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2. A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.

FROLIC
Frol"ic, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Frolicked; p. pr. & vb. n. Frolicking.]

Defn: To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport. Hither, come hither, and frolic and play. Tennyson.

FROLICFUL
Frol"ic*ful, a.

Defn: Frolicsome. [R.]

FROLICKY
Frol"ick*y, a.

Defn: Frolicsome. [Obs.] Richardson.

FROLICLY
Frol"ic*ly, adv.

Defn: In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety. [Obs.] Beau. &
Fl.

FROLICSOME
Frol"ic*some, a.

Defn: Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive.
Old England, who takes a frolicsome brain fever once every two or
three years, for the benefit of her doctors. Sir W. Scott.
— Frol"ic*some*ly, adv.
— Frol"ic*some*ness, n.

FROM From, prep. Etym: [AS. fram, from; akin to OS. fram out, OHG. & Icel. fram forward, Sw. fram, Dan. frem, Goth. fram from, prob. akin to E. forth. Fro, Foremost.]

Defn: Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; — used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; — the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony. Experience from the time past to the time present. Bacon. The song began from Jove. Drpden. From high Mæonia's rocky shores I came. Addison. If the wind blow any way from shore. Shak.

Note: From sometimes denotes away from, remote from, inconsistent with. "Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing." Shak. From, when joined with another preposition or an adverb, gives an opportunity for abbreviating the sentence. "There followed him great multitudes of people . . . from [the land] beyond Jordan." Math. iv. 25. In certain constructions, as from forth, from out, etc., the ordinary and more obvious arrangment is inverted, the sense being more distinctly forth from, out from — from being virtually the governing preposition, and the word the adverb. See From off, under Off, adv., and From afar, under Afar, adv. Sudden partings such as press The life from out young hearts. Byron.

FROMWARD; FROMWARDS
From"ward, From"wards, prep. Etym: [AS. framweard about to depart.
Cf. Froward]

Defn: A way from; — the contrary of toward. [Obs.]
Towards or fromwards the zenith. Cheyne.

FROND
Frond, n. Etym: [L. frons, frondis, a leafy branch, foliage.] (Bot.)

Defn: The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.

FRONDATION
Fron*da"tion, n. Etym: [L. frondatio, from frons. See Frond.]

Defn: The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning. Evelyn.

FRONDE
Fronde, n. Etym: [F.] (F. Hist.)

Defn: A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.

FRONDED
Frond"ed, a.

Defn: Furnished with fronds. "Fronded palms." Whittier.

FRONDENT Fron"dent, a. Etym: [L. frondens, p. pr. of frondere to put forth leaves. See Frond.]

Defn: Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.]

FRONDESCE
Fron*desce", v. i. Etym: [L. frondescere, inchoative fr. frondere.
See Frondent.]

Defn: To unfold leaves, as plants.

FRONDESCENCE Fron*des"cence, n. (Bot.) (a) The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves. (b) The act of bursting into leaf. Milne. Martyn.

FRONDEUR
Fron"deur`, n. Etym: [F.] (F. Hist.)

Defn: A member of the Fronde.

FRONDIFEROUS Fron*dif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. frondifer frons a leafy branch + ferre to bear: cf. F. frondifere.]

Defn: Producing fronds.

FRONDLET
Frond"let, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond.

FRONDOSE Fron*dose", a. Etym: [L. frondosus leafy.] (Bot.) (a) Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves. (b) Leafy. Gray.

FRONDOUS
Fron"dous, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Frondose. [R.]

FRONS
Frons, n. Etym: [L., front.] (Anal.)

Defn: The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.

FRONT
Front, n. Etym: [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to
E. brow.]

1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. Pope. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. Shak. His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. Prior.

2. The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front. With smiling fronts encountering. Shak. The inhabitants showed a bold front. Macaulay.

3. The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; — the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army. Had he his hurts before Ay, on the front. Shak.

4. A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house.

5. The most conspicuous part. The very head and front of my offending. Shak.

6. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front. Mrs. Browning.

7. The beginning. "Summer's front." Shak. Bastioned front (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half bastions. — Front door, the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance. — Front of fortification, the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon. Farrow. — Front of operations, all that part of the field of operations in front of the successive positions occupied by the army as it moves forward. Farrow. — To come to the front, to attain prominence or leadership.

FRONT
Front, a.

Defn: Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view.

FRONT
Front, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fronted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fronting.]

1. To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner. You four shall front them in the narrow lane. Shak.

2. To appear before; to meet. [Enid] daily fronted him In some fresh splendor. Tennyson.

3. To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street. And then suddenly front the changed reality. J. Morley.

4. To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church.

5. To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel. Yonder walls, that pertly front your town. Shak.

FRONT
Front, v. t.

Defn: To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.

FRONTAGE
Front"age, n.

Defn: The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.

FRONTAL
Fron"tal, a. Etym: [Cf. F. frontal.]

Defn: Belonging to the front part; being in front; esp. (Anat.),

Defn: Of or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones.

FRONTAL Fron"tal, n. Etym: [F. frontal, fronteau, OF. Frontel, frontal, L. frontale an ornament for the forehead, frontlet. See Front.]

1. Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet; as: (a) An ornamental band for the hair. (b) (Mil.) The metal face guard of a soldier.

2. (Arch.)

Defn: A little pediment over a door or window.

3. (Eccl.)

Defn: A movable, decorative member in metal, carved wood, or, commonly, in rich stuff or in embroidery, covering the front of the altar. Frontals are usually changed according to the different ceremonies.

4. (Med.)

Defn: A medicament or application for the forehead. [Obs.] Quincy.

5. (Anat.)

Defn: The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium. Frontal hammer or helve, a forge hammer lifted by a cam, acting upon a "tongue" immediately in front of the hammer head. Raymond.

FRONTATE; FRONTATED
Fron"tate, Fronta*ted, a.

Defn: Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.

FRONTED
Front"ed, a.

Defn: Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades."
Milton.

FRONTIER
Fron"tier, n. Etym: [F. frontière, LL. frontaria. See Front.]

1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.

2. (Fort.)

Defn: An outwork. [Obs.]
Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak.

FRONTIER
Fron"tier, a.

1. Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.

2. Of or relating to a frontier. "Frontier experience." W. Irving.

FRONTIER
Fron"tier, v. i.

Defn: To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; — with on. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

FRONTIERED
Fron"tiered, p. a.

Defn: Placed on the frontiers. [R.]

FRONTIERSMAN
Fron"tiers*man, n.; pl. Frontiersmen.

Defn: A man living on the frontier.

FRONTIGNAC; FRONTIGNAN Fron`ti*gnac", Fron`ti`gnan" (, n. Etym: [So called from Frontignan, a town in Southern France.]

1. A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: A grape of many varieties and colors.

FRONTINGLY
Front"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a fronting or facing position; opposingly.

FRONTINIAC
Fron`tin*iac", n.

Defn: See Frontignac.

Defn: The part which first meets the eye; as: (a) (Arch.) The principal front of a building. [Obs. or R.] (b) An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.

FRONTLESS
Front"less, a.

Defn: Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent.
[Obs.] "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.

FRONTLESSLY
Front"less*ly, adv.

Defn: Shamelessly; impudently. [Obs.]

FRONTLET Front"let, n. Etym: [OF. frontelet brow band, dim. of frontel, frontal. See Frontal, n.]

1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8.

2. A frown (likened to a frontlet). [R. & Poetic] What makes that frontlet on Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown. Shak.

3. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.

FRONTO-
Fron"to-. Etym: [L. frons, frontis, the forehead.] (Anat.)

Defn: A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc.

FRONTON
Fron`ton", n. Etym: [F., a pediment. See Front.] (Arch.)

Defn: Same as Frontal, 2.

FROPPISH
Frop"pish, a. Etym: [Cf. Frap, Frape.]

Defn: Peevish; froward. [Obs.] Clarendon.

FRORE
Frore, adv. Etym: [See Frorn.]

Defn: Frostily. [Obs.]
The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
Milton.

FRORN
Frorn, p. a. Etym: [AS. froren, p. p. of freósun to freeze. See
Freeze.]

Defn: Frozen. [Obs.]
Well nigh frorn I feel. Spenser.

FRORY
Fro"ry, a. Etym: [AS. freórig. See Frorn.]

1. Frozen; stiff with cold. [Obs.] Spenser.

2. Covered with a froth like hoarfrost. [Archaic] The foaming steed with frory bit to steer. Fairfax.

FROST
Frost, n. Etym: [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr. freósan to
freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel., Dan., & Sw. frost. *18.
See Freeze, v. i.]

1. The act of freezing; — applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

2. The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather. The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost. Shak.

3. Frozen dew; — called also hoarfrost or white frost. He scattereth the frost like ashes. Ps. cxlvii. 16.

4. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. [R.] It was of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath. Sir W. Scott. Black frost, cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and cause it to turn black, without the formation of hoarfrost. — Frost bearer (Physics), a philosophical instrument illustrating the freezing of water in a vacuum; a cryophous. — Frost grape (Bot.), an American grape, with very small, acid berries. — Frost lamp, a lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; — used especially in lighthouses. Knight. — Frost nail, a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's shoe to keen him from slipping. — Frost smoke, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold. The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters. Kane. — Frost valve, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe, hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to freeze. — Jack Frost, a popular personification of frost.

FROST
Frost, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frostted; p. pr. & vb. n. Frosting.]

1. To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.

2. To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass. While with a hoary light she frosts the ground. Wordsworth.

3. To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.

FROSTBIRD
Frost"bird, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The golden plover.

FROSTBITE
Frost"bite, n.

Defn: The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose. Kane.

FROSTBITE
Frost`bite", v. t.

Defn: To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or
nip with frost.
My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frostbite
themselves. Pepys.

FROST-BITTEN
Frost`-bit"ten, p. a.

Defn: Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.

FROST-BLITE Frost`-blite", n. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache. Gray. (b) The lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album). Dr. Prior.

FROSTBOW
Frost"bow`, n.

Defn: A white arc or circle in the sky attending frosty weather and formed by reflection of sunlight from ice crystals floating in the air; the parhelic circle whose center is at the zenith.

FROSTED
Frost"ed, a.

Defn: Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost;
ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake;
frosted glass.
Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work.
Knight.

FROSTFISH Frost`fish", n. (Zoöl.) (a) The tomcod; — so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod. (b) The smelt. [Local, U. S.] (c) A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish.

FROSTILY
Frost"i*ly, adv.

Defn: In a frosty manner.

FROSTINESS
Frost"i*ness, n.

Defn: State or quality of being frosty.

FROSTING
Frost"ing, n.

1. A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.

2. A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.

FROSTLESS
Frost"less, a.

Defn: Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.

FROST SIGNAL
Frost" sig`nal. (Meteor.)

Defn: A signal consisting of a white flag with a black center, used by the United States Weather Bureau to indicate that a local frost is expected. It is used only in Florida and along the coasts of the Pacific and the Gulf Mexico.

FROSTWEED
Frost"weed`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.

Note: It has large yellow flowers which are often sterile, and later it has abundant but inconspicuous flowers which bear seed. It is so called because, late in autumn, crystals of ice shoot from the cracked bark at the root; — called also frostwort.

FROSTWORK
Frost`work", n.

Defn: The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.

FROSTWORT
Frost`wort", n. (Bot.)

Defn: Same as Frostweed.

FROSTY
Frost"y, a. Etym: [Cf. AS. fyrstig.]

1. Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.

2. Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.

3. Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage. Johnson.

4. Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head. Shak.

FROTE
Frote, v. t. Etym: [F. frotter.]

Defn: To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

FROTERER
Fro"ter*er, n.

Defn: One who frotes; one who rubs or chafes. [Obs.] Marston.

FROTH Froth, n. Etym: [OE. frothe, Icel. frotha; akin to Dan. fraade, Sw. fradga, AS. afreothan to froth.]

1. The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.

2. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. Johnson. It was a long speech, but all froth. L'Estrange.

3. Light, unsubstantial matter. Tusser. Froth insect (Zoöl.), the cuckoo spit or frog hopper; — called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly. — Froth spit. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.

FROTH
Froth, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frothed; p. pr. & vb. n.. Frothing.]

1. To cause to foam.

2. To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. He . . . froths treason at his mouth. Dryden. Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more Tennyson.

3. To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.

FROTH
Froth, v. i.

Defn: To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.

FROTHILY
Froth"i*ly, adv.

Defn: In a frothy manner.

FROTHINESS
Froth"i*ness, n.

Defn: State or quality of being frothy.

FROTHING
Froth"ing, n.

