📖 F — The English dictionary · page 38

foulness — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Something disgusting or rotten, such as the stench or filth of rotting bodies.↗ Example: And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy foulness.↗ (Prophets EZK.32.5, JPS 1917)↗

found — Everyday, meaning 1: Found is the past of "find".↗ e.g. "I found my keys."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To found something is to start or set up an organisation, school, city or company.↗ e.g. "She founded a charity."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: "Found" as an adjective means something that was lost and is found.↗ e.g. "Lost and found".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: "Be found to be" (formal) means turned out to be after checking.↗ Example: I found a pound coin under the sofa!↗ · We found out who ate the cake.↗ · Saint Columba founded a monastery on Iona.↗ · The school was founded by a group of nuns.↗ · Check the lost and found box for your jumper.↗ · The answer was found to be correct.↗ · Holberg, Denmark's Moliere, founded here an academy for the sons of the nobles.↗ · Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.↗ (Torah EXO.9.18, JPS 1917)↗ · See also SY 5:4, where God simply יָסַד yasad 'founded', with no overt object.] in Thirty-Two [note 4: The number 32 represents the sum of the 10 Sefirot Belimah and 22 Letters of Foundation.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding He established the heavens.↗ (Writings PRO.3.19, JPS 1917)↗ · For He hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.↗ (Writings PSA.24.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Of old have I known from Thy testimonies that Thou hast founded them for ever.↗ (Writings PSA.119.152, JPS 1917)↗

foundation — Everyday, meaning 1: The strong base under a building, usually under the ground, that holds it up.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The basic idea or part on which something else is built.↗ e.g. Reading is the foundation of learning.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An organisation that gives money for good causes: a charity foundation.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The starting or setting up of something: the foundation of the school.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A skin-coloured make-up cream.↗ Example: The builders dug deep foundations for the house.↗ · Counting is the foundation of maths.↗ · The foundation gave money to the hospital.↗ · The rumour is without foundation.↗ · My little sister is in Foundation this year.↗ · The mayor laid the foundation stone.↗ · "I confess, Prince," said the vizir, "that there is some foundation for what you say.↗ · For a fire is kindled in My nostril, and burneth unto the depths of the nether-world, and devoureth the earth with her produce, and setteth ablaze the foundations of the mountains.↗ (Torah DEU.32.22, JPS 1917)↗ · The twenty-two sounds and letters are the Foundation of all things.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Together these represent the mathematical-linguistic foundations of Creation; see notes on 1:2 below.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened?↗ (Writings JOB.38.6, JPS 1917)↗ · His foundation is in the holy mountains.↗ (Writings PSA.87.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Have ye not understood the foundations of the earth?↗ (Prophets ISA.40.21, JPS 1917)↗

founder — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who starts a school, company, club, charity or city.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) Of a ship: to fill with water and sink.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) Of a plan: to fail or come to nothing.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) Of a horse: to go lame, or to stumble.↗ Example: The founder of our school was a kind teacher.↗ · Every year we celebrate Founder's Day.↗ · She is the co-founder of a children's charity.↗ · The little boat foundered in the storm.↗ · Their plan foundered because nobody had enough money.↗ · The founder of the club still comes to every meeting.↗ · The Romans looked upon him as their special protector, and declared him to have been the father of Romulus and Remus, the founders of their city.↗ · the founder of the concealed and fundamental ideas of holiness and of their stages of preparation.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Fourteenth Path is the Illuminating Intelligence, and is so called because it is itself that CHASHMAL which is the founder of the concealed and fundamental ideas of holiness and of their stages of preparation.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed of the fire; in vain doth the founder refine, for the wicked are not separated.↗ (Prophets JER.6.29, JPS 1917)↗

founding — Everyday, meaning 1: Starting or creating a city, school, company or group.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Being one of the first members or starters: «a founding member».↗ Example: We learned about the founding of the city.↗ · She was a founding member of the book club.↗ · The school celebrated its founding.↗ · The Founding Fathers wrote the US Constitution.↗ · The founding of the hospital helped many people.↗ · He is founding a new football team.↗ · The following is the legendary account of the founding of Thebes:--↗

foundling — Everyday, meaning 1: A foundling is a baby or young child who has been left alone and then found by someone who takes care of it.↗ Example: The villagers took care of the foundling.↗ · Athene carried the poor little foundling to Alcmene.↗ · Nobody knew who the foundling's parents were.↗

foundry — Everyday, meaning 1: A foundry is a factory where metal is melted and poured into moulds to make things.↗ Example: The workers melted the old pipes at the foundry.↗ · The overseer walked through the hot foundry.↗ · The old iron went into the furnace at the foundry.↗

fount — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) A fount is a spring of water, or a fountain.↗ Example: The children drank from the fount in the wood.↗ · The witch was thrown into the fiery fount.↗ · The fount bubbled up beside the old well.↗

