See Also: Musci(medicine)

fortune (oh) and Musci (medicine)


fortune (oh)



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1 ?money?
2 ?chance?
3 ?what happens to you?
4 tell somebody's fortune
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[Date: 1200-1300; Language: French; Origin: Latin fortuna]
?MONEY?
[C] a very large amount of money
::He made a fortune selling property in Spain.
::My first painting sold for ¡ê25, a small fortune then for an Art student.
::Bill Traylor died in poverty in 1947, but his Art is worth a fortune .
::The carpet must have cost a fortune .
::It is quite easy to decorate your house without spending a fortune .
::Her personal fortune was recently estimated at ¡ê37 million.
?CHANCE?
[U] chance or luck, and the effect that it has on your life
::I had the good fortune to work with a brilliant head of department.
::Sickness or ill fortune could reduce you to a needy situation.
::I felt it was useless to struggle against fortune.
?WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU?
[C usually plural] the good or bad things that happen in life
::a downturn in the company's fortunes
::This defeat marked a change in the team's fortunes.
::The geographical position of the frontier fluctuated with the fortunes of war (=the things that can happen during a war) .
tell sb's fortune
to tell someone what will happen to them in the future by looking at their hands, using cards etc
-see also soldier of fortune , fame and fortune at fame , a hostage to fortune at hostage (3), seek your fortune at seek (4)

Musci (medicine)


musci
<botany> An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses. See Moss, and Cryptogamia.

Origin: L. Muscus moss.

Source: Websters Dictionary