fiants

noun

1. (obsolete, plural, uncountable)The dung of the wolf, fox or badger.

   “[If] they aske him how hee calleth the ordure of an Hart, Raindeare, Gote, or fallow Deare, he shall answere that they are to be called the fewmet or fewmishings[…]Of other vermine or stinking chases, as Foxes, Badgers and such like, they are called the feance[…]”

   “[Badgers] cast their fiants longer somewhat like a Fox[…]”

   “A man may know a dogge-wolfe from a bitch[…]the Bitche casteth hyr fiants commonly in the middest of an high way, whereas the dog casteth them on the one or other side of the path.”

   “[…]a Deeres Fewmets, a Bore, or Beares Leasses, a Hare or Conneys Crottores, a Foxe or a Badgers Feance, and an Otters aintes[…]”

   “And these sort of Badgers where they have their Earths, use to cast their Fiants or Dung in a small hole, and cover it, whereas the Dog-Badgers make their Fiants at a good distance from their Burrows, which are deep, with variety of Chambers, Holes and Angles.”