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<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Script.)</fld> <def>One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.</def>

<blockquote> The <b>fool</b> hath said in his heart, There is no God. <i>Ps. xiv. 1.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.</def>

<blockquote> Can they think me . . . their <b>fool</b> or jester? <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<cs><mcol><col>April fool</col>, <col>Court fool</col>, etc.</mcol> <cd>See under <er>April</er>, <er>Court</er>, etc.</cd> -- <col>Fool's cap</col>, <cd>a cap or hood to which bells were usually attached, formerly worn by professional jesters.</cd> -- <col>Fool's errand</col>, <cd>an unreasonable, silly, profitless adventure or undertaking.</cd> -- <col>Fool's gold</col>, <cd>iron or copper pyrites, resembling gold in color.</cd> -- <col>Fool's paradise</col>, <cd>a name applied to a limbo (see under <er>Limbo</er>) popularly believed to be the region of vanity and nonsense. Hence, any foolish pleasure or condition of vain self-satistaction.</cd> -- <col>Fool's parsley</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>an annual umbelliferous plant (<spn>\'92thusa Cynapium</spn>) resembling parsley, but nauseous and poisonous.</cd> -- <col>To make a fool of</col>, <cd>to render ridiculous; to outwit; to shame.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> -- <col>To play the fool</col>, <cd>to act the buffoon; to act a foolish part. "I have <i>played the fool<i>, and have erred exceedingly." <i>1 Sam. xxvi. 21.</i></cd></cs>

<h1>Fool</h1> <Xpage=580>

<hw>Fool</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fooled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fooling</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.</def> <-- = to fool around -->

<blockquote>Is this a time for <b>fooling</b>? <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fool</h1> <Xpage=580>

<hw>Fool</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To infatuate; to make foolish.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>For, <b>fooled</b> with hope, men favor the deceit. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; <as>as, to <ex>fool</ex> one out of his money</as>.</def>

<blockquote>You are <b>fooled</b>, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To fool away</col>, <cd>to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.</cd></cs>

<h1>Foolahs</h1> <Xpage=580>

<hw>Foo"lahs`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt>; <sing>sing. <singw>Foolah</singw></sing>. <fld>(Ethnol.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Fulahs</er>.</def>

<h1>Fool-born</h1> <Xpage=580>

<hw>Fool"-born`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Begotten by a fool.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Foolery</h1> <Xpage=580>

<hw>Fool"er*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Fooleries</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity.</def>

<blockquote>Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, As <b>foolery</b> in the wise, when wit doth dote. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical.</def>

<blockquote>That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these <b>fooleries</b>, it can not be suspected. <i>Sir W. Raleigh.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Foolfish</h1> <Xpage=580>

<hw>Fool"fish`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The orange filefish<--clownfish?-->. See <er>Filefish</er>.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The winter flounder. See <er>Flounder</er>.</def>

<h1>Fool-happy</h1> <Xpage=580>