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Fort

FORT, noun [Latin fortis, strong.]

1. A fortified place; usually, a small fortified place; a place surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; also, any building or place fortified for security against an enemy; a castle.

2. A strong side, opposed to weak side or foible.

Forte

FORTE, adverb A direction to sign with strength of voice.

Forted

FORTED, adjective Furnished with forts; guarded by forts.

Forth

FORTH, adverb

1. Forward; onward in time; in advance; as from that day forth; from that time forth

2. Forward in place or order; as one, two, three, and so forth

3. Out; aboard; noting progression or advance from a state of confinement; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves.

When winter past, and summer scarce begun, invites them forth to labor in the sun.

4. Out; away; beyond the boundary of a place; as, send him forth of France. [Little used.]

5. Out into public view, or public character. Your country calls you forth into its service.

6. Thoroughly; from beginning to end. obsolete

7. On to the end. obsolete

FORTH, preposition Out of.

From forth the streets of Pomfret.

Some forth their cabins peep.

Forth-Coming

FORTH-COM'ING, adjective [See Come.] Ready to appear; making appearance. Let the prisoner be forth-coming

Forth-Issuing

FORTH-IS'SUING, adjective [See Issue.] Issuing; coming out; coming forward as from a covert.

Forthink

FORTHINK', verb transitive To repent of. [Not in use.]

Forthright

FORTHRIGHT, adverb [See Right.] Straight forward; in a straight direction. obsolete

FORTHRIGHT, noun A straight path. obsolete

Forthward

FORTHWARD, adverb Forward.

Forthwith

FORTHWITH', adverb [forth and with.] Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received his sight forthwith Acts 9:18.

Forthy

FO'RTHY, adverb Therefore. [Not used.]

Fortieth

FOR'TIETH, adjective [See Forty.] The fourth tenth; noting the number next after the thirty ninth.

Fortifiable

FOR'TIFIABLE, adjective That may be fortified. [Little used.]

Fortification

FORTIFICA'TION, noun [See Fortify.]

1. The act of fortifying.

2. The art or science of fortifying places to defend them against an enemy, by means of moats, ramparts, parapets and other bulwarks.

3. The works erected to defend a place against attack.

4. A fortified place; a fort; a castle.

5. Additional strength.

Fortifier

FOR'TIFIER, noun

1. One who erects works for defense.

2. One who strengthens, supports and upholds; that which strengthens.

Fortify

FOR'TIFY, verb transitive

1. To surround with a wall, ditch, palisades or other works, with a view to defend against the attacks of an enemy; to strengthen and secure by forts, batteries and other works of art; as, to fortify a city, town or harbor.

2. To strengthen against any attack; as, to fortify the mind against sudden calamity.

3. To confirm; to add strength and firmness to; as, to fortify an opinion or resolution; to fortify hope or desire.

4. To furnish with strength or means of resisting force, violence or assault.

FOR'TIFY, verb intransitive To raise strong places.

Fortilage

FORTILAGE, noun A little fort; a blockhouse. [Not used.]

Fortin

FORTIN, noun A little fort; a field fort; a sconce.

Fortitude

FOR'TITUDE, noun [Latin fortitudo, from fortis, strong.]

That strength or firmness of mind or soul which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression or despondency. fortitude is the basis or source of genuine courage or intrepidity in danger, of patience in suffering, of forbearance under injuries, and of magnanimity in all conditions of life. We sometimes confound the effect with the cause, and use fortitude as synonymous with courage or patience; but courage is an active virtue or vice, and patience is the effect of fortitude

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

Fortlet

FORTLET, noun A little fort.

Fortnight

FORT'NIGHT, noun fort'nit. The space of fourteen days; two weeks.

Fortress

FOR'TRESS, noun

1. Any fortified place; a fort; a castle; a strong hold; a place of defense or security. The English have a strong fortress on the rock of Gibraltar, or that rock is a fortress

2. Defense; safety; security;

The Lord is my rock, and my fortress Psalms 18:2.

FOR'TRESS, verb transitive To furnish with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.

Fortressed

FOR'TRESSED, adjective Defended by a fortress; protected; secured.

Fortuitous

FORTU'ITOUS, adjective [Latin fortuitus, from the root of fors, forte, fortuna. The primary sense is to come, to fall, to happen. See Fare.]

Accidental; casual; happening by chance; coming or occurring unexpectedly, or without any known cause. We speak of fortuitous events, when they occur without our foreseeing or expecting them, and of a fortuitous concourse of atoms, when we suppose the concourse not to result from the design and power of a controlling agent. But an event cannot be in fact fortuitous [See Accidental and Casual.]

Fortuitously

FORTU'ITOUSLY, adverb Accidentally; casually; by chance.

Fortuitousness

FORTU'ITOUSNESS, noun The quality of being accidental; accident; chance.

Fortunate

FOR'TUNATE, adjective [Latin fortunatus. See Fortune.

1. Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some unexpected good; as a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate ticket in a lottery.

