That name was given me at the font.
Shak.
Font"al (?), a. Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin;
original; primitive. [R.]
From the fontal light of ideas only can a man draw intellectual
power.
Coleridge.
Fon"ta*nel` (?), n. [F. fontanelle, prop., a little fountain, fr.
fontaine fountain. See Fountain.] 1. (Med.) An issue or artificial
ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.[Obs.] Wiseman.
2. (Anat.) 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.
In the human fetus there are six fontanels, of which the anterior, or
bregmatic, situated at the junction of the coronal and sagittal
sutures, is much the largest, and remains open a considerable time
after birth.
||Fon`ta`nelle" (?), n. [F.] (Anat.) Same as Fontanel, 2.
||Fon`tange" (?), n. [F., from the name of the first wearer, Mlle. de
||Fontanges, about 1679.] A kind of tall headdress formerly worn.
||Addison.
Food (?), n. [OE. fode, AS. fda; akin to Icel. fÊa, fÊi, Sw. fˆda,
Dan. & LG. fˆde, OHG. fatunga, Gr. patei^sthai to eat, and perh. to
Skr. p to protect, L. pascere to feed, pasture, pabulum food, E.
pasture. √75. Cf. Feed, Fodder food, Foster to cherish.] 1. 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.
In a physiological sense, true aliment is to be distinguished as that
portion of the food which is capable of being digested and absorbed
into the blood, thus furnishing nourishment, in distinction from the
indigestible matter which passes out through the alimentary canal as
fÊces.
Foods are divided into two main groups: nitrogenous, or proteid, foods,
i.e., those which contain nitrogen, and nonnitrogenous, i.e., those
which do not contain nitrogen. The latter group embraces the fats and
carbohydrates, which collectively are sometimes termed heat producers
or respiratory foods, since by oxidation in the body they especially
subserve the production of heat. The proteids, on the other hand, are
known as plastic foods or tissue formers, since no tissue can be formed
without them. These latter terms, however, are misleading, since
proteid foods may also give rise to heat both directly and indirectly,
and the fats and carbohydrates are useful in other ways than in
producing heat.
2. Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or
molds habits of character; that which nourishes.
This may prove food to my displeasure.
Shak.
In this moment there is life and food For future years.
Wordsworth.
Food is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds, as in
food fish or food-fish, food supply.
Food vacuole (Zoˆl.), one of the spaces in the interior of a protozoan
in which food is contained, during digestion. -- Food yolk. (Biol.) See
under Yolk.
Syn. -- Aliment; sustenance; nutriment; feed; fare; victuals;
provisions; meat.
Food, v. t. To supply with food. [Obs.] Baret.
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Food"ful (?), a. Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile. "The
foodful earth." Dryden.
Bent by its foodful burden [the corn].
Glover.
Food"less, a. Without food; barren. Sandys.
Food"y (?), a. Eatable; fruitful. [R.] Chapman.
Fool (?), n. [Cf. F. fouler to tread, crush. Cf. 1st Foil.] A compound
of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called
gooseberry fool.
Fool, n. [OE. fol, n. & adj., F. fol, fou, foolish, mad; a fool, prob.
fr. L. follis a bellows, wind bag, an inflated ball; perh. akin to E.
bellows. Cf. Folly, Follicle.] 1. One destitute of reason, or of the
common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
2. 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.
Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools.
Milton.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Franklin.
3. (Script.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a
wicked person.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
Ps. xiv. 1.
4. One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a
retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley,
with ridiculous accouterments.
Can they think me . . . their fool or jester?
Milton.
April fool, Court fool, etc. See under April, Court, etc. -- Fool's
cap, a cap or hood to which bells were usually attached, formerly worn
by professional jesters. -- Fool's errand, an unreasonable, silly,
profitless adventure or undertaking. -- Fool's gold, iron or copper
pyrites, resembling gold in color. -- Fool's paradise, a name applied
to a limbo (see under Limbo) popularly believed to be the region of
vanity and nonsense. Hence, any foolish pleasure or condition of vain
self-satistaction. -- Fool's parsley (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous
plant (∆thusa Cynapium) resembling parsley, but nauseous and poisonous.
-- To make a fool of, to render ridiculous; to outwit; to shame.
[Colloq.] -- To play the fool, to act the buffoon; to act a foolish
part. "I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly." 1 Sam.
xxvi. 21.
Fool, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fooled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fooling.] To play
the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
Is this a time for fooling?
Dryden.
Fool, v. t. 1. To infatuate; to make foolish. Shak.
For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit.
Dryden.
2. 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.
You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these
shames ye underwent.
Shak.
To fool away, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness,
folly, or without advantage.
Foo"lahs` (?), n. pl.; sing. Foolah. (Ethnol.) Same as Fulahs.
Fool"-born` (?), a. Begotten by a fool. Shak.
Fool"er*y (?), n.; pl. Fooleries (&?;). 1. The practice of folly; the
behavior of a fool; absurdity.
Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, As foolery in the wise,
when wit doth dote.
Shak.
2. An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or
nonsensical.
That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these
fooleries, it can not be suspected.
Sir W. Raleigh.
Fool"fish` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) (a) The orange filefish. See Filefish. (b)
The winter flounder. See Flounder.
Fool"-hap`py (?), a. Lucky, without judgment or contrivance. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Fool"har`di*hood (?), n. The state of being foolhardy; foolhardiness.
Fool"har`di*ly, adv. In a foolhardy manner.
Fool"har`di*ness, n. Courage without sense or judgment; foolish
rashness; recklessness. Dryden.
Fool"har`dise (?), n. [Fool, F. fol, fou + F. hardiesse boldness.]
Foolhardiness. [Obs.] Spenser.
Fool"har`dy (?), a. [OF. folhardi. See Fool idiot, and Hardy.] Daring
without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell.
Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong;
incautious. See Rash.