FON 



FOG 



*fter this, take the glass globe, which 

 must be very clean, and the inside free 

 from dust ; make a paper funnel, which 

 put into the hole of the globe, as near to 

 the glass as you can, so that the amalgam, 

 when you pour it in, may not splash, and 

 cause the glass to be full of spots; pour 

 it in gently, and move it about, so that the 

 amalgam may touch every where. If you 

 find the amalgam begin to be curdly and 

 fixed, then hold it over a gentle fire, and 

 it will easily flow again. And if you find 

 the amalgam too thin, add a little more 

 lead, tin, and bismuth, to it. The finer 

 and clearer your globe is, the better will 

 the looking-glass be. 



FOLIO, in merchant's books, denotes 

 a page, or rather both the right and left 

 hand pages, these being expressed by the 

 same figure, and corresponding to each 

 other. 



FOLIO, among printers and booksellers, 

 the largest form of books, when each 

 sheet is so printed, that it may be bound 

 up in two leaves only. This form is only 

 used in large works ; but the quarto or 

 octavo forms are much more handy. 



FOLKMOTE, or FOLCMOTE, according 

 to Rennet, was the common-council of all 

 the inhabitants of a city, town, or bo- 

 rough ; though Spelman will have the 

 folkmote to have been a sort of annual 

 parliament or convention of the bishops, 

 thanes, aldermen, and freemen, on every 

 May -day. Dr. Brady, on the contrary, tells 

 us, that it was an inferior court, held be- 

 fore the king's reeve, or his steward, 

 every month, to do folk right. 



FOMAHAUT, in astronomy, a star of 

 the first magnitude in the constellation 

 Aquarius. 



FOMENTATION, in medicine, the 

 bathing any part of the body with a con- 

 venient liquor ; which is usually a decoc- 

 tion of herbs, water, wine, or milk ; and 

 the applying of bags stuffed with herbs 

 and other ingredients, which is commonly 

 called dry fomentation. Fomentations dif- 

 fer in little else from embrocations, but 

 that they are mostly made with aqueous 

 menstruums, are more extensive in their 

 manner of application, and are assisted 

 by actual heat and hot woollen cloths : 

 add to this, that fomentations, when gene- 

 ral, or applied to every part of the body, 

 are called baths. 



FONT, among ecclesiastical writers, 

 a large basin, in which water is kept for 

 the baptizing of infants, or other persons. 

 It is so called, probably, because bap- 

 tism was usually performed among the 

 primitive Christians at springs or foun- 



tains. In process of f!me the font came 

 to be used, being placed at the lower end 

 of the church, to intimate, perhaps, that 

 baptism is the rite of admission into the 

 Christian church. 



FONT. See FOUNT. 



FONTANESIA, in botany, so named in 

 honour of Mons. Desfontaines, a genus of 

 the Diandria Monogynia class and order. 

 Natural order of Sepiarise. Jasminex, 

 Jussieu. Essential character : calyx four- 

 parted, inferior; petals two, two-parted; 

 capsule membranaceous, not opening, 

 two-celled ; cells one-seeded. There is 

 but one species. 



FONTINALIS, in botany, a genus of 

 the Cryptogamia Musci, or Mosses. Ge- 

 neric character: capsule oblong, with the 

 mouth ciliate ; opening with an acumi- 

 nate lid ; covered with a sessile, smooth, 

 conical veil ; included in a pitcher-shap- 

 ed, imbricate perichsetium. Only four 

 species are known, and they are all na- 

 tives of England : three of them are water 

 mosses, and one grows upon trees. Pro- 

 fessor Martin says, that several new spe- 

 cies have been discovered by Swartz in 

 the West Indies. 



FOOD, implies whatever aliments are 

 taken into the body to nourish it. See 

 DIETETICS. 



FOOL, according to Mr. Locke, is a 

 person who makes false conclusions from 

 right principles ; whereas a madman, on 

 the contrary, draws right conclusions 

 from wrong principles. 



FQOT,pes, a part of the body of most 

 animals, whereon they stand, walk, &c. 



Animals are distinguished, with respect 

 to the number of their feet, into bipedes, 

 two-footed ; such are men and birds : 

 quadrupedes, four-footed ; such are most 

 land-animals : and multipedes, or many- 

 footed ; as insects. The reptile-kind, as 

 serpents, &c. have no feet; the crab-kind 

 have ten feet, but fishes have no feet at 

 all ; the spider, mites, &c. have eight ; 

 in some individuals of the genera sco- 

 lopendra and julus, they amount to up- 

 wards of an hundred ; but all true insects, 

 as flies, grasshoppers, and butterflies, 

 have six feet ; animals destined to swim, 

 and water-fowl, have their toes webbed 

 together, as seals, ducks, &c. ; the fore- 

 feet of the mole, rabbit, &c. are wonder- 

 fully formed for digging and scratching 

 up the earth, in order to make way for 

 their body. 



FOOT. See ANATOMY. 

 FOOT, in the Latin and Greek poetry, 

 a metre or measure, composed of a cer- 

 tain number of long and short syllables. 



