F O N 
Foolifhly tender 5 injudicioufly indulgent: 
Like Venus I’ll fhine 
Be fond and be fine. Addifon. 
Pleafed in too great a degree; foolifhly delighted : with 
of. —Fame is in itfelf a real good, if we may believe Ci¬ 
cero, who was, perhaps, too fond of it. Dryden. 
I, fond of my well-chofen feat, 
My pictures, medals, books complete. Prior. 
To FOND, or To Fondle, v. a. To treat with great 
indulgence; to carefs; to cocker : 
Howe’er unjuft your jealoufy appear. 
It does my pity, not my anger, move : 
I’ll fond it as the froward child of love. Dryden. 
To FOND, v. n. To be fond of; to be in love with ; 
to doat on : 
How will this fadge ? My matter loves her dearly ; 
And I, poor monfter ,fond as much on him ; 
And fhe, miftaken, feents to dote on me. Shakefpeare. 
FONDEROY', a town of the American States, in Vir¬ 
ginia : ten miles fouth-eaft of Leeds. 
FON'DETS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Indre and Loire, near the Loire: five miles weft of 
Tours 
FON'DI, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
and province of Lavora, fituated near a lake to which it 
gives name ; the lee of a bilhop, fuffragan of Capua : ten 
miles eaft of Teracina. 
FOND'LER.yi One who fondles.- 
FON D'LING,// A perfon or thing much fondled or 
caretted ; fomething regarded with great affeition.—Par¬ 
tiality in a parent is commonly unlucky ; for fondlings are 
in danger to be made fools, and the children that are Iealt 
cockered make the belt and wifeft men. L’EJlravge. 
FOND'LY, adv. Foolifhly; weakly; imprudently; 
injudicioufly.—Ficinus jondly advifeth, for the prolonga¬ 
tion of life, that a vein be opened in the arm of fome 
tfvholefome young man, and the blood be fucked. Bacon. 
The military mound 
The Britifh files tranlcend, in evil hour 
For their proud foes, that fondly brav’d their fate. Phillips. 
Under thofe facred leaves, fecure 
From common lightning of the (kies. 
He fondly thought he might endure 
The flatties of Ardelia’s eyes. Swift. 
With great or extreme tendernefs.— Fondly or feverely 
kind. Savage. 
Ev’n before the fatal engine clos’d, 
A wretched fylph too fondly interpos’d : 
Fate urg’d the Iheers, and cut the fylph in twain. Pope. 
FOND'NESS^yi Fooliftinefs; weaknefs; want of fenfe, 
want of judgment: 
Fondnefs it were for any, being free, 
To covet fetters, though they golden be. Spenfer. 
Foolifh tendernefs: 
My heart had dill fome foolifh fondnefs for thee ; 
But hence 1 ’tis gone : I give it to the winds. Addifon, 
Tender paflion : 
Corinna, with that youthful air. 
Is thirty, and a bit to fpare : 
Her fondnefs for a certain earl 
Began when I was but a girl. Swift. 
Unreafonable liking.—They err that either through in¬ 
dulgence to others, or fondnefs to any fin in themfelves, 
fubftitute for repentance any thing lefs than a fincere re- 
folution of new obedience. Hammond. 
FONE,/ Plural of foe .— A barbarous troup of clownifh 
fone. Spenfer. Olfolete. 
FO'NESINE ISLAND, a fmall ifiand to the north-weft 
of Cape St. Jean or St. John, which is the fouth-weft 
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point of the ifiand of Candia in the Mediterranean. It 
has tire ifiand of St. Venerando on the north, and of nearly 
the fame fize. 
FONG, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Kiang-nan : forty-five miles north-weft of 
Pefii. 
FONG, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Quang-tong : thirty miles north edt of Oei. 
FONG, a town of China, of the fecond rank, in the 
province of Hou-quang, 675 miles fouth-fouth-weft of 
Peking. Lat. 29. 38, N. Ion. 129. 8 E. erro. 
FONG-CHAN, a town of China, of the third rank, in. 
the ifiand of Formofa : twenty-five miles fouth of Tay- 
ouan. 
FONG-CHANG, a town of Afia, in the kingdom of 
Corea : eleven miles fouth of Hoang-tcheou. 
FONG-HOA, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the prov nee of Tche-kiang: eleven miles fouth-fouth- 
weft of Ning-po. 
FONG-HOA-TCHING, a town of Chinefe Tartary, 
on the borders of Corea ; large and commercial. The 
chief manufadlure is making paper of cotton, white and 
tranfparent, which is ufed for windows inftead of glafs. 
Lat. 40. 31. N. Ion. 141. 28. E. Ferro. 
FONG-KIEOU, a town.of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Ho-nan : twenty-fix miles fouth-fouth- 
eaft of Oue-kiun. 
FONG-SIN, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Kiang-fi : twenty-fix miles weft of Nan- 
tchang. 
FONG-TCHING, a town of China, of the third rank, 
in the province of Pe-tche-li: twelve miles north-north- 
weft of Kiang. — 
FONG-TCHUEN, a town of Afia, in the kingdom of 
Corea : fifty-feven miles weft-fouth-weft of Hoang-tcheou. 
FONG-TCHUEN, a town of China, of 'he third rank, 
in the province of Quang-tong : feventeen miles north- 
weft of Te-king. 
FONG-TEN, a town of Afia, in the kingdom of Co» 
rea : twenty-four miles north-north-weft of King-ki-tao. 
FONG-TSIANG, a city of China, of the firft rank, in 
the | rovince of Chenfi, which takes its name from an 
imaginary bird, the figure of which the Chinefe are fond 
of wearing on their drefs : 558 miles fouth-weft of Pe¬ 
king. Lat. 34. 36 N. Ion. 124. 43. E. Ferro. 
FONG-YANG, a city of China, of the firft rank, in 
the province of Kiang-nan, fituated on a mountain, near 
the Yellow River : the birth-place of the emperor Hong- 
vou ; who gave it its name, which, in the language of 
the country, fignifies, the place of the eagle's fpleridor. He 
would, but from the unevennefs of the ground, and the 
want of good water, have made it his conftant refidence ; 
but on that account changed his deflgn, and removed His 
court to Kiang-ning, or Nanking: 340 miles fouth of 
Peking. Lat 32/52. N. Ion. 134. 44. E. Ferro. 
FO'NIA, a kingdom of Africa, on the borders of the 
river Gambia. 
FONS,/. \_fundo , Lat. to pour out.] The membra¬ 
nous part in new-born infants at the coronal and fagittal 
commiirores is fo called, from its moift and foft texture. 
FONS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lot, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of Fi- 
geac : four leagues fouth of St. Cere, and one and a half 
north-weft of Figeac. Lat. 44. 40. N. Ion. 19. 38. E. 
Ferro. 
FONS SO'LIS, a fountain in the province of Cyretie, 
cold at mid-day and warm at the rifling and letting of ti e 
fun. Herodotus. 
FONSE'CA, a gulf cfthe.fea, in New Spain, on the 
Pacific Ocean, forty miles fouth.eaft of the town of Sr. 
Miguel, and 290 miles north-weft of Cape Blanco, on the 
weftern fide of the gulf of Nicoya. 
FONSE'CA (Antony de), a learned Portuguefe do. 
minican monk, born at Lifbon towards the commence, 
ment of the fixteenth century. He purfued his liudies at 
Paris, 
