FPage 154
- English Word Font Definition A fountain; a spring; a source.
- English Word Font Definition A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.
- English Word Fontal Definition Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive.
- English Word Fontanel Definition An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.
- English Word Fontanel Definition One of the membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation.
- English Word Fontanelle Definition Same as Fontanel, 2.
- English Word Fontange Definition A kind of tall headdress formerly worn.
- English Word Food Definition What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.
- English Word Food Definition Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.
- English Word Food Definition To supply with food.
- English Word Foodful Definition Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile.
- English Word Foodless Definition Without food; barren.
- English Word Foody Definition Eatable; fruitful.
- English Word Fool Definition A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.
- English Word Fool Definition One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
- English Word Fool Definition A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.
- English Word Fool Definition One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.
- English Word Fool Definition One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
- English Word Fool Definition To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
- English Word Fool Definition To infatuate; to make foolish.
- English Word Fool Definition To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.
- English Word Fool-born Definition Begotten by a fool.
- English Word Fool-happy Definition Lucky, without judgment or contrivance.
- English Word Fool-hasty Definition Foolishly hasty.
- English Word Fool-large Definition Foolishly liberal.
- English Word Fool-largesse Definition Foolish expenditure; waste.
- English Word Foolahs Definition Same as Fulahs.
- English Word Foolahs Definition A peculiar African race of uncertain origin, but distinct from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze. They are Mohammedans. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah is also used adjectively; as, Fulah empire, tribes, language.
- English Word Fooled Definition of Fool
- English Word Fooleries Definition of Foolery