the OED/FA

Old English	sp	English
Fade	vb	OE. fadian. - to dispose, sort, arrange.
Fain	n	Gladness, joy, pleasure.
Fain	vb	To be delighted, glad, rejoice. 2. to desire, wish. 3. to pretend kindness. 4. to make glad, congratulate. 5. to rejoice in, enjoy, to take gladly, show preference for
Fain	adj.	Glad, rejoiced, well-pleased; hence necessitated, obliged; disposed willing, eager. 2. well-pleased, flattered, as 'fine words to make fair maidens fain.' 3. glad under the circumstances; glad or content to take a certain course in default of opportunity for anything better; the lesser of two evils. 4. necessitated, obliged. 5. disposed, inclined or willing, eager. 6. apt, wont, wish. 7. well disposed, favourably.
Fain	phr	"Fain and Fain" - gladly and willingly, with pleasure.
Fain	phr	"Full Fain" -
Fain	phr	"Glad and Fain" -
Fain	phr	"I Would Have Fained Otherwise"
Fainhood	n	Gladness, joy.
Faining	adj	Gladsome, affectionate, also longing, wishful.
Fainlessly	adv	Without attempted evasion.
Fainly	adv	Gladly, eagerly.
Fain-ness	n	Quality or state of being fain. 2. eagerness, gladless, joy.
Fair	n
Fair	adj	Things in general: clean, unspoiled, unstained, beautiful, agreeable, delightful, considerable, free from blemish, elegant. 2. of animals: beautiful, handsome, as the roebuck, the swan, the partridge. 3. of sounds: agreeable, delightful. 4. desirable, reputable. of an estate: considerable, handsome in amount. 5. external manifestations, words, promises: attractive, or pleasing at first sight or hearing; specious, plausible, flattery. 6. of light complexion, free from blemish, disfigurement. 7. of fruit, flesh : sound, free from disease or specks. 8. of water: clean, pure, clear not cloudy. 9. handwriting: legible, cursed. 10. of a surface: free from roughness, or irregularities, smooth. 11. of character, conduct, reputation: free from moral stain, unblemished.
Fair	phr	"Fair Enough"
Fair	phr	"Fair to Middling"- slightly above the average.
Fair	phr	"Full Fed and Fair"
Fair	phr	"Have the Fair of" - get the better of.
Fair	phr	"Make Fair Weather" -
Fair	phr	"To Make It Fair with" - to deal complaisantly.
Fair	phr	"To Stand Fair" - to be beautiful.
Fair-ankled	adj
Fair-born	adj
Faird	n	Ferd, fyrd, fare:to go. 2. motion, rush, impetus, hence impetuosity, violent onset.
Fair day	n	Success in battle, life, work.
Fair Deal	n
Fair-Dealer	n
Fair-dealing	adj	Honourable, honest.
Fair-doing	adj	Trustworthy.
Fair-eyed	adj
Fair go	n
Fair-haired	adj	Having fair or light-coloured hair.
Fair-haired son	n	Favoured or favorite, blue-eyed boy.
Fair-headed	adj	Beautiful, attractive, appealing
Fair-in-sight	n	The flower 'The Bluebell"
Fairish	adj	Moderately good, passable, tolerably well (in health). 2. merry in drink. 3. considerable in amount. 4. in a fair manner, to a fair degree.
Fair-like	adj	In good condition, well-looking, healthy
Fairly	adv	Of appearance: beautifully, handsomely. 2. in a bad sense: speciously. 3. of writing: elegantly, neatly, courteously, respectfully. 4. candidly, impartially, without undue advantage on either side. 5. becomingly, fitly, properly, suitably, proportionately. 6. proper by lawful means, legitimately, opposed to foully. 7. gently, peacefully, quickly, sublety. 8. clearly, distinctly, plainly.
Fairlock	adj	Fairness, beauty.
Fair Maid of Kent	n	Crowfoot: Ranunculus acaniflorus.
Fair-minded	adj
Fair-mindedness	adj
Fairness	n	Condition or quality of being fair. 2. beauty, abstractly something that is fair. 3. of women: lightness of colour of skin, complexion. 3. equitableness, fair-dealing, honesty, uprightness, impartiality. 4. of gentlemen : courtesy.
Fairness	phr	"With Fairness" - by gentle means.
