fourling
English
Etymology
Noun
fourling (plural fourlings)
- One of four children born at the same birth; a quadruplet.
- (crystallography) A compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fourling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)