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441 words match “TUNE”

FABLE n.
falsehood. It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods. Addison.
FAIR n.
Good fortune; good luck. Now fair befall thee ! Shak. The fair, anything beautiful; women, collectively. "For slander's mark was ever yet the fair." Shak.
FALL v.
o sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.
FALSE a.
Not in tune. False arch (Arch.), a member having the appearance of an arch, though not of arch construction. -- False attic, an architectural erection above the main cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or inclosing rooms. -- False bearing, any bearing which is not directly upon a vertical support; thus…
FANDANGO n.
lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced.
FARE n.
Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer. What fare what news abroad Shak.
FATE n.
f life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him. A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. Pope. Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather strikes thr…
FATILOQUIST n.
A fortune teller.
FAVORLESS a.
Unpropitious; unfavorable. [Obs.] "Fortune favorless." Spenser.
FICKLE a.
ble; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden.
FIDDLE v.
To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
FIFTEENTH n.
A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.
FLAGITATE v.
To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion. [Archaic] Carcyle.
FLOOD n.
h flood. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak.
FOREBODE v.
To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton. I have a so…
FOREBODING n.
Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
FORLORN a.
Deserted abandoned; lost. Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn. Spenser. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak.
FORMER a.
deserves better usage than a bad critic; a man may be the former merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment; but he can not be latter without both that and an ill temper. Pope.
FORTUNIZE v.
To regulate the fortune of; to make happy. [Obs.] Spenser.
FOUND v.
s the marble, founded as the rock. Shak. A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. Shak. It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. Matt. vii. 25.
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