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Faʹ (Scotch)

.

To get; to get a share of; to lay a claim to.

“Where is the laird or belted knight

That best deserves to faʹ that?”


Burns: Whom Will Ye Send, stanza i.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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F
F Sharp
ff
F.E.R.T
F. O. B
F’s
Fa (Scotch)
Fabian Society
Fabian Soldiers
Fabian Tactics or Policyi.e. delay
Fabianism
Fabila’s sad Fate
Fabius
Fables
Fabliaux
Fabricius
Fabulinus