Defn: Exaggerated declamation; rant.

FROTHLESS
Froth"less, a.

Defn: Free from froth.

FROTHY
Froth"y, a. [Compar. Frothier; superl. Frothiest.]

1. Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.

2. Not firm or solid; soft; unstable. Bacon.

3. Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue. Tillotson.

FROUFROU
Frou"frou`, n. [F., of imitative origin.]

Defn: A rustling, esp. the rustling of a woman's dress.

FROUNCE
Frounce, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Frounced; p. pr. & vb. n. Frouncing.]
Etym: [OE. frouncen, fronsen, to told, wrinkle, OF. froncier, F.
froncer, perh. fr. an assumed LL. frontiare to wrinkle the forehead,
L. frons forehead. See Front, and cf. Flounce part of a dress.]

Defn: To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair. Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont. Milton.

FROUNCE
Frounce, v. i.

Defn: To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to
frown. [Obs.]
The Commons frounced and stormed. Holland.

FROUNCE
Frounce, n.

1. A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; — also, a frown. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

2. An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill. Booth.

FROUNCELESS
Frounce"less, a.

Defn: Without frounces. Rom. of R.

FROUZY Frou"zy, a. Etym: [Prov. E. frouzy froward, peevish, offensive to the eye or smell; cf. froust a musty smell, frouse to rumple, frouze to curl, and E. frounce, frowy.]

Defn: Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy. "Petticoats in frouzy heaps." Swift.

FROW Frow, n. Etym: [D. vrouw; akin to G. frau woman, wife, goth, fráuja master, lord, AS. freá.]

1. A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman. Beau. & Fl.

2. A dirty woman; a slattern. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

FROW
Frow, n. Etym: [Cf. Frower.]

Defn: A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.

FROW
Frow, a.

Defn: Brittle. [Obs.] Evelyn.

FROWARD
Fro"ward, a. Etym: [Fro + -ward. See Fro, and cf. Fromward.]

Defn: Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is
reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child.
A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28.
A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation.
Bacon.

Syn.
— Untoward; wayward; unyielding; ungovernable: refractory;
obstinate; petulant; cross; peevish. See Perverse.
— Fro"ward*ly, adv.
— Fro"ward*ness, n.

FROWER
Frow"er, n. Etym: [Cf. frow a frower, and Prov. E, frommard.]

Defn: A tool. See 2d Frow. Tusser.

FROWEY
Frow"ey, a. Etym: [See Frow, a.] (Carp.)

Defn: Working smoothly, or without splitting; — said of timber.

FROWN Frown, v. i. [imp. &, p. p. Frowned; p. pr. & vb. n. Frowning.] Etym: [OF. froignier, F. frogner, in se refrogner, se renfrogner, to knit the brow, to frown; perh. of Teutonic origin; cf. It. in frigno wrinkled, frowning, Prov. It. frignare to cringe the face, to make a wry face, dial. Sw. fryna to make a wry face,]

1. To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look. The frowning wrinkle of her brow. Shak.

2. To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness. The sky doth frown and lower upon our army. Shak.

FROWN
Frown, v. t.

Defn: To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.

FROWN
Frown, n.

1. A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl. His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. Prior. Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are. H. Coleridge.

2. Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.

FROWNINGLY
Frown"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a frowning manner.

FROWNY
Frown"y, a.

Defn: Frowning; scowling. [Obs.]
Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder. Sir F. Palgrave.

FROWY
Frow"y, a. Etym: [Cf. Frowzy, Frouzy.]

Defn: Musty. rancid; as, frowy butter. "Frowy feed." Spenser

FROWZY
Frow"zy, a. Etym: [See Frouzy.]

Defn: Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. "With head all frowzy."
Spenser.
The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes. W. D. Howells.

FROZE
Froze,

Defn: imp. of Freeze.

FROZEN
Fro"zen, a.

1. Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook. They warmed their frozen feet. Dryden.

2. Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones.

3. Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding. [R.] Be not ever frozen, coy. T. Carew.

FROZENNESS
Fro"zen*ness, n.

Defn: A state of being frozen.

FRUBISH
Frub"ish, v. t. Etym: [See Furbish.]

Defn: To rub up: to furbish. [Obs.] Beau. c& Et.

FRUCTED
Fruc"ted, a. Etym: [L. fructus fruit. See Fruit.] (Her.)

Defn: Bearing fruit; — said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon. Cussans.

FRUCTESCENCE
Fruc*tes"cence, n. Etym: [L. fructus fruit.] (Bot.)

Defn: The maturing or ripening of fruit. [R.] Martyn.

FRUCTICULOSE
Fruc*tic"u*lose`, a.

Defn: Fruitful; full of fruit.

FRUCTIDOR
Fruc`ti`dor", n. Etym: [F., fr. L. fructus fruit.]

Defn: The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; — commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendémiaire.

FRUCTIFERUOS Fruc*tif"er*uos, a. Etym: [L. fructifer; fructus fruit + ferre to bear; cf. F. fructifère.]

Defn: Bearing or producing fruit. Boyle.

FRUCTIFICATION Fruc`ti*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. fructificatio: cf. F. fructification.]

1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation. The prevalent fructification of plants. Sir T. Brown.

2. (Bot.) (a) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores. (b) The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.

FRUCTIFY Fruc"ti*fy, v. i. Etym: [F. fructifier, L. fructificare; fructus fruit + ficare (only in comp.), akin to L. facere to make. See Fruit, and Fact.]

Defn: To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." Beveridge.

FRUCTIFY
Fruc"ti*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fructified; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fructifying.]

Defn: To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.

FRUCTOSE
Fruc*tose", n. Etym: [L. fructus fruit.] (Chem.)

Defn: Fruit sugar; levulose. [R.]

FRUCTUARY
Fruc"tu*a*ry, n.; pl. Fructuaries. Etym: [L. fructuarius.]

Defn: One who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything.
Kings are not proprietors nor fructuaries. Prynne.

FRUCTUATION
Fruc"tu*a`tion, n.

Defn: Produce; fruit, [R.]

FRUCTUOUS
Fruc"tu*ous, a. Etym: [L. fructuosus: cf, F. fructueux.]

Defn: Fruitful; productive; profitable. [Obs.]
Nothing fructuous or profitable. Chaucer.
— Fruc"tu*ous*ly, adv.
— Fruc"tu*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]

FRUCTURE
Fruc"ture, n. Etym: [L. frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy. See Fruit, n.]

Defn: Use; fruition; enjoyment. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

FRUE VANNER
Frue" van"ner. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Mining)

Defn: A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.

FRUGAL Fru"gal, a. Etym: [L. frugalis, fr. frugi, lit., for fruit; hence, fit for food, useful, proper, temperate, the dative of frux, frugis, fruit, akin to E. fruit: cf. F. frugal. See Fruit, n.]

1. Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time. I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions. Milton.

2. Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal fortune. "Frugal fare." Dryden.

FRUGALITY Fru*gal"i*ty, n.; pl. Frugalities. Etym: [L. frugalitas: cf. F. frugalité.]

1. The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; —- opposed to extravagance. Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits. Burke.

2. A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise.

Syn.
— Economy; parsimony. See Economy.

FRUGALLY
Fru"gal*ly, adv.

Defn: Thriftily; prudently.

FRUGALNESS
Fru"gal*ness

Defn: , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.

FRUGIFEROUS Fru*gif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. frugifer; frux, frugis, fruit + ferre to bear: cf. F. frugifere.]

Defn: Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous. Dr. H. More.

FRUGIVORA
Fru*giv"o*ra, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Frugivorous.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit.

FRUGIVOROUS Fru*giv"o*rous, a. Etym: [L. frux, frugis, fruit + vorare to devour.: cf. F. frugivore.]

Defn: Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals. Pennant.

FRUIT Fruit, n. Etym: [OE. fruit, frut, F. fruit, from L. fructus enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin to E. brook, v. t. See Broook, v. t., and cf. Fructify, Frugal.]

1. Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; — commonly used in the plural. Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof. Ex. xxiii. 10.

2. (Hort.)

Defn: The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.

3. (Bot.)

Defn: The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.

Note: Fruits are classified as fleshy, drupaceous, and -dry. Fleshy fruits include berries, gourds, and melons, orangelike fruita and pomes; drupaceous fruits are stony within and fleshy without, as peaches, plums, and chercies;and dry fruits are further divided into achenes, follicles, legumes, capsules, nuts, and several other kinds.

4. (Bot.)

Defn: The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.

6. The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body. King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown. Shak.

6. That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance. The fruit of rashness. Shak. What I obtained was the fruit of no bargain. Burke. They shall eat the fruit of their doings. Is. iii 10. The fruits of this education became visible. Macaulay.

Note: Fruit is frequently used adjectively, signifying of, for, or pertaining to a fruit or fruits; as, fruit bud; fruit frame; fruit jar; fruit knife; fruit loft; fruit show; fruit stall; fruit tree; etc. Fruit bat (Zoöl.), one of the Frugivora; — called also fruit- eating bat. — Fruit bud (Bot.), a bud that produces fruit; — in most oplants the same as the power bud. Fruit dot (Bot.), a collection of fruit cases, as in ferns. See Sorus. — Fruit fly (Zoöl.), a small dipterous insect of the genus Drosophila, which lives in fruit, in the larval state. — Fruit jar, a jar for holding preserved fruit, usually made of glass or earthenware. — Fruit pigeon (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of pigeons of the family Carpophagidæ, inhabiting India, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. They feed largely upon fruit. and are noted for their beautiful colors. — Fruit sugar (Chem.), a kind of sugar occurring, naturally formed, in many ripe fruits, and in honey; levulose. The name is also, though rarely, applied to invert sugar, or to the natural mixture or dextrose and levulose resembling it, and found in fruits and honey. — Fruit tree (Hort.), a tree cultivated for its edible fruit. — Fruit worm (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of insect larvæ: which live in the interior of fruit. They are mostly small species of Lepidoptera and Diptera. — Small fruits (Hort.), currants, raspberries, strawberries, etc.

FRUIT
Fruit, v. i.

Defn: To bear fruit. Chesterfield.

FRUITAGE
Fruit"age, n. Etym: [F. fruitage.]

1. Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton.

2. Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.

FRUITER
Fruit"er, a.

Defn: A ship for carrying fruit.

FRUITERER
Fruit"er*er, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fruitier.]

Defn: One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.

FRUITERESS
Fruit"er*ess, n.

Defn: A woman who sells fruit.

FRUITERY Fruit"er*y, n.; pl. Fruiteries. Etym: [F. fruiterie place where fruit is kept, in OF. also, fruitage.]

1. Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage. J. Philips.

2. A repository for fruit. Johnson.

FRUITESTERE
Fruit"es*tere, n.

Defn: A fruiteress. [Obs.]

FRUITFUL
Fruit"ful, a.

Defn: Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results;
prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or
season, or soil; a fruitful wife.
— Fruit"ful*ly, adv.
— Fruit"ful*ness, n.
Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. Gen. i. 28.
[Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful. Milton.
The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy. Addison.

Syn. — Fertile; prolific; productive; fecund; plentiful; rich; abundant; plenteous. See Fertile.

FRUITING
Fruit"ing, a.

Defn: Pertaining to, or producing, fruit.

FRUITING
Fruit"ing, n.

Defn: The bearing of fruit.

FRUITION Fru*i"tion, n. Etym: [OF. fruition, L. fruitio, enjoyment, fr. L. frui, p. p. fruitus, to use or enjoy. See Fruit, n.]

Defn: Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use. "Capacity of fruition." Rogers. "Godlike fruition." Milton. Where I may have fruition of her love. Shak.

FRUITIVE
Fru"i*tive, a. Etym: [See Fruition.]

Defn: Eujoying; possessing. [Obs.] Boyle.

FRUITLESS
Fruit"less, a.

1. Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. Shak.

2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy. They in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours. Milton.

Syn.
— Useless; barren; unprofitable; abortive; ineffectual; vain; idle;
profitless. See Useless.
— Fruit"less*ly, adv.
— Fruit"lness*ness, n.

FRUITY
Fruit"y, a.

Defn: Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful.
Dickens.

FRUMENTACEOUS Fru"men*ta"ceous, a. Etym: [L. frumentaceus, fr. frumentum corn or grain, from the root of frux fruit: cf. F. frumentacé. See Frugal.]

Defn: Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.

FRUMENTARIOUS
Fru`men*ta"ri*ous, a. Etym: [L. frumentarius.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to wheat or grain. [R.] Coles.

FRUMENTATION
Fru`men*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. frumentatio.] (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: A largess of grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy.