2. Lucky; successful; receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; as a fortunate adventurer in a lottery. I was most fortunate thus unexpectedly to meet my friend.

3. Successful; happy; prosperous; receiving or enjoying some good in consequence of efforts, but where the event was uncertain, and not absolutely in one's power. The brave man is usually fortunate We say, a fortunate competitor for a fair lady, or for a crown.

Fortunately

FOR'TUNATELY, adverb Luckily; successfully; happily; by good fortune, or favorable chance or issue.

Fortunateness

FOR'TUNATENESS, noun Good luck; success; happiness.

Fortune

FOR'TUNE, noun [Latin fortuna, fero or porto, tempestivus. See Hour and Time.]

1. Properly, chance; accident; luck; the arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner. Hence the heathens deified chance, and consecrated temples and altars to the goddess. Hence the modern use of the word, for a power supposed to distribute the lots of life, according to her own humor.

Though fortune's malice overthrow my state.

2. The good or ill that befalls man.

In you the fortune of Great Britain lies.

3. Success, good or bad; event.

Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give.

4. The chance of life; means of living; wealth.

His father dying, he was driven to London to seek his fortune

5. Estate; possessions, as a gentleman of small fortune

6. A large estate; great wealth. This is often the sense of the word standing alone or unqualified; as a gentleman or lady of fortune To the ladies we say, beware of fortune-hunters.

7. The portion of a man or woman; generally of a woman.

8. Futurity; future state or events; destiny. The young are anxious to have their fortunes told.

You who men's fortunes in their faces read.

FOR'TUNE, verb transitive

1. To make fortunate. [Not used.]

2. To dispose fortunately or not; also, to presage. obsolete

FOR'TUNE, verb intransitive To befall; to fall out; to happen; to come casually to pass.

It fortuned the same night that a christian serving a Turk in the camp, secretly gave the watchmen warning.

Fortune-Hunter

FOR'TUNE-HUNTER, noun A man who seeks to marry a woman with a large portion, with a view to enrich himself.

Fortunebook

FOR'TUNEBOOK, noun A book to be consulted to discover future events.

Fortuned

FOR'TUNED, adjective Supplied by fortune.

Fortuneless

FOR'TUNELESS, adjective Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion.

Fortunetell

FOR'TUNETELL, verb transitive To tell or pretend to tell the future events of one's life; to reveal futurity.

Fortuneteller

FOR'TUNETELLER, noun One who tells or pretends to foretell the events of one's life; an impostor who deceives people by pretending to a knowledge of future events.

Fortunetelling

FOR'TUNETELLING, participle present tense Telling the future events of one's life.

FOR'TUNETELLING, noun The act or practice of foretelling the future fortune or events of one's life, which is a punishable crime.

Fortunize

FOR'TUNIZE, verb transitive To regulate the fortune of. [Not in use.]

Forty

FOR'TY, adjective [See Four.]

1. Four times ten.

2. An indefinite number; a colloquial use. A, B and C, and forty more.

Forum

FO'RUM, noun [Latin See Fair.]

1. In Rome, a public place, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people; also, a market place. Hence,

2. A tribunal; a court; any assembly empowered to hear and decide causes; also, jurisdiction.

Forwander

FORWANDER, verb intransitive To wander away; to rove wildly. [Not used.]

Forward

FOR'WARD, adverb [ Latin versus; directed to the forepart. Forwards is also used, but it is a corruption.]

Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; progressively; opposed to backward. Go forward; move forward He ran backward and forward

In a ship, forward denotes toward the forepart.

FOR'WARD, adjective

1. Near or at the forepart; in advance of something else; as the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet; the forward horse in a team.

2. Ready; prompt; strongly inclined.

Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. Galatians 2:10.

3. Ardent; eager; earnest; violent.

Or lead the forward youth to noble war.

4. Bold; confident; less reserved or modest than is proper; in an ill sense; as, the boy is too forward for his years.

5. Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season. The grass or the grain is forward or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.

6. Quick; hasty; too ready. Be not forward to speak in public. Prudence directs that we be not too forward to believe current reports.

7. Anterior; fore.

Let us take the instant by the forward top.

8. Advanced; not behindhand.

FOR'WARD, verb transitive

1. To advance; to help onward; to promote; as, to forward a good design.

2. To accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.

3. To send forward; to send towards the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter or dispatches.

Forwarded

FOR'WARDED, participle passive Advanced; promoted; aided in progress; quickened; sent onward; transmitted.

Forwarder

FOR'WARDER, noun He that promotes, or advanced in progress.

Forwarding

FOR'WARDING, participle present tense Advancing; promoting; aiding in progress; accelerating in growth; sending onwards; transmitting.

Forwardly

FOR'WARDLY, adverb Eagerly; hastily; quickly.

Forwardness

FOR'WARDNESS, noun

1. Cheerful readiness; promptness. It expresses more than willingness. We admire the forwardness of christians in propagating the gospel.

