These are the meanings of the letters FOONER when you unscramble them.
- Fern (a.)
Ancient; old. [Obs.] \"Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes.\" [saints].
- Fern (adv.)
Long ago.
- Fern (n.)
An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.
- Fore (adv.)
Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.
- Fore (adv.)
Formerly; previously; afore.
- Fore (adv.)
In or towards the bows of a ship.
- Fore (adv.)
In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
- Fore (n.)
The front; hence, that which is in front; the future.
- Fore (prep.)
Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.
- Fore (v. i.)
Journey; way; method of proceeding.
- Froe (n.)
A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow.
- Froe (n.)
An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow.
- Roof (n.)
That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.
- Roof (n.)
The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.
- Roof (n.)
The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
- Roof (v. t.)
To cover with a roof.
- Roof (v. t.)
To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.