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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.