Fornicatress, s. a woman who without marriage cohabits with a man

Forsa'ke, v. a. to leave, to desert, to neglect
Forsa'ken, part. neglected, deserted
Forsoo'k, part. of Forsake

Forsoo'th, ad. in truth, certainly, very well Forswea'r, v. to renounce upon oath, to swear falsely, to commit perjury

Fort, s. a fortified house, a castle; an enclosed
work of the higher class of field fortification
Fo'rted, a. guarded by or having forts
Forth, ad. forward, abroad, out of doors
Forthcom'ing, part. ready to appear
Forthright, ad. straightforward, directly
Forthwith', ad, immediately, without delay
Fortieth, a. the tenth taken four times
Fortification, s. the science of military archi-
tecture; a place built for strength
Fortify, v. a. to strengthen, to encourage
For tillage, For'tin, For'tlet, s. a little fort
For titude, s. courage, bravery; strength
Fort-ma'jor, s. the commandant of a fort in the
absence of the governor

Fortnight, s. the space of two weeks
Fortress, s. a strong hold, a fortified place
Fortuitous, a. accidental, casual
Fortu'ity, s. chance, accident

Fortunate, a. happy, lucky, successful
Fortune, s. the good or ill that befals man-
kind; chance; estate, portion; futurity
For tune-hunter, s. a man who endeavours to
marry a woman only for her fortune
For'tune-teller, s. one who imposes on people
by a pretended knowledge of futurity
Forty, a. four times ten

For'um, s. a place for public meetings
For ward, a. warm, ardent, eager; anterior;
bold, confident; early ripe.-v. a. to hasten,
to accelerate, to patronize
For'wardness, . eagerness; immodesty
Fosse, s. a ditch, moat, or entrenchment
Fossil, s. a mineral.-a. what is dug up
Fossilist, s. one who collects fossils

Foss road, Foss'way, s. one of the military
Roman roads in England

Foster, v. a. to nurse, cherish, bring up
Fos'terage, s. the office of nursing
Fosterbrother, s. one bred at the same breast
Fos'tered, part nourished, cherished
Fes'terling, s. a child brought up by those that
are not its natural parents

Fougass'e, s. a small mine constructed in front
of the weakest parts of a fortification
Fought, pret. and part. of Fight
Foul, a. not clean, impure; wicked; ugly.--
v. a. to daub, to dirty; to make foul
Fon'lfaced a. having an ugly hateful face
Fou mouthed, a. using scurrilous language
Foulness, s. nastiness, ugliness, odiousness
Fou'mart, s. a polecat

Found, pet and part. pass. of Find.-v. a. to build, establish; cast metals

Foundation, e. the basis of an edifice; the first principles or grounds: establishment Founder, s. a builder, an establisher; a caster. v. to grow lame; to sink to the bottom Fou'ndery, Fou'ndry, s. a casting house Fou'ndling, s. a deserted infant Fount, s. a set of types

Count, Fou'ntain, s. a spring, a spout of water 'ntful, a. full of springs ere twice two

Four' bisseur, s. a sword-cutler
Fou'rfold, a. four times as many
Fou'rfooted, a. quadruped

Four'neau, s. in military language the cham-
ber of a mine in which the powder is lodged
Fou'rscore, a. four times twenty; eighty
Fourteen, a. four and ten

Fowl, s. a winged animal, a bird
Fowler, s. a sportsman, a bird-catcher
Fow'ling, s. employment of shooting birds
Fow'lingpiece, s. a gun for shooting birds
Fox, s. a beast of chase of the canine kind, re
markable for his cunning; a knave
Fox'case, s. the skin of a fox

Fox'chase, s. pursuit of a fox with hounds
Fox hunter, s. one who hunts foxes
Fox'trap, s. a gin or snare to catch foxes
Foy, s. a feast given by one who is about to
leave a lace

Fract, v. a. to break, to violate, to infringe Fraction, s. the act of breaking; dissension. strife; a broken part of an integral Fractional, a. belonging to a fraction Fractious, a. cross, peevish, quarrelsoms Fracture, v. a. to break a bone.-s. a breach; separation of continuous parts

