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628 F O U 
fount of pica caft agreeably to the following numbers, 
with its Italic, will weigh about eight hundred pounds: 
Lower-cafe 
Letters. 
Double 
Letters & 
Figures. 
Capitals. 
Small 
Capitals. 
Points & Spaces. 
7OOO 
cC 
200J A 
800 
A 
400 
9 
5000 
b 
1600 
oe 
100 B 
500 
B 
250 
9 
IOOO 
c 
3OOO 
a 
4°0 
C 
5 °° 
c 
250 
: 
1000 
d 
4000 
(F 
500 
D 
500 
D 
230 
• 
2300 
e 
12000 
ffi 
200 
E 
800 
E 
400 
- 
1300 
f 
2500 
ft 
50° 
F 
5 °° 
p 
25° 
9 
1000 
g 
1600 
til 
230 
G 
3 °o 
G 
25O 
1 
400 
h 
6 ooq 
fl 
5 °o 
H 
5 °° 
H 
250 
> 
400 
i 
6000 
(b 
230 
I 
800 
I 
400 
( 
400 
j 
500 
(h 
800 
J 
400 
J 
200 
[ 
200 
k 
800 
ft 
500 
K 
400 
K 
200 
* 
400 
1 
35 oo 
(k 
230 
L 
300 
L 
250 
t 
4OO 
tn 
3OOO 
(1 
500 
M 
800 
M 
400 
t 
200 
n 
6500 
(T 
5 °o 
N 
5 °o 
N 
230 
$ 
200 
0 
6300 
fii 
200 
O 
300 
O 
250 
11 
100 
p 
1600 
ill 
230 
P 
700 
P 
350 
«!T 
100 
i q 
5 °° 
ft 
1000 
Q. 
400 
T. 
200 
(FT 
100 
r 
6000 
R 
500 
R 
230 
Spaces . 
f 
2500 
I 
600 
S 
'700 
S 
350 
id 
16000 
s 
3000 
2 
600 
T 
800 
T 
400 
2d 
12000 
t 
7000 
3 
600 
U 
400 
U 
200 
3d 
7000 
u 
30004 
5 00 
V 
300 
V 
150 
Hr 
3000 
V 
I 200 5 
500 
w 
300 
w 
250 
mq 
250° 
w 
1600I5 
300 
X 
200 
X 
100 
nq 
5000 
X 
400*7 
500 
Y 
5 0C 
Y 
25c 
y 
180c 
8 
50c 
Z 
IOC 
Z 
5c 
60400 
Z 
9 
5 0C 
8c 
.E 
4 C 
-- 
* 5 C 
O 
60c 
CE 
CE 
2C 
Quadrats. 
iolb 1 lb 
9360c 
1230c 
1372c 
686c 
3ms, 
30 V So 
4niS, 
40 J 
Total —Lower-cafe Letters - - 93,600 
Double Letters and Figures - 12,300 
Capital Letters . . 13,720 
Small Capitals - . 6,S6o 
Double Letters and Spaces - 60,400 
Grand Total 186,880 
FOUNT, or Foun'tain, f. [fans , Lat. fontaine , Fr.] 
A well ; a fpring : 
He fet before him fpread 
A table of celeftial food divine, 
Ambrofial fruits, fetch’d from the tree of life ; 
And from the fount of life ambrofial drink. Milton. 
A fmall bafon of fpringing water.—Can a man drink 
better from the fountain finely paved with marble, than 
when it fwells over the green turf r Taylor. 
Narcifius on the grafly verdureHies ; 
But whilft within the cryftal fount he tries > 
To quench his heat, he feels new heat arife. Add'ifon. J 
A jet; a fpout of water.— Fountains I intend to be of two 
natures : the one that fprinkleth or fpouteth water ; the 
other a fair receipt of water, without fifh, or (lime, or 
mud. Bacon. —The head or firft fpring of a river.-—All 
aifions of your grace are of a piece, as waters keep the 
tenor of their fountains: your companion is general, and 
has the fame eft'eft as well on enemies as friends. Dryden. 
—Original ; firft principle j (irfl caufe,—Almighty God, 
the fountain of all goodnefs. Common Prayer. 
