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Good fortune; favorable issue or event. Locke.

eing without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid. Prayers made and granted in a luckless hour. Dryden. -- Luck"less*ly, adv. -- Lock"less*ness, n.

Favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune; -- said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer. " Lucky wight." Spenser.

supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences. Those of better fortune not making learning their maintenance. Swift.

, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money. He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time. Bacon.

esirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made; as, early misfortune was the making of him.

Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another's misfortune.

Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil. "Nor set down aught in malice." Shak. Envy, hatred, and malice are three distinct passions of the mind. Ld. Holt.

An instrument closely resembling the mandolin, but of larger size and tuned lower.

just by a rule or standard. To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by your desires. Jer. Taylor.

to a larger, while allowing it a nominal sovereignty, and its prince his rank. The misfortune of being a mediatized prince. Beaconsfield.

Of or pertaining to song; lyric; tuneful.

A piece of melody; a song or tune, -- as opposed to recitative or musical declamation.

of peach having one side deep red, and the flesh yellow. [Written also malacatoon, malacotune.]

The air or tune of a musical piece.

Fortune telling by physiognomy. [R.] Urquhart.

A tune or air to regulate the movements of the dance so called; a movement in suites, sonatas, symphonies, etc., having the dance form, and commonly in 3-4, sometimes 3-8, measure.

Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure. Chaucer. Homicide by misadventure (Law), homicide which occurs when a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of injury, unfortunately kills another; -- called also excusable homicide. See Homicide. Blackstone.

Born to misfortune. Spenser.

Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak.