Webster's Dictionary 1913

2701

Fonne

Fon″ne (?), n. A fon. Chaucer.

2702

Font

Font (?), n. [F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See Found to cast, and cf. Fount a font.] (Print.) A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due propor...

2703

Font (2)

Font, n. [AS. font, fant, fr. L. fons, fontis, spring, fountain; cf. OF. font, funt, F. fonts, fonts baptismaux, pl. See Fount.] 1. A fountain; a spring; a source.Bathing foreve...

2704

Fontal

Font″al (?), a. Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive.From the fontal light of ideas only can a man draw intellectual power. Coleridge.

2705

Fontanel

Fon″ta‐nel′ (?), n. [F. fontanelle, prop., a little fountain, fr. fontaine fountain. See Fountain.] 1. (Med.) An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the b...

2706

Fontanelle

‖Fon′ta′nelle″ (?), n.(Anat.) Same as Fontanel, 2.

2707

Fontange

‖Fon′tange″ (?), n. [F., from the name of the first wearer, Mlle. de Fontanges, about 1679.] A kind of tall headdress formerly worn. Addison.

2708

Food

Food (?), n. [OE. fode, AS. fōda; akin to Icel. fæða, fæði, Sw. föda, Dan. & LG. föde, OHG. fatunga, Gr. πατει̑σθαι to eat, and perh. to Skr. pā to protect, L. pascere to feed, ...

2709

Food (2)

Food, v. t. To supply with food. Baret.

2710

Foodful

Food″ful (?), a. Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile. “The foodful earth.” Dryden.Bent by its foodful burden. Glover.

2711

Foodless

Food″less, a. Without food; barren. Sandys.

2712

Foody

Food″y (?), a. Eatable; fruitful. Chapman.

2713

Fool

Fool (?), n. [Cf. F. fouler to tread, crush. Cf. 1st Foil.] A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; — commonly called gooseberry fool.

2714

Fool (2)

Fool, n. [OE. fol, n. & adj., F. fol, fou, foolish, mad; a fool, prob. fr. L. follis a bellows, wind bag, an inflated ball; perh. akin to E. bellows. Cf. Folly, Follicle.] 1. On...

2715

Fool (3)

Fool, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Fooled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Fooling.] To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.Is this a time for fooling? Dryden.

2716

Fool (4)

Fool, v. t. 1. To infatuate; to make foolish. Shak.For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit. Dryden.2. To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to imp...

2717

Fool-born

Fool″–born′ (?), a. Begotten by a fool. Shak.

2718

Fool-happy

Fool″–hap′py (?), a. Lucky, without judgment or contrivance. Spenser.

2719

Fool-hasty

Fool″–has′ty (?), a. Foolishly hasty.

2720

Fool-large

Fool″–large′ (?), a. [OF. follarge. See Fool, and Large.] Foolishly liberal. Chaucer.

2721

Fool-largesse

Fool″–lar‐gesse′ (?), n. [See Fool-large, Largess.] Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.

2722

Foolahs

Foo″lahs′ (?), n. pl.; sing. Foolah. (Ethnol.) Same as Fulahs.

2723

Foolery

Fool″er‐y (?), n.; pl.Fooleries (�). 1. The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity.Folly in fools bears not so strong a note,As foolery in the wise, when wit doth ...

2724

Foolfish

Fool″fish′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) (a) The orange filefish. See Filefish. (b) The winter flounder. See Flounder.

2725

Foolhardihood

Fool″har′di‐hood (?), n. The state of being foolhardy; foolhardiness.

2726

Foolhardily

Fool″har′di‐ly, adv. In a foolhardy manner.

2727

Foolhardiness

Fool″har′di‐ness, n. Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness. Dryden.