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Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; -- said of an ordinary, especially of a cross.

A table fork.

A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.

Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division. He snall restore the lamb fourfold. 2 Sam. xii. 6.

Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.

A French baggage wagon.

Having four hands; quadrumanous. Goldsmith.

The coöperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.

One who adopts the views of Fourier.

One of four children born at the same time.

The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed.

A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.

A harbinger. [Obs.]

Four times twenty; eighty.

Consisting of four; requiring four participants. [Scot. or Golf]

Having four sides and four equal angles. Sir W. Raleigh.

Four and ten more; twice seven.

Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.

Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.

In the fourth place.