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his money. You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent. Shak. To fool away, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.

order to; to the end of. [Obs., except as sometimes heard in illiterate speech.] -- "What went ye out for to see" Luke vii. 25. See To, prep., 4. -- O for, would that I had; may there be granted; -- elliptically expressing desire or prayer. "O for a muse of fire." Shak. -- Were it not for, or If it were not for, leav…

Near; hard by; along; past. [Obs.] To tell her if her child went ought forby. Chaucer. To the intent that ships may pass along forby all the sides of the city without let. Robynson (More's Utopia).

dy to forego. Milton. Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego. Keble. [He] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit. R. L. Stevenson.

forgoon my liberty At your request. Chaucer. And four [days] since Florimell the court forwent. Spenser.

One of those who went to California in the rush for gold in 1849; an argonaut. [Colloq., U. S.]

Four times twenty; eighty.

Fresh breeze (Naut.), a breeze between a moderate and a strong breeze; one blowinq about twenty miles an hour. -- Fresh gale, a gale blowing about forty-five miles an hour. -- Fresh way (Naut.), increased speed.

the good fish from the other fry. Milton. We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry. Walpole.

A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.

t mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers.

arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude. Let me say no moreGather the sequel by that went before. Shak.

ted animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male. They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. Wyclif (Acts viii. 38).

out one's Greek lesson. It being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty. Bp. Fell.

The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city. I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell. Evelyn.

ced in a family by itself; the camelopard. It is the tallest of animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs.

To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers. And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers. Ruth ii. 3.

lyptodontidæ) of extinct South American edentates, of which Glyptodon is the type. About twenty species are known.

circulate; hence, with for, to have currency; to be taken, accepted, or regarded. The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. 1 Sa. xvii. 12. [The money] should go according to its true value. Locke.

especially, the good news concerning Christ, the Kingdom of God, and salvation. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom. Matt. iv. 23. The steadfast belief of the promises of the gospel. Bentley.