Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard.

Power to resist attack; strength; firmness.

Having fortitude; courageous.

A little fort.

The space of fourteen days; two weeks.

Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication. Once in a fortnight; at intervals of a fortnight.

a higher programming language with an instruction set designed for ease of expression of mathematical functions, much used in programming of scientific and mathematical problems.

To tread down; to trample upon.

To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.

Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms.

Accident; chance; casualty.

the goddess of fortune and good luck; counterpart of Greek Tyche.

Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment.

In a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily.

The condition or quality of being fortunate; good luck; success; happiness.

To fall out; to happen.

Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion.

small genus of shrubs called kumquats, native to South China, producing small ovoid orangelike fruits called kumquats.

a person who claims to be able to foretell events in the future of another person.

To regulate the fortune of; to make happy.

The sum of four tens; forty units or objects.

One the miners who took part in the California gold rush in 1849; an argonaut.

The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).

A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.

Tired out with excessive waking or watching.

To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.

To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.

planning for the future; concerned primarily with the future; -- contrasted with conern for the immediate present or reacting to past events.

One who forwards or promotes; a promoter.

The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others.

Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.

The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel.

Same as Forward.

Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.

To desolate or lay waste utterly.

To weary extremely; to dispirit.

To weep much.

See Forewite.

Wherefore; because.

Much worn.

pres. indic. 1st 3d pers. sing. of Forwete.

To wrap up; to conceal.

To repay; to requite.

To forget.

p. p. of Foryete.

See Sforzato.

A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal foss/ containing the nostrils in most birds.

A species of civet (Viverra fossa) resembling the genet.

A ditch or moat.

A faucet.

A little hollow; hence, a dimple.

One of the great military roads constructed by the Romans in England and other parts of Europe; -- so called from the fosse or ditch on each side for keeping it dry.

To search for gold by picking at stone or earth or among roots in isolated spots, picking over abandoned workings, etc.; hence, to steal gold or auriferous matter from another's claim.

A substance dug from the earth.

Containing or composed of fossils.

The process of becoming fossil.

The science or state of fossils.

One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist.

The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.

To become fossil.

A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched.

See Fossores.

Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.

Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects.

Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows.

A forester.

The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.

One who, or that which, fosters.

A foster child.

Food; nourishment.

A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse.

To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack.

Nourishing.

Seventy pounds of lead.

A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy.

imp. p. p. of Fight.

p. p. of Fight.

An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.

Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive; as, noisy foul-mouthed women all shouting at once.

emitting an unpleasasnt odor.

Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language; same as foul-mouthed.

an embarrassing mistake.

A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, usually with a printed pattern on it. It was originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.

To flash, as lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.

Foully.

In a foul manner; filthily; nastily; shamefully; unfairly; dishonorably.

The quality or condition of being foul.

The European polecat; -- called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat.

To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly.

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.

Having no foundation.

based; -- often used as combining terms; as, well-founded suspicions.

A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh. An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder.

Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road.

The first shaft sunk.

Same as Foundry.

The art of smelting and casting metals.

A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner.

A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.

The act, process, or art of casting metals.

A fountain.

A spring of water issuing from the earth.

an abundant source.

Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water.

Full of fountains.

a genus of resinous succulent trees or shrubs of desert and semi-desert regions of the southwestern U. S. that are leafless most of the year.

a small natural family of spiny shrubs or trees of the southwestern U. S.

The sum of four units; four units or objects.

Having four corners or angles.

A four-stroke cycle, as the Otto cycle, for an internal-combustion engine.

A game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team four hits; as, he pitched a four-hitter.

A long necktie that is tied in a slipknot with one end hanging in front of the other.

Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four-in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four-in-hand coach. A team of four horses driven by one person; also, a vehicle drawn by such a team.

Having two lanes for traffic in each direction; -- of paved highways.

A plant of the genus Mirabilis. There are about half a dozen species, natives of the warmer parts of America. The common four-o'clock is M. Jalapa. Its flowers are white, yellow, and red, and open toward sunset, or earlier in cloudy weather; hence the name. It is also called marvel of Peru, and afternoon lady.

involving four parties.

having a thickness made up of four layers or strands; as, four-ply yarns.

A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support a canopy or curtains.

a cannon that throws a 4-pound shot.