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whole Roman fleet, backwards and forwards feveral times, 
carrying intelligence to Drepanum. Arbuthnot. 
To FORWA'RN, v.a. [for, and pajmian, Sax. vitare.'] 
To keep off: 
Dead long ygoe I vvote thou haddeft bin, 
Had not that charm from thee forwarned itt. Spenjer. 
FORWEA'RIED, part.adj. Much wearied : 
Forwearied with my fports I did alight 
From loftie.fteed, and downe to deep me layd. Spenfer. 
Whofe labour’d fpirits 
Forwearied in this action of fwift fpeed, 
Crave harbourage within your city walls. Skakefpeare. 
FOR'ZA de A'GRO, a town of Sicily, in the valley 
of Demona : twenty miles fouth of Medina. 
FOR'ZA St. LEONAR'DO, a town of Italy, in the 
kingdom of Naples, and province of Abruzzo Citra : fix 
miles eafl-fouth-eaft of Valva. 
FORZ'HEIM. See Pforzheim. 
FOSCARI'NI (Michael), a Venetian fenator, born in 
1628, and employed by the republic to continue the hif- 
tory of Venice, by Nani. His work was publiflied in 
1696, and forms the tenth volume of the Colledtion of 
Hiltorians of Venice, 1718, quarto. He is not reckoned 
equal to his predecelfor as a writer, yet his documents 
are of good authority. Two novels of his compolition 
are printed among thofe pf the academy of Incogniti. 
He died in 1692. 
FOS-DI-NO'VO, a town of Italy, and the capital of 
a marquifate, to which it gives name, in the duchy of 
Tufcany: four miles eaft of Sarzana. 
FOS'COLO. See Monte Foscolo. 
F'O'SI, anciently a people of Germany, near the Elbe, 
confidered as the Saxons of Ptolemy. Tacitus. 
FOS'SA, in ancient geography, the ftraits of Boni¬ 
facio between^Sorfica and Sardinia; called alfo Tepkros. 
Pliny. —Drufi or Drufiana, a canal eight miles in length, 
opened by Drufus from the Rhine to the I(Tel, below the 
reparation of the Waal. Tacitus. —A canal cut by Marius 
from the Rhone to Marfeilles during the Cumbrian war; 
now called Galejon. Strabo. 
FOS'SA, f. in our ancient cuftoms, a ditch full of wa¬ 
ter, where women committing felony were to be drowned. 
FOSSA'GIUM, f. in old records, the duty levied on 
the inhabitants for repairing the moat or ditch round a 
fortified town. 
FOSSA'NO, a town of Italy, in the principality of 
Piedmont, fituated on the Stura; celebrated for its fprings, 
and on that account called Fons Sanus, corrupted into Fof- 
fano, furrounded with walls in the year 1236, and erefted 
info a bilhopric, under the archbifttop of Turin, in 1592. 
Befides the cathedral, it contains three parifh churches, 
three convents, and about nine thoufand inhabitants. 
This town was taken by the troops of the F'rench re¬ 
public, in April, 1796 : five miles eaft of Savigliano, 
and feven fouth-weft of Cherafco. 
FOSSA'RII, f. in antiquity, officers of the eaftern 
church, whofe bufinefs was to inter the dead. 
FOSS AT', a town of France, in the department of the 
Arriege: feven leagues weft of Mirepoix, and feven 
north of Tarafcon. 
FOSS A'TUM, y. [ foffatura, Lat.] A ditch, or place 
fenced round with a ditch or trench ; alfo it is taken for 
the obligations of citizens to repair the city ditches. 
The work or fervice done by tenants for repairing and 
maintaining ditches, is called foJJ'atorum operatio ; and the 
contribution for it fojfagium. Kennet’s Glcjf. 
FOSSE, f. [ fofj'a , Lat. fofs, Welch.] A ditch; a 
meat. See Fortification. 
FOSSE, a river of England, in the county of York, 
which runs into the Oufe, near York. 