Fair play	n
Fairship	n	Fairness, fair-dealing, honesty
Fairship-ness	n	Beauty, the personality of a fair-lady.
Fairsome	adj	Beautiful,
Fair-speaking	adj	Eloquent, fair-spoken, gifted with fair speech, fair-tongued. 2. courteous, pleasant. 3. of words: bland; pleasant
Fair-sunned	adj	Well-sunned.
Fair-told	adj	Favorably told, favourably affecting one.
Fair-tongued	adj
Fairway	n
Fair-weathered	adj
Fair-weather friend	n
Fair-world	n	A good time, state of prosperity.
Faken	n	Fraud, guile, wickedness, crime.
Faken	adj	Deceitful, fraudulent.
Faken-deed	n	A wicked deed, a sin.
Fakenfulness	n	Deceitfulness, deceit.
Fakenless	adj	Without deceit, simple, innocent.
Faldage	n	An old privilege by which the lord of the manor could set up folds in any field within the manor, in which his tenants were obliged to put their sheep, the object being to manure the land.
Faldfee	n	Some kind of manorial dues, as "fald and fee".
Faldstol	n	An armless chair used by bishops and other prelates. 2. a movable, folding-stool or desk at which worshippers kneel
Fall	n	Disemboguement of a river; the place where this occurs: the mouth. 2. something that falls, as a trapdoor; pitfall.
Fall	vb.
Fall	phr	"Fall after" - of a dream, to come true.
Fall	phr	"Fall at " - at hand; to be near at hand. 2. to be going to happen.
Fall	phr	"Fall away" - one who falls away from religion; apostasy.
Fall	phr	"Fall back"
Fall	phr	"Fall Back Upon"
Fall	phr	"Fall behind" -
Fall	phr	"FalL By"
Fall	phr	"Fair fall or Foul Fall" - may good or evil befall you.
Fall	phr	"Fall For"-
Fall	phr	"Fall forth" - to fall out, (to drop out; to happen, occur, to quarrel, fight.
Fall	phr	"Fall From" -
Fall	phr.	"Fall in" -realize, understand. 2. to come upon by chance; light upon.
Fall	phr	"Fall in Hand to" - to set oneself a course of action; set upon a person.
Fall	phr	"Fall Into" - to come upon by chance.
Fall	phr	"Fall in With" - adopt, comply with s.t. already existing, join
Fall	phr	"Fall on (upon)" - to come upon by chance.
Fall	phr	"Fall on One's Feet" -
Fall	phr	"Fall Through" -
Fall	phr	"Fall To" -
Fall	phr	"Fall Under"
Fall	phr	"Fall Upon"
Fall	phr	"Fall What Can" - what will fall, happen, befall
Fall	phr	"Fall With" -
Fall	phr	"Fall Within"
Fall	phr	"Ride for a Fall"
Fallenness	n	The state of being fallen; esp. degeneracy, (degeneration) consequent upon "The Fall"
Fallen-stars	n	The plant "Tremella nostoc"
Fallen woman	n	One who has surrendered her chastity.
Faller	n	One who falls or fails in various senses. 2. a faller of timber
Falling	n
Falling-in-Love	n	The state or condition of being enamoured or being in love.
Falling	phr	"The Falling of the Leaf" - autumn, fall. 2. depression of the soul.
Falling	phr	"Falling in Love"-
Falling-sickness	n	Epilepsy.
Falling star	n	A meteor; a shooting star.
Falling-weather	n	Applied to the weather in which rain, snow or hail falls or may be expected to fall.
Fall-less	adj	Having no Fall or Autumn. 2. fruit that stays on the vine. 3. aa boxer who cannot be knocked down.
Fall-out	n	Consequences, blowback; harm, disadvantage. 2. radioactive refuse.
Fallow	n	Ground plough and harrowed, but left uncropped for a year or more. 2 Fallowness: the condition of being fallow, idleness
Fallow	vb	Fade, wither, grow pale, blanch. 2. to plough
Fallow	adj	Pale brownish or reddish yellow in colour
Fallow-deer	n	Cervus damo or Dama vulgaris.
Fallowed	adj
Fallow-finch	n.	The plant wheatear (saxicola oeananthe)
Fallowing	n	The action or operation of ploughing and breaking up land; an instance of this. 2. method or system by which land is ploughed.
