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affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning; -- followed by of (formerly also by on). More fond on her than she upon her love. Shak. You are as fond of grief as of your child. Shak. A great traveler, and fond of telling his adventures. Irving.

A kind of tall headdress formerly worn. Addison.

One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments. Can they think me . . . their fool or jester Milton. April fool, Court fool, etc. See under April, Court, etc. -- Fool's cap, a cap or hood to which bell…

A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent.

Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse. Sir W. Scott.

Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a runner. Prior.

The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.

An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.

Formerly; previously; afore. [Obs. or Colloq.] The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are. Shak.

A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks.

A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household. [Obs.]

Formed in the forehand or fore parts. A substantial, true-bred beast, bravely forehanded. Dryden.

Holding or held formerly in possession. [Obs.]

An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross- staff. Brande & C.

Formerly vouched or avowed; affirmed in advance. [R.] Shak.

Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting. A serpent seen, with forked tongue. Shak.

To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion. God formed man of the dust of the ground. Gen. ii. 7. The thought that labors in my forming brain. Rowe.

The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.

A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root.

Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3.