ond, a. indulgent, over-affectionate, doting; affectionate, loving;
baseless, vain, unfounded.

fondle, v. caress, pet, coddle, cosset, indulge, humor.

fondness, n. indulgence, doting; affection, devotion, love;
partiality, liking, preference, predilection, propensity, appetite.

food, n. aliment, nutriment, nourishment, pabulum, nutrition, fare,
diet, bread, meat, rations, victuals, subsistence, commons, provisions,
viands, regimen, finding, sustenance, eatables, refreshments, comestibles,
trencher, ambrosia, broma, manna. Associated Words: bromatology,
bromatologist, alimental, alimentary, pabular, appetite, alimentation,
nutrition, superalimentation, pantophagist, pantophagous, pantophagy,
polyphagous, polyphagy, bromography, dietary, regimen, dietarian,
dietetics, dieter, dietist, asitia, cater, caterer, sitology, chyle,
chyme, victualer, steward, cibation, sitophobia, omnivorous, delicatessen,
proteid, nitrogen, protein, commissariat, commissary.

food for cattle. feed, fodder, provender, forage, pasturage.

food room. larder, buttery, pantry, spence.

fool, n. idiot, imbecile, natural; simpleton, dolt, dunce, defective,
witling, dotterel, driveler, blockhead, beetlehead, ninny, ignoramus,
numskull, booby, clodpate, nincompoop, ass, wiseacre, dunderhead, halfwit,
oaf, dullard, coot, mooncalf; zany, harlequin, buffoon, jester,
merry-andrew, droll, clown, scaramouch. Associated Words: stultify,
stultification.

fool, v. dupe, gull, delude, hoodwink, deceive, hoax, trick, beguile,
victimize, cully; trifle, toy, dawdle.

fooling, n. foolishness, folly; zanyism, mummery, buffoonery,
monkey-tricks, harlequinism.

foolhardy, a. daredevil, reckless, rash.

foolish, a. idiotic, senseless, irrational, silly, imbecile, witless,
insensate, weak-minded, half-witted, brainless, fatuous, fatuitous,
insagacious, unintelligent; indiscreet, imprudent, ridiculous, absurd,
asinine, inept, nonsensical, puerile.

foolishness, n. idiocy, imbecility, fatuity, silliness,
irrationality, insagacity; imprudence, indiscretion, unwisdom, folly,
absurdity, ineptitude, puerility.

fool's bauble. marotte.

foot, n. paw; hoof; base, bottom, extremity. Associated Words:
chiropody, chiropodist, pedicure, orthopedy, orthopedic, orthopedist,
pedal, plantigrade, bastinado, taligrade, palmigrade, cloven, ball,
instep, phalanges.

foot-bath, n. pediluvium, pedilavium (Eccl.).

footboy, n. page, lackey.

footing, n. foothold; rank, st