v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Afforded; p. pr. & vb. n. Affording. ] [ OE. aforthen, AS. geforðian, forðian, to further, accomplish, afford, fr. forð forth, forward. The prefix ge- has no well defined sense. See Forth. ] 1. To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age. [ 1913 Webster ]

His tuneful Muse affords the sweetest numbers. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

The quiet lanes . . . afford calmer retreats. Gilpin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; -- with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough. [ 1913 Webster ]

The merchant can afford to trade for smaller profits. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be afforded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anything given as a help; bestowal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or or . A fuse used in blasting, consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, with yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. ford; akin to G. furt, Icel. fjörðr bay, and to E. fare. √78. See Fare, v. i., and cf. Frith arm of the sea. ] 1. A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading. [ 1913 Webster ]

He swam the Esk river where ford there was none. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stream; a current. [ 1913 Webster ]

With water of the ford
Or of the clouds. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Permit my ghost to pass the Styg&unr_;an ford. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Forded; p. pr. & vb. n. Fording. ] To pass or cross, as a river or other water, by wading; to wade through. [ 1913 Webster ]

His last section, which is no deep one, remains only to be forted. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being forded. -- Ford"a*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. Without a ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

A deep and fordless river. Mallock. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. fordon, AS. ford&unr_;n; pref. for- + d&unr_;n to do. See For-, and Do, v. i. ] 1. To destroy; to undo; to ruin. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the night
That either makes me or fordoes me quite. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

All with weary task fordone. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Fordo. ] Undone; ruined. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To drive about; to drive here and there. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Utterly drunk; very drunk. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Entirely dry; withered. [ Obs. ] “A tree fordry.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To dwindle away; to disappear. [ Obs. ] Rom of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oxford movement. See Tractarianism. --
Oxford School, a name given to those members of the Church of England who adopted the theology of the so-called Oxford “Tracts for the Times, ” issued the period 1833 -- 1841. Shipley. --
Oxford tie, a kind of shoe, laced on the instep, and usually covering the foot nearly to the ankle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ After Thomas Telford, a Scotch road engineer. ] Designating, or pert. to, a road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth, distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly, in the interstices; as, telford pavement, road, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Telfordized p. pr. & vb. n. Telfordizing ] To furnish (a road) with a telford pavement. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

See drainable.
See dramatic.
See drinkable.
See durable.
See duteous.
See dutiful.
See earnest.
See eatable.
See ecclesiastical.
See edible.
See elaborate.
See elective.
See elusive.
See emotional.
See emphatic. See employable.
See employable.
See endurable.
See -English.
See entire.
See enviable.
See envious.
See episcopal.
See equable.
See errable.
See escapable.
See evangelical.
See eventful.
See evident.
See exact.
See examinable.
See exceptionable.
See exclusive.
See exemplary.
See exempt.
See exhaustible.
See existent.
See expectable.
See expectant.
See explainable.
See express.
See expressible.
See expugnable.
See extinct.
See factious.
See fadable.
See fain.
See familiar.
See famous.
See fashionable.
See fast.
See fatherly.
See fathomable.
See faulty.
See fearful.
See feasible.
See felicitous.
See felt.
See feminine.
See fermentable.
See festival.
See fine.
See fleshy.
See fluent.
See forcible.
See fordable.
See foreknowable.
See foreseeable.
See forgetful.
See forgivable.
See formal.
See framable.
See fraternal.
See friable.
See frightful.
See frustrable.
See full.
See gainable.
See gainful.
See gallant.
See genial.
See genteel.
See gentle.
See gentlemanlike.
See gentlemanly.
See geometrical.
See ghostly.
See glad.
See godlike.
See good.
See goodly.
See gorgeous.
See grammatical.
See grave.
See guidable.
See guilty.
See habile.
See habitable.
See hale.
See handy.
See hardy.
See harmful.
See hasty.
See hazardous.
See healable.
See healthful.
See healthy.
See heavenly.
See heedful.
See helpful.
See heritable.
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