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Fourth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.

An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.

The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard. A piece of steel three fingers thick. Bp. Wilkins.

A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons. [Eng.]

A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000. Brande & C.

A salmon in its fourth year's growth. [Prov. Eng.]

then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears. All parts of the scheme are…

A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.

lad to me than to a miser money is. Sir P. Sidney. Glad evening and glad morn crowned the fourth day. Milton.

, in Vocab. -- Golden rose (R. C. Ch.), a gold or gilded rose blessed by the pope on the fourth Sunday in Lent, and sent to some church or person in recognition of special services rendered to the Holy See. -- Golden rule. (a) The rule of doing as we would have others do to us. Cf. Luke vi. 31. (b) The rule of propor…

of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade. At grade, on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing. -- Down grade,…

A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note.

branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, to the third and fourth toes. See Illust. in Append.

A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.

The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.

ke mutually in marriage; -- said of families, ranks, castes, etc. About the middle of the fourth century from the building of Rome, it was declared lawful for nobles and plebeians to intermarry. Swift.

er of the terms of a proportion, so that the second takes the place of the first, and the fourth of the third.

a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.

A passage; esp., the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the aqueduct of Sylvius.