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The sum of four tens; forty units or objects.

One of those who went to California in the rush for gold in 1849; an argonaut. [Colloq., U. S.]

The Tasmanian forty-spotted diamond bird (Pardalotus quadragintus).

With stronger reason.

Nitric acid. [Archaic]

A scale of wind force devised by Sir F. Beaufort, R. N., in 1805, in which the force is indicated by numbers from 0 to 12.

To befall. [Poetic] I wish all good befortune you. Shak.

To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate. [Obs.] Wyclif. God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same. Hooker.

s; valiant. [Obs.] Wyclif. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable; hold death a while at the arm's end. Shak.

State of being comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.

In a comfortable or comforting manner.

One who administers comfort or consolation. Let no comforter delight mine ear But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine. Shak.

Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser.

Act or process of administering comfort. [Obs.] The gentle comfortment and entertainment of the said embassador. Hakluyt.

A woman who comforts. To be your comfortress, and to preserve you. B. Jonson.

The act of strengthening. [Obs.] Bacon.

A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.

To discourage; to deject. His funeral shall not be in our camp, Lest it discomfort us. Shak.

Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

An etching or a print from an etched plate.