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beauty; and on each fquare certain brazen gates curioufly 
engraven. Raleigh. 
FOURTEE'N, adj. [peopejveyn, Sax.] Four and ten; 
twice leven.—I am not fourteen pence on the fcore for 
fheer ale. Shakefpeare. 
• FOURTEENTH, adj. The ordinal of fourteen; the 
fourth after the tenth.—I have not found any that fee 
the ninth day, few before the twelfth, and the eyes of 
fome not open before the fourteenth day. Brown. 
FOURTH, adj. The ordinal of four ; the firft after 
the third : 
A third is like the former: filthy hags! 
Why do you (hew me this ? A fourth? (tart eye ! 
What! will the line (tretch out to th’ crack of doom. 
Shakefpeare. 
FOURTH,/. An interval in mufic; the diatertaron. 
FOURTH'LY, adv. In the fourth place.— Fourthly , 
plants have their feed and feminal parts uppermoft, and 
living creatures have them lowermoft. Bacon. 
FOUR'WHEELED, adj. Running upon twice two 
wheels: 
Scarce twenty fourwheel'd cars, compact and ftrong, 
The ma(Ty load could bear, and roll along. Pope. 
FOUSSERET', a town of France, in the department 
of the Upper Garonne, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrift of Rieux : nine leagues fouth-weft of Touloufe, 
and two weft of Rieux. 
FOU'TRA, f. [ foutre , Fr.] A fig ; a feoff: a word of 
contempt. Not i/fed, but by the vulgar.— A foutra for the 
world, and worldlings bafe. Shakefpeare. 
FOU'VENT-LA-VILLE, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Upper Saone, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftridt of Champlitte: two leagues and a quarter 
north-eaft of Champlitte, and four and a half fouth-weft 
of J uffey. 
FOUYU', a town of Ada, in the kingdom of Corea : 
fixteen miles north of Hetfin. 
FOUZDAR',/. [Indian.] A title, in Hindooftan, for 
the fupericr magiftrate of a large diftridt, who has charge 
of the police, takes cognizance of all criminal matters, 
and colledts the revenues for government. The diftridt 
under his diredtion is called ckuckla. —Fouzdur is alfo a 
term for the commander of a body of forces, often called 
fogedar. 
FOW'EY, a fea-port town of Cornwall, fituated on 
the weft fide and near the month of a river of the fame 
name, which empties itfelf into the Britifh Channel : 240 
miles weft from London, twenty-fix weft of Plymouth, 
and thirty-two eaft of Falmouth. It has a commodious 
and perfedtly-fafe harbour, capable of receiving (hips of 
1000 tons burthen at all times of the tide, and is the beft 
port for an outlet to the weftward of any in the weft of 
England ; the place has lately become populous and ftou- 
rifhing, and is extending its trade very confiderably. It 
has a great (hare in the fiftiing-trade, efpecially pilchards. 
It was formerly of great note ; for it appears by the fleet- 
roll of Edward III. extant in the Cotton library, that it 
furnilhed forty-feven (hips for his wars, each carrying 
from fixteen to thirty-two men; which was more than any 
other port in the kingdom. It rofe fo much formerly by 
naval wars and piracies, that, in the reign of Edward III. 