Fragile, a. brittle, easily broken, weak Fragility, s. brittleness, weakness, frailty Frag'ment, s. an imperfect piece, a part Fragmentary, a. coinposed of fragments Fra'grance, Fra'grancy, s. sweetness of smell, grateful odour, pleasant scent Fra'grant, a. odorous, sweet of smell Frai, a weak, feeble, liable to error.-4.1 basket made of rushes; a rush Frailty, s. weakness, instability of mind Fraise, in fortification a kind of palisades or the exterior slope of the rampart Frame, v a. to form, to fabricate, to compse to regulate; to contrive, to plan, to invents. any thing made so as to enclose or add something else; regularity, order; contriv ance, construction; shape, form Franchise, v. a. to make free.-s. an exemptica privilege, immunity; a district Fran'chisement, s. freedom, release from 1 striction

[Fr Francis'can, s. a monk of the order of Fran'gibility, s. the state or quality of being frangible; liability to break, brittleness Frangible, a. easily broken, fragile, brittle Frank, a. liberal, ingenuous, unreserved.-9.3 free letter; a French coin.-v.a. to eatu from payment

Fran'kincense, s. an odoriferous drug
Fran'kness, s. open-heartedness, liberality
Fran'tic, a. mad, distracted, transported
Fraternal, a. brotherly, becoming brothers
Fraternity, s. a corpo ation, a society
Fraternization, s. a sort of brotherhood
Fratricide, s. the murder of a brother
Fraud, s. deceit, trick, artifice, cheat
Frau'dulence, Frau'dulency, s. deceitfulne
trickishness, proneness to artifice
Frau'dulent, Frau'dful, a. full of artifice, de
ceitful, trickish, subtle

Fraught, s. a freight, a cargo.-part. laden
Fray, s. a duel, a quarrel, a battle; a defect
Fray'ed, part. worn by rubbing; terrified
Freaks, s. a sudden fancy, a whim, a humeg
Frea'kish, a. capricious, humoursome
Frea'kishness, &. capriciousness

Frui'tfu, a. fertile, prolific, plenteous
Fruitfulness, s. fertility, plentiful production
Fruit'ion, s. enjoyment, possession
Fru'itive, a. enjoying, possessing
Fruitless, a. barren, unprofitable, idle
Fruitloft, s. a loft to preserve fruit in
Frui't-tree, s. a tree that produces fruit
Frumenta'cious, a. made of grain
Frumenta'rious, a. pertaining to corn
Fru'menty, s. food made of wheat boiled in

milk, and sweetened

Frump, v. a. to mock, to browbeat
Frush, v. a. to break, bruise, or crush
Frustra'neous, a. useless, unprofitable
Frus'trate, a. vain, ineffectual, void.-v. a. to
disappoint, to defeat

Frustra'tion, s. disappointment, defeat
Frus'tum, s. a piece cut off from a regular
figure, as the frustum of a cone, &c.
Fry, s. a swarm of little fishes, &c. v. a. to
dress food in a frying-pan

Fucation, s. the act of painting or disguising the face

Fu'cus, s. a paint, &c. for the face
Fud'dle, v. to tipple, to make drunk
Fud'dler s. a tippler, a drunard
Fudge, interj. an expression of contempt
Fu'el, s. the matter or aliment of fire
Fuga'cious, a. flying away, volatile
Fuga'ciousness, Fugacity, s. volatility, un-
certainty; the act of flying away
Fugitive, a. unsteady, volatile, flying.-s. a
runaway, a deserter

Fugitiveness, s. instability, volatility

Ful ciment, s. a prop, an underset, a stay
Ful'crum, s. the prop of a lever
Fulfil', v. a. to accomplish, to perform
Fulfilment, s. perforinance, completion
Fulfrau'ght, a. fully or completely stored
Fulgent, Ful'gid, a. shining, glittering
Fulgidity, s. splendour

Fuliginous, a. sooty, smoky

Fu'limart, s. a kind of stinking ferret
Full, a. replete, stored, saturated, perfect.-
s. complete measure; the total.-ad. with-
out abatement; exactly

Fullblo'wn, Fullspread', a. spread to the ut-
most extent, fully expanded
Full-bot'tomed, a. having a large bottom
Fuller, s. one who cleans or whitens cloth
Ful'lers'-earth, s. a soft unctuous marl, used
by fullers for cleaning cloth, &c.
Full-ey'ed, a. having large prominent eyes
Full-fed', a. sated, fat, plump

Fully, ad. completely, without vacuity
Fulminant, 2. thundering, very loud

Fulminate, Ful'mine, r. to thunder, to make a loud noise; to denounce

Fulmina'tion, s. the act of thundering, &c.
Fulness, s. completeness, satiety, plenty
Ful'some, a. nauseous, rank, offensive
Fuma'do, s. a smoked or dried fish
Fumble, v. n. to attempt any thing awkwardly
Fumbler, s. an awkward person
Fume, s. smoke, vapour; rage, conceit.-v. n. to
smoke; to be in a rage
Fu'mid, a. smoky, vaporous
Fu'migate, v. a. to smoke, to perfume
Fumiga'tion, s. a scent raised by fire
Fo'mingly, ad. angrily, in a rago

