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Show FO This but thy judgment fools3 the other wa Would both thy folly and thy fpite betray. Bea ‘forfon It were an handfome plot But full of difficulties, and uncertain And he's fo fool'd with downright honety te'll ne'er believe it fures long an eternal adieu to all unlawfu plea 1 will no longer be foofed or impofed upo Calamy's Sermons A boor of Holland, whofe cares of growing ftil richer and richer, perhaps f20/ him fo far as to mak enjoy lefs in his riche than other in poverty Lemple 3. To cheat: as, to fuol one of his money Foo'usorN. adj. [ fwl and born. Foolif from the birth Reply notto me with a foo/bornjelt. Shakefp. H.1V - Foo'Lery. » /. [from ful. 1. Habitual folly fool fhould b as oft wit with my miftrefs your mafter a Shakefp. Taelfth Night 2. An att of folly; trifling praétife It is meer foolery to multiply diftin& particular in treating of things, where the difference lies onl Watts in words 3. Objedt of folly Tha Plato Pythagoras We are tranfporte underftood or} Orpheus believed i it cannot'be fufpected Raleigh's Hiftory with fooleries if w which L' Eftrange we fhould defpite Foor-ua'rry. adj. [ fool and happy.] Luck without contrivance or judgment The mariner, yet half amazed ‘ooLHARDINESS ftate 7. f. [from fuolhardy. courage without fenfe Fhere is a difference betwixt daring and' foolbardinefs: Lucan and Statius often ventured the Dyyden too far, our Viril never A falfe glozing parafite would call his foo/hardincfs valour, and then he may goon boldly becauf blindly South Foorua'rp1se. n [ [fil and hardiefe Freach.] Foolhardinefs; adventuroufnef without judgment Obfolete More huge in firength than wife in works he was And reafon with foo/hardife over-ran Stern melancholy did his courage pafs And was, for terror more, all arm'd in thining brafs Fairy Queen ¥ooruaroy.adj. [ fool and hardy. | Darin without judgment foolifhly bold madly adventurous iiv 32 could the head perform alone If all their friendly aids were gone A foolifb figure he muft make Do nothing elfe but fleep and ake Prior He aliows himfelf in foo/i/b hatreds and refentments againft particular perfons, without confiderin Law that he is to love every body as himfelf 4. [In Scripture.] Wicked; finful Foo'nisury. adv. [from faolih.] Weakly In Scripture without underftanding Although we boaft our Winter fun looks bright And fooli/bly are glad to fee it in its height Yet fo much fooner comes the long and gloomy night Swift Foo'Lisuness. # /. [from fulih. 1. Yolly; want of underftanding 2. Foolifh pratice; actual deviation fro the right and with his talons play Half dead through fear, her little babe revil'd Fairy Queen be {o_foolhardy as to prefume to b anore of the cabinet council of God Almighty tha the angels Howel If any yet be {o foolbardy T expofe themfelves to vain jeopardy 1f they come wounded off an Foo'vtra®. #. /. [ fool and trap. Hudibras A fnar as a flytrap Betts at the firlt, were foo/traps, where the wif Like fpiders lay in ambuth for the flies in point of praice muft need confif in his pitching upon fuch an end as 1s unfuitable t his condition, or pitching upon means unfuitable t the compafiing of his end South Charm' % their eyes, their manners I acquire And fhape my fooli/bnefs to their defire FoorstonEs Prior 7. /. A plant Miller Died every day the liv'd Shakefpeare's Macketh His affe@ion to the church was fo notorious, tha he never deferted it, *till both it and he were over-ru and trod under foor z. Tha Clarendon by which any thing is fupporte in the nature of a foot: as, #he foot of table 3. The lower part; the bafe Yond' towers, whofe wanton tops do bufs the clouds Muft kifs their own feet. Shak. Troilus and Creffida Fretting, by little and little, wathes away and eat out both the tops and fides and feez of mountains 4. The end Hakewill the lower part What difmal cries are thofe -Nothing a trifling fum of mifery New added to the foor of thy account Thy wife is feiz'd by force, and born away Dryden ¥Yoo'LisH. adj. [from fodl. 1. Void of underftanding; weak of intelle@ Thou foo/i/b woman, feeft thou not our mourning 2 Efdr Pray do not mock me fond oid man my perfet mind Shakefp men that ever my fuli/b eye the beft deferving a fair lady Shakefpearc's Merchant of Venice Dryden 5. The a& of walking departed weenin i hi prid t make the land navigable, and the fea paffable b foot 2 Mac. v. 21 6. Oz Foor Walking; without carriage Ifrael journeye Soor about fix hundre 7. A pofture of altion thoufand o Bl xlli The centurions and their charges billeted alread in the entertainment, and to be on fuor at an hour' 8. Infantry; footmen i fenfe it has no plaral ~. Shakefpeare arms I thi Lufias gathered three fcore thoufand choice me of foot, and five thoufand horfemen. 