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Fool not ; for all may have, 
If they dare try, a glorious life, a grave. Herbert.' 
To FOOL, v. a. To -treat with contempt; to difap- 
point; to fru(Irate; todefeat.—You -orefool’d, difcarded, 
and (hook off. Skakefpeare. 
When I confider life, ’.tis all a cheat ; 
For fool'd, with hope, men favour the deceit. Dryden. 
To infatuate ; to make foolifh.—A long and eternal adieu 
to all unlawful pleafures: I will no longer be fooled or 
impofed upon by them. Calamy. 
When I am read, thou feign’d a weak applatife. 
As if thou wert my friend, but lack’d a cattle : 
This but thy judgment fools ; the other way 
Would both thy folly and thy fpite betray. Ben Jcnfon. 
To cheat: as, to fool one of his money. 
F'OOL,/. [probably from fouler, Fr.] A liquid made of 
goofeberries fcajded and pounded, and of cream.—Thou 
full dilh of fool. Skakefpeare. 
Fall to your cheefecakes, curds, and clouted cream, 
Your fool, your flaunes. Ben Jonfon. 
FOOL'BORN, adj. Foe.-ifli from the birth.—Reply not 
to me with afoolborn jed. Skakefpeare. 
FOOL'ERY, f. Habitual folly.— Foolery, fir, does walk 
about the orb like the fun ; it (hines every where : I would 
be forry, fir, but the fool (hould be as oft with your mader 
as with my midrefs. Skakefpeare. —An aft of tolly ; tri¬ 
fling pr.fftife.-—It is meer foolery to multiply diHindi par¬ 
ticulars in treating of things, where the difference lies 
only in words. Watts. —Objebt of folly.—We are trail- 
ported with fooleries, which, if we underdood, we (hould 
defpife. VEf range. 
FOOLHAP'PY, adj. Lucky without contrivance or 
judgment : 
As when a (hip, that flies fair under fail. 
An hidden rock efcaped unawares, 
That lay in wait her wreck for to bewail: 
The mariner, yet half amazed, (lares 
At perils pad, and yet in doubt he dares 
To joy at his joolhappy overfight. Spenfer. 
FOOLHAR''DINESS,y! Mad radinefs ; courage with¬ 
out fenfe.—There is a difference betwixt daring and fool - 
hardinefs : Lucan and Statius often ventured them too far, 
our V rgil never. Dryden. 
FOOLHAR'DISE, f. Foolhardinefs; adventuroufnefs 
\vithout judgment. Obfolcte: 
More huge in drength than wife in works he was, 
And reafon w ith Joolha.rdife over-ran ; 
Stern melancholy did his courage pafs, 
And was, for terror more, ail.arm’d in diining brafs. Spertf 
FOOLHAR'DY, adj. Daring without judgment; 
madly adventurous ; foolifhly bold : 
If any yet be fo foolhardy, 
T’ expofe themfelves to vain jeopardy ; 
If they come wounded off, and lame, 
Mo honour’s got by fuch a maim. Hudibras. 
FOOL'ISH, adj. Void of underdanding ; weak ftf in- 
telleft.—Thou fcoljfh woman, feed thou not our mourn¬ 
ing ? 2 F.fdr .—He of all the men that ever my foolifi eyes 
looked upon, was the bed deferving a fair lady. Shake - 
Jpeare. —Imprudent; indifereet: 
We are come off 
Like Romans ; neither joolijh in our (lands, 
Nor cowardly in retire. Skakefpeare. 
Ridictdous ; contemptible.—It is a foolifi thing to make 
a long prologue, and to be (hort in the dory itfelf. 2 Mac. 
ii. 32. 
FOOL'ISHLY, adv. Weakly ; without underdanding. 
In Scripture, wickedly ; 
Although we Load our winter fun looks bright, 
And foolifhly are glad to fee it in its height ; 
Yet fo much foonercomes the long and gloomy night. Swift. 
FOOL'ISHNESS, f Folly ; want of underdanding.— 
Fooli(l) practice; a 61 pal deviation from the right.— 
Foclifhnefs being properly a man’s deviation from right 
reafon, in point of pradlice, mud needs confid in his 
pitching upon fuch an end as is unfuitable to his condi¬ 
tion, or pitching upon mean's unfuitable to the compading 
of his end. South. 
Charm’d by their eyes, their manners I acquire, 
And (hape my fooliflmefs to their defire. Prior. 
I'OOL'TRAP, f A fnare to catch fools in : as a 
flytrap : 
Betts at the firfl were foo/traps, Where the wife 
Like fpiders lay in ambuflr for the flies. Dryden. 
FOOSHT, an ifland in the Red Sea : fituated, accord¬ 
ing to the obfervations of Mr. Bruce, in north latitude 
15 degrees, 59 minutes, and 43 feeonds ; deferibed by 
him as about five miles in length from north to fouth. It 
is low and Candy in the fouthern part, but the north rifes 
in a black hill of inconliderable height, which has all the 
appearances of having once been a volcano ; and near the 
nor'h cape the ground founds hollow like the Solfaterra 
in Italy. The water in the ifland is very good. Tiie in-, 
habitants are poor fifliermen of a fwarthy colour; going 
naked, excepting only a rag about their waid. They have 
no bread but what they procure in exchange for the fifh 
they catch. What they barter in this manner is called 
fajan. There is a fmall town on the idand, confiding of 
about thirty huts, built with faggots of fpartum, (up- 
ported by a few dicks, and thatched with grafs. 
FOOT, f. plural feet-, [por, Sax. voet , Dut./iff, Scot.} 
The part upon which we Hand : 
The queen that bore thee, 
Oft’ner upon her knees than on her feet, 
Died every day (he liv’d. Skakefpeare. 
That by which any thing is fupported in the nature of a 
foot: as, ihe'ioox. ofa table. The lower part; the bafe.—» 
Fretting, by little and little, wafhes away and eats out 
both the tops and Tides and feet of mountains. Hakewill . 
Yond’ towers, whofe wanton tops do bufs the clouds. 
Mud kifs their own feet. Skakefpeare . 
The end : the lower part: 
What difmal cries are thofe ? 
■—Nothing ; a trifiing fum of mifery, 
New added to the foot of thy account; 
Thy wife is feiz’d by force, and borne away. Dryden. 
The adt of walking.—Antiochus departed, weening in 
his pr.de to make the land navigable, and the fea paf- 
fable by foot. 2 Mac. v. 21. 
On Foot. Walking; without carriage.—Ifrael jour¬ 
neyed about fix hundred thoufand on foot. Fx. xii.—A 
podure of adtion.—The centurions and their charges bil¬ 
leted already in the entertainment, and to be on foot at ap 
hour’s warning. Skakefpeare. —Infantry; footmen in arms. 
In this fenfe it has no plural.—Lucius gathered three- 
fcore thoufand choice men of foot, and five thoufand horfe- 
men. 1 Mac. iv. 28. 
Thrice horfe and foot about thy (ires are led, 
And thrice with loud laments they wail the dead. Dryden. 
State; charadter; condition.—What colour of exctife 
can be for the contempt with which we treat this part 
of our fpecies, the negroes, that we (hould not put them 
upon the common hoot of humanity, tja-at we fiiould only 
fet an infignificant fine upon the man wlio murders them ? 
Addifon. 
See on what foot we fiand ; a fcanty (bore. 
The fea behind, cur enemies before. Dryden. 
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