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To take; to receive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Foolishly; fondly. [Obs.] Spenser.

A fon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.

Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive. [R.] From the fontal light of ideas only can a man draw intellectual power. Coleridge.

An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.[Obs.] Wiseman.

Same as Fontanel, 2.

A kind of tall headdress formerly worn. Addison.

rganism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.

Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile. "The foodful earth." Dryden. Bent by its foodful burden [the corn]. Glover.

Without food; barren. Sandys.

Eatable; fruitful. [R.] Chapman.

A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.

Begotten by a fool. Shak.

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

Foolishly hasty. [R.]

Foolishly liberal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Foolish expenditure; waste. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Same as Fulahs.

The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity. Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote. Shak.