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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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6,182 words match “OUR”

A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.

See Faitour. [Obs.] Spenser.

A flatterer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The plant love-lies-bleeding. [Obs.] Prior.

FLOUR n. 3 definitions

art of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard. Flour bolt, in milling, a gauze-covered, revolving, cylindrical frame or reel, for sifting the flour from the refuse contained in the meal yielded by the stones. -- Flour box a tin box for scatteri…

Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process. Raymond.

FLOURISH v. 17 definitions

ntly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne.

One who flourishes.

FLOURISHINGLY n.

, adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.

Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour. Dickens.

FOUR n. 4 definitions

The sum of four units; four units or objects.

FOUR-CORNERED a.

Having four corners or angles.

A four-stroke cycle, as the Otto cycle, for an internal- combustion engine. -- Four"-cy`cle, a.

FOUR-IN-HAND a. 2 definitions

Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four- in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four- in-hand coach. -- n.

FOUR-O'CLOCK n. 2 definitions

There are about half a dozen species, natives of the warmer parts of America. The common four- o'clock is M. Jalapa. Its flowers are white, yellow, and red, and open toward sunset, or earlier in cloudy weather; hence the name. It is also called marvel of Peru, and afternoon lady.

A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains. [Colloq.]

Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve. Francis. Four-way cock, a cock connected with four pipes or ports, and having two or more passages in the plug, by which the adjacent pipes or ports may be made to communicate; formerly used as a valve in the steam engine, and now for various…

FOUR-WHEELED a.

Having four wheels.

FOUR-WHEELER n.

A vehicle having four wheels. [Colloq.]

FOURB; FOURBE n.

A trickly fellow; a cheat. [Obs.] Evelyn. Denham.