2. Eagerness; ardor. It is sometimes difficult to restrain the forwardness of youth.

3. Boldness; confidence; assurance; want of due reserve or modesty.

In France it is usual to bring children into company, and cherish in them, from their infancy, a kind of forwardness and assurance.

4. A state of advance beyond the usual degree; as the forwardness of spring or of corn.

Forwaste

FORWA'STE, verb transitive To waste; to desolate. [Not in use.]

Forweary

FORWE'ARY, verb transitive To dispirit. [Not in use.]

Forweep

FORWEE'P, verb intransitive To weep much.

Forword

FOR'WORD, noun [fore and word.] A promise. [Not in use.]

Foss

FOSS, noun [Latin fossa; from fossus, fodio, to dig.]

1. A ditch or moat; a word used in fortification.

2. In anatomy, a kind of cavity in a bone, with a large aperture.

Fossil

FOS'SIL, adjective [Latin fossitis, from fodio, fossius, to dig.]

1. Dug out of the earth; as fossil coal; fossil salt. The term fossil is now usually appropriated to those inorganic substances, which have become penetrated by earthy or metallic particles. Thus we say, fossil shells, fossil bones, fossil wood.

2. That may be taken from the earth by digging.

FOS'SIL, noun A substance dug from the earth, or penetrated with earthy or metallic particles.

Fossils are native or extraneous. Native fossils are minerals, properly so called, as earth, salts, combustibles and metallic bodies. Extraneous fossils are bodies of vegetable or animal origin accidentally buried in the early, as plants, shells, bones and other substances, many of which are petrified.

Fossil-Copal

FOSSIL-COPAL, noun Highgate resin; a resinous substance found in perforating the bed of blue clay at Highgate, near London. It appears to be a true vegetable gum or resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth.

Fossilist

FOS'SILIST, noun One who studies the nature and properties of fossils; one who is versed in the science of fossils.

Fossilization

FOSSILIZA'TION, noun The act or process of converting into a fossil or petrification.

Fossilize

FOS'SILIZE, verb transitive To convert into a fossil; as, to fossilize bones or wood.

FOS'SILIZE, verb intransitive To become or be changed into a fossil.

Fossilized

FOS'SILIZED, participle passive Converted into a fossil.

Fossilizing

FOS'SILIZING, participle present tense Changing into a fossil.

Fossilogy

FOSSIL'OGY, noun [fossil, and Gr. discourse.]

A discourse or treatise on fossils; also, the science of fossils.

Fossroad

FOSS'ROAD,

FOSS'WAY, noun A Roman military way in England, leading from Totness through Exeter to Barton on the Humber; so called from the ditches on each side.

Fossway

FOSS'WAY, n. A Roman military way in England, leading from Totness through Exeter to Barton on the Humber; so called from the ditches on each side.

Foster

FOS'TER, verb transitive

1. To feed; to nourish; to support; to being up.

Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.

2. To cherish; to forward; to promote growth. The genial warmth of spring fosters the plants.

3. To cherish; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster passion or genius.

FOS'TER, verb intransitive To be nourished or trained up together.

Foster-Brother

FOS'TER-BROTHER, noun A male nursed as the same breast, or fed by the same nurse.

Foster-Child

FOS'TER-CHILD, noun A child nursed by a woman not the mother, or bred by a man not the father.

Foster-Dam

FOS'TER-DAM, noun A nurse; one that performs the office of a mother by giving food to a child.

Foster-Earth

FOS'TER-EARTH, noun Earth by which a plant is nourished, though not its native soil.

Foster-Father

FOS'TER-FATHER, noun One who takes the place of a father in feeding and educating a child.

Foster-Mother

FOS'TER-MOTHER, noun A nurse.

Foster-Nurse

FOS'TER-NURSE, noun A nurse.

Foster-Sister

FOS'TER-SISTER, noun A female nursed by the same person.

Foster-Son

FOS'TER-SON, noun One fed and educated, like a son, though not a son by birth.

Fosterage

FOS'TERAGE, noun The charge of nursing.

Fostered

FOS'TERED, participle passive Nourished; cherished; promoted.

Fosterer

FOS'TERER, noun A nurse; one that feeds and nourishes in the place of parents.

Fostering

FOS'TERING, participle present tense Nursing; cherishing; bringing up.

FOS'TERING, noun

1. The act of nursing, nourishing and cherishing.

2. Nourishment.

Fosterling

FOS'TERLING, noun A fosterchild.

Fosterment

FOS'TERMENT, noun Food; nourishment. [Not used.]

Fostress

FOS'TRESS, noun A female who feeds and cherishes; a nurse.

Fother

FOTH'ER, noun [See Food.]

A weight of lead containing eight pigs, and every pig twenty one stone and a half. But the fother is of different weights. With the plumbers in London it is nineteen hundred and a half, and at the mines, it is twenty two hundred and a half.

FOTH'ER, verb transitive [from stuffing. See the preceding word.]

To endeavor to stop a leak in the bottom of a ship, while afloat, by letting down a sail by the corners, and putting chopped yarn, oakum, wool, cotton, etc. Between it and the ship's sides. These substances are sometimes sucked into the cracks and the leak stopped.

