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The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed.

A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.

A harbinger. [Obs.]

Four times twenty; eighty.

Consisting of four; requiring four participants. [Scot. or Golf]

Having four sides and four equal angles. Sir W. Raleigh.

Four and ten more; twice seven.

Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.

Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.

In the fourth place.

All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all fours." Macaulay.…

A game at cards, called "High, Low, Jack, and the Game."

To perform. [Obs.] Chaucer. Piers Plowman.

A naval vessel carrying seventy-four guns.

Constituting or being one of sixty-four equal parts into which a thing is divided. Sixty-fourth note (Mus.), the sixty-fourth part of a whole note; a hemi-demi-semiquaver.

Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a twenty-fourmo form, book, leaf, size, etc. -- n.

Away from the axis or central line; eccentric. Balfour.

The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.

ts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.

Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.