fountain — Everyday, meaning 1: A fountain is a stream of water pushed up into the air, often as a decoration in a park or square.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A drinking fountain is a device that gives a small stream of water to drink from.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A fountain can mean a flow or rich source of something («a fountain of ideas»).↗ Example: We threw coins into the fountain and made a wish.↗ · There's a drinking fountain by the playground.↗ · The fountain shot water high into the air.↗ · Pigeons washed in the fountain.↗ · Dad writes with an old fountain pen.↗ · The party had a chocolate fountain.↗ · Don't climb in the fountain; the stones are slippery.↗ · Not far from the fountain there lived a family of bricklayers.↗ · Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a fountain; its branches run over the wall.↗ (Torah GEN.49.22, JPS 1917)↗ · the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.↗ (Torah GEN.8.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban; and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the fountain.↗ (Torah GEN.24.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou didst cleave fountain and brook; Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.↗ (Writings PSA.74.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.↗ (Writings PRO.5.18, JPS 1917)↗ · For with Thee is the fountain of life; in Thy light do we see light.↗ (Writings PSA.36.10, JPS 1917)↗

four — Everyday, meaning 1: Four is the number 4, one more than three.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A four is the digit 4.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «On all fours» means on hands and knees.↗ Example: Student: four pencils↗ · Today we practise all four operations together.↗ · There are four bags with 6 apples in each.↗ · A square has 4 equal sides.↗ · A year has 4 seasons.↗ · The baby crawled on all fours.↗ · Our team has four players.↗ · Two plus two is four.↗ · He caught four, one of each colour.↗ · And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begot Peleg.↗ (Torah GEN.11.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.↗ (Torah NUM.25.9, JPS 1917)↗ · All winged swarming things that go upon all fours are a detestable thing unto you.↗ (Torah LEV.11.20, JPS 1917)↗ · These four were the sons of Shimei.↗ (Writings 1CH.23.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD showed me four craftsmen.↗ (Prophets ZEC.2.3, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four.↗ (Writings EZR.2.15, JPS 1917)↗

fourfold — Everyday, meaning 1: Four times as much or as many.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Having four parts or four kinds.↗ Example: The number of birds in the park has risen fourfold.↗ · A fourfold increase from 5 is 20.↗ · The price of tickets went up fourfold.↗ · The plan had a fourfold aim: learn, play, share and grow.↗ · A square has fourfold symmetry; it looks the same after each quarter turn.↗ · Sales of ice cream grew fourfold on the hot day.↗ · and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.'↗ (Prophets 2SA.12.6, JPS 1917)↗

fourpence — Everyday, meaning 1: Fourpence is four pence, an old British sum of money (a small amount, worth about 4p now).↗ Example: He had one pound thirteen shillings and fourpence in his purse.↗ · Please hand me out one pound thirteen and fourpence.↗ · A loaf once cost fourpence.↗

fourscore — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Eighty years, an old way of saying four times twenty.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: four times twenty; eighty.↗ Example: And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years.↗ (Torah GEN.35.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.↗ (Torah GEN.16.16, JPS 1917)↗ · even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.↗ (Torah NUM.4.48, JPS 1917)↗ · And the land had rest fourscore years.↗ (Prophets JDG.3.30, JPS 1917)↗ · The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred fourscore and eight.↗ (Writings NEH.7.26, JPS 1917)↗ · There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and maidens without number.↗ (Writings SNG.6.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years.↗ (Torah GEN.35.28, JPS 1917) · And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.↗ (Torah GEN.16.16, JPS 1917) · even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.↗ (Torah NUM.4.48, JPS 1917)

foursquare — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: having four equal sides and four right angles, like a square.↗ Example: A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it.↗ (Torah EXO.30.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.↗ (Prophets EZK.40.47, JPS 1917)↗ · All the offering shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand; ye shall set apart the holy offering foursquare, with the possession of the city.↗ (Prophets EZK.48.20, JPS 1917)↗

fourteen — Everyday, meaning 1: The number 14: ten plus four, one more than thirteen.↗ Example: There are fourteen children in my group.↗ · Seven times two is fourteen.↗ · My big sister is fourteen years old.↗ · A fortnight is fourteen days.↗ · The bus number fourteen goes to the library.↗ · Fourteen minus five equals nine.↗ · We need fourteen chairs for the party.↗ · Thus time went on, till Balna's son was fourteen years old.↗ · and a several tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs; (Torah NUM.29.15, JPS 1917)↗ · These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; all the souls were fourteen.↗ (Torah GEN.46.22, JPS 1917)↗ · and his host, and those that were numbered of them, threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred; (Torah NUM.2.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.↗ (Writings 1CH.25.5, JPS 1917)↗ · and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, with Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.↗ (Prophets JOS.15.36, JPS 1917)↗ · and Zela, Eleph, and the Jebusite — the same is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages.↗ (Prophets JOS.18.28, JPS 1917)↗

fourteenth — Everyday, meaning 1: Fourteenth is number 14 in order.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fourteenth is one of 14 equal parts of something, written 1/14.↗ Example: Tom is fourteenth in the line.↗ · The fourteenth page has a picture.↗ · One fourteenth of the cake is left.↗ · Who is fourteenth in the race?↗ · Her fourteenth birthday is in spring.↗ · One fourteenth of 28 is 2.↗ · The fourteenth night had come, and in despair the prisoner went out to take his last walk through the city.↗ · And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the LORD'S passover.↗ (Torah NUM.28.16, JPS 1917)↗ · In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at dusk, is the LORD'S passover.↗ (Torah LEV.23.5, JPS 1917)↗ · in the second month on the fourteenth day at dusk they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs; (Torah NUM.9.11, JPS 1917)↗ · the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab; (Writings 1CH.24.13, JPS 1917)↗ · For the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; (Writings 1CH.25.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.↗ (Writings EZR.6.19, JPS 1917)↗