Fothering

FOTH'ERING, participle present tense Stopping leaks, as above.

FOTH'ERING, noun The operation of stopping leaks in a ship, as above.

Fougade

FOUG'ADE, noun [Latin focus.]

In the art of war, a little mine, in the form of a well, 8 or 10 feet wide, and 10 or 12 deep, dug under some work, fortification or post, charged with sacks of powder and covered with stones or earth, for destroying the works by explosion.

Fought

FOUGHT, pret, and participle passive of fight; pronoun faut. [See Fight.]

Foughten

FOUGHTEN, for fought. obsolete

Foul

FOUL, adjective

1. Covered with or containing extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious or offensive; filthy; dirty; not clean; as a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney.

My face is foul with weeping. Job 16:16.

2. Turbid; thick; muddy; as foul water; a foul stream.

3. Impure; polluted; as a foul mouth.

4. Impure; scurrilous; obscene or profane; as foul words; foul language.

5. Cloudy and stormy; rainy or tempestuous; as foul weather.

6. Impure; defiling; as a foul disease.

7. Wicked; detestable; abominable; as a foul deed; a foul spirit.

Babylon - the hold of every foul spirit. Revelation 18:2.

8. Unfair; not honest; not lawful or according to established rules or customs; as foul play.

9. Hateful; ugly; loathsome.

Hast thou forgot the foul witch Sycorax.

10. Disgraceful; shameful; as a foul defeat.

Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?

11. Coarse; gross.

They are all for rank and foul feeding.

12. Full of gross humors or impurities.

You perceive the body of our kingdom, how foul it is.

13. Full of weeds; as, the garden is very foul

14. Among seamen, entangled; hindered from motion; opposed to clear; as, a rope is foul

15. Covered with weeds or barnacles; as, the ship has a foul bottom.

16. Not fair; contrary; as a foul wind.

17. Not favorable or safe; dangerous; as a foul road or bay.

1. To fall foul is to rush on with haste, rough force and unseasonable violence.

2. To run against; as, the ship fell foul of her consort.

FOUL, verb transitive To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to bemire; to soil; as, to foul the clothes; to foul the face or hands. Ezekiel 34:18.

Foulder

FOUL'DER, verb intransitive To emit great heat. [Not used.]

Fouled

FOUL'ED, participle passive Defiled; dirtied.

Foulfaced

FOUL'FACED, adjective Having an ugly or hateful visage.

Foulfeeding

FOULFEE'DING, adjective Gross; feeding grossly.

Fouling

FOUL'ING, participle present tense Making foul; defiling.

Foully

FOUL'LY, adverb

1. Filthily; nastily; hatefully; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully.

I foully wronged him; do, forgive me, do.

2. Unfairly; not honestly.

Thou play'dst most foully for it.

Foulmouthed

FOUL'MOUTHED, adjective Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene or profane; uttering abuse, or profane or obscene words; accustomed to use bad language.

So foulmouthed a witness never appeared in any cause.

Foulness

FOUL'NESS, noun

1. The quality of being foul or filthy; filthiness; defilement.

2. The quality or state of containing or being covered with any thing extraneous which is noxious or offensive; as the foulness of a cellar, or of a well; the foulness of a musket; the foulness of a ship's bottom.

3. Pollution; impurity.

There is not so chaste a nation as this, nor so free from all pollution or foulness

4. Hatefulness; atrociousness; as the foulness of a deed.

5. Ugliness; deformity.

The foulness of the' infernal form to hide.

6. Unfairness; dishonesty; want of candor.

Piety is opposed to hypocrisy and insincerity, and all falseness or foulness of intentions.

Foulspoken

FOUL'SPOKEN, adjective

1. Slanderous.

2. Using profane, scurrilous or obscene language.

Foumart

FOU'MART, noun The polecat.

Found

FOUND, preterit tense and participle passive of find.

I am found of them that sought me not. Isaiah 65:1.

FOUND, verb transitive [Latin fundo, fundare; Heb. to build, that is, to set, found erect.]

1. To lay the basis of any thing; to set, or place, as on something solid for support.

It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. Matthew 7:25.

2. To begin and build; to lay the foundation, and raise a superstructure; as, to found a city.

3. To set or place; to establish, as on something solid or durable; as, to found a government on principles of liberty.

4. To begin; to form or lay the basis; as, to found a college or a library. Sometimes to endow is equivalent to found

5. To give birth to; to originate; as, to found an art or a family.

6. To set; to place; to establish on a basis. Christianity is founded on the rock of ages. Dominion is sometimes founded on conquest; sometimes on choice or voluntary consent.

Power, founded on contract, can descend only to him who has right by that contract.

7. To fix firmly.

I had else been perfect, whole as the marble, founded as the rock.

FOUND, verb transitive [Latin fundo, fudi, fusum.]

To cast; to form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mold.

[This verb is seldom used, but the derivative foundry is in common use. for found we use cast.]

