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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 ]

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]

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. [ 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 ]

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

n. See Melocoton. [ 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 ]

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 ]

a. [ F. opporiun, L. opportunus, lit., at or before the port; ob (see Ob-) + a derivative of portus port, harbor. See Port harbor. ] Convenient; ready; hence, seasonable; timely. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is most opportune to our need. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Op`por*tune"ly, adv. -- Op`por*tune"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To suit. [ Obs. ] Dr. Clerke(1637). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Petuned p. pr. & vb. n. Petuning. ] [ See Petunia. ] (Agric.) To spray (tobacco) with a liquid intended to produce flavor or aroma. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To importune again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A variant of tone. ] 1. A sound; a note; a tone. “The tune of your voices.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) (a) A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air. (b) The state of giving the proper sound or sounds; just intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood. [ 1913 Webster ]

A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune, as when he . . . is dragged unwillingly to [ his task ]. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tuned p. pr. & vb. n. Tuning. ] 1. To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin. “ Tune your harps.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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2. To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious. [ 1913 Webster ]

For now to sorrow must I tune my song. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To sing with melody or harmony. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow,
Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To put into a proper state or disposition. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whilst tuning to the water's fall,
The small birds sang to her. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Harmonious; melodious; musical; as, tuneful notes. “ Tuneful birds.” Milton. -- Tune"ful*ly, adv. -- Tune"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical. “ Thy tuneless serenade.” Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

How often have I led thy sportive choir,
With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire! Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not employed in making music; as, tuneless harps. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not expressed in music or poetry; unsung. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who tunes; especially, one whose occupation is to tune musical instruments. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + tune. ] To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]