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[Eng. food; -le .] Destitute of or without food; not furnishing food; barren. "The foodle wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants." Thomson: Winter, 256. food-stuff, s. [Eng. food, and stuff.] Articles of commerce intended for food. "Foodstuf's and articles of consumption." - London Standard . IMG:content-1868.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1869.jpg:[graphic] 2. One who is deficient in reasoning power; one who acts or behaves stupidly, or irrationally, or absurdly. "Some take him for a tool Which knaves do work with called a fool ." Butler: Hudibras , pt. i., c. i. 3. One who counterfeits folly; a buffoon, a jester; retainer kept formerly by persons of rank, to make sport for his master and his guests. These fools were dre ed in motley, wore a pointed cap and bells, and carried a mock scepter or bauble in the hand. "Where's my knave, my fool ! Go you, and call my fool hither." --Shakesp.: Lear , i. 4. *4. A depraved person. "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God." Psalm xvi. 1. II. Scrip.: In some pa ages fool is used in its ordinary English sense-viz., B. I. 2 (Prov. xii. 16, xvii. 28, xx. 3, xxix. 11; Eccl. v. 3; 1 Cor. xv. 36). In many others a fool is synonymous with a wicked xxvi. 10; Matt. v. 22). According to Scripture teaching, it is not deficiency of intellect which po e ed, and as responsibility is proportionate to the talents received, the higher the intellect of the (2 Sam. xiii. 13; Prov. xxxiii. 19, man a fool, but misuse of that which is man who misuses his endowments, the more he deserves the name of fool. (1) To play the fool : (a) To act like a fool or one destitute of reason "If apostolic gravity be free To play the fool on Sun days, why not we?" Cowper: Progre of Error, 147. (b) To act the part of a jester or buffoon. "I returning where I left his armor, found another instead thereof, and armed myself therein to play the fool ."-Sidney: Arcadia. *(2) To put the fool on or upon a person: To treat or account as a fool; to charge with folly. "To be thought knowing, you must first put the fool upon all mankind."-Dryden: Juvenal. (Pref.) (3) To make a fool of : To cause to appear ridiculous; to deceive, to disappoint. "To challenge him to the field, and then to break promise with him, and make a fool of him."- Shakesp .: Twelfth Night , ii. 8. (4) Feast of fools : Eccles . & Ch . Hist .: A feast which was formerly held in some churches and monasteries in France on New Year's Day. Much license of folly and even of indecency was tolerated, whence the name of the festival. It flourished from about the year 1198. In 1435 the Council of Basle censured it, and the Parliament of Dijon in 1532 suppre ed it in that part of France. It reached England in 1240, and was abolished about A. D. 1400. It was probably a Christian i zed relic of the Roman Saturnalia. (5) Order of Fools : Hist.: A benevolent a ociation founded by Adolphus, Count of Cleves, in 1381. It continued till the sixteenth century. Crabb thus discriminates between fool , idiot , and buffoon : "The fool is either naturally or artificially a fool ; the idiot is a natural fool ; the buf foon is an artificial fool : whoever violates common sense in his actions is a fool ; whoever is unable to act according to common sense is an idiot ; whoever intentionally violates common sense is a buffoon ." (Crabb: Eng . Synon.) IMG:content-1870.jpg:[blocks in formation] "Wine she drew, And into well-sewed sacks poured foodie meale." Chapman: Homer's Ody ey, ii. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-1871.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] "Ah! let me not be fooled , sweet saints." To fool away : Tennyson: St. Simeon Stylites , 209. (1) To waste on objects of little or no value; to fritter away. "It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one, must either beg or starve in the other."-L'Estrange. *(2) To cause or induce to act foolishly; to lead astray. foôl-er-ỹ, s . [Eng. fool ; -ery.] 1. The actions, manners, or characteristics of a fool; habitual folly; the act of playing the fool; folly. "They to the vulgar sort now pipe and sing, And make them merrie with their fooleries ." Spenser: Tears of the Muses. 2. An act of folly; an absurdity. "All such fooleries are quite inconsistent with that manly simplicity of manners, which is so honorable to the rational character."- Beattie : Moral Science, pt. i., ch. ii., § 5. 3. An object of folly or weakne ; an absurdity. "That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus believed in any of these fool erics , it cannot be suspected."- Raleigh : History. For the difference between foolery and folly , see FOLLY. Foolhardine .