Foundation

FOUNDA'TION, noun [Latin fundatio, fundo.]

1. The basis of an edifice; that part of a building which lies on the ground; usually a wall of stone which supports the edifice.

2. The act of fixing the basis.

3. The basis or ground work, or any thing; that on which any thing stands, and by which it is supported. A free government has its foundation in the choice and consent of the people to be governed. Christ is the foundation of the church.

Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone - a precious cornerstone. Isaiah 28:16.

Other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:10.

4. Original; rise; as the foundation of the world.

5. Endowment; a donation or legacy appropriated to support an institution, and constituting a permanent fund, usually for a charitable purpose.

6. Establishment; settlement.

Foundationless

FOUNDA'TIONLESS, adjective Having no foundation.

Founded

FOUND'ED, participle passive Set; fixed; established on a basis; begun and built.

Founder

FOUND'ER, n

1. One that founds, establishes and erects; one that lays a foundation; as the founder of a temple or city.

2. One who begins; an author; one from whom any thing originates; as the founder of a sect of philosophers; the founder of a family or race.

3. One who endows; one who furnishes a permanent fund for the support of an institution; as the founder of a college or hospital.

4. A caster; one who casts metals in various forms; as a founder of cannon, belles, hardware, printing types, etc.

FOUND'ER, verb intransitive

1. In seamen's language, to fill or be filled and sink, as a ship.

2. To fail; to miscarry.

3. To trip; to fell.

FOUND'ER, verb transitive To cause internal inflammation and great soreness in the feet of a horse, so as to disable or lame him.

Foundered

FOUND'ERED, participle passive Made lame in the feet by inflammation and extreme tenderness.

Founderous

FOUND'EROUS, adjective Failing; liable to perish; ruinous. [Not in use.]

Foundery

FOUND'ERY, noun

1. The art of casting metals into various forms for use; the casting of statues.

2. The house and works occupied in casting metals; as a foundery of bells, of hollow ware, of cannon, of types, etc.

Foundling

FOUND'LING, noun [from found, find.] A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. A hospital for such children is called a foundling hospital.

Foundress

FOUND'RESS, noun A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.

Fount

FOUNT',

FOUNT'AIN, noun [Latin fons.]

1. A spring, or source of water; properly, a spring or issuing of water from the earth. This word accords in sense with well, in our mother tongue; but we now distinguish the, applying fountain to a natural spring of water, and well to an artificial pit of water, issuing from the interior of the earth.

2. A small basin of springing water.

3. A jet; a spouting of water; an artificial spring.

4. The head or source of a river.

5. Original; first principle or cause; the source of any thing.

Almighty God, the fountain of all goodness.

FOUNT of types. [See Font.]

Fountain-Head

FOUNT'AIN-HEAD, noun Primary source; original; first principle.

Fountain-Tree

FOUNT'AIN-TREE, noun In the Canary isles, a tree which distills water from its leaves, in sufficient abundance for the inhabitants near it.

Fountainless

FOUNT'AINLESS, adjective Having no fountain; wanting a spring.

A barren desert fountainless and dry.

Fountful

FOUNT'FUL, adjective Full of springs; as fountful Ida.

Four

FOUR, adjective [Latin petoritum, petorritum, a carriage with four wheels, petor-rota.]

Twice two; denoting the sum or two and two.

Fourbe

FOURBE, noun A tricking fellow; a cheat. [Not English.]

Fourfold

FOURFOLD, adjective Four double; quadruple; four times told; as a fourfold division.

He shall restore the lamb fourfold 2 Samuel 12:6.

FOURFOLD, noun Four times as much.

Fourfooted

FOURFOOTED, adjective Quadruped; having four feet; as the horse and the ox.

Fourrier

FOURRIER, noun A harbinger. [Not English.]

Fourscore

FOURSCORE, adjective [See Score.] Four times twenty; eighty. It is used elliptically for fourscore years; as a man of fourscore

Foursquare

FOURSQUARE, adjective Having four sides and four angles equal; quadrangular.

Fourteen

FOURTEEN, adjective [four and ten.] Four and ten; twice seven.

Fourteenth

FOURTEENTH, adjective The ordinal of fourteen; the fourth after the tenth.

Fourth

FOURTH, adjective The ordinal of four; the next after the third.

FOURTH, noun In music, an interval composed of two tones and a semitone. Three full tones compose a triton, or fourth redundant.

Fourthly

FOURTHLY, adverb In the fourth place.

Fourwheeled

FOURWHEELED, adjective Having or running on four wheels.

Fovilla

FOVIL'LA, noun [Latin foveo.] A fine substance, imperceptible to the naked eye, emitted from the pollen of flowers.

Fowl

FOWL, noun [Latin fugio, fugo, Gr. and signifying the flying animal.]

A flying or winged animal; the generic name of certain animals that move through the air by the aid of wings. Fowls have two feet, are covered with feathers, and have wings for flight. Bird is a young fowl or chicken, and may well be applied to the smaller species of fowls. But it has usurped the place of fowl and is used improperly as the generic term.

