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Finder
·add. ·noun A slide ruled in squares, so as to assist in locating particular points in the field of ...

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Fool
·vt To <<Infatuate>>; to make foolish. II. Fool ·noun One who acts contrary to moral and religious ...

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fool
A fool at the end of a stick; a fool at one end, and a maggot at the other; gibes on an angler. ...

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fool
"He's no fool on a march," a phrase meaning that such a person is equal to what he undertakes. ...

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Comet-finder
·noun ·Alt. of Comet- seeker. ...

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Fault-finder
·noun One who makes a practice of discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold. ...

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gold finder
One whose employment is to empty necessary houses; called also a tom-turd-man, and night-man: the la...

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Fool-born
·adj Begotten by a fool. ...

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Fool-happy
·adj Lucky, without judgment or contrivance. ...

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Fool-hasty
·adj Foolishly hasty. ...

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Fool-large
·adj Foolishly liberal. ...

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Fool-largesse
·noun Foolish expenditure; waste. ...

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april fool
Any one imposed on, or sent on a bootless errand, on the first of April; which day it is the custom ...

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fool-fish
(Genus, monocanthus. Cuvier.) The popular name of the long-finned file-fish. "Our fishermen apply to...

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fool-fish
A name of the long-finned file-fish, and so called from its apparently whimsical manner of swimming....

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