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adjective

Fourth adj.

Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.

Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.

noun

Fourth n.

One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four.

(Mus.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.

One coming next in order after the third.

The Fourth, specifically, in the United States, the fourth day of July, the anniversary of the declaration of American independence; as, to celebrate the Fourth.

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"Fourth" Quotes from Famous Books

... neither they nor their descendants should ever be enslaved; second, that the rent of land should be paid in money at a fixed price, not in service; third, that they should be at liberty to buy and sell in market and elsewhere, like other free men; fourth, that they should ...

— Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... third or fourth year Johnson threw up a couple of contracts he had on hand, sacrificed a piece of land which he had bought and on which he had built a cottage in the short time he had been in Solong, and, one lovely day in June, when the skies were their fairest, the hills their bluest, ...

— Children of the Bush • Henry Lawson

... him, honour is always saved. In describing a certain over of his own bowling, Mr. Lucas says: "I was conscious of a twinge as I saw his swift glance round the field. He then hit my first ball clean out of it; from my second he made two; from my third another two; the fourth and fifth wanted playing; and the sixth he hit over my head among some distant haymakers." You see, the fourth and ...

— Books and Persons - Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 • Arnold Bennett

... premature close, owing to the lateness of the hour and a decided preference on the part of the younger members of the company for the dancing which had been promised later as a bribe, and which they had no intention of sacrificing to a fourth act—for art must not be ...

— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey

... storehouses, the first composed of a single block of granite, the second of plates of iron, the third of hens' eggs, the fourth of goose-eggs, the fifth of polished quartz, the sixth of the finest eagles' eggs, and the seventh of ...

— The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country • William Forsell Kirby

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