<B>fourer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Cricket.) a hit from which four runs are scored. </DL>
<A NAME="foureyedfish">
<B>four-eyed fish, =anableps.</B></DL>
<A NAME="foureyes">
<B>four-eyes, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a person who wears eyeglasses. </DL>
<A NAME="4f">
<B>4-F</B> or <B>4F, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a United States Selective Service classification for men who are physically, mentally, or morally unfit for military service. <DD><B> 2. </B>a man who is classified as 4-F. </DL>
<A NAME="fourflush">
<B>four flush,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a hand in poker with only four cards of the same suit, instead of the five needed to make a flush. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) a mere bluff; empty pretense. </DL>
<A NAME="fourflush">
<B>four-flush, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to bluff in poker on a four flush; bet as if one has a real flush. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) to be a four-flusher; bluff. </DL>
<A NAME="fourflusher">
<B>four-flusher, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who has or bets on a four flush. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) a person who pretends to be more or other than he really is; bluffer. </DL>
<A NAME="fourfold">
<B>fourfold, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>four times as much or as many. <BR> <I>Ex. a fourfold increase in profits.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>having four parts. <BR> <I>Ex. a fourfold argument.</I> <DD><I>adv. </I> four times as much or as many. <BR> <I>Ex. Profits increased fourfold.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fourfooted">
<B>four-footed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having four feet; quadruped. <BR> <I>Ex. A dog is a four-footed animal.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fourfreedoms">
<B>four freedoms,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear (set forth by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941). </DL>
<A NAME="fourgon">
<B>fourgon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a long covered wagon for carrying baggage and military supplies, used in the 1800's. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Rare.) a baggage car of a railroad train. </DL>
<A NAME="fourhanded">
<B>four-handed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>for four players. <BR> <I>Ex. four-handed bridge.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Music.) for four hands or two players. <BR> <I>Ex. a four-handed piano sonata.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>having four hands. </DL>
<A NAME="4hclub">
<B>4-H club</B> or <B>Four-H club,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. and Canada.) any one of a system of clubs to teach agriculture, home economics, and other subjects to young people in rural and suburban sections. Its aim is the improvement of head, heart, hands, and health. </DL>
<A NAME="4her">
<B>4-H'er</B> or <B>Four-H'er, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a 4-H club. </DL>
<A NAME="fourhornedantelope">
<B>four-horned antelope,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an antelope of India, the male having two pairs of horns. </DL>
<A NAME="fourhorse">
<B>four-horse, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> drawn by four horses. <BR> <I>Ex. a four-horse coach.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fourhorsemenoftheapocalypse">
<B>Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> four horsemen, each riding a horse of a different color, the white horse representing Christ or Conquest, the red horse War, the black horse Famine, and the pale horse Death or Pestilence (in the Bible, Revelation 6:1-8). </DL>
<A NAME="fourhundred">
<B>four hundred,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the most fashionable or exclusive social set. (SYN) elite. </DL>
<A NAME="fourieranalysis">
<B>Fourier analysis,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) the breakdown of a periodic function, such as a sound wave, into the sum of its harmonic motions; harmonic analysis. </DL>
<A NAME="fourierism">
<B>Fourierism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the socialistic system developed by Francois Marie Charles Fourier, 1772-1837, a French socialist. It favored the creation of small, economically and socially self-sufficient communities whose members would own property in common. </DL>
<A NAME="fourierist">
<B>Fourierist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a follower of Fourierism. </DL>
<A NAME="fourierseries">
<B>Fourier series,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Mathematics.) an infinite series using combinations of sines and cosines of the first degree, used to approximate a function within a given domain. </DL>
<A NAME="fourinhand">
<B>four-in-hand, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a necktie tied in a slip knot with the ends left hanging. <DD><B> 2. </B>a carriage pulled by four horses driven by one person. <DD><B> 3. </B>a team of four horses driven by one person. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>(of a necktie) tied in a slip knot with the ends left hanging. <DD><B> 2. </B>having four horses driven by one person. <BR> <I>Ex. a four-in-hand carriage.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fourleafclover">
