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.

Having four sides.

A playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips.

Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve.

An intersection of two roads having stop signs at all four entry points. The usual rule for such intersections requires that those entering the intersection yield the right of way to vehicles entering before them.

Having four wheels.

A vehicle having four wheels; a hackney carriage with four weels.

A tricky fellow; a cheat.

Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; -- said of an ordinary, especially of a cross.

A table fork.

A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.

To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment; to quadruple.

Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.

An ammunition wagon. A French baggage wagon.

Having four hands; quadrumanous.

The co/perative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.

One who adopts the views of Fourier.

One of four children born at the same time; a quadruplet.

The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed.

A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.

A harbinger.

The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects.

A game between four players, with two on each side and each side playing but one ball, the partners striking alternately. It is called a mixed foursome when each side consists of a man and a woman.

Having four sides and four equal angles.

The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.

One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen.

One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four.

of or pertaining to the fourth and final year in a U. S. high school or college.

In the fourth place.

A viverrine animal of Madagascar (Cryptoprocta ferox). It resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws.

A despicable fellow.

A fig; -- a word of contempt.

Despicable.

A slight depression or pit; a fossa.

Having pits or depressions; pitted.

A small depression or pit; a fovea.

Having small pits or depressions, as the receptacle in some composite flowers.

Foveolate.

One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.

To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.

A sportsman who pursues wild fowl, or takes or kills for food.

A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc.

To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.

Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes.

A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.

Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings.

Behavior like that of a fox; cunning.

See Fox, n., 7.

The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark. The european dragonet. See Dragonet.

Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis.

a small pit in the ground for individual shelter against enemy fire.

The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness.

Foxlike.

Resembling a fox in his characteristic qualities; cunning; artful; foxy.

Foxlike.

Foxiness; craftiness.

The tail or brush of a fox.

a ballroom dance for couples in quadruple time, combining short and long and fast and slow steps in fixed sequences.

To dance the foxtrot.

Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily; cunning.

Faith; allegiance; fealty.

A lobby in a theater; a greenroom.

See Foison.

The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness.

Spongy; soft; fat and puffy.

Brother; -- a title of a monk or friar; as, Fra Angelo.

To scold; to nag.

Crabbed; peevish.

An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.

A shallow iron pan to hold glass ware while being annealed.

Rotten from being too ripe; overripe.

To break; to violate.

Having a part displaced, as if broken; -- said of an ordinary.

To separate by means of, or to subject to, fractional distillation or crystallization; to fractionate; -- frequently used with out; as, to fraction out a certain grade of oil from pretroleum.

Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction; constituting a fraction; as, fractional numbers.

By fractions or separate portions; as, to distill a liquid fractionally, that is, so as to separate different portions.

Fractional.

To separate (a mixture of chemical substances) into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.

the act or process of separating a mixture into portions of different composition, as in distillation or fractional crystallization.

Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.

Pertaining to, or consequent on, a fracture.

To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.

A fr/num.

To assault, especially to kill or wound, with a fragmentation grenade.

a genus of plants comprising the strawberry plants.

Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.

The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.

A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.

A fragmentary rock.

In a fragmentary manner; piecemeal.

The quality or property of being in fragments, or broken pieces; incompleteness; want of continuity.

Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire.

the act or process of separating something into small pieces or fine particles.

A type of hand grenade designed to burst into multiple fragments upon detonation of the explosive charge; the fragments fly away at high velocity, killing or wounding persons nearby. Contrasted to concussion grenade. The common type of fragmentation grenade used by the American military was sometimes jocosely referred to as a pineapple from its reticulated surface appearance, resembling that of the fruit.

Broken into fragments.

A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenb/ttel.

A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash.

The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume.

Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume.

Same as Fraught.

Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.

Weakly; infirmly.

Frailty.

The condition or quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced.

Freshness; coolness.

To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.

Fortified with a fraise.

A freckle.

Capable of being framed.

The yaws. See Yaws.

Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure.