Definition of "four" [four]

• The cardinal number equal to 3 + 1. (noun)
• The fourth in a set or sequence. (noun)
• Something having four parts, units, or members, such as a musical quartet or a four-cylinder engine. (noun)
• All fours All four limbs of an animal or person: a baby crawling on all fours. (idiom)

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• "The four Corners of the Table must be furnished with _four Holes_, and exactly in the middle of each side _one Hole_, and these Holes must be hung at the bottoms with _Nets_, Which Holes are named _Hazards_, because if either by Skill or Chance one Gamester strikes anothers Ball into these Holes, or Hazards, as we will now call them, he wins One; the"
• "I never hear of an inexperienced buyer in search of a rifle without being reminded of the purchaser of a telescope, who, on asking the optician, among a multitude of other questions, whether he would be able to discern an object through it four miles off, received for reply, 'See an object _four_ miles off, Sir?"
• "The owner or master of the establishment was squatted upon the dry sandy ground, with three or four young children sprawling round him, while his _four_ wives were occupied with their respective duties."