FRUMENTY
Fru"men*ty, n. Etym: [OF. fromentée, fr. L. frumentum. See
Frumentaceous.]

Defn: Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc. [Written also furmenty and furmity.] Halliwell.

FRUMP Frump, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Prov. E. frumple to wrinkle, ruffle, D. frommelen.]

Defn: To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

FRUMP
Frump, n.

1. A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

2. A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

FRUMPER
Frump"er, n.

Defn: A mocker. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

FRUMPISH
Frump"ish, a.

1. Cross-tempered; scornful. [Obs.]

2. Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress. Our Bell . . . looked very frumpish. Foote.

FRUSH
Frush, v. t. Etym: [F. froisser to bruise. Cf. Froise.]

Defn: To batter; to break in pieces. [Obs.]
I like thine armor well; I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all.
Shak.

FRUSH
Frush, a.

Defn: Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

FRUSH
Frush, n.

Defn: Noise; clatter; crash. [R.] Southey.

FRUSH Frush, n. Etym: [Cf. OE. frosch, frosk, a frog (the animal), G. frosch frog (the animal), also carney or lampass of horses. See Frog, n., 2.]

1. (Far.)

Defn: The frog of a horse's foot.

2. A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; — also caled thrush.

FRUSTRABLE
Frus"tra*ble, a. Etym: [L. frustrabilis: cf. F. frustable.]

Defn: Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated.

FRUSTRANEOUS
Frus*tra"ne*ous, a. Etym: [See Frustrate, a.]

Defn: Vain; useless; unprofitable. [Obs.] South.

FRUSTRATE Frus"trate, a. Etym: [L. frustratus, p. p. of frustrare, frustrari, to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr, prob. for frudtra and akin to fraus, E. fraud.]

Defn: Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak.

FRUSTRATE
Frus"trate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frustrated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Frustrating.]

1. To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose. Shall the adversary thus obtain His end and frustrate thine Milton.

2. To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.

Syn.
— To balk; thwart; foil; baffle; defeat.

FRUSTRATELY
Frus"trate*ly, adv.

Defn: In vain. [Obs.] Vicars.

FRUSTRATION
Frus*tra"tion, n. Etym: [L. frustratio: cf. OF. frustration.]

Defn: The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs

FRUSTRATIVE
Frus"tra*tive, a.

Defn: Tending to defeat; fallacious. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

FRUSTRATORY
Frus"tra*to*ry, a. Etym: [L. frustrotorius: cf. F. frustratoire.]

Defn: Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal. [Obs.]
Ayliffe.

FRUSTULE Frus"tule, n. Etym: [L. frustulum, dim. fr. frustum a piece: cf. F. frustule.] (Bot.)

Defn: The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover.

FRUSTULENT
Frus"tu*lent, a. Etym: [L. frustulentus. See Frustule.]

Defn: Abounding in fragments. [R.]

FRUSTUM Frus"tum, n.; pl. L. Frusta, E. Frustums. Etym: [L. fruslum piece, bit.]

1. (Geom.)

Defn: The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other.

2. (Arch.)

Defn: One of the drums of the shaft of a column.

FRUTAGE
Frut"age, n. Etym: [Cf. Fruitage.]

1. A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit. The cornices consist of frutages and festoons. Evelyn.

2. A confection of fruit. [Obs.] Nares.

FRUTESCENT Fru*tes"cent, a. Etym: [L. frulex, fruticis, shrub, bush: cf. F. frutescent, L. fruticescens, p. pr.] (Bot.)

Defn: Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the
American species of Wistaria.

FRUTEX
Fru"tex, n. Etym: [L.] (Bot.)

Defn: A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.

FRUTICANT Fru"ti*cant, a. Etym: [L. fruticans, p. pr. of fruticare, to become bushy, fr. frutex, fruticis, shrub.]

Defn: Full of shoots. [Obs.] Evelyn.

FRUTICOSE
Fru"ti*cose`, a. Etym: [L. fruticosus, from frutex, fruticis, shrub]
(Bot.)

Defn: Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem. Gray.

FRUTICOUS
Fru"ti*cous, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Fruticose. [R.]

FRUTICULOSE Fru*tic"u*lose`, a. Etym: [Dim. fr. L. fruticosus bushy: cf. F. fruticuleux.] (Bot.)

Defn: Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub. Gray.

FRY
Fry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fried; p. pr. & vb. n. Frying.] Etym: [OE.
frien, F. frire, fr. L. frigere to roast, parch, fry, cf. Gr. bhrajj.
Cf. Fritter.]

Defn: To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.

FRY
Fry, v. i.

1. To undergo the process of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat.

2. To simmer; to boil. [Obs.] With crackling flames a caldron fries. Dryden The frothy billows fry. Spenser.

3. To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat. To keep the oil from frying in the stomach. Bacon.

4. To be agitated; to be greatly moved. [Obs.] What kindling motions in their breasts do fry. Fairfax.

FRY
Fry, n.

1. A dish of anything fried.

2. A state of excitement; as, to be in a fry. [Colloq.]

FRY Fry, n. Etym: [OE. fri, fry, seed, descendants, cf. OF. froye spawning, spawn of. fishes, little fishes, fr. L. fricare tosub (see Friction), but cf. also Icel. fræ, frjo, seed, Sw. & Dan. frö, Goth. fraiw seed, descendants.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The young of any fish.

2. A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small
things in general.
The fry of children young. Spenser.
To sever . . . the good fish from the other fry. Milton.
We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry.
Walpole.

FRYING
Fry"ing, n.

Defn: The process denoted by the verb fry. Frying pan, an iron pan with a long handle, used for frying meat. vegetables, etc.

FU
Fu, n. [Chin.]

Defn: A department in China comprising several hsein; also, the chief city of a department; — often forming the last part of a name; as, Paoting-fu.

FUAGE
Fu"age, n.

Defn: Same as Fumage.

FUAR
Fu"ar, n.

Defn: Same as Feuar.

FUB; FUBS
Fub, Fubs (, n. Etym: [Cf. Fob a pocket.]

Defn: A plump young person or child. [Obs.] Smart.

FUB
Fub, v. t. Etym: [The same word as fob to cheat.]

Defn: To put off by trickery; to cheat. [Obs.] I have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fabbed off, from this day to that day. Shak.

FUBBERY
Fub"ber*y, n.

Defn: Cheating; deception. Marston.

FUBBY; FUBSY
Fub"by, Fub"sy a.

Defn: Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa. [Eng.]
A fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid. Mme. D'Arblay.

FUCATE; FUCATED Fu"cate, Fu"ca*ted a. Etym: [L. fucatus, p. p. of fucare to color, paint, fr. fucus.]

Defn: Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.

FUCHS
Fuchs, n. Etym: [G., prop., a fox.] (German Univ.)

Defn: A student of the first year.

FUCHSIA
Fuch"si*a, n.; pl. E. Fuchsias, L. Fuchslæ. Etym: [NL. Named after
Leonard Fuchs, a German botanist.] (Bot.)

Defn: A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.

FUCHSINE Fuch"sine, n. Etym: [Named by the French inventor, from Fuchs a fox, the German equivalent of his own name, Renard.] (Chem.)

Defn: Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. It consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See Rosaniline.

FUCIVOROUS
Fu*civ"o*rous, a. Etym: [Fucus + L. vorare to eat.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Eating fucus or other seaweeds.

FUCOID Fu"coid, a. Etym: [Fucus + -oid.] (Bot.) (a) Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideæ) which are blackish in color, and produce oöspores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character. (b) In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.

FUCOID
Fu"coid, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed.
See Fucoid, a.

FUCOIDAL
Fu*coid"al, a.

1. (Bot.)

Defn: Fucoid.

2. (Geol.)

Defn: Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone.

FUCUS Fu"cus, n.; pl. Fuci. Etym: [L. rock lichen, orchil, used as a red dye, red or purple color, disguise, deceit.]

1. A paint; a dye; also, false show. [Obs.]

2. (Bot.)

Defn: A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.

Note: Formerly most marine alg were called fuci.

FUCUSOL
Fu"cu*sol, n. Etym: [Fucus + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.)

Defn: An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds.

FUD
Fud, n. Etym: [Of uncertain origin.]

1. The tail of a hare, coney, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.

2. Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.

FUDDER
Fud"der, n.

Defn: See Fodder, a weight.

FUDDLE
Fud"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p., Fuddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fuddling.]
Etym: [Perh. formed as a kind of dim. of full. Cf. Fuzzle.]

Defn: To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
[Colloq.]
I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders. Steele.

FUDDLE
Fud"dle, v. i.

Defn: To drink to excess. [Colloq.]

FUDDLER
Fud"dler, n.

Defn: A drunkard. [Colloq.] Baxter.

FUDGE
Fudge, n. Etym: [Cf. Prov. F. fuche, feuche, an interj. of contempt.]

Defn: A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; — often an exclamation of contempt.

FUDGE
Fudge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fudged; p. pr. & vb. n. Fudging.]

1. To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate. Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness. N. Fairfax.

2. To foist; to interpolate. That last "suppose" is fudged in. Foote .

FUDGE WHEEL
Fudge" wheel". (Shoemaking)

Defn: A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.

FUEGIAN
Fu*e"gi*an, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Terra del Fuego.
— n.

Defn: A native of Terra del Fuego.

FUEL
Fu"el, n. Etym: [OF. fouail, fuail, or fouaille, fuaille, LL.
focalium, focale, fr. L. focus hearth, fireplace, in LL., fire. See
Focus.] [Formerly written also fewel.]

1. Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

2. Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement. Artificial fuel, fuel consisting of small particles, as coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or blocks.

FUEL
Fu"el, v. t.

1. To feed with fuel. [Obs.] Never, alas I the dreadful name, That fuels the infernal flame. Cowley.

2. To store or furnish with fuel or firing. [Obs.] Well watered and well fueled. Sir H. Wotton.

FUELER
Fu"el*er, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, supplies fuel. [R.] [Written also fueller.] Donne.

FUERO Fu*e"ro, n. Etym: [Sp., fr. L. forum.] (Sp. Law) (a) A code; a charter; a grant of privileges. (b) A custom having the force of law. (c) A declaration by a magistrate. (d) A place where justice is administered. (e) The jurisdiction of a tribunal. Burrill.

FUFF
Fuff, v. t. & i. Etym: [Of imitative origin. Cf. Puff.]

Defn: To puff. [Prov. Eng. A Local, U. S.] Halliwel.

FUFFY
Fuff"y, a.

Defn: Light; puffy. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.]

FUGA
Fu"ga, n. Etym: [It.] (Mus.)

Defn: A fugue.

FUGACIOUS
Fu*ga"cious, a. Etym: [L. fugax, fugacis, from fugere: cf. F. fugace.
See Fugitive.]

1. Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile. Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase. Jer. Taylor.

2. (Biol.)

Defn: Fleeting; lasting but a short time; — applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual.

FUGACIOUSNESS
Fu*ga"cious*ness, n.

Defn: Fugacity. [Obs.]

FUGACITY
Fu*gac"i*ty, a. Etym: [L fugacitas: cf. F. fugacité.]

1. The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits. Boyle.

2. Uncertainty; instability. Johnson.

FUGACY
Fu"ga*cy, n.

Defn: Banishment. [Obs.] Milton.

FUGATO
Fu*ga"to, a. (Mus.)

Defn: in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue.
— n.

Defn: A composition resembling a fugue.

FUGH
Fugh, interj.

Defn: An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh. Dryden.

FUGHETTA
Fu*ghet"ta, n. Etym: [It.] (Mus.)

Defn: a short, condensed fugue. Grove.

FUGITIVE Fu"gi*tive, a. Etym: [OE. fugitif, F. fugitif, fr. L. fugitivus, fr. fugere to flee. See Bow to bend, and cf. Feverfew.]

1. Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor. The fugitive Parthians follow. Shak. Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself while her parents are in tear Richardson A libellous pamphlet of a fugitive physician. Sir H. Wotton.

2. Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; — applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea. The me more tender and fugitive parts, the leaves . . . of vegatables. Woodward. Fugitive compositions, Such as are short and occasional, and so published that they quickly escape notice.

Syn. — Fleeting; unstable; wandering; uncertain; volatile; fugacious; fleeing; evanescent.

FUGITIVE
Fu"gi*tive, n.

1. One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.

2. Something hard to be caught or detained. Or Catch that airy fugitive called wit. Harte. Fugitive from justice (Law), one who, having committed a crime in one jurisdiction, flees or escapes into another to avoid punishment.

FUGITIVELY
Fu"gi*tive*ly, adv.

