t, send, ship.

forwarding, n. transmission.

fossil, n. Associated Words: paleontology, paleontography,
ichnology, fossiliferous, _in situ_.

fossilist, n. paleontologist.

fossilization, n. fossilification, lapidification.

fossilize, v. petrify, lapidify; mummify.

fossilized, a. petrified; antiquated, old-fashioned.

foster, v. nourish, nurse, support; promote, encourage, advance.

foul, a. filthy, squalid, dirty, polluted; scurrilous, abusive,
obscene, insulting, blasphemous, vituperative, vulgar; shameful,
detestable, odious, abominable, loathsome, disgusting, repulsive,
offensive; unpropitious, unfavorable; feculent, roily, turbid, dreggy,
dreggish.

foul, v. defile, soil, dirty, pollute.

foul-mouthed, a. scurrilous, opprobrious, abusive; blasphemous,
profane, obscene, smutty.

found, v. establish, plant, institute; cast, form, mould.

foundation, n. substructure, base, groundwork; founding
establishment; endowment; grillage. Antonym: superstructure. Associated
words: fundamental, basic, caisson.

founder, n. establisher, institutor, father, planter, originator,
moulder; closh.

founder, v. fall, stumble; fail, miscarry.

fount, n. spring, fountain.

fountain, n. fount, spring, _jet d'eau_; source, fountainhead,
origin; Castalia.

four, n. quaternion, quaternary, tetrad, quadruplet, quartette;
quadruplets. Associated Words: quadrisection quadripartite,
quadripartition, quadruplication, quarter, quadruply, quadruple.

four cities. tetrapolis.

fourfold, a. quadruple, quadruples, quadruplicate.

four-footed, a. quadruped.

four-handed, a. quadrumanous.

four-handed animals. Quadrumana.

four hundred. Associated Word: quadrigenarious.

four-sided, a. quadrangular, square, quadrilateral, tetragonal,
tetrahedral.

four-sided figure. square, tetragon, quadrangle, rhombus.

foursquare, a. quadrangular.

fourth, n. quarter.

four years, quadrennium. Associated Words: quadrennial,
quadrennially.

fox, n. Reynard, Renard, tod, Charlie. Associated Words: vulpine,
vulpicide, skulk.

foxglove, n. digitalis.

foxy, a. cunning, sly, wily, crafty.

foyer, n. greenroom.

fracas, n. brawl, uproar, disturbance, quarrel.

fractious, a. unruly, perverse, irritable, ugly, waspish.

fracture, n. rupture, breach, breaking.

fragile, a. brittle, frangible, frail, delicate.

fragility, n. brittleness, frangibility, frailty.

fragment, n. remnant, chip, scrap, flinder, piece, flitter.