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Fortune
·noun To provide with a fortune. II. Fortune ·vi To fall out; to <<Happen>>. III. Fortune ·noun To...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Cambridge, Ada (Mrs. Cross)
(b. 1844) Australian novelist. A Marked Man (1891), The Three Miss Kings (1891), A Little Minx (189...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
cambridge oak
A willow. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Fortune Court
Out of Duke's Place, Aldgate, in Aldgate Ward (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
fortune hunters
Indigent men, seeking to enrich themselves by marrying a woman of fortune. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
fortune teller
or cunning man A judge, who tells every prisoner his fortune, lot or doom. To go before the fortune...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
tipperary fortune
Two town lands, stream's town, and ballinocack; said of Irish women without fortune. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Wheel of fortune
·add. ·- A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
fortune of war
The usual consolation in reverses "Fortune de la guerre," or the chances of war. ...

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