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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.

ear; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr.ptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b was formed by gradual change from the capital B.

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

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

A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services.

of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, R…

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.

To sell wine or victuals. [Obs.] Warburfon.

Adherence to external rites; fondness for ceremony.

lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.