Among the ancients, fountains were generally efteemed 
as (acred ; but fotne were held to be to in a more parti¬ 
cular manner. The good effefts received from cold baths 
gave fprings and rivers this high reputation ; for their 
tfalutary influence was fuppofed to proceed from fome pre¬ 
siding deity. Particular reafons might occafion lome-to 
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be held in greater veneration than others. It was cufto- 
mary to throw little pieces of money into thofe fprings, 
lakes, or rivers, which were efteemed facred, to render 
the prefiding divinities propitious; as the touch of a 
naked body was fuppofed to pollute their hallowed wa¬ 
ters. For the phenomena, theory, and origin, of foun¬ 
tains or fprings, fee the article Spring ; and for the 
mode of conftrudling artificial fountains, fee Hydraulics. 
FOUN'TAINLESS, adj. Having no fountain; wanting 
a fpring: 
So large 
The profpefl was, that here and there was room 
For barren dMtxtfountainlefs and dry. Milton. 
FOUNT'FUL, adj. Full of fprings: 
But when the fountful Ida's top they fcal’d withutmofthafte, 
All fell upon the high-hair’d oaks. Chapman. 
To FOUPE, v. a. To drive with Bidden impetuofity.—■ 
We pronounce, by the confeflion of ftrangers, as fmoothly 
and moderately as any of the northern nations, who foupe 
their words out of the throat with fat and full fpirits. 
Camden. A word out of ufe. 
FOUQJJlE'RES (James), an eminent painter, born ab 
Antwerp in 1580, and received his chief infiruftions from 
Brughel. He applied himfelf to the (ludy of landfcapes, 
and went to Italy to improve himfelf in colouring ; and 
fucceeded fo happily, that his works are faid to be nearly 
equal to thofe of Titian. He was engaged and much ca- 
relled at the court of the eleftor Palatine, and afterwards 
fpent feveral years of his life in France ; where his works 
met with univerfal approbation, and he was proportion- 
ably paid for his paintings. Yet by fome mifconduft he 
funk into poverty, and died in the houfe of an inconfider- 
able painter in 1659. He had refided for feveral years at 
Rome and Venice, where he acquired that excellent ftyle 
of colouring and defign for which he is fo defervedly 
diftinguifhed. 
FOUR, adj. [peopcft, Sax.] Twice two: 
Juft: as I wifh’d, the lots were caft on four ; 
Myfelf the fifth. Pope. 
“ He who gets four and fpends five, has no need of a 
purfe.”—The Spaniards fay, Qui in tiene quatro, y gafa. 
cinco, no ha menejler bolfa : He who fpends more than his 
plow, or profeflion, can fupport, muft come to adverfity 
and ruin, the common fate of fuch inconliderate people. 
FOUR, a rock in the Knglilh Channel, near the fouth 
coaft of the ifland of Jerfey. 
FOURBE,/. [French.] A cheat; a tricking fellow. 
Not in uje : 
Jove’s envoy, through the air, 
Brings difmal tidings ; as if fuch low care 
Could reach their thoughts, or their repofe difturb! 
Thou art a falfe impoftor, and a fourbe. Denham. 
FOUR'CES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Gets, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
Condom : two leagues weft-north-weft of Condom, and 
one north of Montreal. 
FOURCHE, a chain of mountains of Swifferland, at 
the eaftern extremity of the Valais, which is feparated 
from the canton of Uri, in which the Rhone takes its rife. 
FOURCHE, f. A fork, a pitchfork. Phillips. Obfolete. 
FOURCHE'E, or Fourchy, adj. in heraldry, an 
appellation given to a crofs forked at the ends. See 
Heraldry. 
FOUR'CHER,/! \_fourcher, Fr. furcare, Lat. becaufe 
it is two-fold.] In law, a putting of!' or delaying of an 
action ; and has been compared to Hammering, by which 
the fpeech is drawn out to a more than ordinary length of 
time ; fo a fuit is prolonged by fourching, which might 
be brought to a determination in a (hotter (pace. The 
device is commonly ufed when an action or fuit is brought 
againft two pevfons, who being jointly concerned, are not 
to anfwer till both parties appear j and-is where the ap¬ 
pearance 