Defn: In a fugitive manner.

FUGITIVENESS
Fu"gi*tive*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.

FUGLE
Fu"gle, v. i.

Defn: To maneuver; to move hither and thither. [Colloq.]
Wooden arms with elbow joints jerking and fugling in the air.
Carlyle.

FUGLEMAN Fu"gle*man, n.; pl. Fuglemen. Etym: [G. flügelmann file leader; flügel wing (akin to E. fly) + mann man. Cf. Flugrelman.]

1. (Mil.)

Defn: A soldier especially expert and well drilled, who takes his place in front of a military company, as a guide for the others in their exercises; a file leader. He originally stood in front of the right wing. [Written also flugelman.]

2. Hence, one who leads the way. [Jocose]

FUGUE Fugue, n. Etym: [F., fr. It. fuga, fr. L. fuga a fleeing, flight, akin to fugere to fiee. See Fugitive.] (Mus.)

Defn: A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears. All parts of the scheme are eternally chasing each other, like the parts of a fugue. Jer. Taylor.

FUGUIST
Fu"guist, n. (Mus.)

Defn: A musician who composes or performs fugues. Busby.

-FUL -ful. Etym: [See Full, a.]

Defn: A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful.

FULAHS; FOOLAHS
Fu"lahs`

Defn: , Foo"lahs` (, n. pl.; sing. Fulah, Foolan (. (Ethnol.) A peculiar African race of uncertain origin, but distinct from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze. They are Mohammedans. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah is also used adjectively; as, Fulah empire, tribes, language.

FULBE
Ful"be, n. (Ethnol.)

Defn: Same as Fulahs.

FULCIBLE
Ful"ci*ble, a. Etym: [L. fulcire to prop.]

Defn: Capable of being propped up. [Obs.] Cockeram.

FULCIMENT
Ful"ci*ment, n. Etym: [L. fulcimentum, fr. fulcire to prop.]

Defn: A prop; a fulcrum. [Obs.] Bp. Wilkins.

FULCRA
Ful"cra, n. pl.

Defn: See Fulcrum.

FULCRATE
Ful"crate, a. Etym: [See Fulcrum.]

1. (Bot.)

Defn: Propped; supported by accessory organs. [R.] Gray.

2. Furnished with fulcrums.

FULCRUM Ful"crum, n.; pl. L. Fulcra, E. Fulcrums. Etym: [L., bedpost, fr. fulcire to prop.]

1. A prop or support.

2. (Mech.)

Defn: That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body.

3. (Bot.)

Defn: An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like. [R.] Gray.

4. (Zoöl.) (a) The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects. (b) One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes.

5. (Anat.)

Defn: The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye.

FULFILL Ful*fill", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fulfilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fulfilling.] Etym: [OE. fulfillen, fulfullen, AS. fulfyllan; ful full + fyllan to fill. See Full, a., and Fill, v. t.] [Written also fulfil.]

1. To fill up; to make full or complete. [Obs.] "Fulfill her week" Gen. xxix. 27. Suffer thou that the children be fulfilled first, for it is not good to take the bread of children and give to hounds. Wyclif (Mark vii. 27).

2. To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a purpose or design; to effectuate. He will, fulfill the desire of them fear him. Ps. cxlv. 199. Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends. Milton. Servants must their masters' minds fulfill. Shak.

FULFILLER
Ful*fill"er, n.

Defn: One who fulfills. South.

FULFILLMENT
Ful*fill"ment, n. Etym: [Written also fulfilment.]

1. The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy.

2. Execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise.

FULGENCY
Fulgen*cy, n. Etym: [See fulgent.]

Defn: Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence. Bailey.

FULGENT Ful"gent, a. Etym: [L. fulgens, -entis, p. pr. of fulgere to flash, glitter, shine, akin to Gr. Phlox, Flagrant.]

Defn: Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent.
Other Thracians . . . fulgent morions wore. Glower.

FULGENTLY
Ful"gent*ly, adv.

Defn: Dazzlingly; glitteringly.

FULGID
Ful"gid, a. Etym: [L. fulgidus. See Fulgent.]

Defn: Shining; glittering; dazzling. [R.] Pope.

FULGIDITY
Ful*gid"i*ty, n.

Defn: Splendor; resplendence; effulgence. [R.] Bailey.

FULGOR
Ful"gor, n. Etym: [L. fulgor, fr. fulgere to shine.]

Defn: Dazzling brightness; splendor. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

FULGURANT
Ful"gu*rant a. Etym: [L. fulgurans, p. pr. of fulgurare.]

Defn: Lightening. [R.] Dr. H. More.

FULGURATA
Ful"gu*ra"ta, n. Etym: [NL.] (Electricity)

Defn: A spectro-electric tube in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed. Knight.

FULGURATE Ful"gu*rate, v. i. Etym: [L. fulguratus, p. p. of fulgurare to flash, fr. fulgur lightning, fr. fulgere to shine. See Fulgent.]

Defn: To flash as lightning. [R.]

FULGURATING
Ful"gu*ra`ting, a. (Med.)

Defn: Resembling lightning; — used to describe intense lancinating painsaccompanying locomotor ataxy.

FULGURATION
Ful"gu*ra`tion, n. Etym: [L. fulguratio: cf. F. fulguration.]

1. The act of lightening. [R.] Donne.

2. (Assaying)

Defn: The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver,
when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface;
— also called blick.
A phenomenon called, by the old chemists, fulguration. Ure.

FULGURITE Ful"gu*rite, n. Etym: [L. fulguritus, p. p. of fulgurire to strike with lightning, fr. fulgur lightning: cf. F. fulgurite.]

Defn: A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge.

FULGURY
Ful"gu*ry, n. Etym: [L. fulgur.]

Defn: Lightning. [Obs.]

FULHAM Ful"ham, n. Etym: [So named because supposed to have been chiefly made at Fulham, in Middlesex, Eng.)

Defn: A false die. [Cant] [Written also fullam.] Shak.

FULIGINOSITY
Fu*lig"i*nos"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fuliginosité.]

Defn: The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke. [R.]

FULIGINOUS Fu*lig"i*nous, a. Etym: [L. fuliginosus, from fuligo soot: cf. F. fuligineux. See Fume.]

1. Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.

2. Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke.

FULIGINOUSLY
Fu*lig"i*nous*ly, adv.

Defn: In a smoky manner.

FULIMART
Fu"li*mart, n.

Defn: Same as Foumart.

FULL Full, a. [Compar. Fuller; superl. Fullest.] Etym: [OE. & AS. ful; akin to OS. ful, D. vol, OHG. fol, G. voll, Icel. fullr, Sw. full, Dan. fuld, Goth. fulls, L. plenus, Gr. p, pr to fill, also to Gr. poly-, pref., G. viel, AS. fela. sq. root80. Cf. Complete, Fill, Plenary, Plenty.]

1. Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; — said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people. Had the throne been full, their meeting would not have been regular. Blackstone.

2. Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in. quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full compensation; a house full of furniture.

3. Not wanting in any essential quality; complete, entire; perfect;
adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full age; a full stop; a
full face; the full moon.
It came to pass, at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed.
Gen. xii. 1.
The man commands Like a full soldier. Shak.
I can not Request a fuller satisfaction Than you have freely granted.
Ford.

4. Sated; surfeited. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams. Is. i. 11.

5. Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information. Reading maketh a full man. Bacon.

6. Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project. Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions. Locke.

7. Filled with emotions. The heart is so full that a drop overfills it. Lowell.

8. Impregnated; made pregnant. [Obs.] Ilia, the fair, . . . full of Mars. Dryden. At full, when full or complete. Shak. — Full age (Law) the age at which one attains full personal rights; majority; — in England and the United States the age of 21 years. Abbott. — Full and by (Naut.), sailing closehauled, having all the sails full, and lying as near the wind as poesible. — Full band (Mus.), a band in which all the instruments are employed. — Full binding, the binding of a book when made wholly of leather, as distinguished from half binding. — Full bottom, a kind of wig full and large at the bottom. — Full brother or sister, a brother or sister having the same parents as another. — Full cry (Hunting), eager chase; — said of hounds that have caught the scent, and give tongue together. — Full dress, the dress prescribed by authority or by etiquette to be worn on occasions of ceremony. — Full hand (Poker), three of a kind and a pair. — Full moon. (a) The moon with its whole disk illuminated, as when opposite to the sun. (b) The time when the moon is full. — Full organ (Mus.), the organ when all or most stops are out. — Full score (Mus.), a score in which all the parts for voices and instruments are given. — Full sea, high water. — Full swing, free course; unrestrained liberty; "Leaving corrupt nature to . . . the full swing and freedom of its own extravagant actings." South (Colloq.) — In full, at length; uncontracted; unabridged; written out in words, and not indicated by figures. — In full blast. See under Blast.

FULL
Full, n.

Defn: Complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree.
The swan's-down feather, That stands upon the swell at full of tide.
Shak.
Full of the moon, the time of full moon.

FULL
Full, adv.

Defn: Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution;
with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly;
entirely.
The pawn I proffer shall be full as good. Dryden.
The diapason closing full in man. Dryden.
Full in the center of the sacred wood. Addison.

Note: Full is placed before adjectives and adverbs to heighten or strengthen their signification. "Full sad." Milton. "Master of a full poor cell." Shak. "Full many a gem of purest ray serene." T. Gray. Full is also prefixed to participles to express utmost extent or degree; as, full-bloomed, full-blown, full-crammed full-grown, full- laden, full-stuffed, etc. Such compounds, for the most part, are self-defining.

FULL
Full, v. i.

Defn: To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight.

FULL Full, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fulled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fulling.] Etym: [OE. fullen, OF. fuler, fouler, F. fouler, LL. fullare, fr. L. fullo fuller, cloth fuller, cf. Gr. fullian to whiten as a fuller, to baptize, fullere a fuller. Cf. Defile to foul, Foil to frustrate, Fuller. n. ]

Defn: To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.

FULL
Full, v. i.

Defn: To become fulled or thickened; as, this material fulls well.

FULLAGE
Full"age, n.

Defn: The money or price paid for fulling or cleansing cloth.
Johnson.

FULLAM
Ful"lam, n.

Defn: A false die. See Fulham.

FULL-BLOODED
Full"-blood`ed, a.

1. Having a full supply of blood.

2. Of pure blood; thoroughbred; as, a full-blooded horse.

FULL-BLOOMED
Full"-bloomed`, a.

Defn: Like a perfect blossom. "Full-bloomed lips." Crashaw.

FULL-BLOWN
Full"-blown`, a.

1. Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose. Denham.

2. Fully distended with wind, as a sail. Dryden.

FULL-BOTTOMED
Full"-bot"tomed, a.

1. Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain.

2. (Naut.)

Defn: Of great capacity below the water line.

FULL-BUTT
Full"-butt", adv.

Defn: With direct and violentop position; with sudden collision.
[Colloq.] L'Estrange.

FULL-DRIVE
Full`-drive", adv.

Defn: With full speed. [Colloq.]

FULLER
Full"er, n. Etym: [AS. fullere, fr. L. fullo. See Full, v. t.]

Defn: One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. — Fuller's herb (Bot.), the soapwort (Saponaria officinalis), formerly used to remove stains from cloth. — Fuller's thistle or weed (Bot.), the teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) whose burs are used by fullers in dressing cloth. See Teasel.

FULLER
Full"er, n. Etym: [From Full, a.] (Blacksmith's Work)

Defn: A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; — called also a creaser.

FULLER
Full"er, v. t.

Defn: To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet.

FULLERY
Full"er*y, n.; pl. Fulleries (.

Defn: The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.

FULL-FORMED
Full"-formed`, a.

Defn: Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh.
The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.

FULL-GROWN
Full"-grown`, a.

Defn: Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.

FULL-HEARTED
Full"-heart`ed, a.

Defn: Full of courage or confidence. Shak.

FULL-HOT
Full"-hot`, a.

Defn: Very fiery. Shak.

FULL HOUSE
Full house. (Poker)

Defn: A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind.

FULLING
Full"ing, n.

Defn: The process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure. Fulling mill, a mill for fulling cloth as by means of pesties or stampers, which alternately fall into and rise from troughs where the cloth is placed with hot water and fuller's earth, or other cleansing materials.

FULL-MANNED
Full"-manned`, a.

Defn: Completely furnished wiith men, as a ship.

FULLMART
Full"mart", n.

Defn: See Foumart. B. Jonson.

FULLNESS
Full"ness, n.

Defn: The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness. [Written also fulness.] "In thy presence is fullness of joy." Ps. xvi. 11.

FULLONICAL
Ful*lon"i*cal, a. Etym: [L. fullonicus, from fullo a cloth fuller.]

Defn: Pertaining to a fuller of cloth. [Obs.] Blount.

FULL-ORBED
Full"-orbed` (, a.

Defn: Having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated; like the full moon.

FULL-SAILED
Full"-sailed`, a.

Defn: Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation. Massinger.

FULL-WINGED
Full"-winged`, a.

1. Having large and strong or complete wings. Shak.

2. Beady for flight; eager. [Archaic] Beau. & Fl.

FULLY
Ful"ly, adv.

Defn: In a full manner or degree; completely; entirely; without lack or defect; adequately; satisfactorily; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition. Fully committed (Law), committed to prison for trial, in distinction from being detained for examination.

Syn. — Completely; entirely; maturely; plentifuly; abundantly; plenteously; copiously; largely; amply; sufficiently; perfectly.

FULMAR
Ful"mar (fûlmär), n. Etym: [Icel. fulmar. See foul, and Man a gull.]
(Zoöl.)

Defn: One of several species of sea birds, of the family procellariidæ, allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well- known species are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea).

FULMINANT Ful"mi*nant, a. Etym: [L. fulminans, p. pr. of fulminare to lighten: cf. F. fulminant.]

Defn: Thundering; fulminating. [R.] Bailey.

FULMINATE
Ful"mi*nate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fulminated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fulminating.] Etym: [L. fulminatus, p. p. of fulminare to lighten,
strike with lightning, fr. fulmen thunderbolt, fr. fulgere to shine.
See Fulgent, and cf. Fulmine.]

1. To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.

2. To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.

FULMINATE
Ful"mi*nate, v. t.

1. To cause to explode. Sprat.

2. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; — said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority. They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees. De Quincey.

FULMINATE Ful"mi*nate, n. Etym: [Cf. P. fulminate. See Fulminate, v. i.] (Chem.) (a) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic. (b) A fulminating powder. Fulminate of gold, an explosive compound of gold; — called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.

FULMINATING
Ful"mi*na"ting, a.

1. Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.

2. Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures. Fulminating oil, nitroglycerin. — Fulminating powder (Chem.) any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate.

FULMINATION
Ful"mi*na`tion, n. Etym: [L. fulminatio a darting of lightning: cf.
F. fulmination.]

1. The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.

2. The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.

3. That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure. The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule. Ayliffe.

FULMINATORY
Ful"mi*na*to*ry, a. Etym: [Cf. F. fulminatoire.]

Defn: Thundering; striking terror. Cotgrave.

FULMINE
Ful"mine, v. i. Etym: [F. fulminer. See Fulminate, v.]

Defn: To thunder. [Obs.] Spenser. Milton.

FULMINE
Ful"mine, v. t.

Defn: To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence. She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique. Tennyson.

FULMINEOUS
Ful*min"e*ous, a. Etym: [L. fulmen thunder.]

Defn: Of, or concerning thunder.

FULMINIC
Ful*min"ic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. fulminique.]

Defn: Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (Chem.), pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulminic acid. Fulminic acid (Chem.), a complex acid, H2C2N2O2, isomeric with cyanic and cyanuric acids, and not known in the free state, but forming a large class of highly explosive salts, the fulminates. Of these, mercuric fulminate, the most common, is used, mixed with niter, to fill percussion caps, charge cartridges, etc. — Fulminic acid is made by the action of nitric acid on alcohol.

FULMINURIC
Ful"mi*nu"ric, a. Etym: [Fulminic + cyanuric.] (Chem.)

Defn: Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called. Fulminuric acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, explosive subatance, H3C3N3O3, forming well known salts, and obtained from the fulnunates. It is isomeric with cyanuric acid, and hence is also called isocyanuric acid.

FULNESS
Ful"ness, n.

Defn: See Fullness.

FULNESS
Ful"ness, n.

Defn: See Fullness.

FULSAMIC
Ful*sam"ic, a. Etym: [See Fulsome.]

Defn: Fulsome. [Obs.]

FULSOME
Ful"some, a. Etym: [Full, a. + -some.]

1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.] His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. Golding.

2. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery. And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. Cowper.

3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. [Obs.]
"Fulsome ewes." Shak.
— Ful"some*ly, adv.
— Ful"some*ness, n. Dryden.

FULVID
Ful"vid, a. Etym: [LL. fulvidus, fr. L. fulvus.]

Defn: Fulvous. [R.] Dr. H. More.

FULVOUS
Ful"vous, a. Etym: [L. fulvus.]

Defn: Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown. Lindley.

FUM
Fum, v. i.

Defn: To play upon a fiddle. [Obs.]
Follow me, and fum as you go. B. Jonson.

FUMACIOUS
Fu*ma"cious, a. Etym: [From Fume.]

Defn: Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco.

FUMADE; FUMADO Fu*made", Fu*ma"do (, n.; pl. Fumades, Fumadoes. Etym: [Sp. fumodo smoked, p. p. of fumar to smoke, fr. L. fumare. See Fume, v. i.]

Defn: A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.

FUMAGE
Fu"mage, n. Etym: [OF. fumage, fumaige, fr. L. fumus smoke.]

Defn: Hearth money.
Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone.

FUMARATE
Fu"ma*rate, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A salt of fumaric acid.

FUMARIC
Fu*mar"ic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (Fumaria officinalis). Fumaric acid (Chem.), a widely occurring organic acid, exttracted from fumitory as a white crystallline substance, C2H2(CO2H)2, and produced artificially in many ways, as by the distillation of malic acid; boletic acid. It is found also in the lichen, Iceland moss, and hence was also called lichenic acid.

FUMARINE
Fu"ma*rine, n. Etym: [L. fumus smoke, fume.] (Chem.)

Defn: An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.

FUMAROLE Fu"ma*role, n. Etym: [It. fumaruola, fr. fumo smoke, L. fumus: cf. F. fumerolle, fumarolle.]

Defn: A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.

FUMATORIUM Fu`ma*to"ri*um, n.; L. pl. -ria (#). [NL., fr. L. fumare, fumatum, to smoke.]

Defn: An air-tight compartment in which vapor may be generated to destroy germs or insects; esp., the apparatus used to destroy San José scale on nursery stock, with hydrocyanic acid vapor.

FUMATORY
Fu"ma*to*ry, n.

Defn: See Fumitory. [Obs.]

FUMBLE Fum"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fumbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fumbling.] Etym: [Akin to D. fommelen to crumple, fumble, Sw. fumla to fusuble, famla to grope, Dan. famle to grope, fumble, Icel. falme, AS. folm palm of the hand. See Feel, and cf. Fanble, Palm.]

1. To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. Adams now began to fumble in his pockets. Fielding.

2. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for
an excuse. Dryden.
My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles. Chesterfield.
Alas! how he fumbles about the domains. Wordsworth.

3. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over. I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers. Shak.

FUMBLE
Fum"ble, v. t.

Defn: To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.
Shak.

FUMBLER
Fum"bler, n.

Defn: One who fumbles.

FUMBLINGLY
Fum"bling*ly, adv.

Defn: In the manner of one who fumbles.

FUME Fume, n. Etym: [L. fumus; akin to Skr. dh smoke, dh to shake, fan a flame, cf. Gr. fum smoke, F. fumée. Cf. Dust, n., Femerell, Thyme.]

1. Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco. The fumes of new shorn hay. T. Warton. The fumes of undigested wine. Dryden.

2. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion. South.

3. Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or' airy; idle conceit; vain imagination. A show of fumes and fancies. Bacon.

4. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery. To smother him with fumes and eulogies. Burton. In a fume, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.

FUME
Fume, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fumed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fuming.] Etym: [Cf.
F. fumer, L. fumare to smoke. See Fume, n.]

1. To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action;
to rise up, as vapor.
Where the golden altar fumed. Milton.
Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain. Roscommon.

2. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied. Keep his brain fuming. Shak.

3. To pass off in fumes or vapors. Their parts pre kept from fuming away by their fixity. Cheyne.

4. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger. He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. Dryden. While her mother did fret, and her father did fume. Sir W. Scott. To tame away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.

FUME
Fume, e. t.

1. To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room. She fumed the temple with an odorous flame. Dryden.

2. To praise inordinately; to flatter. They demi-deify and fume him so. Cowper.

3. To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor. The heat will fume away most of the scent. Montimer. How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain! Young.

FUMED OAK
Fumed oak. (Cabinetwork)

Defn: Oak given a weathered appearance by exposure in an air-tight compartment to fumes of ammonia from uncorked cans, being first given a coat of filler.

FUMELESS
Fume"less, a.

Defn: Free from fumes.

FUMER
Fum"er, n.

1. One that fumes.

2. One who makes or uses perfumes. [Obs.] Embroiderers, feather makers, fumers. Beau. & Fl.

FUMERELL
Fu"mer*ell, n. (Arch.)

Defn: See Femerell.

FUMET
Fu"met, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fumier dung, OF. femier, fr. L. fimus dung.]

Defn: The dung of deer. B. Jonson.

FUMET; FUMETTE
Fu"met Fu*mette", n. Etym: [F. fumet odor, fume of wine or meat, fr.
L. fumus smoke. See Fume, n.]

Defn: The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long.
Swift.

FUMETERE
Fu"me*tere", n.

Defn: Fumitory. [Obs.]

FUMID
Fu"mid, a. Etym: [L. fumidus, fr. fumus smoke. See Fume.]

Defn: Smoky; vaporous. Sir T. Broune.

FUMIDITY; FUMIDNESS
Fu*mid"i*ty, Fu"mid*ness n.

Defn: The state of being fumid; smokiness.

FUMIFEROUS
Fu*mif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. fumifer; fumus smoke + ferre to bear.]

Defn: Producing smoke.

FUMIFUGIST Fu*mif"u*gist, n. Etym: [L. fumus smoke + fugare to put to flight, fugere to flee.]

Defn: One who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes.

FUMIFY
Fu"mi*fy, v. t. Etym: [Fume + -fy.]

Defn: To subject to the action of smoke. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

FUMIGANT
Fu"mi*gant, a. Etym: [L. fumigans, p. pr. of fumigare. See Fumigate.]

Defn: Fuming. [R.]

FUMIGATE
Fu"mi*gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fumigated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fumigating.] Etym: [L. fumigate, p. p. of fumigare to fumigate, fr.
fumus smoke. See Fume, n.]

1. To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.

2. To smoke; to perfume. Dryden.

FUMIGATION
Fum`iga"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fumigation.]

1. The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.

2. Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.

FUMIGATOR
Fu"mi*ga`tor, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating.

FUMIGATORY
Fu"mi*ga*to*ry, a. Etym: [Cf. F. fumigatoire.]

Defn: Having the quality of purifying by smoke. [R.]

FUMILY
Fum"i*ly, adv.

Defn: Smokily; with fume.

FUMING
Fum"ing, a.

Defn: Producing fumes, or vapors. Cadet's fuming liquid (Chem.),
alkarsin.
— Fuming liquor of Libsvius (Old Chem.), stannic chloride; the
chloride of tin, SnCl4, forming a colorless, mobile liquid which
fumes in the air. Mixed with water it solidifies to the so-called
butter of tin.
— Fuming sulphuric acid. (Chem.) Same as Disulphuric acid, uder
Disulphuric.

FUMINGLY
Fum"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a fuming manner; angrily. "They answer fumingly." Hooker.

FUMISH
Fum"ish, a.

Defn: Smoky; hot; choleric.

FUMISH
Fum"ish, a.

Defn: Smoky; hot; choleric.

FUMISHNESS
Fum"ish*ness, n.

Defn: Choler; fretfulness; passion.

FUMITER
Fu"mi*ter`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Fumitory. [Obs.]

FUMITORY
Fu"mi*to*ry, n. Etym: [OE. fumetere, F. fumeterre, prop., smoke of
the ground, fr. L. fumus smoke + terra earth. See Fume, and Terrace.]
(Bot.)

Defn: The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. F. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic. Climbing fumitory (Bot.), the Alleghany vine (Adlumia cirrhosa); a biennial climbing plant with elegant feathery leaves and large clusters of pretty white or pinkish flowers looking like grains of rice.

FUMMEL
Fum"mel, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A hinny.

FUMOSITY
Fu*mos"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. fumosité.]

Defn: The fumes of drink. [Obs.] Chaucer.

FUMOUS
Fum"ous, a. Etym: [L. fumosus, fr. fumus smoke: cf. F. fumeux.]

1. Producing smoke; smoky.

2. Producing fumes; full of fumes. Garlic, onions, mustard, and such-like fumous things. Barough (1625).

FUMY
Fum"y, a.

Defn: Producing fumes; fumous. "Drowned in fumy wine." H. Brooke.

FUN Fun, n. Etym: [Perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. fonn pleasure.]

Defn: Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement. "Oddity, frolic, and fun." Goldsmith. To make fan of, to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.

FUNAMBULATE
Fu*nam"bu*late, v. i. Etym: [See Funambulo.]

Defn: To walk or to dance on a rope.

FUNAMBULATION
Fu*nam"bu*la`tion, n.

Defn: Ropedancing.

FUNAMBULATORY
Fu*nam"bu*la`to*ry, a.

1. Performing like a ropedancer. Chambers.

2. Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer. This funambulatory track. Sir T. Browne.

FUNAMBULIST
Fu*nam"bu*list, n.

Defn: A ropewalker or ropedancer.

FUNAMBULO; FUNAMBULUS Fu*nam"bu*lo, Fu*nam"bu*lus n. Etym: [Sp. funambulo, or It. funambolo, fr. L. funambulus; funis rope (perh. akin to E. bind) + ambulare to walk. See Amble, and cf. Funambulist.]

Defn: A ropewalker or ropedancer. [Obs.] Bacon.

FUNCTION
Func"tion, n. Etym: [L. functio, fr. fungi to perform, execute, akin
to Skr. bhuj to enjoy, have the use of: cf. F. fonction. Cf.
Defunct.]

1. The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance. "In the function of his public calling." Swift.

2. (Physiol.)

Defn: The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.

3. The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind. As the mind opens, and its functions spread. Pope.

4. The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession. Tradesmen . . . going about their functions. Shak. The malady which made him incapable of performing his regal functions. Macaulay.

5. (Math.)

Defn: A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x. Algebraic function, a quantity whose connection with the variable is expressed by an equation that involves only the algebraic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to a given power, and extracting a given root; — opposed to transcendental function. — Arbitrary function. See under Arbitrary. — Calculus of functions. See under Calculus. — Carnot's function (Thermo-dynamics), a relation between the amount of heat given off by a source of heat, and the work which can be done by it. It is approximately equal to the mechanical equivalent of the thermal unit divided by the number expressing the temperature in degrees of the air thermometer, reckoned from its zero of expansion. — Circular functions. See Inverse trigonometrical functions (below). — Continuous function, a quantity that has no interruption in the continuity of its real values, as the variable changes between any specified limits. — Discontinuous function. See under Discontinuous. — Elliptic functions, a large and important class of functions, so called because one of the forms expresses the relation of the arc of an ellipse to the straight lines connected therewith. — Explicit function, a quantity directly expressed in terms of the independently varying quantity; thus, in the equations y = 6x2, y = 10 -x3, the quantity y is an explicit function of x. — Implicit function, a quantity whose relation to the variable is expressed indirectly by an equation; thus, y in the equation x2 + y2 = 100 is an implicit function of x. — Inverse trigonometrical functions, or Circular function, the lengths of arcs relative to the sines, tangents, etc. Thus, AB is the arc whose sine is BD, and (if the length of BD is x) is written sin - 1x, and so of the other lines. See Trigonometrical function (below). Other transcendental functions are the exponential functions, the elliptic functions, the gamma functions, the theta functions, etc. — One-valued function, a quantity that has one, and only one, value for each value of the variable. — Transcendental functions, a quantity whose connection with the variable cannot be expressed by algebraic operations; thus, y in the equation y = 10x is a transcendental function of x. See Algebraic function (above). — Trigonometrical function, a quantity whose relation to the variable is the same as that of a certain straight line drawn in a circle whose radius is unity, to the length of a corresponding are of the circle. Let AB be an arc in a circle, whose radius OA is unity let AC be a quadrant, and let OC, DB, and AF be drawnpependicular to OA, and EB and CG parallel to OA, and let OB be produced to G and F. E Then BD is the sine of the arc AB; OD or EB is the cosine, AF is the tangent, CG is the cotangent, OF is the secant OG is the cosecant, AD is the versed sine, and CE is the coversed sine of the are AB. If the length of AB be represented by x (OA being unity) then the lengths of Functions. these lines (OA being unity) are the trigonometrical functions of x, and are written sin x, cos x, tan x (or tang x), cot x, sec x, cosec x, versin x, coversin x. These quantities are also considered as functions of the angle BOA.

FUNCTION; FUNCTIONATE
Func"tion, Func"tion*ate, v. i.

Defn: To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.

FUNCTIONAL
Func"tion*al, a.

1. Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.

2. (Physiol.)

Defn: Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general. Functional disease (Med.), a disease of which the symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; the derangement of an organ arising from a cause, often unknown, external to itself opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.

FUNCTIONALIZE
Func"tion*al*ize, v. t.

Defn: To assign to some function or office. [R.]

FUNCTIONALLY
Func"tion*al*ly, adv.

Defn: In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate
activity.
The organ is said to be functionally disordered. Lawrence.

FUNCTIONARY
Func"tion*a*ry, n.; pl. Functionaries. Etym: [Cf. F. fonctionnaire.]

Defn: One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.

FUNCTIONLESS
Func"tion*less, a.

Defn: Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.

FUND Fund, n. Etym: [OF. font, fond, nom. fonz, bottom, ground, F. fond bottom, foundation, fonds fund, fr. L. fundus bottom, ground, foundation, piece of land. See Found to establish.]

1. An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.

2. A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.

3. pl.

Defn: The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; — called also public funds.

4. An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.

5. A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense. An inexhaustible fund of stories. Macaulay. Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a government, or of a corporation, by the accumulation of interest.

FUND
Fund, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Funded; p. pr. & vb. n. Funding.]

1. To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes.

2. To place in a fund, as money.

3. To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.

FUNDABLE
Fund"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.

FUNDAMENT Fun"da*ment, n. Etym: [OE. fundament, fundement, fondement, OF. fundement, fondement, F. fondement, fr. L. fundamentum foundation, fr. fundare to lay the bottom, to found, fr. fundus bottom. See Fund.]

1. Foundation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.), the anus. Hume.

FUNDAMENTAL
Fun`da*men"tal, a. Etym: [Cf. F. fondamental.]

Defn: Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. — Fundamental chord (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root. — Fundamental colors, red, green, and violet-blue. See Primary colors, under Color.

FUNDAMENTAL
Fun"da*men`tal, n.

Defn: A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith.

FUNDAMENTALLY
Fun`da*men"tal*ly, adv.

Defn: Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke.

FUNDED
Fund"ed, a.

1. Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt.

2. Invested in public funds; as, funded money.

FUNDHOLDER
Fund"hold"er, a.

Defn: One who has money invested in the public funds. J. S. Mill.

FUNDING
Fund"ing, a.

1. Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.

2. Investing in the public funds. Funding system, a system or scheme of finance or revenue by which provision is made for paying the interest or principal of a public debt.

FUNDLESS
Fund"less, a.

Defn: Destitute of funds.

FUNDUS
Fun"dus, n. Etym: [L., bottom.] (Anat.)

Defn: The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.

FUNEBRIAL Fu*ne"bri*al, a. Etym: [L. funebris belonging to a funeral, fr. funus funeral.]

Defn: Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal. [Obs.]
[Written also funebral.] Sir T. Browne.

FUNEBRIOUS
Fu*ne"bri*ous, a.

Defn: Funebrial. [Obs.]

FUNERAL Fu"ner*al, n. Etym: [LL. funeralia, prop. neut. pl. of funeralis of a funeral, fr. L. funus, funeris, funeral: cf. F. funérailles.]

1. The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; — formerly used in the plural. King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster. Euller.

2. The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment. "The long funerals." Pope.

3. A funeral sermon; — usually in the plural. [Obs.] Mr. Giles Lawrence preached his funerals. South.

FUNERAL
Fu"ner*al, a. Etym: [LL. funeralis. See Funeral, n.]

Defn: Per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies. Shak. Funeral pile, a structure of combustible material, upon which a dead body is placed to be reduced to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a pyre. — Fu"ner*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

FUNERATE Fu"ner*ate, v. t. Etym: [L. funeratus, p. p. of funerare to funerate, fr. funus. See Funeral.]

Defn: To bury with funeral rites. [Obs.] Cockeram.

FUNERATION
Fu`ner*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. funeratio.]

Defn: The act of burying with funeral rites. [Obs.] Knatchbull.

FUNEREAL
Fu*ne"re*al, a. Etym: [L. funereus, fr. fentus a funeral.]

Defn: Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark;
dismal; mournful. Jer. Taylor.
What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant
lamps. Longfellow.
— Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv.

FUNEST Fu*nest", a. Etym: [L. funestus, fr. funus a funeral, destruction: cf. F. funeste.]

Defn: Lamentable; doleful. [R.] "Funest and direful deaths."
Coleridge.
A forerunner of something very funest. Evelyn.

FUNGAL
Fun"gal, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to fungi.

FUNGATE
Fun"gate, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fongate.] (Chem.)

Defn: A salt of fungic acid. [Formerly written also fungiate.]

FUNGE
Funge, n. Etym: [L. fungus mushroom, dolt.]

Defn: A blockhead; a dolt; a fool. [Obs.] Burton.

FUNGI
Fun"gi, n. pl. (Bot.)

Defn: See Fungus.

FUNGIA
Fun"gi*a, n. Etym: [NL., fr. L. fungus mushroom: cf. F. fongie.]
(Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of simple, stony corals; — so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.

FUNGIAN
Fun"gi*an, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the Fungidæ, a family of stony corals.
— n.

Defn: One of the Fungidæ.

FUNGIBLES Fun"gi*bles, n. pl. Etym: [LL. (res) fungibiles, probably fr. L. fungi to discharge. "A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of the words functionem recipere in the Digeste." Bouvier. "Called fungibiles, quia una alterius vice fungitur." John Taylor (1755). Cf. Function.]

1. (Civ. Law)

Defn: Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; — called also fungible things. Burrill.

2. (Scots Law)

Defn: Movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually. Jamieson.

FUNGIC
Fun"gic, a. Etym: [L. fungus mushroom: cf. F. fungique, fongique.]
(Chem.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or obtained from, mushrooms; as, fungic acid.

FUNGICIDE
Fun"gi*cide`, n. Etym: [Fungi + -cide, fr. L. caedere to kill.]

Defn: Anything that kills fungi.
— Fun`gi*ci"dal, n.

FUNGIFORM
Fun"gi*form, a. Etym: [Eungus + -form: cf. F. fongiforme.]

Defn: Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. Fungiform papillæ (Anat.), numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.

FUNGI IMPERFECTI
Fun"gi Im`per*fec"ti, pl. [L. imperfecti imperfect.] (Bot.)

Defn: A heterogenous group of fungi of which the complete life history is not known. Some undoubtedly represent the conidium stages of various Ascomycetes. The group is divided into the orders Sphæropsidales, Melanconiales, and Moniliales.

FUNGILLIFORM
Fun*gil"li*form, a.

Defn: Shaped like a small fungus.

FUNGIN
Fun"gin, n. Etym: [L. fungus mushroom: cf. F, fongine, fungine.]
(Chem.)

Defn: A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.

FUNGITE
Fun"gite, n. Etym: [L. fungus mushroom: cf. F. pongite.] (Paleon.)

Defn: A fossil coral resembling Fungia.

FUNGIVOROUS Fun*giv"o*rous, a. Etym: [L. fungus + vorare to eat freedily: cf. F. fangivore.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Eating fungi; — said of certain insects and snails.

FUNGOID
Fun"goid, a. Etym: [Fungus + -oil: cf. F. fongoïde.]

Defn: Like a fungus; fungous; spongy.

FUNGOLOGIST
Fun*gol"o*gist, n.

Defn: A mycologist.

FUNGOLOGY
Fun*gol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Fungus + —logy.]

Defn: Mycology.

FUNGOSITY
Fun*gos"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fungosité, fongosité.]

Defn: The quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence.
Dunglison.

FUNGOUS
Fun"gous, a. Etym: [L. fungosus: cf. F. fungueux.]

1. Of the nature of fungi; spongy.

2. Growing suddenly, but not substantial or durable.

FUNGUS Fun"gus, n.; pl. L. Fungi, E. Funguses. Etym: [L., a mushroom; perh. akin to a doubtful Gr. sponge.]

1. (Bot.)

Defn: Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, — the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each.

Note: The fungi are all destitute of chorophyll, and, therefore, to be supplied with elaborated nourishment, must live as saprophytes or parasites. They range in size from single microscopic cells to systems of entangled threads many feet in extent, which develop reproductive bodies as large as a man's head. The vegetative system consists of septate or rarely unseptate filaments called hyphæ; the aggregation of hyphæ into structures of more or less definite form is known as the mycelium. See Fungi, in the Supplement.

2. (Med.)

Defn: A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds. Hoblyn.

FUNIC
Fu"nic, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Funicular.

FUNICLE Fu"ni*cle, n. Etym: [L. funiculus, dim. of funis cord, rope: cf. F. funicule funicle (in sense 2). Cf. Funambulo.] (Bot.)

1. A small cord, ligature, or fiber.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: The little stalk that attaches a seed to the placenta.

FUNICULAR
Fu*nic"u*lar, a. Etym: [Cf. F. funiculaire.]

1. Consisting of a small cord or fiber.

2. Dependent on the tension of a cord.

3. (Anat.)

Defn: Pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament. Funicular action (Mech.), the force or action exerted by a rope in drawing together the supports to which its ends are Fastened, when acted upon by forces applied in a direction transverse to the rope, as in the archer's bow. — Funicular curve. Same as Catenary. — Funicular machine (Mech.), an apparatus for illustrating certain principles in statics, consisting of a cord or chain attached at one end to a fixed point, and having the other passed over a pulley and sustaining a weight, while one or more other weights are suspended from the cord at points between the fixed support and the pulley. — Funicular polygon (Mech.), the polygonal figure assumed by a cord fastened at its extremities, and sustaining weights at different points.

FUNICULATE
Fu*nic"u*late, a.

Defn: Forming a narrow ridge.

FUNICULUS
Fu*nic"u*lus, n.; pl. Funiculi. Etym: [L., a little cord. See
Funicle.]

1. (Anat.) A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord.

2. (Zoöl.) (a) A short cord which connects the embryo of some myriapods with the amnion. (b) In Bryozoa, an organ extending back from the stomach. See Bryozoa, and Phylactolema.

FUNILIFORM
Fu*nil"i*form, a. Etym: [L. funis rope + -form.] (Bot.)

Defn: Resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees.

FUNIS
Fu"nis, n. Etym: [L., a rope. ]

Defn: A cord; specifically, the umbilical cord or navel string.

FUNK Funk, n. Etym: [OE. funke a little fire; akin to Prov. E. funk touchwood, G. funke spark, and perh. to Goth. f fire.]

Defn: An offensive smell; a stench. [Low]

FUNK
Funk, v. t.

Defn: To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke. [Obs.] King.

FUNK
Funk, v. i.

1. To emit an offensive smell; to stink.

2. To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley. To funk out, to back out in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.] To funk right out o' political strife. Lowell (Biglow Papers).

FUNK; FUNKING
Funk, Funk"ing, n.

Defn: A shrinking back through fear. [Colloq.] "The horrid panic, or funk (as the men of Eton call it)." De Quincey.

FUNKY
Funk"y, a.

Defn: Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.
[Colloq. Eng.]

FUNNEL Fun"nel, n. Etym: [OE. funel, fonel, prob. through OF. fr, L. fundibulum, infundibulum, funnel, fr. infundere to pour in; in in + fundere to pour; cf. Armor. founil funnel, W. ffynel air hole, chimney. See Fuse, v. t.]

1. A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.

2. A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like. Funnel box (Mining), an apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water. Knight. — Funnel stay (Naut.), one of the ropes or rods steadying a steamer's funnel.

FUNNELFORM
Fun"nel*form`, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform.

FUNNY
Fun"ny, a. [Compar. Funnier; superl. Funniest.] Etym: [From Fun.]

Defn: Droll; comical; amusing; laughable. Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.

FUNNY
Fun"ny, n.; pl. Funnies (.

Defn: A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling. [Eng.]

FUR Fur, n. Etym: [OE. furre, OF. forre, fuerre, sheatth, case, of German origin; cf. OHG. fuotar lining, case, G. futter; akin to Icel. f lining, Goth. f, scabbard; cf. Skr. p vessel, dish. The German and Icel. words also have the sense, fodder, but this was probably a different word originally. Cf. Fodder food, Fother, v. t., Forel, n.]

1. The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.

2. The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.

3. Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.

4. pl.

Defn: Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.). Wrapped up in my furs. Lady M. W. Montagu.

5. Any coating considered as resembling fur; as: (a) A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever. (b) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach. (c) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.

6. (Her.)

Defn: One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six. See Tincture.

FUR
Fur, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade. Fur seal (Zoöl.) one of several species of seals of the genera Callorhinus and Arclocephalus, inhabiting the North Pacific and the Antarctic oceans. They have a coat of fine and soft fur which is highly prized. The northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) breeds in vast numbers on the Prybilov Islands, off the coast of Alaska; — called also sea bear.

FUR
Fur, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Furred; p. pr. & vb. n. Furring.]

1. To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes. "You fur your gloves with reason." Shak.

2. To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.

3. (Arch.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp. Gwill.

FURACIOUS
Fu*ra"cious, a. Etym: [L. furax, -racis thievish, from fur thief.]

Defn: Given to theft; thievish. [Obs.]

FURACITY
Fu*rac"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. furacitas.]

Defn: Addictedness to theft; thievishness. [Obs.]

FURBELOW Fur"be*low, n. Etym: [Prov. F. farbala, equiv. to F. falbala, It. falbalà.]

Defn: A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.

FURBELOW
Fur"be*low, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Furbelowed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Furbelowing.]

Defn: To put a furbelow on; to ornament.

FURBISH
Fur"bish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Furbished; p. pr. & vb. n. Furbishing.]
Etym: [OE. forbischen, OF. forbir, furbir, fourbir, F. fourbir, fr.
OHG. furban to clean. See -ish.]

Defn: To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear. Shak. Furbish new the name of John a Gaunt. Shak.

FURBISHABLE
Fur"bish*a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being furbished.

FURBISHER
Fur"bish*er, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fourbisseur.]

Defn: One who furbishes; esp., a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons.

FURCATE; FURCATED
Fur"cate, Fur"ca*ted, a. Etym: [L. furca fork. See Fork.]

Defn: Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.

FURCATION
Fur*ca"tion, n.

Defn: A branching like a. fork.

FURCIFEROUS Fur*cif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. furcifer yoke bearer, scoundrel; furca fork, yoke, fork-shaped instrument of punishment + ferre to bear.]

Defn: Rascally; scandalous. [R.] "Furciferous knaves." De Quincey.

FURCULA
Fur"cu*la, n. Etym: [L., a forked prop, dim. of furca a fork.]
(Anat.)

Defn: A forked process; the wishbone or furculum.

FURCULAR
Fur"cu*lar, a.

Defn: Shaped like a fork; furcate.

FURCULUM
Fur"cu*lum, n. Etym: [NL., dim. of L. furca a fork.] (Anat.)

Defn: The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.

FURDLE
Fur"dle, v. t. Etym: [See Fardel, and cf. Furl.]

Defn: To draw up into a bundle; to roll up. [Ods.]

FURFUR
Fur"fur, n. Etym: [L.]

Defn: Scurf; dandruff.

FURFURACEOUS
Fur"fu*ra"ceous, a. Etym: [L. furfuraceus.]

Defn: Made of bran; like bran; scurfy.

FURFURAN
Fur"fu*ran, n. Etym: [L. furfur bran.] (Chem.)

Defn: A colorless, oily substance, C4H4O, obtained by distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.; — called also tetraphenol.

FURFURATION
Fur"fu*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. furfur bran, scurf.]

Defn: Falling of scurf from the head; desquamation.

FURFURINE
Fur"fu*rine, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A white, crystalline base, obtained indirectly from furfurol.

FURFUROL
Fur"fu*rol, n. Etym: [L. furfur bran + oleum oil.] (Chem.)

Defn: A colorless oily liquid, C4H3O.CHO, of a pleasant odor, obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an aldehyde derivative of furfuran; — called also furfural.

FURFUROUS
Fur"fu*rous, a.

Defn: Made of bran; furfuraceous. [R.] "Furfurous bread." Sydney
Smith.

FURIAL
Fu"ri*al, a. Etym: [L. furialis: cf. OF. furial.]

Defn: Furious; raging; tormenting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

FURIBUNDAL
Fu`ri*bun"dal, a. Etym: [L. furibundus, fr. furere to rage.]

Defn: Full of rage. [Obs.] G. Harvey.

FURIES
Fu"ries, n. pl.

Defn: See Fury, 3.

FURILE
Fu"rile, n. Etym: [Furfurol + benzile.] (Chem.)

Defn: A yellow, crystalline substance, (C4H3O)2.C2O2, obtained by the oxidation of furoin. [Written also furil.]

FURILIC
Fu*ril"ic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or derived from, furile; as, furilic acid.

FURIOSO
Fu"ri*o"so, a.& adv. Etym: [It.] (Mus.)

Defn: With great force or vigor; vehemently.

FURIOUS Fu"ri*ous, a. Etym: [L. furiosus, fr. furia rage, fury: cf. F. furieux. See Fury.]

1. Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.

2. Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.

Syn.
— Impetuous; vehement; boisterous; fierce; turbulent; tumultuous;
angry; mad; frantic; frenzied.
— Fu"ri*ous*ly, adv.
— Fu"ri*ous*ness, n.

FURL
Furl, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Furld; p. pr. & vb. n. Furling.] Etym:
[Contr. fr. furdle, fr. fardel bundle: cf. F. ferler to furl, OF.
fardeler to pack. See Furdle, Fardel, and cf. Farl.]

Defn: To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.

FURLONG Fur"long, n. Etym: [OE. furlong, furlang, AS. furlang, furlung, prop., the length of a furrow; furh furrow + lang long. See Furrow, and Long, a.]

Defn: A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.

FURLOUGH Fur"lough, n. Etym: [Prob. fr. D. verlof, fr. a prefix akin to E. for + the root of E. lief, and akin to Dan. forlov, Sw. förlof, G. verlaub permission. See Life, a.] (Mil.)

Defn: Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence.

FURLOUGH
Fur"lough, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Furloughed (; p. pr. & vb. n.
Furloughing.] (Mil.)

Defn: To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an offcer or soldier.

FURMONTY; FURMITY
Fur"mon*ty, Fur"mi*ty n.

Defn: Same as Frumenty.

FURNACE Fur"nace, n. Etym: [OE. fornais, forneis, OF. fornaise, F. fournaise, from L. fornax; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to E. forceps.]

1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.

Note: Furnaces are classified as wind or air. furnaces when the fire is urged only by the natural draught; as blast furnaces, when the fire is urged by the injection artificially of a forcible current of air; and as reverberatory furnaces, when the flame, in passing to the chimney, is thrown down by a low arched roof upon the materials operated upon.

2. A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. Deut. iv. 20. Bustamente furnace, a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores. — Furnace bridge, Same as Bridge wall. See Bridge, n., 5. — Furnace cadmiam or cadmia, the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores. Raymond. — Furnace hoist (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace.

FURNACE
Fur"nace, n.

1. To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace. [Obs. or R.] He furnaces The thick sighe from him. Shak.

FURNIMENT
Fur"ni*ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fourniment. See Furnish.]

Defn: Furniture. [Obs.] Spenser.

FURNISH Fur"nish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Furnished; p. pr. & vb. n. Furnishing.] Etym: [OF. furnir, fornir, to furnish, finish, F. fournir; akin to Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - ish.]

1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house. That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 2 Tim. iii. 17,

2. To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense. Ye are they . . . that furnish the drink offering unto that number. Is. lxv. 11. His writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. Macaulay.

FURNISH
Fur"nish, n.

Defn: That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply.
[Obs.] Greene.

FURNISHER
Fur"nish*er, n.

Defn: One who supplies or fits out.

FURNISHMENT
Fur"nish*ment, n.

Defn: The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. [Obs.] Daniel.

FURNITURE
Fur"ni*ture, n. Etym: [F. fourniture. See Furnish, v. t.]

1. That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies;
outfit; equipment.
The form and all the furniture of the earth. Tillotson.
The thoughts which make the furniture of their minds. M. Arnold.

2. Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.

3. The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc. (a) (Naut.) The masts and rigging of a ship. (b) (Mil.) The mountings of a gun. (c) Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings. (d) (Print) Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase.

4. (Mus.)

Defn: A mixed or compound stop in an organ; — sometimes called mixture.

FUROIN
Fu"ro*in, n. Etym: [See Furfurol.] (Chem.)

Defn: A colorless, crystalline substance, C10H8O4, from furfurol.

