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favors by a person of high rank or authority. Committing to a wicked favorite All public cares. Milton.

To enrich; to exalt; to benefit. They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself. Bacon. Dryden.

The officer in a religious house who had the care of the infirmary. [Obs.]

produced in abundance; plenteous; ample. Henceforth, my early care . . . Shall tend thee, and the fertile burden ease Of thy full branches. Milton.

by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. "Are not my days few" Job x. 20. Few know and fewer care. Proverb.

Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations. Especially:

the fore axle of a carriage and beneath the body, forming an extended support to prevent careening.

The labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like.

One who fires or sets fire to anything; an incendiary. [R.] R. Carew.

Abounding with fish. [R.] "My fishful pond." R. Carew.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. Shak. A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. Goldsmith.

s away lighty, or in mirth and joy. Many young gentlemen flock to him, and fleet the time carelessly. Shak.

ollowed by in. Lest negligence or partiality might admit or fois in abuses corruption. R. Carew. When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in. South.

To caress; to fondle. [Obs.] The Tyrian hugs and fonds thee on her breast. Dryden.

To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.

The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness. Cyrus made no . . . amorous fondling To fan her pride, or melt her guardless heart. Mickle.

- For thy, or Forthy Etym: [AS. for, for this; on this account. [Obs.] "Thomalin, have no care for thy." Spenser. -- For to, as sign of infinitive, in order to; to the end of. [Obs., except as sometimes heard in illiterate speech.] -- "What went ye out for to see" Luke vii. 25. See To, prep., 4. -- O for, would that…

An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.

To allow the force of; to value; to care for. [Obs.] For me, I force not argument a straw. Shak.

e; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude. The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade. Carew. To foreclose a mortgager (Law), to cut him off by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, termed his equity of redemption. -- To foreclose a mortgage, (not technically correct, but often use…