foodyolk (fod yok)

That part of the yolk of a meroblastic egg which serves to nourish the embryo, as distinguished from the formative or germinative substance; deutoplasm. Thus, in a hen's egg all of the ball of yellow except the little tread or cicatricula is food-yolk. foo-foo (fö'fö), n. 1. A negro name for dough made from plantains, the fruit being boiled and then pounded in a mortar.-2. A person To play the fool. (a) To act as a buffoon; jest; make not worth notice: a term of contempt. Bartlett. [Colloq.] fooll (föl), n. and a. [ person. (b) To act like one void of understanding. I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly. 1 Sam. xxvi. 21. They all played the fool at first, and would by no means be persuaded by either the tears or entreaties of Christian. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progre , p. 229. To put the fool on or upont, to charge with folly; ac count as a fool. To be thought knowing, you must first put the fool upon Dryden. all mankind. =Syn. 1 and 2. Simpleton, ninny, dolt, witling, blockhead, driveler.-3. Harlequin, clown, jester. See zany. fool II. a. Foolish; silly. [Obsolete or colloq.] Sibriht,... that was a fole kyng. Langtoft , Chron. (ed. Hearne), p. 14. A fol womman tho ert. Legend of St. Katherine, p. 53. fooll (föl), v. [ folien , foler , folier , foloier = Pr. foleiar = OIt. folleare , be foolish; from the noun.] I. in trans. 1. To play the fool; act like a weak-minded or foolish person; potter aimle ly or mischievously; toy; trifle. • Semeth thanne that folk folyen and erren. Chaucer, Boëthius, iii. prose 2. So faste they wezed to hym wyne, hit warmed his hert, And breythed up in to his brayn and blemyst his mynde, And al waykned his wyt, and wel nege [nigh] he foles. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 1420. Prithee, leave fooling; I am in no humour now to fool and prattle. Fletcher, Rule a Wife, iii. 5. I went to London, where I stayed till 5th March, study. ing a little, but dancing and fooling more. Evelyn , Diary, Jan. 19, 1642. 2. To play the buffoon; act as a fool or jester. Hadst nothing but three suits of apparel, and some few benevolences that the lords gave thee to fool to them. Be Jonson, Epicœne, iv. 2. IMG:content-1615.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To beguile; cheat: as, to fool one out of his money. And such as come to be thus happily frighted into their wits, are not so easily fool'd out of them again. South , Works, IV. vi. To fool away, to spend to no advantage, or on objects of little or no value: as, to fool away time or opportunity; to fool away money. Without much Delight or Grief, I fool away an idle Life. Prior, To Fleet wood Shephard.