Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FOUNT'AIN-HEAD, n.

Primary source; original; first principle. Young.

FOUNT'AIN-LESS, a.

Having no fountain; wanting a spring. A barren desert fountainless and dry. Milton.

FOUNT'AIN-TREE, n.

In the Canary isles, a tree which distills water from its leaves, in sufficient abundance for the inhabitants near it. Encyc.

FOUNT'FUL, a.

Full of springs; as, fountful Ida. Chapman.

FOUR, a. [Sax. feower; G. vier; D. vier; Sw. fyra; Dan. fire. I suspect this word to be contracted from Goth. fidwor, W. pedwar, Arm. pevar, peder or petor, peoar, from which L. petoritum, petorritum, a carriage with four wheels, petorrota.]

Twice two; denoting the sum of two and two.

FOURBE, n. [Fr.]

A tricking fellow; a cheat. [Not English.] Denham.

FOUR-EDG'ED, a.

Having four edges. Smith.

FOUR'-FOLD, a.

Four double; quadruple; four times told; as, a fourfold division. He shall restore the lamb fourfold. 2 Sam. xii.

FOUR'-FOLD, n.

Four times as much.

FOUR-FOLD-ING, a.

Making four double; quadrupling. [Dwight. 1841]

FOUR'-FOOT-ED, a.

Quadruped; having four feet; as the horse and the ox.

FOUR'I-ER-ISM, n.

Social science, or a system of association founded by Charles Fourier, a French writer. This new philosophy has many ardent apostles in this country, as well as in Europe, and it is called by English writers, phalansterianism, which see.

FOUR'RIER, n. [Fr.]

A harbinger. [Not English.] Buck.

FOUR'SCORE, a. [See Score.]

Four times twenty; eighty. It is used elliptically for fourscore years; as, a man of fourscore. Temple.

FOUR'-SQUARE, a.

Having four sides and four angles equal; quadrangular. Ralegh.

FOUR'TEEN, a. [four and ten; Sax. feowertyn.]

Four and ten; twice seven.

FOUR'TEENTH, a.

The ordinal of fourteen; the fourth after the tenth.

FOUR'TEENTH, n.

In music, the octave of the seventh.

FOURTH, a.

The ordinal of four; the next after the third.

FOURTH, n.

In music, an interval composed of two tones and a semitone. Three full tunes compose a triton, or fourth redundant.

FOURTH-LY, adv.

In the fourth place.

FOUR-WHEEL-ED, a.

Having or running on four wheels.

FO'VE-O-LA-TED, a. [Low L. foveola.]

Having little depressions or pits. Smith.

FO-VIL'LA, n. [L. foveo.]

A fine substance, imperceptible to the naked eye, emitted from the pollen of flowers. Martyn.

FOWL, n. [Sax. fugel, fugl; G. and D. vogel; Dan. fugl; Sw. fogel; from the root of the L. fugio, fugo, Gr. φευγω, and signifying the flying animal.]

A flying or winged animal; the generic name of certain animals that move through the air by the aid of wings. Fowls have two feet, are covered with feathers, and have wings for flight. Bird is a young fowl or chicken, and may well be applied to the smaller species of fowls. But it has usurped the place of fowl, and is used improperly as the generic term. Fowl is used as a collective noun. We dined on fish and fowl. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air. Gen. i. But this use in America is not frequent. We generally use the plural, fowls. The word is colloquially used for poultry, or rather, in a more limited sense, for barndoor fowls.