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The sum of four units; four units or objects.

Having four corners or angles.

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

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.

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…

Having four wheels.

A vehicle having four wheels. [Colloq.]

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

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.