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v. t. [ See Astony, Stun. ] To stun. [ Obs. ] “Breathless and astunned.” Somerville. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Attuned p. pr. & vb. n. Attuning. ] [ Pref. ad- + tune. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To arrange fitly; to make accordant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wake to energy each social aim,
Attuned spontaneous to the will of Jove. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Autun, France, its locality. ] (Min.) A lemon-yellow phosphate of uranium and calcium occurring in tabular crystals with basal cleavage, and in micalike scales. H., 2-2.5. Sp. gr., 3.05-3.19. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To befall. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I wish all good befortune you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Weary; mournful. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To put out of tune. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tune; to intone. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to adjust carefully and precisely so as to achieve optimum performance or efficiency; as, The mechanic fine-tuned the engine. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. the goddess of fortune and good luck; counterpart of Greek Tyche. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. fortunatus, p. p. of fortunare to make fortunate or prosperous, fr. fortuna. See Fortune, n. ] 1. Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Receiving same unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; favored with good forune; lucky.

Syn. -- Auspicious; lucky; prosperous; successful; favored; happy. -- Fortunate, Successful, Prosperous. A man is fortunate, when he is favored of fortune, and has unusual blessings fall to his lot; successful when he gains what he aims at; prosperous when he succeeds in those things which men commonly desire. One may be fortunate, in some cases, where he is not successful; he may be successful, but, if he has been mistaken in the value of what he has aimed at, he may for that reason fail to be prosperous. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or quality of being fortunate; good luck; success; happiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. fortune, L. fortuna; akin to fors, fortis, chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See Bear to support, and cf. Fortuitous. ] 1. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune. [ 1913 Webster ]

You, who men's fortunes in their faces read. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.

Syn. -- Chance; accident; luck; fate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fortune book, a book supposed to reveal future events to those who consult it. Crashaw. --
Fortune hunter, one who seeks to acquire wealth by marriage. --
Fortune teller, one who professes to tell future events in the life of another. --
Fortune telling, the practice or art of professing to reveal future events in the life of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. fortuner, L. fortunare. See Fortune, n. ] 1. To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To provide with a fortune. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To presage; to tell the fortune of. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To fall out; to happen. [ 1913 Webster ]

It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. small genus of shrubs called kumquats, native to South China, producing small ovoid orangelike fruits called kumquats.
Syn. -- genus Fortunella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a person who claims to be able to foretell events in the future of another person.
Syn. -- fortune teller, fortune-teller.
-- for"tune*tel`ling, n. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

v. t. To regulate the fortune of; to make happy. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Heavy; insupportable. [ Obs. ] Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Importunate. ] The quality of being importunate; importunateness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Importune. ] 1. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an importunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hard to be borne; unendurable. [ R. ] Donne.

-- Im*por"tu*nate*ly, adv. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who importunes; an importuner. [ Obs. ] Sir E. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. importun, L. importunus; pref. im- not + a derivative from the root of portus harbor, importunus therefore orig. meaning, hard of access. See Port harbor, and cf. Importunate. ] 1. Inopportune; unseasonable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or pertinacious solicitation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And their importune fates all satisfied. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of all other affections it [ envy ] is the most importune and continual. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Importuned p. pr. & vb. n. Importuning. ] [ From Importune, a.: cf. F. importuner. ] 1. To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their ministers and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To import; to signify. [ Obs. ] “It importunes death.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To require; to demand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We shall write to you,
As time and our concernings shall importune. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an importune manner. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who importunes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Importunities [ L. importunitas unsuitableness, rudeness: cf. F. importunité. ] The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity. [ 1913 Webster ]

O'ercome with importunity and tears. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. infortunatus. ] Unlucky; unfortunate. [ Obs. ] Shak. “A most infortunate chance.” Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- In*for"tu*nate*ly, adv. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. infortunium. See In- not, and Fortune. ] Misfortune. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unfortunate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I, woeful wretch and infortuned wight. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inopportunus: cf. F. inopportun. See In- not, and Opportune. ] Not opportune; inconvenient; unseasonable; as, an inopportune occurrence, remark, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

No visit could have been more inopportune. T. Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of opportunity; unseasonableness; inconvenience. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To intone. Cf. Entune. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Melocoton. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The leader of the Chinese communist party and later of the People's Republic of China; b. 1893, d. 1976. Also referred to a simply Mao. [ Also spelled Mao Tse-Tung. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of metatungstic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. meta- + tungstic. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Producing misfortune. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail. [ Obs. ] Stow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consider why the change was wrought,
You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Calamity; mishap; mischance; misadventure; ill; harm; disaster. See Calamity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unfortunate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tune wrongly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Multi- + ungulate. ] Having many hoofs. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ L. Neptunus. ] 1. (Rom. Myth.) The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) The remotest major planet of our solar system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. It is classed as a gas giant, and has a radius of 22, 716 km and an estimated mass of 1.027 x 1026 kg, with an average density of 2.27 g/cc. Its mean distance from the sun is about 5, 000, 000, 000 km (3, 106, 856, 000 miles), and its period of revolution is about 164.78 years. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Neptune powder, an explosive containing nitroglycerin, -- used in blasting. --
Neptune's cup (Zool.), a very large, cup-shaped, marine sponge (Thalassema Neptuni). [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. [ L. Neptunius belonging to Neptune: cf. F. neptunien. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the ocean or sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) Formed by water or aqueous solution; as, Neptunian rocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neptunian races (Ethnol.), the Malay and Polynesian races. --
Neptunian theory (Geol.), the theory of Werner, which referred the formation of all rocks and strata to the agency of water; -- opposed to the Plutonic theory. [ 1913 Webster ]