- fortune book
- fortune book nounA book for use in fortune-telling• • •Main Entry: ↑fortune
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Fortune book — Fortune For tune (f[^o]r t[ u]n; 135), 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;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Fortune — For tune (f[^o]r t[ u]n; 135), 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; … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Fortune hunter — Fortune For tune (f[^o]r t[ u]n; 135), 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;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Fortune teller — Fortune For tune (f[^o]r t[ u]n; 135), 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;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Fortune telling — Fortune For tune (f[^o]r t[ u]n; 135), 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;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Fortune-telling — is the practice of predicting the future, usually of an individual, through mystical or supernatural means and often for commercial gain. It often conflates with the religious practice known as divination.European and Euro American fortune… … Wikipedia
Fortune favours the bold — Fortune favours the brave , Fortune helps the brave , and Fortune favours the strong are common translations of the famous and often quoted ancient Latin proverb Fortes fortuna adiuvat .The phrase means that Fortuna, the Goddess of luck, is more … Wikipedia
Fortune Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador — Fortune Harbour (sometimes written Fortune Harbor) is a bay and community in the the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. [cite web|url=http://geonames2.nrcan.gc.ca/cgi bin/v9/sima unique v9?english?ABDZK?C |title=GeoNames Fortune… … Wikipedia
Fortune's algorithm — is a plane sweep algorithm for generating a Voronoi diagram from a set of points in a plane using O( n log n ) time and O( n ) space. [cite book|author = Mark de Berg, Marc van Kreveld, Mark Overmars, and Otfried Schwarzkopf | year = 2000 | title … Wikipedia
Fortune and the Wood-Cutter — is a fairy tale collected in Traditions Populaires de l Asie Mineure . Andrew Lang included it in The Brown Fairy Book .ynopsisA woodcutter, sick of working and always being poor, took to his bed instead of working. He told his wife he had had… … Wikipedia
