FOU 
wh at among artifts is peculiarly denominated manner of 
touch, wen his ee that great mater 0 
r aie eee as an excellent org and defe 
gain peer noice both in pane and 
ae ‘we equally. well, with a enuf ons in arrangement 
and effect, and with great ometimes his colour is 
too green to be perfect, oe in agence it is very rich and 
afin 
ar 
engaged and much careffed at the court of the 
elector Palatine -and oe {pent feveral years of his 
here met with univerfal appro- 
the Eaft fndian fea. 5. lat. 6° 5 
Corners, in the Man bas or to ee upon the 
fire corners, is to divide in imagination the volt or round 
into four quarters; fo that, upon each . thefe quarters, the 
horfe makes a round or two at trot o op: and when 
he sal done fo upon each quarter, he has made ‘the four- 
corner 
Four, Cul de foot. Sée C 
ie a ae - oe aay. e EvANGELISTS. 
baron s5 a r of fmall ao in the Pacific 
a o call ed i oe Shortland. 5S. lat. 4° go’. 
E. long. 155° 36'. 
Fou 
Duomannus i, “five miles S.W. of Bantry. 
ur Mile reek, a river of Kentucky, in America, 
which! runs intothe Ohio, N. lat. 36° 50’. ong. Bq” 
o! .—Alfo, a river . Virginia, which runs into ‘the Poto- 
mack. N. lat. 3 . W. long. 77° 13’. 
“FOUR Saddle Hana, an ifland in the Mergui ae 
out fix miles in circumference, feparated by Alderfey 
res from the fouthern extremity of the ifland of St. Su- 
fan 
lat. 10° 2 
FOURCA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Hoval; 35 miles Ender. 
of 
FOUR RCES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Gers; fix miles W.N.W. of ei dom 
OURCHE, a river of Nor h America, which runs 
into lake Michigan. N. lat. 44° 3H W. long. 86° 38’. 
RCHEE, or Fourcuy, in Heraldry, denotes a 
crofs forked at the ends. 
n rather reprefents it as anchored, the extremities 
turning in a circular manner arp points ; whereas the 
true crofs fourchee, 2. e. forked, has its forks compofed of 
ftraight lines, and blunt 
FOURCHER, or Fours cHir, Fr. an ancient law term, 
fignifying a putting off, ealopne, or delaying an action. 
. sh ftammering | we draw out our eae not oe 
that we have to fay in ordinary time; fo by fourching we 
prolong a fuit that iaight be ended in in a fhorter face. 
have thefe words: 
n w: 
: © The defendants 
all be put to anfwer without fourching,”? &c. In the 
Latin it is called Lh a. is u ufed where a man and his 
wife do effoin feve veat vir & mulier implacicati, 
uod femper in effonio alterive alter eompareat, quamdiu 
es poflint ;. & cum ultra non pofliat, concurrant coram 
. ender were eX 
FOU 
alter autem ear tantum unam effoe 
ham Mag. cap. 
ain of mountains a 
Switzerland, at the ealtern Seay of the Valais, in 
which the Rhone rifes. 
RC ee Fer: 
FOURCHETTE. 
FOURDAN-HOTODN, in Geography, a town of Corea, 
6531 miles E.N.E. of Peking. N. lat. 42° 51/. E. long; 
131° 20%. 
FOURMIL LIER, in Zoology, a name given by 
Buffon to the ear aaah dida&yla of Linneus, or the 
little ant-ester; or leffer yellowith ie y or the white 
i j e MyrMECOPHAGA 
MONT, onan. in Biography, diftinguithed 
for his dof Pore. Tes bed was born, 1683, in the neigh- 
bourhood of Paris. He e misfortune to: be early 
de eprived of his parents, b 
azarin college in Pie where he 
effonio i in fuis locis : 
njum de malo le 
FOURC 
Fer de Fourcutetrre. 
a t 
uickly via a tho. 
= 
put into French verfe,’’ 
by the public, ne neatly 
in various plac In 
gical and eile tied parce he began the ftudy of the 
oriental languages e college of the Pant: fois, he 
formed, ia conjun@ion with the abbé Sevin, a fociety of 
young Cecelia tice, ardent in literary purfuits, to read pri- 
vately together a. Greek and Latin poets, for which the 
Mont 
eri in w 
ware increafed his ardour for ftudy. 
Aben- Ezra’s: Cc 
e was Inv 
college, a 
ae fee 3 he gave pu 
tthe Hebrew, of a and Arabic roots into 
rench He beftowed much labour in attaining a 
knowledge of the ee a 3 and e engaged in the 
difpnte concerning d the laut which then 
divided the ae literati 
hi 
+3) 
as well as by wn countryme cle in oriental 
learning, ia. eleGted a member of the London and 
Berlin royal focietiez, He died in the year 1745, leaving 
behind him many = chet teftify to | bis talents, his i in- 
duftry and learning ; a ; among the efe are “€ 
fur les Hittoires ge anciens Peuples ju sr au Te ems ee 
re He seis two vols. gto. “ A Chinefe grammar in Latin,’? 
oli 
FOURNELS, in G. Pagr apes a town of France, in the 
department of Lozére, and c ef place uf a canton in - 
: ftriG of Marvejols. geben, contains 571, and the 
on 5932 in aia in a territory of 197% rene el 
and 11 comm 
‘FOURNI IER, PETER Simon, in Biography, an emi- 
nent engraver and ° letter founder, born at Paris in 1712, 
excelled in the practice of the sen lA seas art, and illuf. 
pear it by his writings. wrote feveral phan on the 
sia and eS of his one art, whic 
ne volu . divided into three oe of ihe! 
€ “Tat cuained a curious hiftory of engravers in w 
but his moft confiderable production is entitled « Monel 
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