Fortuneteller

One who pretends to foretell fortunes, or the events of one's life. Fortune-tell'ing, n. The act or practice of pretending to reveal the future events of one's life. Fort Union, in New Mexico , a former P. O. and military station of Taos co., about 65 m. E. N. E. of Santa Fé. Fort Valley, in Georgia , a post-village of Houston co., about 28 m. S. W. of Macon. Fort Wil'liam, a fortre of Scotland, one of a chain of three, erected to guard the Highlands, and originally built by Gen. Monk, in the time of the Commonwealth. It had accommodation for 2,000 men, but is now disused. In the rebellion of 1715 the Highlanders were repulsed in an attack upon it, and the fort, in 1746, stood a siege of 5 weeks by the Highlanders, adherents of Prince Charles Edward. - About 2 m. distant, on the edge of Loch Linnhe, is the town of FORT WILLIAM, originally Mary burgh , and now more generally Gor dons burgh. Pop . 1,500. Both fort and town lie at the Fort Wil'lis, in New York . See WEST POINT. base of Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Great Britain. Fort Win'gate, in N. Mex . , a P. O. of Bernalillo co. Fort Winnebago, in Wisconsin. See PORTAGE. Fort Winneba'go, in Wisconsin , a township of Columbia county. Fort Worth, in Texas , an important city and railroad center, cap. of Tarrant co., on 8 lines of railroad, 175 m. N. of Austin. Here are extensive grain elevators, flour mills, stock yards, foundries, implement works, ., with a very large shipping trade in grain, cattle, and other farm products. The city has grown with great rapidity, and has a population estimated (1897) at about 35,000. Fort Wyoming, in Pennsylvania, an old fort on the site of the present town of Wilkesbarre. Fort Yam Hill, in Oregon, a village of Yam Hill co., about 30 m. S. W. of Lafayette.