FOSSE, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft- 
phalia, and bifliopric of Liege, fituated between the 
Sombre and the Meufe; firft furrounded with walls ar.d 
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towers in the year 974, by Notger bifliop of Liege : 
feven miles weft of Namur. Lat. 50. 22. N. Ion. 22. 16. 
E. Ferro. 
FOSSE (Charles de la), an eminent French painter, 
fon of a jeweller in Paris, where he,was born in 1640. 
He ftudied painting in the fchool of Le Brim, and his 
progrefs was fnch, that he obtained one of the peitfions 
for vifiting Italy. There he particularly attached him- 
felf to the colouring of the Venetian fchool, and made 
Titian and Paul Veronefe his models. On his return 
he rofe to great reputation, and was employed in a va¬ 
riety of works, public and private. He was admitted 
into the academy of painting in 1673, of which he be¬ 
came in fucceffion profeffior, rector, diredlor, and chan¬ 
cellor. His fame extended into foreign countries, and 
in 1690 he was invited to England by the duke of Mon¬ 
tague, to paint his houfe (now the Britifh Mufeum) in 
conjundtion with Roufieau and Baptifte. He tiniftied 
there two ceilings, reprefenting the apotheofis of Ifis, 
and the afiembly of the gods. King William made him 
liberal offers to ftay in England, which he declined, in 
hopes of being made firft painter to his own fovereign, • 
through the influence of Manfard. On his return to 
Paris he .was engaged in painting the dome of the Inva¬ 
lids, a great work, in which he difplayed the fertility of 
his genius. He alfo was employed in the decoration of 
feveral of the royal palaces, and received a confiderable 
penfion from the king, though he was difappointed of 
the place of firft painter. His ftyle of painting is reckoned 
fomewhat loaded and heavy, and his drawing wants cor- 
redtnefs ; but his touch is foft, and no French artift has 
better underftood the difpofition of tints, and the effects 
of colouring. He painted well in frefco, and was a matter 
of landfcape. His private character was amiable and 
eftimable : he converfed well, and with much candour. 
Fie died at Paris in 1716, at the age of feventy-fix. The 
principal works of La Foffe are found in the churches of 
Paris, in the Luxemburgh palace, and in fome private 
galleries. Many of them have been engraved. 
FOSSE (Antony de la), fieur d’Aubigny, nephew of 
the preceding, born at Paris in 1653. He devoted himfelf 
to polite literature, and efpecially to poetry, in which he 
obtained confiderable reputation. He was fecretary to 
the marquis de Crequi in the war in Italy, and afterwards 
to the duke d’Aumont in his government of the Bolon- 
nois; but his philofophical temper rendered him more 
attached to the purfuit of letters and the cultivation of 
friendfliip, than to the improvement of his fortune. He 
wrote Italian fo well, that for an ode which he compofed 
in that language he was received into the academy degli 
Apatifti at Florence. In French poetry his principal 
compofitions were tragedies, feveral of which were fuc- 
cefsful on the ftage. Manlius Capitolinus, reprefented 
in 1698, is accounted the beft of thefe. It is laid to be 
not unworthy of Corneille. He gave a tranflation of 
Anacreon, in verfe, which has little of the fpirit of the , 
original. To this, printed in 1704, he added feveral mif- 
cellaneous pieces of poetry, of various merit. He died 
in 1708. Of his Theatre, an edition was given in 1747, 
two volumes, nmo. and another in 1755. 
FOSSERE'T, a town of France, in the department Of 
the Upper Garonne : feven miles weft of Rieux. 
FOS'SET. See Faucet. 
FOSS'EWAY, f. One of the great Roman inroads 
through England, fo called from the deep ditches on 
6HCll flCaO 
FOSS'E WORK, f. The labour formerly done by the 
inhabitants and neighbouring tenants for repairing and 
maintaining the ditches round a town. Scott. 
FOS'SIL, adj. [ fojfile , Fr. foj/ilis, Lat. from fjdio, to 
dig.] That which is dug out of the earth.— F0JJ1I , or 
rock fait, and fal gemm, differ not in nati. e from each 
ether; nor from the common fait of fait fprings, or that 
of the fea, when pure. Woodward. 
FOS'SIL, J. In this globe are many other bodies, 
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