Fu'mous, Fu'my, a, producing fumes
Fun, 8. sport, high merriment

Funambulist, s. a rope-dancer

Fun'etion, s. an employment, an occupation Fun'ctionary, s. one who is charged with an office or employment

Fund, s. a repository of public money Fun'dament, s. the hinder part or breech Fundamental, a. serving for the foundation; essential; not merely accidental

Funds, s. public stocks or debentures

Fu'neral, s. the solemnization of a buriala. used on interring the dead

Fune'real, a. suiting a funeral; dismal, dark
Fun'gous, a. spongy, excrescent

Funicular, a. consisting of small fibres
Funk, s. a stink

Fun'nel, s. a vessel for pouring liquors into a
bottle; the hollow of a chimney
Fun'ny, a. merry, laughable, comical
Fur, s. the soft hairy skins of several beasts;
a substance sticking to the sides of vessels
Furac'ity, s. a disposition to theft

Fur below, s. fur, or other ornamental trim-
ming on the lower part of a garment
Fur bish, v. a. to burnish, to polish
Furious, a. mad, raging, violent, passionate
Furl, v. a. to draw up, to contract

Furlong, s. the eighth part of a mile

Furlough, s. a temporary leave of absence from military service

Fur'menty, s. wheat boiled in milk
Furnace, s. an enclosed fireplace
Furnish, v. 2. to supply, equip, decorate
Furniture, s. goods put into a house for use or
ornament; equipage; appendages

Furrier, s. a dealer in furs

Furrow, s. any long trench or hollow
Fur'ry, a. covered with or made of fur

Further, ad. to a greater distance.-r. a to
forward, to promote, to assist
Furthermore, ad. moreover, besides
Furthermost, Fur'thest, a. the most distant
Fu'ry, s. madness, passion, frenzy, rage
Furze, s. a prickly shrub nsed for fuel, gorse
Fur'zy, a. overgrown with furze
Fuse, v. to melt, to put into fusion
Fuse, Fusee', s. a tube of wood filled with a
composition of salt-petre, sulphur, and
mealed powder, and put into the touch-hole
of a bomb to cause the explosion

Fusee', s. a kind of light neat musket; part of
a watch, on which the chain is wound
Fu'sible, Fu'sil, a. capable of being melted
Fu'sil, or Fusee', s. a firelock

Fusilier, s. a soldier armed with a fusil
Fu'sion, s. the state of being melted
Fuss, s. a bustle, a tumult, a noise, a hurry
Fus'tian, s. a kind of cloth made of linen and
cotton; a bombast style

Fustila'rian, s. a low fellow, a scoundrel
Fus tiness, s. mustiness, mouldiness
Fus ty, a. ill smelling, mouldy, musty
Fu'tile, a talkative, trifling, worthless
Futility, s. loquacity, silliness, vanity
Fu'ture, a. that which is to come hereafter
Fu'ture, Futurity, s. the time to come
Fuzz, v. n. to fly out in small particles
Fy, Fie, interj. a word of blame or censure

G

has two sounds, hard and soft. The hard sound occurs before the vowels a, o, and u, as gate, go, gully. The soft one occurs before e and i, as gem, gibbet; though in a few words of German origin the sound is hard, as get, give, gild, &c.

Gab, v. n. to talk idly; to prate

Gab'ble, v. n. to prate loudly and noisily.
s. loud talk without meaning
Gao'bler, s. a prater, a chattering fellow
Gabel', s. an excise, a tax
Gab'erdine, s. a coarse frock

Ga'bion, s. a cylindrical wicker basket filled
with earth, and intended to carry on the ap-
proaches of a siege under cover
Gab'ionnade, s. a military parapet hastily
thrown up, and constructed of gabions
Ga'ble, s. the sloping roof of a building
Gad, s. an ingot of steel; a club; a graver.-
v. n. to ramble about without business
Gad'der, s. one that gads or runs abroad
Gad fly, s. the breese fly that stings cattle
Gaff, s. a harpoon or large hook

Gaf'fer, s. an old country word for master
Gaf'fles, s. artificial spurs upon cocks

