Fellow commoner.  An empty bottle:  so called at the
  university of Cambridge, where fellow commoners are
  not in general considered as over full of learning.  At
  Oxford an empty bottle is called a gentleman commoner
  for the same reason.  They pay at Cambridge 250 l. a year
  for the privilege of wearing a gold or silver tassel to their
  caps.  The younger branches of the nobility have the
  privilege of wearing a hat, and from thence are denominated hat
  fellow commoners.

Fen.  A bawd, or common prostitute.  Cant.

To fence.  To pawn or sell to a receiver of stolen goods. 
  The kiddey fenced his thimble for three quids; the young
  fellow pawned his watch for three guineas.  To fence
  invariably means to pawn or sell goods to a receiver.

Fencing ken.  The magazine, or warehouse, where
  stolen goods are secreted.

FERME.  A hole.  Cant.

FERMERDY beggars.  All those who have not the sham
  sores or clymes.

Ferrara.  Andrea Ferrara; the name of a famous sword-
  cutler:  most of the Highland broad-swords are marked
  with his name; whence an Andrea Ferrara has become
  the common name for the glaymore or Highland broad-
  sword.  See glaymore.

Ferret.  A tradesman who sells goods to youug unthrift
  heirs, at excessive rates, and then continually duns them
  for the debt.  To ferret; to search out or expel any one
  from his hiding-place, as a ferret drives out rabbits; also
  to cheat.  Ferret-eyed; red-eyed:  ferrets have red eyes.

Fetch.  A trick, wheedle, or invention to deceive.

FEUTERER.  A dog-keeper:  from the French vautrier, or
  vaultrier, one that leads a lime hound for the chase.

To fib.  To beat.  Fib the cove’s quarron in the rumpad
  for the lour in his bung; beat the fellow in the highway
  for the money in his purse.  Cant.—­A fib is also a tiny lie.

FICE, or FOYSE.  A small windy escape backwards, more
  obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies
  charged on their lap-dogs.  See fizzle.

Fid of tobacco.  A quid, from the small pieces of tow
  with which the vent or touch hole of a cannon is stopped. 
  Sea term.

Fiddle faddle.  Trifling discourse, nonsense.  A mere
  fiddle faddle fellow; a trifier.

FIDDLESTICK’S end.  Nothing; the end of the ancient
  fiddlesticks ending in a point; hence metaphorically used
  to express a thing terminating in nothing.

Fidgets.  He has got the fidgets; said of one that cannot
  sit long in a place.

FIDLAM Ben.  General thieves; called also St. Peter’s sons,
  having every finger a fish-hook.  Cant.