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Name	Term description
Name F.S.	Term description Female servant
Name Fa' wi' bairn	Term description Bacome pregnant (fall with child).
Name Factor	Term description Estate or farm manager
Name Failzie	Term description Failure to comply with something, or non-fulfillment of an obligation.
Name Faiple	Term description A loose underlip
Name Fair strae death	Term description Natural death in bed
Name Fairrie	Term description Collapse with exhaustion
Name Falconer	Term description One who trains and handles falcons and hawks
Name Fall	Term description A unit of square measurement equal to 36 ells. For more information, see our guide to weights and measures.
Name Farm servant	Term description A farm worker contracted to work for a farmer
Name Farmer	Term description One who tends a farm, including livestock and crops
Name Farrier	Term description Horse doctor
Name FDS RCPSG	Term description Fellowship in Dental Surgery of Royal College of Physicians and SUrgeons of Glasgow
Name Feltmaker	Term description One who makes cloth without a loom
Name Fencible	Term description Militiaman or volunteer soldier called to fight in a local or regional crisis
Name Fencing master/fencing-master	Term description One who teaches fencing and sword-fighting
Name Ferd corne	Term description An estimate of the value of grain sown (literally 'fourth corn'). The value of the amount sown was multipled to take account of the eventual yield. For more information, see our guide to agricultural produce and livestock.
Name Fermorar/fermour/fermourer	Term description One who tends a farm, including livestock and crops
Name Ferrier	Term description Horse doctor
Name Ferryman	Term description One who operates a ferry across a river or estuary
Name Feu	Term description Feudal holding, land granted to the Vassal by his Superior in return for feu-duty (cash or kind).
Name Feu-duty	Term description Annual payment by the Vassal to the Superior for use of land.
Name Feuar/fewer/fewar	Term description A person who holds lands in return for payment of feu-duty, a stipulated annual amount in cash or kind
Name FFPS	Term description Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
Name Fiar	Term description One who holds land in feu