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Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness. The dearness of friendship. Bacon.

which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief. And fondly mourned the dear delusion gone. Prior.

ffensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness. God's grace . . . gives him continual dislike to sin. Hammond. The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious satire, or implied dislike. Hannah More. We have spoken of the dislike of these excellent women for Sherid…

Relating to disquisition; fond discussion or investigation; examining; inquisitive.

Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection. The dotage of the nation on presbytery. Bp. Burnet.

To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child. Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. Shak. What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. Pope.

One excessively fond, or weak in love. Shak.

That dotes; silly; excessively fond. -- Dot"ing*ly, adv. -- Dot"ing*ness, n.

een in the masculine character after childhood or early youth, was shown in the General's fondness for the sight and fragrance of flowers. Hawthorne.

escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. Pope. -- E*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- E*lu"sive*ness, n.

Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing. [R.] Thackeray.

To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly. [Obs.]

To fondle; to dandle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined. Men and birds are fain of climbing high. Shak. To a busy man, temptation is fainto climb up together with his business. Jer. Taylor.

Festive; fond of festive occasions. [Obs.] "A festlich man." Chaucer.

Foolishly; fondly. [Obs.] Spenser.

ng; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise. I am a very foolish fond old man. Shak.

ts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types. Fonder's dust. Same as Facing, 4. -- Founder's sand, a kind of sand suitable for purposes of molding.

Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes.

Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott.