Indigent men, seeking to enrich themselves by marrying a woman of 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
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.
A wind-mill and a water-mill, used to signify a woman without any but personal endowments. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
or cunning man A judge, who tells every prisoner his fortune, lot or doom. To go before the fortune...
Two town lands, stream's town, and ballinocack; said of Irish women without fortune. ...
·add. ·- A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or ...
The usual consolation in reverses "Fortune de la guerre," or the chances of war. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book