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Show the prifoners hold up their hands at the bar, relate wer the judge of his acquaintance tha to fom good fortunetellers; for if they did but look upo their hand, they could certainly tell whether the Bacow's Apophthegms thould live or die times ten ‘He that upon levity quits his ftation, in hopes t Oa fair ground I could beat forty of them. Shake/ L' Effrange 'tis forty to one lofes be better FURUM. n. /. [Latin.] Any publick place plac in Rome, wher The forum was a public lawyers -and orators made their fpeeches before thei proper judge in matters of property, or in crimina cales, to accufe or excufe, to complain or defend Watts on the Mind Clofe to the bay great Neptune's fane adjoins An near a_forum flank'd with marble thines Where the bold youth, the num'rous flects to ftore Shape the broad fail, or fmooth the taper oar. Pope T Forwa/xDER. w. a. [ for and wander. T'o wander wildly and wearily The better part now of the ling'ring da They travelled had, when as they far efpy' A weary wight forwand'ring by the way. Fairy Q FORWARD. adv. [poppeand, Saxon. Towards; to a part or place before; onward progreflively When fervent forrow {laked was She up arofe, refolving him to fin Alive or dead, and forward forth doth pafs. Fairy Q From fmaller things the mind of the hearers ma go forwar to the knowledge of greater and clim up trom the loweft to the higheft things Hooker He that is ufed to go forward, and findeth a ftop falleth oft his own favour; and is not the thing h was Bacon's Effays Fo'rwarD. adj 1. Warm [from the adverb. earneft Ardent eager not backward hot violent You'll ftill be too forward. Sh. Tawo Gent. of Ver Unikill'd to dart the pointed fpear Or lead the forward youth to noble war 3. Ready confident Prior prefumptuous Old Butes' form he took, Anchifes fquire Now left to rule Afcanius by his fire And thus falutes the boy too_foreward for his years Dryden 4. Not referved not over modeft *Tis a per'lous boy Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable He's all the mother's from the top to toe 5. Premature; early ripe Shake/p ready ; ‘hafty ‘The mind makes not that benefit it fhould o he information it receives from civil or natura iftorians, in being too forward or too flow i making obfervations on the particular fadts recorde in them Locke Had they, who would perfuade us that there ar innat principles of whic not perhap confidered feparately the parts ou thefe propofitions ar made have been fo forwar they woul to believe the were innate 7 Antecedent terior Lacke anterior oppofe to pof Let us take the inftant by the forward top For we are old and on our quitk'ft decrce "T'h' inaudible and noifelefs foot of tim Steals, ere we can effet them 8 Not behindhand houf w countr ho as lemons plants Shakefpeare not inferiour My good Camillo She is as _forward of her breeding, a She 1s 1' th? rear o' our birth, Shake. Winter's Tule t own countr them come i fave them; fo we may houfe ou plants to foraward them, and mak Bacon's Natural Hiftory the cold {eafons Whenever 1 {hine Swift I forward the grafs and I ripen the vine to advance 2. To patronife Fo'RWARDER. 7. / who promotes an Fo'rwarDLY. adw Eagerly; hattily H [from forward. thing [from the adjective. quickly "The fudden and furprifing turns we ourfelves hav felt, fhould not fuffer us too_forwardly to admit preAtterbuiy fumption Fo'RwarDNESS. 7. /i [from forward. 1. Eagernefs; ardour; readinefs to act Ablolutely we cannot difcommend, we cannot ab folutely approve either willingnefs to live, or forHooker wardnefs to die Is it fo ftrange a matter to find a good thing furthered by ill men of a finifter intent and purpofe whofe forawardnefs is not therefore a bridle to fuc as fayour the fame caufe with a better and fincer Hooker meaning The great ones were in forwardnefs, the peopl in fury, entertaining this airy phantafm with increBacor dible affection readinefs 2. Quicknefs He had fuch a dextrous proclivity, as his teacher were fain to reftrain his forwardnefs: that his brothers wer wh unde th training fam hold pace with him migh Whotton 3. Earlinefs ; early ripenefs 4. Confidence; aflurance; want of modefty In Franc int it is ufual to bring their childre company, and to cherifh ‘in them, from their infancy, a kind of forwardnefsand aflurance. Addifon Fo'rw arDs. adv. Straight before; progreffively ; not backwards The Rhodian thip pafled through the whole Ro To FO'STER, w. a, [Forenian, Saxon. 1. 