fortune sb. (the chief obs. uses are the foll.)
1.
“by ,” by chance
Mer.V. II. i. 34, AYL. I. ii. 48, Oth. V. ii. 224, Sonn. xxxii. 3; “at ,” at
random Oth. III. iii. 263.
2.
chance, hap, accident
Mer.V. I. i. 44,
Shr. III. ii. 23
“Whatever stays him from
his word,”
Oth. I. iii. 130
“the battles, sieges,
f-s That I have pass'd”
;
Cor. IV. v. 99
“to prove more
f-s”
(=to try the fortune of war again).
3.
pl. used = sing.: a
person's possessions, wealth Ado II. i. 316,
Oth. V. ii. 365
“seize upon the f-s of
the Moor.”
