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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.

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.

A font.

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.

Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco.

One fond of paying attention to ladies.

The crown of a king. [Obs.] Graffon.

One fond of good living; an epicure. Sir W. Scott.

dded to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy packfong. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. -- German steel (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, w…

or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry. Sterne.

One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer. With them join'd all th' harangues of the throng, That thought to get preferment by the tongue. Dryden.

been blessed by the priest for sacred purposes. -- Holy-water stoup, the stone stoup or font placed near the entrance of a church, as a receptacle for holy water. -- Holy Week (Eccl.), the week before Easter, in which the passion of our Savior is commemorated. -- Holy writ, the sacred Scriptures. " Word of holy wri…

To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn. "Honeying and making love." Shak. Rough to common men, But honey at the whisper of a lord. Tennyson.

Fondness for, or interest in, horses.

are classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds. The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language. Landor.

e should never issue from my lips. Tooke. They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less. Hammond.

An inquisitive person; one fond of asking questions. [R.] "Inquisitors are tatlers." Feltham.