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- English Word Four-o'clock Definition 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.
- English Word Four-o'clock Definition The friar bird; -- so called from its cry, which resembles these words.
- English Word Four-poster Definition A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains.
- English Word Four-way Definition Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve.
- English Word Four-wheeled Definition Having four wheels.
- English Word Four-wheeler Definition A vehicle having four wheels.
- English Word Fourb Definition Alt. of Fourbe
- English Word Fourbe Definition A trickly fellow; a cheat.
- English Word Fourche Definition 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.
- English Word Fourchette Definition A table fork.
- English Word Fourchette Definition A small fold of membrane, connecting the labia in the posterior part of the vulva.
- English Word Fourchette Definition The wishbone or furculum of birds.
- English Word Fourchette Definition The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.
- English Word Fourchette Definition An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the fraenum.
- English Word Fourchette Definition The forked piece between two adjacent fingers, to which the front and back portions are sewed.
- English Word Fourdrinier Definition A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.
- English Word Fourfeitable Definition Liable to be forfeited; subject to forfeiture.
- English Word Fourfold Definition Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division.
- English Word Fourfold Definition Four times as many or as much.
- English Word Fourfold Definition To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment,; to quadruple.
- English Word Fourfooted Definition Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
- English Word Fourgon Definition An ammunition wagon.
- English Word Fourgon Definition A French baggage wagon.
- English Word Fourhanded Definition Having four hands; quadrumanous.
- English Word Fourhanded Definition Requiring four "hands" or players; as, a fourhanded game at cards.
- English Word Fourierism Definition The cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.
- English Word Fourierist Definition Alt. of Fourierite
- English Word Fourierite Definition One who adopts the views of Fourier.
- English Word Fourling Definition One of four children born at the same time.
- English Word Fourling Definition A compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals.