Part 4537

<hw>Fos"ter</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A forester.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Fosterage</h1> <Xpage=589>

<hw>Fos"ter*age</hw> <tt>(?; 48)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.</def>

<i>Sir W. Raleigh.</i>

<h1>Foster</h1> <Xpage=589>

<hw>Fos"ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, fosters.</def>

<h1>Fosterling</h1> <Xpage=589>

<hw>Fos"ter*ling</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>f\'d3storling</ets>.]</ety> <def>A foster child.</def>

<h1>Fosterment</h1> <Xpage=589>

<hw>Fos"ter*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Food; nourishment.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Fostress</h1> <Xpage=589>

<hw>Fos"tress</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[For <ets>fosteress</ets>.]</ety> <def>A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse.</def>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Fother</h1> <Xpage=589>

<hw>Foth"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>fother</ets>, <ets>foder</ets>, AS. <ets>f\'d3<?/er</ets> a cartload; akin to G. <ets>fuder</ets> a cartload, a unit of measure, OHG. <ets>fuodar</ets>, D. <ets>voeder</ets>, and perh. to E. <ets>fathom</ets>, or cf. Skr. <ets>p\'betr\'be</ets> vessel, dish. Cf. <er>Fodder</er> a fother.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A wagonload; a load of any sort.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Of dung full many a <b>fother</b>. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>See <er>Fodder</er>, a unit of weight.</def>

<h1>Fother</h1> <Xpage=589>

<hw>Foth"er</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fothered</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fothering</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. <er>Fodder</er> food, and G. <ets>f\'81ttern</ets>, <ets>futtern</ets>, to cover within or without, to line. \'fb75.]</ety> <def>To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack.</def>

<i>Totten.</i>

<h1>Fotive</h1> <Xpage=589>

<hw>Fo"tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>fovere</ets>, <ets>fotum</ets>, to keep warm, to cherish.]</ety> <def>Nourishing.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>T. Carew (1633).</i>

<h1>Fotmal</h1> <Xpage=589>

<hw>Fot"mal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Com.)</fld> <def>Seventy pounds of lead.</def>

<h1>Fougade, Fougasse</h1> <Xpage=589>

<hw><hw>Fou`gade"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Fou`gasse"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy.</def>