Founder (n.) An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder.
Founderous (a.) Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road.
Foundershaft (n.) The first shaft sunk.
Founderies (pl. ) of Foundery
Foundery (n.) Same as Foundry.
Founding (n.) The art of smelting and casting metals.
Foundling (v. t.) A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner.
Foundress (n.) A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
Foundries (pl. ) of Foundry
Foundry (n.) The act, process, or art of casting metals.
Foundry (n.) The buildings and works for casting metals.
Fount (n.) A font.
Fount (n.) A fountain.
Fountain (n.) A spring of water issuing from the earth.
Fountain (n.) An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.
Fountain (n.) A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.
Fountain (n.) The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.
Fountainless (a.) Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water.
Fountful (a.) Full of fountains.
Four (a.) One more than three; twice two.
Four (n.) The sum of four units; four units or objects.
Four (n.) A symbol representing four units, as 4 or iv.
Four (n.) Four things of the same kind, esp. four horses; as, a chariot and four.
Fourb (n.) Alt. of Fourbe
Fourbe (n.) A trickly fellow; a cheat.
Fourche (a.) 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.
Fourchette (n.) A table fork.
Fourchette (n.) A small fold of membrane, connecting the labia in the posterior part of the vulva.
Fourchette (n.) The wishbone or furculum of birds.
Fourchette (n.) The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.
Fourchette (n.) An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the fraenum.
Fourchette (n.) The forked piece between two adjacent fingers, to which the front and back portions are sewed.
Four-cornered (a.) Having four corners or angles.
Fourdrinier (n.) A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.
Fourfold (a. & adv.) Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division.
Fourfold (n.) Four times as many or as much.
Fourfold (v. t.) To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment,; to quadruple.
Fourfooted (a.) Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
Fourgon (n.) An ammunition wagon.
Fourgon (n.) A French baggage wagon.
Fourhanded (a.) Having four hands; quadrumanous.
Fourhanded (a.) Requiring four "hands" or players; as, a fourhanded game at cards.
Fourierism (n.) The cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.
Fourierist (n.) Alt. of Fourierite
Fourierite (n.) One who adopts the views of Fourier.
Four-in-hand (a.) 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.
Four-in-hand (n.) A team of four horses driven by one person; also, a vehicle drawn by such a team.
Fourling (n.) One of four children born at the same time.
Fourling (n.) A compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals.
Fourneau (n.) The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed.
Four-o'clock (n.) 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.
Four-o'clock (n.) The friar bird; -- so called from its cry, which resembles these words.
Fourpence (n.) A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.
Fourpence (n.) A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents.
Four-poster (n.) A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains.
Fourrier (n.) A harbinger.
Fourscore (n.) Four times twenty; eighty.
Fourscore (n.) The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects.
Foursquare (a.) Having four sides and four equal angles.
Fourteen (a.) Four and ten more; twice seven.
Fourteen (n.) The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.
Fourteen (n.) A symbol representing fourteen, as 14 or xiv.
Fourteenth (a.) Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.
Fourteenth (a.) Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived.
Fourteenth (n.) One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen; one next after the thirteenth.
Fourteenth (n.) The octave of the seventh.
Fourth (a.) Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.
Fourth (a.) Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.
Fourth (n.) One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third.
Fourth (n.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.
Fourthly (adv.) In the fourth place.
Four-way (a.) Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve.
Four-wheeled (a.) Having four wheels.
Four-wheeler (n.) A vehicle having four wheels.
Foussa (n.) A viverrine animal of Madagascar (Cryptoprocta ferox). It resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws.
Fouter (n.) A despicable fellow.
Foutra (n.) A fig; -- a word of contempt.
Fouty (a.) Despicable.
Foveae (pl. ) of Fovea
Fovea (n.) A slight depression or pit; a fossa.
Foveate (a.) Having pits or depressions; pitted.
Foveolae (pl. ) of Foveola
Foveola (n.) A small depression or pit; a fovea.
Foveolate (a.) Having small pits or depression, as the receptacle in some composite flowers.
Foveolated (a.) Foveolate.
Fovillae (pl. ) of Fovilla
Fovilla (n.) One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.
Fowls (pl. ) of Fowl
Fowl (n.) Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.
Fowl (n.) Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus).
Fowled (imp. & p. p.) of Fowl
Fowling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fowl
Fowl (v. i.) To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.
Fowler (n.) A sportsman who pursues wild fowl, or takes or kills for food.
Fowlerite (n.) A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc.
Fowler's solution () An aqueous solution of arsenite of potassium, of such strength that one hundred parts represent one part of arsenious acid, or white arsenic; -- named from Fowler, an English physician who first brought it into use.
Foxes (pl. ) of Fox
Fox (n.) A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.
Fox (n.) The European dragonet.
Fox (n.) The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.