Fallowness	n	The condition of being fallow. 2. idleness
False	adj	Origin: before 1000; ME, late OE. fals < Latin falsus feigned, false, orig. past participle of fallere to deceive; reinforced by or reborrowed from AF., OF. fals, erroneous, wrong, not according to rule or principle or law; not true or correct; erroneous. 2. uttering or declaring what is untrue: a false witness. 3. not faithful or loyal; treacherous: a false friend. 4. tending to deceive or mislead; deceptive. 5. not genuine; counterfeit. 6. dishonestly; faithlessly; treacherously: 'did he speak false against me? 7. play someone false, to betray someone; be treacherous or faithless. 8.not in accordance with the truth or facts. 9. irregular or invalid: a false start. 10. un-truthful or lying: a false tale. 11. not genuine, real, or natural; artificial; fake: false eyelashes. 12. being or intended to be misleading or deceptive. 13. based on mistaken or irrelevant ideas or facts: false pride. 14. ( prenominal ) (esp of plants) superficially resembling the species specified: false hellebore. 15. serving to supplement or replace, often temporarily: a false keel 16. music a. (of a note, interval, etc) out of tune. b. (of the interval of a perfect fourth or fifth) decreased by a semitone. c. (of a cadence) interrupted or imperfect.
False	phr	"Play someone false" - to betray someone; be treacherous or faithless.
False dawn	n	A transient light which precedes the true dawn by about an hour (a phenomena common in The East, also fig.
Falsedom	n	Treachery, untruthness, falsehood.
False-hearted	adj
False-heartedness	n
Falsehood	n
Falseship	n	The quality of being false. 2. untruthfulness, dishonesty, decency.
False-tongued	adj
Fan	n	An instrument for winnowing grain. 2. a basket for separating corn from chaff by throwing it into the air. 3. instrument for blowing a fire. 4. delta of a river.
Fan	vb	To winnow corn or corn. 2. to flap like a bird in flight; flutter. 3. of the wind: blow to move or drive the air about; also, to stir water in this way. 4. to wave to create movement of air.
Fand	vb	To put to proof by test (a person or thing). 2. to make a trial of one's strength or skill. 3. to taste or try food. 4. to prove, try, try to find out, experiment with. 5. to examine, scam. 6. to test, tempt, prove God. 6. to endeavor to lead into evil (tempt). 7. in a good or neutral sense: to try to induce someone to do something. 8. to have experience of dealing with a person or matter. 9. to have carnal knowledge with. 10. to enquire, seek. look for, enquire into a matter. 11. to search a place for, explore. 12 to ask. 13. to attempt, ask. 14. to busy oneself, to go, precede. 15. to attempt to undertake deed or action. 16. to take care of.
Fanding	n	The action of trying. 2. a testing or putting to proof; a trial. 3. a trying to do or find out something. 4. an attempt, experiment. 5. temptation. 6. tempting by providence.
Fane	n	Pennant, banner, flag. 2. weathercock
Fang	n	A catch, grip, a tight grasp, capture. 2. the act or fact of catching or seizing. that which is caught or taken; plunder, spoils, booty. 3. an instrument for catching or holding, a noose, trap, snare.
Fang	n	A tooth, a human tooth, a canine tooth. 2. a canine tooth, tusk, applied general to animals, spec. to teeth of dogs, wolves, etc. 3. the venom tooth of a snake. 4. mandible of an insect. 5. a claw. talon. 6. a tapering pointed part of anything which is embedded in something else. 6. a tang, spike, tang of a tooth. 7. root of a tooth, or one of the prongs that divide it.
Fang	vb	To grasp, seize, hold on to, take hold of, lay hold of something or someone. 2. to fang up: to pluck up the heart or courage; to take up, get, procure, as in to fang cristendom: to take up christian belief; receive Christian baptism; to fang mankind: to become human in nature, to welcome, receive a guest, promise, resolve, undertake; To fang to- to take one's way, sponsor in. 4. to fang with in the embrace; with or under the protection or safety of. 5. to lose the fang- to miss one's aim; fail in an attempt. 6. of a thief: "taken in fang" (plunder).
Fang	phr	"To Fang One's Way" - to undertake a battle. 2. to take or engage a person or a thing for a purpose; promise, resolve. 3. to take one's way, go proceed. 4. go set about, proceed, begin, start.