its (hips, refufing to (trike when required as they failed 
by Rye and Winchelfea, were attacked by fhips of thofe 
ports, but defeated them; whereupon they bore their 
arms mixed with the arms of thofe two cinque-ports, 
which gave rife to the name of the Gallants of Fowey. In 
the reign of Edward III. they refeued certain (hips of 
Rye from diftrefs, for which this town was made a mem¬ 
ber of the cinque-ports. For defence of the harbour there 
are three batteries at the entrance, mounted with eighteen 
and twelve pounders; the moft of which (land fo high 
that no (hip can bring her guns to bear on them. The 
corporation of Fowey confi-fts of a mayor, recorder, eight 
aldermen, a town-clerk, and two ferjeants at mace, Fowey 
F O W 
is one of the feudal tenures belonging to the prince of 
Wales as duke of Cornwall. It is not determined when 
this town was made a borough; but it is well known that 
it returned no members until the 13th of Elizabeth. But 
in the time of Edward III. Fowey and Eaft Looe fent a 
merchant to a council at Weftminfter, to confult on fea- 
affairs. Here is a coinage for the tin, of which a great 
quantity is dug in the country to the north and weft of 
it. The church of Fowey is a handfome building, with 
a lofty and elegant tower, and has been lately repaired 
and ornamented. It has a large and elegant market-hoiife, 
over which is the guildhall, newly eredted at the expence 
of Philip Rafiileigh, efq. one of the reprefentatives in par¬ 
liament, and lord vifeount Vallctort. The market is on 
Saturdays, and is well fupplied. Here are three fairs in 
the year, viz. Shrove-Tuefday, May 1, and September 
10. Here are tw o. good free-fchools, an excellent poor- 
houfe, and an alms-houfe for eight decayed widows.— 
The river Fowey is very broad and deep here, and was 
formerly navigable by (hips of good burthen as high as 
the borough-town of Leftwithiel. It rifes near Camel- 
ford, and gradually enlarges till it difembogues into the 
Britifh Channel. 
FOWL,/, [pu^el, puhl, Sax. vogel, Dut.] A winged 
animal ; a bird. It is colloquially ufed of edible birds; 
but in books of all the feathered tribe. Fowl is ufed col¬ 
lectively: as, we dined upon fifh and fowl. —Lucullus 
entertained Pompey in a magnificent houie : Pompey faid, 
this is a marvellous lioufe for the fummer; but methinks 
very cold for winter. Lucullus anfvvere-d, do you not 
think me as wife as divers fowls , to change my habitation 
in the winter feafon? Bacon. 
This mighty breath 
InftruCts the fowls of heaven. Thomfon. 
To FOWL, v.n. To kill birds for food or game.—Such 
perfons as may lawfully hunt, fifh, or fowl, have only a 
qualified property in thefe animals. Blachjlone. 
FOW'LER,/. A (portfman who purities birds : 
With flaught’ring guns, th’ unweary’d fowler roves. 
When frofts have whiten’d all the naked groves. Pope. 
FOW'LER (Edward), a learned Englifh prelate, born 
in 1632, at Wefterleigh, in Gloucefterftnre, of which place 
his father was minilter. He received his grammatical 
education at the college-fchool in his native city, and in 
1650, obtained the appointment of one of the clerks to 
Corpus-Chrifti-college, in the univerfity of Oxford. The 
ferioufnefs of his difpofition, and his facility at extempo¬ 
rary prayer, occafioned his being cliofen one of the chap¬ 
lains of that inftitution in 1653. Retiring afterwards to 
Cambridge, he took his degree of mafter of arts, as a 
member of Trinity-college in that univerfity; and upon 
his return to Oxford, was there incorporated in the (ame 
degree, in the year 1656. About this time he was made 
chaplain to Amabella countefs dowager of Kent, from 
whom he received a prefentation to the redtory of Northill, 
in Bedfordfltire. As Mr. Fowler had been educated in 
prefbyterian principles, he for fome time fcrupled to com¬ 
ply with the terms of conformity eftablifhed after the re- 
ftoration of Charles II. but at length his views of things 
changed, and he was admitted a clergyman of the church 
of England, to which ever afterwards he continued ftea- 
dily attached, and became one of its lights and ornaments. 
The excellence of his writings in iiluflration of the uni¬ 
form moral tendency of the Chriftian fyftem, induced 
archbifhop Sheldon to confider him as a proper perfon to 
be introduced among the clergy of the metropolis. Ac¬ 
cordingly, in 1673, he collated him to the redtory of All¬ 
hallows, Bread-ftreet. In 1675-6, he was prefented to a 
prebend in the cathedral of Gloucefter; and, in i6$i,was 
inftituted to the vicarage of St. Giles’s, Cripplegate. Af¬ 
ter the revolution. Dr. Fowler was nominated, in 1691, 
to the fee of Gloucefter, upon the deprivation of bilhop 
Frampton for refufing to take the oaths to government. 
In this fituation he remained, difeharging the duties of 
