2. Adjective. (context: UK dialectal Northern England Scotland) Abundant; copious; plenteous. ¹
3. Adjective. (archaic) (alternative spelling of fourth) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fouth
1. abundance [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fouth
Literary usage of Fouth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"About two miles further to the fouth is Suez, at the north end of the Red Sea.
This fea makes two gulfs to the north, divided by that point of land which ..."
2. A Short But Comprehensive System of the Geography of the World: By Way of by Nathaniel Dwight (1801)
"A. It is bounded on the north by Ajan ; on the fouth by Monomotapa and Sabia i
on the eaft by the Indian Ocean ;. on the weft by ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1784)
"... leaving the Channel with a north-eaft wind, and having got fo far fouth as
... more in the middle of the South At-' lantic, the fouth-eaft trade may be ..."
4. The Novelist's Magazine (1786)
"... I would be understood to mean only that pan of it between the 41)1 and the
5th degrees of fouth latitude ; and from the American ..."
5. Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining by William Pryce (1778)
"... by fouth, or elfe weft and by north, or thereabout; and the other end looks
or tends eaft and by fouth, or eaft and by north : and thus they often pafs ..."
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