Foscolo
UGO (fos'kō-lō), an Italian poet and patriot; born on the island of Zante, Jan. 26, 1778. His tragedy "Thyeste" was received with great favor at Venice in 1797. "The True Story of Two Luckless Lovers, or Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis" (1799), afterward rewritten and renamed "Italy" (1802), voices his disappointment that the French armies did not liberate Italy; as did an outspoken apostrophe to Bonaparte. In 1807 was published his finest poem, "The Graves." His second tragedy, "Ajax," brought out at Milan in 1809, caused his expulsion from Lombardy bardy; he went to Florence and there produced the tragedy "Ricciarda" (1813); compelled to flee from Italy, he composed in Switzerland the bitter satire against his enemies, "The One-Volume Book of the Super-Revelations of the Cleric Didumus, Least of the Prophets." He wrote many critical and literary essays. He died in London, in 1827.
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Fossa
in zoölogy, a term applied to the ext certain depressions on external surface, generally the seat of cutaneous glands, as the lachrymal fossæ in deer and antelopes. In anatomy (1) In the singular, a groove. There are in the ear a fossa of the helix, which is a groove called also fossa innominata or scaphoidea, and a fossa of the antihelix, which is a somewhat triangular depression, called also fossa triangularis or ovalis. There are also a fossa of the heart, one of the gall bladder, etc. There are also a canine, a corodoid, a digastric, a digital and many other fossa. (2) In the plural, grooves. There are nasal fossæ, superior and inferior occipital, etc.
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Fossores
or FOSSORIA, in entomology, burrowing Hymenoptera, a sub-tribe of the hymenopterous tribe Aculeata. Sexes two, the individuals in both of which are furnished with wings, legs formed for burrowing or for running, tongue not elongated, but widened at the extremity. Habits not social. The females of the fossores construct holes in the ground, where they form their nests. Depositing their eggs, they next lay up for the future larvæ a supply of food consisting of spiders and caterpillars rendered half dead by being stung. Many of the fossores are called sandwasps. The sub-tribe is divided into eight families: (1) Scoliadæ, (2) Sapygidæ, (3) Pompilidæ, (4) Sphecidæ, (5) Bembicidæ, (6) Larridæ, (7) Nyssonidæ, and (8) Crabonidæ.
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Fostoria
a city of Ohio in Seneca and Hancock counties, and near the boundary line of Wood county. It is on the Baltimore and Ohio, the Lake Erie and Western, the Hocking Valley, the Lake Shore Electric, the New York, Chicago, and St. Louis, and the Toledo and Ohio Central railroads. It is an important industrial community and has lime kilns, manufactures of glass, automobiles, lumber, etc. In the neigh neighbor- rhood are extensive oil fields. The city was founded by the father of Charles Foster, Governor of Ohio and Secretary of the United States Treasury in 1891- 1893. Pop. (1910) 9,597; (1920) 9,987.
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Fothergill
JESSIE, an English author; born in Manchester, England, June 7, 1856. Her stories show a keen faculty of observation: among them are: "Healey, a Romance" (1875); "The First Violin" (1878), in which German life is faithfully portrayed; "Probation" (1879); "Kith and Kin" (1881); "The Lass of Laverhouse" (1888); "Oriole's Daughter" (1893). She died in London, July 30, 1891. FOUGÉRES, a town and capital of an arrondissement, in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine, France, situated on the Nançon river, 25 miles N. E. of Rennes. It is the center of a considerable industry in leather goods, boots and shoes, sail cloth, dairy products and timber, being surrounded by extensive forests. The population is about 14,000.
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Foulard
foo-lard', a thin, soft, printed dress silk, plain woven, or twilled and finished with considerable luster. It is used for summer gowns. There is variety of color design, but white on a blue ground is the most common style of coloring. Foulard is popular at intervals, and again it is out of fashion for years at a time. Foulard was imported originally from India, but is now made in this country. Cotton foulard is a close imitation in design, coloring, and finish of this silk.
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Foulke
WILLIAM DUDLEY, an American writer and publicist, born in New York City in 1848. He graduated from Columbia University in 1869 and after studying law was admitted to the bar in 1870. In 1876 he removed to Indiana, becoming a member of the State Senate in 1883. From 1901 to 1903 he was a member of the United States Civil Service Commission, and was prominently identified with the work of the National Civil Service Reform League. From 1910 to 1915 he was president of the National Municipal League. He wrote "Slav or Saxon" (1887); "Dorothy Day" (a novel) (1911) "Lyrics of War and Peace" (1916); "Today and Yesterday" (poems) (1920). He was a frequent contributor to magazines on historical and other subjects.
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Foulois
BENJAMIN DELAHAUF, an American soldier, born in Connecticut in 1879. He entered the army as a private and served until 1901 as a noncommissioned officer. In that year he was appointed 2d lieutenant of the 17th Infantry, and was promoted to be 1st lieutenant of the Signal Corps. In 1914 he 183. was appointed captain of the aviation section of the Signal Corps. He was promoted to be major in 1917 and in the same year was made temporary brigadier-general of the Signal Corps. He made a special study of aviation and was the senior military aviator in point of service. He commanded air service troops on the Mexican border and in 1917-1918 was chief of the air service of the A. E. F.
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Foundation-plate
The bottom or base plate which carries the whole mould, and to which all other parts of the mould are made secure; for which reason it is important to make them of sufficient strength for the purpose. For loam-work they should be made to correspond with the outer boundary of brickwork surrounding the casting, and all connections, as lugs, staples, bolt-holes, etc., must necessarily stand beyond that limit. See LOAM-WORK; PLATE. Founding is the art of forming in loam, or sand, a mould of any given design, which is subsequently filled with molten metal and allowed to solidify, the resultant casting being a copy in metal of the design or model furnished. The place where these operations are performed is called a foundry. See FOUNDRY.
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