Gag, v. n. to stop the mouth.-s. something applied to hinder speech

Gage, s. a pledge, a caution, a pawn.-v. a. to wager, to impawn

Gag'gle, v. n. to make a noise like a goose
Gaily, ad. cheerfully, airily, splendidly
Gain, s. profit, advantage, interest.-v. to ob-
tain, to procure, to attain

Gai'ner, s. one who receives advantage
Gainful, a. advantageous, lucrative
Gainless, a. profitless

Gai'nly, ad. handily, readily

Gainsay, v. a. to contradict, controvert
Gainstan'd, v. a. to withstand, to oppose
Gai'rish, a. gaudy, splendid, fine, flighty
Gai'rishness, s. finery; extravagant joy
Gait, s. manner and air of walking
Gai'ters, s. a kind of spatterdashes
Gala, s. a grand festivity or procession
Galan'gal, . an Indian medicinal root
Galaxy, s. a long luminous tract, composed of
an infinite number of stars; the milky way
Galbanum, s. a strong scented gum or resin
Gale, s. a wind not tempestuous yet stronger
than a breeze; a plant

Gal'eas, s. a low built vessel with oars and sail
Gal'eated, a. covered as with a helmet
Gale'na, s. native sulphuret of lead

Gall, s. bile; m lignity, rancour, anger.-v. a. to rub off the skin; teaze, harass Ballant, a. gay, brave, fine, specious Gallan't, s. a gay sprightly man; a lover Gallantry, s. bravery; splendour; courtship Ga'lled, part. hurt, fretted, vexed Galleon, s. a large Spanish ship Gallery, s. a passage leading to several apartments; a balcony round a building; in military language an underground passage forming the communication between the inner and exterior works of a fortified place Galley, & a small vessel with sails and oars

Gal'ley-slave, s. a person condemned for some crime to row in the galleys

Galliard, s. a gay brisk man; a lively dance
Gal'licism, s. a mode of speaking after the
manner of the French; a French idiom
Galligas'kins, s. large open hose
Gallimaufry, s. a hotch-potch, a medley
Galliot, s. a small galley, a brigantine
Gallipot, s. a pot painted and glazed
Gal'lon, s. a measure of four quarts
Gal'lop, v. n. to move by leaps or very fast.-
s. a horse's full or swiftest speed
Gal'low, v. a. to terrify, to fright
Galloway, s. a horse not more than 14 hands
high, much used in the north

Gallows, s. a tree for executing malefactors
Galvan'ic, a. relating to galvanism [substances
Gal'vanism, s. electricity, the action of metallic
Gamba'does, s. spatterdashes; a kind of boots
fixed to a saddle instead of stirrups
Gam'bler, s. a cheating gamester

Gambo'ge, s. a concreted vegetable juice Gam'bol, s. a skip, a frolic, a wild prank.-v. N. to dance, to skip, to leap

Gam'brel, s. the leg of a horse

Game, s. sport of any kind; insolent merriment; mockery; animals pursued in the field; contests exhibited to the people.v. N to play extravagantly for money Ga'mecock, s. a cock bred to fight Ga'mekeeper, s. one who looks after game, and prevents it from being destroyed Ga'mesome, a. frolicsome, sportive, gay Ga'mester, s. one viciously addicted to play Gaming, s. the practice of gamesters engaging deeply in play

Gam'mer, s. a country appellation for mistress
mother, &c. corresponding to gaffer
Gam'mon, s. the thigh of a hog salted and
dried; a kind of play with dice; imposition.
-v. a. to deceive by misrepresentation
Gam'ut, s. the scale of musical notes
Gan'der, s. the male of the goose
Gang, s. a number herding together; a troop
Gangrene, s. a mortification, a putrefaction
Gan'grenous, a. mortified, putrefied
Gang'way, s. the passage in a ship
Gant let, s. a military punishment, formerly
inflicted by the whole regiment
Gan'za, s. a kind of wild goose

Gaol, s. a prison, a place of confinement
Gao'ler, s. the keeper of a prison

Gap, s. ar opening, a breach, an avenue, a hole
Gape, v. n. to yawn; to crave; to stare
Ga'ping, s. the act of yawning

Garb, . dress, attire, exterior appearance Garbage, Gar'bish, s. offals; the entrails Garble, v. a. to sift, to part, to separate Gar'boil, s. trouble, disturbance, tumult Gar'den, v. n. to cultivate a garden.—s. ground enclosed for fruit, herbs, &c.

Gar'dener, s. one who attends a garden Gar'dening, s. the act of planning out and cultivating gardens

Gar'garism, Gargle, s. a liquid medicine to wush the throat or mouth with