FOU, slightly intoxicated.—_Scotch._

FOURTH, or FOURTH COURT, the court appropriated to the water-closets

at Cambridge; from its really being No. 4 at Trinity College. A man

leaving his room to go to this FOURTH COURT, writes on his door “_gone

to the_ FOURTH,” or, in algebraic notation, “GONE 4”—the Cambridge

slang phrase.

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