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A little fort; a fortlet. [Obs.]

Very loud; with the utmost strength or loudness.

Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard. [R.] No mode of election operating in the spirit of fortition or rotation can be generally good. Burke.

Power to resist attack; strength; firmness. [Obs.] The fortitude of the place is best known to you. Shak.

Having fortitude; courageous. [R.] Gibbon.

A little fort. [R.] Bailey.

The space of fourteen days; two weeks.

Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication. -- adv.

To tread down; to trample upon. [Obs.] In hell shall they be all fortroden of devils. Chaucer.

A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.

g by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms. It was from causes seemingly fortuitous . . . that all the mighty effects of the Reformation flowed. Robertson. So as to throw a glancing and fortuitous light upon the whole. Hazlitt.…

Accident; chance; casualty. D. Forbes (1750).

Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment.

In a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily.

The condition or quality of being fortunate; good luck; success; happiness.

ng human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life. 'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit. Shak. O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle. Shak.

Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.

To regulate the fortune of; to make happy. [Obs.] Spenser.

Four times ten; thirtynine and one more.

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