Fang	phr	"to Strike one's Fangs into" - to bite, savage, menace.
Fanging	n	The action of verb: grasping, seizing, catching, lay hold of. 2. the action of earning wages. 3. the action of standing sponsor.
Fangless	adj	Toothless, without fangs. 2. of a tooth having no roots.
Fangy	adj	Having a number of fangs or teeth. 2. that divided into fangs. 3. resembling fangs.
Fanner	n	One who winnows grain with a fan. 2. one who fans himself or others. 3.
Fanning	n	The action of winnowing. 2. the sifting of tea. 3. the fanning or moving of of air with a fan.
Fanning-out	vb	Spreding out.
Far	vb	To put off, remove (only in the expression of a wish).
Far-away	adj	Distant, remote, extreme. 2. a long time ago.
Far-awayness	n	The state or quality of being remote (ness), distance, longly removed sate. 2. what is faraway: distant parts. 3. the dim distance. 4. film taken at a distance, as distinct from "close-up".
Far-back	n	Remote in space; inaccessibility. 2. the most remote districts or back settlements.
Far-being	n	The state of being at a distance.
Far-between	adj	Occurring at long intervals; infrequent.
Far-born	adj	Born along ago.
Far-come	adj	hat which has come from a distance.
Fard	n	Ferd, fyrd, fare -to go. 2. motion, rush, impetus, hence impetuousity, ardour, violent onset.
Far-day	n	The latter part of the day; the high day.
Fardel	n	OE. forth part.
Far-down	n	An Irish-American belonging to a family which emigrated from the North of Ireland. 2. a poor person, needy, indigent.
Far-down	adj	Situated or existing below.
Fare	n	A going, journeying, course, passage, voyage. 2. expedition for a journey; the rigging out of a ship; apparel, belongings. 3. a road, track. 4. track or trace of a rabbit or hare. 5. a number of person prepared for a journey. 6. a troop, multitude; a swarm of flies. 7. a passage or excursion for which a price is paid; cost of conveyance (now of persons only), but formerly, also of money for goods transported. 8. passengers collectively, convoy of passengers that engage a vehicle plying for hire. 9. mode of proceeding, bearing, demeanour, appearance, aspect. 10. doings, proceedings, actions, fighting. 11. display, pomp, commotion, uproar, fuss. 12. condition, state or state of things, welfare of things, prosperity, success. 13. food, in regard to it's quality; supply or provision (abundance or scarcity)
Fare	n	A farrow, a litter of pigs.
Fare	vb
Fare	vb	To have a litter.
Fare	phr	"To make Fare" - a thing to make use of, employ, possess, live upon (food), make plentiful of food.
Far-East	n	"The Far East" - the extreme far-eastern regions of The Old World, esp. China and Japan.
Far-eastern	adj	Pertaining or belonging to the extreme east; The Orient.
Fare forth	vb	To go about, to go forth, depart, start. 2. to go on, advance, with respect to space and time. 3. to go by, pass way.
Fare-free	adj	Fee paid on the quitting of a tenancy.
Far-end	n	The extremities; the last stages of life, strength, resources.
Farer	n	A traveler, seafarer, wayfarer.
Far-eyed	adj	Far-sighted, far-seeing.
Fare up	vb	To get.
Farewell	n
Farewell	vb
Farewell	phr	"Bid Farewell" - the payment on quitting tenancy. 2. an after-taste, tang. 3. applied to a point where one bids farewell or parts from anothure person.
Farewell	phr	"Farewell Fieldfare" - said to one of whom the speaker wishes to see no more, in allusion to the fieldfare departure northward at the end of winter.
Farewell	phr	"Go Farewell" - to go away; be dismissed.
Farewell	phr	"Fare you Well"-
Farfarer	n	Far-goer, distant voyager or traveler.
Far-goer	n	One who travels far or long distances.
Far-gone	adj	Advanced to a great extent or age.
Far-off	adj	Long ago, long-time ago as, " far-off years, when he had his share in life's true wealth, bright youth and health".
Far-seeing	adj	Far-sighted, far-eyed.
Far-side	n	"The Far-side" - the right-handed side.
Farther-deal	n	An advantage.
Farthing-deal	n	One fourth part of anything; a quarter.
Far-went	adj	That has wended or travelled far.