FOWL is used as a collective noun. We dined on fish and fowl

Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air. Genesis 1:20.

But this use in America is not frequent. We generally use the plural, fowls. The word is colloquially used for poultry, or rather, in a more limited sense, for barn door fowls.

FOWL, verb intransitive To catch or kill wild fowls for game or food; as by means of bird-lime, decoys, nets and snares, or by pursuing them with hawks, or by shooting.

Fowler

FOWL'ER, noun A sportsman who pursues wild fowls, or takes or kills them for food.

Fowling

FOWL'ING, participle present tense Pursuing or taking wild fowls.

FOWL'ING, noun The art or practice of catching or shooting fowls; also, falconry.

Fowlingpiece

FOWL'INGPIECE, noun A light gun for shooting fowls.

Fox

FOX. noun

1. An animal of the genus Canis, with a straight tail, yellowish or straw-colored hair, and erect ears. This animal burrows in the earth, is remarkable for his cunning, and preys on lambs, geese, hens or other small animals.

2. A sly, cunning fellow.

3. In seaman's language, a seizing made by twisting several rope-yarns together.

4. Formerly, a cant expression for a sword.

FOX, verb transitive To intoxicate; to stupify. [Not used.]

Foxcase

FOX'CASE, noun The skin of a fox. [Not used.]

Foxchase

FOX'CHASE, noun The pursuit of a fox with hounds.

Foxery

FOX'ERY, noun Behavior like that of a fox. [Not in use.]

Foxevil

FOX'EVIL, noun A kind of disease in which the fair falls off.

Foxglove

FOX'GLOVE, noun The name of a plant, the Digitalis.

Foxhound

FOX'HOUND, noun A hound for chasing foxes.

Foxhunt

FOX'HUNT, noun The chase or hunting of a fox.

Foxhunter

FOX'HUNTER, noun One who hunts or pursues foxes with hounds.

Foxish

FOX'ISH,

FOX'LIKE, adjective Resembling a fox in qualities; cunning.

Foxship

FOX'SHIP, noun The character or qualities of a fox; cunning.

Foxtail

FOX'TAIL, noun A species of grass, the Alopecurus.

Foxtrap

FOX'TRAP, noun A trap, or a gin or snare to catch foxes.

Foxy

FOX'Y, adjective Pertaining to foxes; wily. [Not used.]

Foy

FOY, noun Faith. [Not used.]

Fracas

FRA'CAS, noun An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance.

Fract

FRACT, verb transitive To break. [Not used.]

Fraction

FRAC'TION, noun [Latin fractio, frango, fractus, to break. See Break.]

1. The act of breaking or state of being broken, especially by violence.

2. In arithmetic and algebra, a broken part of an integral or integer; any division of a whole number or unit, as 2/5, two fifths, 1/4, one fourth, which are called vulgar fractions. In these, the figure above the line is called the numerator, and the figure below the line the denominator. In decimal fractions, the denominator is a unit, or 1, with as many cyphers annexed, as the numerator has places. They are commonly expressed by writing the numerator only, with a point before it by which it is separated from the whole number; thus .5, which denotes five tenths, 5/10, or half the whole number; .25, that is 25/100, or a fourth part of the whole number.

Fractional

FRAC'TIONAL, adjective Belonging to a broken number; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; as fractional numbers.

Fractious

FRAC'TIOUS, adjective Apt to break out into a passion; apt to quarrel; cross; snappish; as a fractious man.

Fractiously

FRAC'TIOUSLY, adverb Passionately; snappishly.

Fractiousness

FRAC'TIOUSNESS, noun A cross or snappish temper.

Fracture

FRAC'TURE, noun [Latin fractura. See Break.]

1. A breach in any body, especially a breach caused by violence; a rupture of a solid body.

2. In surgery, the rupture or disruption of a bone. A fracture is simple or compound; simple, when the bone only is divided; compound, when the bone is broken, with a laceration of the integuments.

3. In mineralogy, the manner in which a mineral breaks, and by which its texture is displayed; as a compact fracture; a fibrous fracture; foliated, striated or conchoidal fracture etc.

FRAC'TURE, verb transitive To break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate continuous parts; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.

Fractured

FRAC'TURED, participle passive Broken; cracked.

Fracturing

FRAC'TURING, participle present tense Breaking; bursting asunder; cracking.

Fragile

FRAG'ILE, adjective [Latin fragilis, from frango, to break.]

1. Brittle; easily broken.

The stalk of ivy is tough, and not fragile

2. Weak; liable to fail; easily destroyed; as fragile arms.

Fragility

FRAGIL'ITY, noun

1. Brittleness; easiness to be broken.

2. Weakness; liableness to fail.

3. Frailty; liableness to fault.

Fragment

FRAG'MENT, noun [Latin fragmentum, from frango, to break.]

1. A part broken off; a piece separated from any thing by breaking.

Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing is lost. John 6:12.