<B>four-leaf clover,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a clover with four leaves instead of the usual three, supposed to bring good luck to the finder. </DL>
<A NAME="fourleaved">
<B>four-leaved, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having four leaves or leaflets. </DL>
<A NAME="fourletterword">
<B>four-letter word,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any word of a group of English profanities or obscenities spelled with four letters. </DL>
<A NAME="fourmasted">
<B>four-masted, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> rigged with four masts. </DL>
<A NAME="fourmodernizations">
<B>four modernizations,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a program to modernize China's agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology. <BR> <I>Ex. Peking's ambitious program for turning China into an industrial power by the end of the century is known as the "four modernizations" (Fox Butterfield).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fournobletruths">
<B>Four Noble Truths,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Buddhism.) the four fundamental beliefs that suffering is universal, that the cause of suffering is desire, that suffering can cease by eliminating desire, and that desire can be eliminated by following the eight virtues that lead to the cessation of pain. </DL>
<A NAME="fouroclock">
<B>four-o'clock, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small plant with red, white, pink, yellow, or mixed, trumpet-shaped flowers that open late in the afternoon and close in the morning; marvel-of-Peru. <DD><B> 2. </B>its flower. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=friarbird.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="fouroclockfamily">
<B>four-o'clock family,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of plants of warm regions, but chiefly American, typically having brightly colored tubular calyxes, such as the bougainvillea, four-o'clock, and sand verbena. </DL>
<A NAME="fourofakind">
<B>four of a kind,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a hand in poker with four cards of the same value, such as four tens or four queens. It is higher in value than a full house, but lower than a straight flush. </DL>
<A NAME="fourpart">
<B>four-part, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) having four voices or parts in the harmony. </DL>
<A NAME="fourpence">
<B>fourpence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>four British pennies. <DD><B> 2. </B>a British silver coin, the groat, not in common use but still issued as Maundy money, worth four British pennies. </DL>
<A NAME="fourpenny">
<B>fourpenny, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nies,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>=fourpence.</B> <DD><I>adj. </I> worth fourpence; costing fourpence. <BR> <I>Ex. a fourpenny piece. A fourpenny nail is 1 1/2 inches long, and it is so called because originally the nails cost fourpence per hundred.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fourposter">
<B>four-poster, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bed with four tall corner posts for supporting a canopy or curtains. </DL>
<A NAME="fourpounder">
<B>four-pounder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a gun that shoots a projectile weighing four pounds. <DD><B> 2. </B>a loaf weighing four pounds. </DL>
<A NAME="fourragere">
<B>fourragere, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Military.) a braided cord, of a different color for each branch of service, looped around the left shoulder. It is worn by members of a unit to indicate an award to the unit. </DL>
<A NAME="fourre">
<B>fourre, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a cream mixture in which nuts, fruit, and the like, are dipped to make fondants. </DL>
<A NAME="fourscore">
<B>fourscore, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> four times twenty; 80. </DL>
<A NAME="fourseas">
<B>four seas,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the waters bounding Great Britain. </DL>
<A NAME="foursome">
<B>foursome, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a group of four people. <DD><B> 2. </B>a game played by four people, two on each side. <DD><B> 3. </B>the players. <DD><I>adj. </I> (Especially Scottish.) <B>1. </B>consisting of four. <DD><B> 2. </B>performed by four persons together. </DL>
<B>four-star, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(of an officer in the U.S. armed forces) wearing or entitled to wear four stars, the insignia of a full general or admiral. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) first-class. <BR> <I>Ex. The Carter Handicap will have four-star coverage by television and newsreel companies (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fourtailedbandage">
<B>four-tailed bandage,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a strip of cloth cut to form two tails at each end to hold dressings especially on the nose and chin. </DL>
<A NAME="fourteen">
<B>fourteen, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> four more than ten; 14. </DL>
<A NAME="fourteener">
<B>fourteener, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a line of poetry of fourteen syllables. </DL>
<A NAME="fourteenth">
<B>fourteenth, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>next after the 13th; last in a series of 14. <DD><B> 2. </B>one, or being one, of 14 equal parts. </DL>
