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Lucky, without judgment or contrivance. [Obs.] Spenser.

Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness. Dryden.

Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell.

Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise. I am a very foolish fond old man. Shak.

A narrow cotton lace, without figures.

falling meteor for a star. Cowley. If a man can be fully assured of anything for a truth, without having examined, what is there that he may not embrace for truLocke. Most of our ingenious young men take up some cried-up English poet for their model. Dryden. But let her go for an ungrateful woman. Philips.…

t forby. Chaucer. To the intent that ships may pass along forby all the sides of the city without let. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.

Without a ford. A deep and fordless river. Mallock.

e occurring in any part of the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without. -- Foreign office, that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.

To provide. [Obs.] Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.

udence; wise forethought. This seems an unseasonable foresight. Milton. A random expense, without plan or foresight. Burke.

her; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead. Totten. And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. De Quincey.

To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign. To them that list the world's gay shows I leave, And to great ones such folly do forgive. Spenser.

Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form. Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice. Shak.

Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc.

who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion. As far a formalist from wisdom sits, In judging eyes, as libertines from wits. Young.

Form without substance. Such [books] as are mere pieces of formality, so that if you look on them, you look though them. Fuller.

ower of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by any formative residing in the soil. Bentley.

be the former merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment; but he can not be latter without both that and an ill temper. Pope.