2. A part separated from the rest; an imperfect part; as fragments of ancient writings.

3. A small detached portion; as fragments of time.

Fragmentary

FRAG'MENTARY, adjective Composed of fragments.

Fragor

FRA'GOR, noun [Latin See Break.]

1. A loud and sudden sound; the report of any thing bursting; a loud harsh sound; a crash.

2. A strong or sweet scent. obsolete

Fragrance

FRA'GRANCE, 'GRANCY, noun [Latin fragrantia, from fragro, to smell strong.]

Fragrant

FRA'GRANT, adjective Sweet of smell; odorous.

Fragrant the fertile earth after soft showers.

Fragrantly

FRA'GRANTLY, adverb With sweet scent.

Frail

FRAIL, adjective [Latin fragilis, or from a different root.]

1. Weak; infirm; liable to fail and decay; subject to casualties; easily destroyed; perishable; not firm or durable.

That I may know how frail I am. Psalms 39:4.

2. Weak in mind or resolution; liable to error deception.

Man is frail and prone to evil.

3. Weak; easily broken or overset; as a frail bark.

FRAIL, noun

1. A basket made of rushes.

2. A rush for weaving baskets.

3. A certain quantity of raisins, about 75 pounds.

Frailness

FRA'ILNESS, noun Weakness; infirmity; as the frailness of the body.

Frailty

FRA'ILTY, noun

1. Weakness of resolution; infirmity; liableness to be deceived or seduced.

God knows our frailty and pities our weakness.

2. Frailness; infirmity of body.

3. Fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity; in this sense it has a plural.

Fraischeur

FRAISCHEUR, noun Freshness; coolness. [Not English.]

Fraise

FRAISE, noun

1. In fortification, a defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the retrenchments, parallel to the horizon.

2. A pancake with bacon in it. obsolete

Frame

FRAME, verb transitive [Latin armus, Eng. arm.]

1. To fit or prepare and unite several parts in a regular structure or entire thing; to fabricate by orderly construction and union of various parts; as, to frame a house or other building.

2. To fit one thing to another; to adjust; to make suitable.

3. To make; to compose; as, to frame a law.

For thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.

4. To regulate; to adjust; to shape; to conform; as, to frame our lives according to the rules of the gospel.

5. To form and digest by thought; as, to frame ideas in the mind.

How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years!

6. To contrive; to plan; to devise; as, to frame a project or design.

7. To invent; to fabricate, in a bad sense; as, to frame a story or lie.

FRAME, verb intransitive To contrive. Judges 12:6.

FRAME, noun

1. The timbers of an edifice fitted and joined in the form proposed, for the purpose of supporting the covering; as the frame of a house, barn, bridge or ship.

2. Any fabric or structure composed of parts united; as the frame of an ox or horse. So we say, the frame of the heavenly arch; the frame of the world.

3. Any kind of case or structure made for admitting, inclosing or supporting things; as the frame of a window, door, picture or looking glass.

4. Among printers, a stand to support the cases in which the types are distributed.

5. Among founders, a kind of ledge, inclosing a board, which being filled with wet sand, serves as a mold for castings.

6. A sort of loom on which linen, silk, etc. is stretched for quilting or embroidering.

7. Order; regularity; adjusted series or composition of parts. We say, a person is out of frame; the mind is not in a good frame

Your steady soul preserves her frame

8. Form; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as a frame of government.

9. Contrivance; projection.

John the bastard, whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.

10. Shape; form; proportion.

Framed

FRA'MED, participle passive Fitted and united in due form; made; composed; devised; adjusted.

Framer

FRA'MER, noun One who frames; a maker; a contriver.

Framework

FRA'MEWORK, noun Work done in a frame.

Framing

FRA'MING, participle present tense Fitting and joining in due construction; making; fabricating; composing; adjusting; inventing; contriving.

Frampold

FRAM'POLD, adjective Peevish; rugged. [Low and not in use.]

Franc

FRANC, noun

1. An ancient coin of France. The value of the gold frank was something more than that of the gold crown. The silver franc was in value a third of the gold one. The gold coin is no longer in circulation. The present franc or frank, is a silver coin of the value nearly of nineteen cents, or ten pence sterling.

2. A letter which is exempted from postage; or the writing which renders it free.

3. A sty for swine. [Not used.]

FRANK, noun

1. A name given by the Turks, Greeks and Arabs to any of the inhabitants of the western parts of Europe, English, French, Italians, etc.

2. The people of Franconia in German.

FRANK, verb transitive

1. To exempt, as a letter from the charge of postage.

2. To shut up in a sty or frank. [Not used.]

3. To feel high; to cram; to fatten. [Not used.]

Franchise

FRAN'CHISE, noun fran'chiz. [See Frank.] Properly, liberty, freedom. Hence,

1. A particular privilege or right granted by a prince or sovereign to an individual or to a number of persons; as the right to be a body corporate with perpetual succession; the right to hold a court leet or other court; to have waifs, wrecks, treasure-treve, or forfeitures. So the right to vote for governor, senators and representatives, is a franchise belonging to citizens, and not enjoyed by aliens. The right to establish a bank, is a franchise

2. Exemption from a burden or duty to which others are subject.

3. The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity.

4. An asylum or sanctuary, where persons are secure from arrest.

Churches and monasteries in Spain are franchises for criminals.

