- 11.032 A flake of rock split from the wall
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Flagon
- 09.025 and sat down at a table on which two large flagons were set.
- 09.025 not for the butler’s great flagons.
- 13.046 among flagons
A flagon has a lid or cap, compared to other drinking vessels.
“flagon, n1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 1 July 2015.
Flab
- 08.089 There was a noise like the kicking of a flabby football,
Fish-bones
- 05.070 fish-bones,
a single, compound word, once spelled “fysshebonne”. Bless.
“fish, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/70646. Accessed 13 September 2017.
First-class
In both cases, the adjective refers to burglars!
- 02.047 A really first-class
- 06.014 If they had still doubted that he was really a first-class burglar,
In OED, both hyphenated and spaced are found in the examples.
“first class, n., adj., and adv.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/70612. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Fireside
It’s not a food word, but definitely a comfort word! I wonder how to create objective criteria which would include it? I am pleased to learn that the word originally explicitly meant the two seats to right and left of the fire.
- 01.060 and Bilbo sat on a stool at the fireside,
- 09.012 by my own warm fireside with the lamp shining!’
“fireside, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 27 July 2015.
Firelight
- 01.071 the firelight flickered –
- 02.071 just outside the circle of firelight.
- 12.097 in the firelight,
Fire-place
- 07.045 in a wide hall with a fire-place
- The samples in OED include hyphen, space, and single word.
“fireplace, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/70555. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Fir-trees
- 06.074 Fifteen birds in five fir-trees,
- 07.084 in five fir-trees… .’
Attested in OED with either a hyphen or a space.
“ˈfir-tree, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/70633. Accessed 13 September 2017.
Fir
- 06.052 and Balin had swarmed up a tall slender fir
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