'To nurfe;o feed up to fupport; to trai Some fay that ravens foffer forlorn children, Sjuf Our kingdom's earth {hould not be {oil' With that dear blood which it hath fo/fered. Shatkef That bafe wretch Bred but on alms, and fo/fer'd with cold difhes With fcraps o' th' court. Shakefpeare's Cymbeline Foftering has always been a ftronger alliance tham lood Davies No more let Ireland brag her harmlefs natio Foffers no venom fince that Scots plantation The fon of Mulciber Cleaveland Found in the fire, and fiffer'd in the plains, A fhepherd and a king at once he reigns Dyyden 2. To pamper to encourage A prince of great courage and beauty, but foffered up in biood by his naughty father Sidney 3. To cherifh; to forward Ye foffering breezes blo Ye foftening dews, ye tender thowers defcend.Thomfon Fo'steraGE. #. /. [from foffer.] The charg of nurfing Som alterage one adjoining to this lake had the charge and fofferage of this child Fo'sTERBROTHER Raleigh's Hiftory 7. /. [Foyze bnoden Saxon. One bred at the fame pap; on fed by the fame nurfe FosTERCHI'LD. 7. /. [Forzen cilb, Saxon. A child nurfed by a woman not the mother, or bred by a man not the father The fofferchildren do love and aré beloved of thei fofterfathers Davies on Ireland. The goddefs thus beguil'd With pleafant ftories, her falfe fofferchild. Addifon FosTern/aM. 7. fi [fofter and dam.] nurfe; one that performs the office of a mother by giving food to a young child, There by the wolf, were laid the martial twins Intrepid on her fwelling dugs they hung times The fofferdam loll'd out her fawning tongue. Dyyderns FOSSE. . /. [fiffa, Latin; faf, Welch, FosTere'aRTH. 7 [. [ foffer and earth. Earth by which the plant is nourifhed, though it did not grow at firft in it. man fleet, backwards and forward fevera Arbuthno A ditch; a moat See FavuceT Fo'sseT Fo'sseway. z. f. [fyfe and away.] On of the great Roman inroads through England {fo called from the ditches oneac fide FO'SSIL. adj. [ fuffilis, Latin; fyffile, Fr. That which is dug out of the earth The fa/f! thells are many of them of the fam kinds with thofe that now appear upon the neighbouring fhores; and the reft fuch as may be prefume Hoodward to be at the bottom of the adjacentfeas Foffi or roc falt, an nature from each other Short Summerlightly has a forward Spring. Shak 6. Quick or improvement carrying intelligence to Drepanum They would that we fhould remember the poor which I alfo was forwarded to do Gal. ii. 10 2 to accelerate i to quicken 1. To haften A Fou adj. [peopentig, Saxon. w. a. [from the adverb. T Fo'rwARD growt Haft thou given credit to vain predictions of men to drecams or fortunetellers, or gone about to kno any fecret things by lot ? Duppa's Rulesfor Devotion There needs no more than fmpudence on one fide and a fuperititious credulity on the other, to th fetting up of a_fortumeteller L Effrange Long ago a _fortunetelle Sawift ExaQly faid what now befell Her FORTY FO FO FO fal gemm differ no i nor from the common fal of falt fprings, or that of the fea when pure Woodward's Natural Hiftory Itis of a middle nature, between f2/i/ and ani mal, being produced from animal excrements mixed with vegetable falts. Fo'ssin . f inter Arduthnot on Aliments 1n this globe are many other bodies, which, becaufe we difcover them by digging into the bowel of the earth, are called by one common name f5///s under which are comprehended metals and mineLocke rals Many fz/fils are very oddly and clegantly fhaped Bentley By the word fu/i/, ufed as a denomination of on of three general divifions of natural productions, w undertand bodies formed ufually within the earth fometime .on its furface, and fometime in waters of a plain and fimple ftrutture, in which there is no vifible difference of parts, no diftinction of veffels and theif contents, but every portion of which is fimilar to and perfet as the whole, Hi//'s Mat. Med "Thofe bodies which will melt in the fire are calle minerals, the seft fo/ils Pemberton In vain the nurfling grov Seems faira while, cherifh'd with fo/ferearth But when the alien compoft is exhauft Its native poverty again prevails Philips. Fo/sTErRER. 7. [f. [from foffer.] A nurfe one who gives-food in the place of a pa- rent In Ireland they put their children to fflerers; the rich men felling, the meaner fort buying the alterage of their children: in the opinion of th Irifh, foftering has 2lways been a fironger allianc Dawvies on Ireland than blood Fo/sTERFATHER 7 / [fFoyrctenpaden Saxon.] One who gives food in the plac of the father In Ireland fofterchildren do love and are beloved by their fofferfathers, and their fept, more than o Davieés their own' natural parents and kindred The Duke of Bretagne having been an hoft an a kind of parent or_fofferfather to the king, in hi tenderne(s of age and weaknefs of fortune, did loo Bacan, for aid this time from King Henry Tyrrheus, the fofferfather of the beaft Then clench'd a hatchet in his horny fift. = Dryder. FosTERMO'THER A nurfe FosTerNvU'RsE 7 /. [ fofter and mother.] 7. f [foffer and murfe. This is an improper compound, becaufe fofter and murfe mean the fame.] A nugfe Our foffernurfe of nature is repofe Shake[peare's King Leas The which he lacks Fo'stersow. . f [ foffer and fon.] On fed and educated, though not the fon b nature Matnr |