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A performer on the flute; a flautist. Busby.

Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.

A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.

A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19 [Obs.]

ffectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning; -- followed by of (formerly also by on). More fond on her than she upon her love. Shak. You are as fond of grief as of your child. Shak. A great traveler, and fond of telling his adventures. Irving.

A kind of tall headdress formerly worn. Addison.

One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments. Can they think me . . . their fool or jester Milton. April fool, Court fool, etc. See under April, Court, etc. -- Fool's cap, a cap or hood to which bell…

A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent.

Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse. Sir W. Scott.

Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a runner. Prior.

The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.

Formerly; previously; afore. [Obs. or Colloq.] The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are. Shak.

A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks.

A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household. [Obs.]

Holding or held formerly in possession. [Obs.]

An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross- staff. Brande & C.

Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance. [R.] Shak.

Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3.

In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously. A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm! Hayward. Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French madam. Guardian.

erson whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present. [Colloq.]