1 Mae. iv. 2.8 Himfelf with all his foor entered the town, hi horfe being quartered about it Clarendon Thrice horfe and foor about the fires are led And thrice with loud laments they wail the dead Dryden 9. State chara@er mon foot of humanity, that we fhould only fet a infignificant fine upoi the man who murders them Addifin condition See on what foor we ftand; a fcanty fhore The fea behind, our enemies before. Diyden's &n In fpecifying the word Ireland, it would feem t infinuate that we are not upon the {ame fvor with ou fellow-fubjetsin'England, Swo s Dr f pie r's Letters fettlement plan 10, Scheme There is no wellwifher to his country without little hope better foor that in time the kingdom ma be o Sawift 1 afic, whether upon the foof of our conflitution as it ftood in the reign of the late King James, king of Lngland may be depofed Swif 11. A flato e incipient exiftence; firft m , tion Little ufed but in the followin phrafe If fuch a traditio were at any tim it is not eafy to imagin entertainment bu fe on Soot how it fhould" at firft gair muc mor difficult ho fhould come to be univerfally propagated i Tillotfor 12, It feems to have been once proverbiall ufed for the level, the fquare, par Wer it no fo this eaf borrowin upo in tereft, men's neceffities would draw upon them moft fudden undoing, in that they would be forced to fell their means Soot 13. certai be it lands or goods numbe far unde Bacon's Effays o fyllable con ftituting a diftinét part of a verfe Feet in our Englit verfifying without quantit and joints, be fure figns that the verfe is either bor deformed, unnatural, or lame. Afcham's Scbao/ma_'/ler Didft thou hear thefe verfes -O yes, I heard them all, and mort too; for fom o them had in the would bear more feez tha th verfe Shakefpeare And Sidney's verfe halts ill on Roman Jeets Pope 14. Motion The queen that bore thee Oft'ner upon her knees than on her feez warning lame No honour's got by fuch a maim to catch fools in right reafon Antiochu One mother, when as her foo/bardy chil T am a'veny foo/i/ 1 fear I am not i He, of all th Jooked uypon, wa Wha 2 Mg an 1. The part upon which we ftand At perils paft, and yetin doubt ne dare To joy at his focl-bappy overfight Fairy Queen Some woul It is a fooli/b thing to make a loyg prologue Dutch; fue, Scottifh. An hidden rock efcaped unawares That lay in wait her wreck for to bewail Did come too neer contemptible FOOT. #. /. plural feer. [roc, Saxon; weet As when a fhip, that flies fair under fail Mad rathnefs Shakefpeare's Cariolanys to be fhort in the ftory itfelf treat this part of our fpecies, th negroes, that we fhould not put them upon the comw Like Romans: neither foo/i/b in our ftands 3. Ridiculous eolour of excufe can be for the contemp with which w We are come of Toolifbrefs being properly a man's deviation fro any. of thefe fooleries Wha indifcreet wickedly Foolery, Sir, does walk about the orb like th fun; it fhines every where: I would be forry, Sir but th 2: Imprudent Nor cowardly in retire Denbam's Sophy by them hi FO FO action While other jefts are fomething rank on foot Her father hath commanded her to fli Away with Slender to marry Shakefpeare. In the government of the world the number an variety of the ends on foot, with the feciet natur of moft things to which they relate, muft make diftinét remark of their congruity, in fome cafe very difficult, and in fome unattainable 15. Step Grew This man's fon would, every foor and anon, b taking fome of his companions into the orchard L' Eftrange 16. A meafure containing twelve inches fuppofed to be the length ofa man's foot When it fignifies meafure it has often but yi tioufly fooz in the plural An orange, lemon, and apple, wrapt in a line cloth, being buried for a fortnight's fpace four foo deep within the earth, came forth no ways mould or rotten Bacon 7o Foor. @, z. [from the noun. 1. To dance; o tread wantonly; "to trip Lonely the vale and full of horror ftood Brown with the fhade of a religious wood The moon was up, and fhot a gleamylight He {aw a quire of ladies in a round That featly fooring feem'd to {kim the ground. Dryd 2. 'To walk not ride not fly By this the dreadful beait drew nigh to land Half fiying, and half feozing in his hafte. Fairy Queen Take heed, have open'eye; for thieves do foot b night Shakefpeare The man fet the boy upon the afs, and foozed i himfelf L' Eftrange If you are for a merry jaunt, I'll try, for once who can foot it fartheft." Dryden's Spanifb Fryar With them a man fometimes cannot be'a penitent, unlefs he alfo turns vagabond, and foots i to Jerufalem; or wanders over this or that part o the world, to vifit the flirine of fuch or fuch a pre tended faint Zo Foor. «. a 1. To fpurn; to kick South You, that did void your rheum upon my beard and foof me as you fpurn a ftranger cur over you threfhold Shakefpeate 2. To fettle to begin to fix Wha |