FRAN'CHISE, verb transitive To make free; but enfranchise is more generally used.

Franchisement

FRAN'CHISEMENT, noun Release from burden or restriction; freedom.

Francic

FRAN'CIC, adjective Pertaining to the Franks or French.

Franciscan

FRANCIS'CAN, adjective Belonging to the order of St. Francis.

FRANCIS'CAN, noun One of the order of St. Francis; an order of monks founded by him in 1209. They are called also Gray Friars.

Frangibility

FRANGIBIL'ITY, noun The state or quality of being frangible.

Frangible

FRAN'GIBLE, adjective [from Latin frango, to break.] That may be broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken.

Franion

FRAN'ION, noun A paramour, or a boon companion. [Not used.]

Frank

FRANK, adjective

1. Open; ingenuous; candid; free in uttering real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise. Young persons are usually frank; old persons are more reserved.

2. Open; ingenuous; as a frank disposition or heart.

3. Liberal; generous; not niggardly. [This sense is now rare.]

4. Free; without conditions or compensation; as a frank gift.

5. Licentious; unrestrained. [Not used.]

Frankalmoigne

FRANKALMOIGNE, noun frankalmoin'.

Free alms; in English law, a tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands to them and their successors forever, on condition of praying for the souls of the donor.

Frankchase

FRANK'CHASE, noun A liberty of free chase, whereby persons having lands within the compass of the same, are prohibited to cut down any wood, etc. out of the view of the forester.

Free chase, is the liberty of keeping beasts of chase or royal game therein, protected even from the owner of the land himself, with a power of hunting them thereon.

Franked

FRANK'ED, participle passive Exempted from postage.

Frankfee

FRANK'FEE, noun Freehold; a holding of lands in fee simple.

Frankincense

FRANKIN'CENSE, noun [frank and incense.] A dry resinous substance in pieces or drops, of a pale yellowish white color, of a bitterish acrid taste, and very inflammable; used as a perfume.

Franking

FRANK'ING, participle present tense Exempting from postage.

Franklaw

FRANK'LAW, noun Free or common law, or the benefit a person has by it.

Franklin

FRANK'LIN, noun A freeholder. obsolete

Franklinite

FRANK'LINITE, noun A mineral compound of iron, zinc and manganese, found in New Jersey, and named from Dr. Franklin.

Frankly

FRANK'LY, adverb

1. Openly; freely; ingenuously; without reserve, constraint or disguise; as, to confess one's faults frankly

2. Liberally; freely; readily. Luke 7:42.

Frankmarriage

FRANK'MARRIAGE, noun A tenure in tail special; or an estate of inheritance given to a person, together with a wife, and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten.

Frankness

FRANK'NESS, noun

1. Plainness of speech; candor; freedom in communication; openness; ingenuousness. He told me his opinions with frankness

2. Fairness; freedom from art or craft; as frankness of dealing.

3. Liberality; bounteousness. [Little used.]

Frankpledge

FRANK'PLEDGE, noun A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen. Anciently in England, a number of neighbors who were bound for each other's good behavior.

Franktenement

FRANKTEN'EMENT, noun An estate of freehold; the possession of the soil by a freeman.

Frantic

FRAN'TIC, adjective [Latin phreneticus; Gr. from delirium or raving, from mind, the radical sense of which is to rush, to drive forward.]

1. Mad; raving; furious; outrageous; wild and disorderly; distracted; as a frantic person; frantic with fear or grief.

2. Characterized by violence, fury and disorder; noisy; mad; wild; irregular; as the frantic rites of Bacchus.

Franticly

FRAN'TICLY, adverb Madly; distractedly; outrageously.

Franticness

FRAN'TICNESS, noun Madness; fury of passion; distraction.

Frap

FRAP, verb transitive In seamen's language, to cross and draw together the several parts of a tackle to increase the tension.

Fraternal

FRATERN'AL, adjective [Latin fraternus, from frater, brother.]

Brotherly; pertaining to brethren; becoming brothers; as fraternal love or affection; a fraternal embrace.

Fraternally

FRATERN'ALLY, adverb In a brotherly manner.

Fraternity

FRATERN'ITY, noun [Latin fraternitas.]

1. The state or quality of a brother; brotherhood.

2. A body of men associated for their common interest or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; as the fraternity of free masons.

3. Men of the same class, profession, occupation or character.

With what terms of respect knaves and sots will speak of their own fraternity

Fraternization

FRATERNIZA'TION, noun The act of associating and holding fellowship as brethren.

Fraternize

FRATERN'IZE, verb intransitive To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character.

Fratricide

FRAT'RICIDE, noun [Latin fratricidium; frater, brother, and caedo, to kill.]

1. The crime of murdering a brother.

2. One who murders or kills a brother.