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In an amorous manner; fondly.

A extravagant fondness for flowers. [R.]

Lit., fond of flowers; hence, feeding upon, or living among, flowers.

Ah! alas! "Ay me! I fondly dream `Had ye been there.'" Milton.

To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle. Young.

Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing. Byron.

The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap. She was too fond of her most filthy bargain. Shak. Bargain and sale (Law), a species of conveyance, by which the bargainor contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. Th…

To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. Pope. I cannot bear The murmur of this lake to hear. Shelley. My punishment is greater than I can bear. Gen. iv. 13.

aves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.

To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. "As pigeons bill." Shak. To bill and coo, to interchange caresses; -- said of doves; also of demonstrative lovers. Thackeray.

Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. "A bookish man." Addison. "Bookish skill." Bp. Hall.

untries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.

To treat with tokens of fondness, affection, or kindness; to touch or speak to in a loving or endearing manner; to fondle. The lady caresses the rough bloodhoun. Sir W. Scott.

One fond of pleasure; a gallant. Shak.

tring scent, and sometimes used in medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it.

Adherence to external rites; fondness for ceremony.

rbadoes. -- Cherry bird (Zoöl.), an American bird; the cedar bird; -- so called from its fondness for cherries. -- Cherry bounce, cherry brandy and sugar. -- Cherry brandy, brandy in which cherries have been steeped. -- Cherry laurel (Bot.), an evergren shrub (Prunus Lauro-cerasus) common in shrubberies, the poison…

The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. [Obs.] Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms. Shak.

To fondle; to cocker. [Obs.] Dryden.

Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms. [Colloq.]