FURORE
Fu*ro"re, n. Etym: [It.]

Defn: Excitement; commotion; enthusiasm.

FURRIER
Fur"ri*er, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fourreur.]

Defn: A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells fur goods.

FURRIERY
Fur"ri*er*y, n.

1. Furs, in general. Tooke.

2. The business of a furrier; trade in furs.

FURRING
Fur"ring, n.

1. (Carp.) (a) The leveling of a surface, or the preparing of an air space, by means of strips of board or of larger pieces. See Fur, v. t., 3. (b) The strips thus laid on.

2. (Shipbuilding)

Defn: Double planking of a ship's side.

3. A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit.

FURROW Fur"row, n. Etym: [OE. forow, forgh, furgh, AS. furh; akin to D. voor, OHG. furuh, G. furche, Dan. fure, Sw. f, Icel. for drain, L. porca ridge between two furrows.]

1. A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.

2. Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age. Farrow weed a weed which grows on plowed land. Shak. — To draw a straight furrow, to live correctly; not to deviate from the right line of duty. Lowell.

FURROW
Fur"row, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Furrowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Furrowing.]
Etym: [From Furrow, n.; cf. AS. fyrian.]

1. To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea. Shak.

2. To mark with channels or with wrinkles. Thou canst help time to furrow me with age. Shak. Fair cheeks were furrowed with hot tears. Byron.

FURROWY
Fur"row*y, a.

Defn: Furrowed. [R.] Tennyson.

FURRY
Fur"ry, a. Etym: [From Fur.]

1. Covered with fur; dressed in fur. "Furry nations." Thomson.

2. Consisting of fur; as, furry spoils. Dryden.

3. Resembling fur.

FURTHER
Fur"ther, adv. Etym: [A comparative of forth; OE. further, forther,
AS. fur, far; akin to G. fürder. See Forth, adv.]

Defn: To a greater distance; in addition; moreover. See Farther.
Carries us, I know not how much further, into familiar company. M.
Arnold.
They sdvanced us far as Eleusis and Thria; but no further. Jowett
(Thucyd. ).
Further off, not so near; apart by a greater distance.

FURTHER
Fur"ther, a. compar. [Positive wanting; superl. Furthest.]

1. More remote; at a greater distance; more in advance; farther; as, the further end of the field. See Farther.

2. Beyond; additional; as, a further reason for this opinion; nothing further to suggest.

Note: The forms further and farther are in general not differentiated by writers, but further is preferred by many when application to quantity or degree is implied.

FURTHER
Fur"ther", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Furthered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Furthering.] Etym: [OE. furthren, forthren, AS. fyredhran,
fyredhrian. See Further, adv.]

Defn: To help forward; to promote; to advance; to forward; to help or
assist.
This binds thee, then, to further my design. Dryden.
I should nothing further the weal public. Robynsom (More's Utopia).

FURTHERANCE
Fur"ther*ance, n.

Defn: The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion;
advancement; progress.
I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your
furthersnce and joy of faith. Phil. i. 25.
Built of furtherance and pursuing, Not of spent deeds, but of doing.
Emerson.

FURTHERER
Fur"ther*er, n.

Defn: One who furthers. or helps to advance; a promoter. Shak.

FURTHERMORE
Fur"ther*more", adv.

Defn: or conj. Moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said.

FURTHERMOST
Fur"ther*most", a.

Defn: Most remote; furthest.

FURTHERSOME
Fur"ther*some, a.

Defn: Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous.
[R.]
You will not find it furthersome. Carlyle.

FURTHEST
Fur"thest, a.

Defn: superl. Most remote; most in advance; farthest. See Further, a.

FURTHEST
Fur"thest, adv.

Defn: At the greatest distance; farthest.

FURTIVE Fur"tive, a. Etym: [L. furtivus, fr. furtum theft, fr. fur thief, akin to ferre to bear: cf. F. furtif. See Fertile.]

Defn: Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look. Prior. A hasty and furtive ceremony. Hallam.

FURTIVELY
Fur"tive*ly, adv.

Defn: Stealthily by theft. Lover.

FURUNCLE Fu"run*cle, n. Etym: [L. furunculus a petty thief, a boil, dim. of fur thief: cf. F. furoncle.] (Med.)

Defn: A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.

FURUNCULAR
Fu*run"cu*lar, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles.

FURY
Fu"ry, n. Etym: [L. fur.]

Defn: A thief. [Obs.]
Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. J. Fleteher.

FURY Fu"ry, n.; pl. Furies. Etym: [L. furia, fr. furere to rage: cf. F. furie. Cf. Furor.]

1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. Sir P. Sidney.

2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; — sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "Fury of the wind." Shak. I do oppose my patience to his fury. Shak.

3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra; the Erinyes or Eumenides. The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him. Emerson.

4. One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.] Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin- spun life. Milton.

5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

Syn. — Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See Anger.

FURZE
Furze, n. Etym: [OE. firs, As. fyrs.] (Bot.)

Defn: A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europæus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; — called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.

FURZECHAT
Furze"chat", n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The whinchat; — called also furzechuck.

FURZELING
Furze"ling, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); — called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.

FURZEN
Furz"en, a.

Defn: Furzy; gorsy. [Obs.] Holland.

FURZY
Furz"y, a. a.

Defn: bounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze.
Gay.

FUSAIN Fu"sain", n. Etym: [F., the spindle tree; also, charcoal made from it.] (Eine Arts) (a) Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement. (b) A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal.

FUSAROLE Fu"sa*role, n. Etym: [F. fusarolle, fr. It. fusaruolo, fr. fuso spindle, shaft of a column. See Fusee a conical wheel.] (Arch.)

Defn: A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.

FUSCATION Fus*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. fuscare, fuscatum, to make dark, fr. fuscus dark.]

Defn: A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation. [R.] Blount.

FUSCIN
Fus"cin, n. Etym: [L. fuscus dark-colored, tawny.] (Physiol. Chem.)

Defn: A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.

FUSCINE
Fus"cine, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil.
[R.]

FUSCOUS
Fus"cous, a. Etym: [L. fuscus.]

Defn: Brown or grayish black; darkish. Sad and fuscous colors, as black or brown, or deep purple and the like. Burke.

FUSE
Fuse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fused (fuzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Fusing.]
Etym: [L. fusus, p. p. of fundere to pour, melt, cast. See Foundo to
cast, and cf. Futile.]

1. To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.

2. To unite or blend, as if melted together. Whose fancy fuses old and new. Tennyson.

FUSE
Fuse, v. i.

1. To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.

2. To be blended, as if melted together. Fusing point, the degree of temperature at which a substance melts; the point of fusion.

FUSE Fuse, n. Etym: [For fusee, fusil. See 2d Fusil.] (Gunnery, Mining, etc.)

Defn: A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; — called also fuzee. See Fuze. Fuse hole, the hole in a shell prepared for the reception of the fuse. Farrow.

FUSEE
Fu*see", n. Etym: [See 2d Fusil, and cf. Fuse, n.]

1. A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil. [Obs.]

2. A fuse. See Fuse, n.

3. A kind of match for lighting a pipe or cigar. (Railroad)

Defn: A small packet of explosive material with wire appendages allowing it to be conveniently attached to a railroad track. It will explode with a loud report when run over by a train, and is used to provide a warning signal to the engineer.

FUSEE
Fu*see", n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]

Defn: The track of a buck. Ainsworth.

FUSEE Fu*see", n. Etym: [F. fusée a spindleful, fusee, LL. fusata, fr. fusare to use a spindle, L. fusus spindle.] (a) The cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed to equalize the power of the mainspring by having the chain from the barrel which contains the spring wind in a spiral groove on the surface of the cone in such a manner that the diameter of the cone at the point where the chain acts may correspond with the degree of tension of the spring. (b) A similar wheel used in other machinery.

FUSEL; FUSEL OIL
Fu"sel, n., Fu"sel oil. Etym: [G. fusel bad liquor.] (Chem.)

Defn: A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol.

FUSELAGE
Fu"se*lage, n. (Aëronautics)

Defn: An elongated body or frame of an aëroplane or flying machine; sometimes, erroneously, any kind of frame or body. Many aëroplanes have no fuselage, properly so called.

FUSE PLUG; FUZE PLUG
Fuse, or Fuze, plug .

1. (Ordnance)

Defn: A plug fitted to the fuse hole of a shell to hold the fuse.

2. A fusible plug that screws into a receptacle, used as a fuse in electric wiring.

FUSIBILITY
Fu"si*bil"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fusibilité.]

Defn: The quality of being fusible.

FUSIBLE
Fu"si*ble, a. Etym: [F. fusible. See Fuse, v. t.]

Defn: CapabIe of being melted or liquefied. Fusible metal, any alloy of different metals capable of being easily fused, especially an alloy of five parts of bismuth, three of lead, and two of tin, which melts at a temperature below that of boiling water. Ure. — Fusible plug (Steam Boiler), a piece of easily fusible alloy, placed in one of the sheets and intended to melt and blow off the steam in case of low water.

FUSIFORM
Fu"si*form, a. Etym: [L. fusus spindle + -form: cf. F. fusiforme.]

Defn: Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.

FUSIL Fu"sil, a. Etym: [L. fusilis molten, fluid, fr. fundere, fusum, to pour, cast. See Fuse, v. t.]

1. Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. [R.] "A kind of fusil marble" Woodward.

2. Running or flowing, as a liquid. [R.] "A fusil sea." J. Philips.

3. Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded. [Obs.] Milton.

FUSIL
Fu"sil, n. Etym: [F. fusil, LL. fosile a steel for kindling fire,
from L. focus hearth, fireplace, in LLL. fire. See Focus, and cf.
Fusee a firelock.]

Defn: A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.

FUSIL
Fu"sil, n. Etym: [See 3d Fusee.] (Her.)

Defn: A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; — named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.

Note: It differs from a lozenge in being longer in proportion to its width.

FUSILE
Fu"sile, a.

Defn: Same as Fusil, a.

FUSILEER; FUSILIER Fu"sil*eer", Fu"sil*ier", n. Etym: [F. fusilier, fr. fusil.] (Mil.) (a) Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural: (b) A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, "The Royal Fusiliers," etc.

FUSILLADE Fu"sil*lade", n. Etym: [F. fusillade, cf. It. fucilata. See Fusil a firelock.] (Mil.)

Defn: A simultaneous discharge of firearms.

FUSILLADE
Fu"sil*lade", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fusillader; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fusillading.]

Defn: To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.

FUSION Fu"sion, n. Etym: [L. fusio, fr. fundere, fusum to pour, melt: cf. F. fusion. See Fuse, v. t., aud cf, Foison.]

1. The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.

2. The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.

3. The union or blending together of things, as, melted together. The universal fusion of races, languages, and customs . . . had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds. C. Kingsley. Watery fusion (Chem.) the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization.

4. (Biol.)

Defn: The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.

FUSOME Fu"some, a. Etym: [AS. f to hasten, fr. f ready, prompt, quick; akin to OS. f, OHG. funs, Icel. fuss willing; prob. from the root of E. find.]

Defn: Handy; reat; handsome; notable. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

FUSS
Fuss, n. Etym: [Cf. Fusome.]

1. A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles. Byron. Zealously, assiduously, and with a minimum of fuss or noise Carlyle.

2. One who is unduly anxious about trifles. [R.] I am a fuss and I don't deny it. W. D. Howell.

FUSS
Fuss, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fussed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fussing.]

Defn: To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado. Sir W. Scott.

FUSSILY
Fuss"i*ly, adv.

Defn: In a fussy manner. Byron.

FUSSINESS
Fuss"i*ness, n.

Defn: The quality of being fussy.

FUSSY
Fuss"y, a. [Compar. Fussier; superl Fussiest.]

Defn: Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety. Not at all fussy about his personal appearance. R. G. White.

FUST
Fust, n. Etym: [OF. fust, F. f, fr. L. fustis stick staff.] (Arch.)

Defn: The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. Gwilt.

FUST Fust, n. Etym: [OF. fust cask, F. f cask, taste or smell of the caak, fustiness, cf. sentir le f to taste of the cask. See 1st Fust.]

Defn: A strong, musty smell; mustiness.

FUST
Fust, v. i.

Defn: To become moldy; to smell ill. [Obs.]

FUSTED
Fust"ed, a.

Defn: Moldy; ill-smelling. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

FUSTERIC
Fus"ter*ic, n.

Defn: The coloring matter of fustet. Ure.

FUSTET Fus"tet, n. Etym: [F. fustet (cf. Sp. & Pg. fustete), LL. fustetus, fr. L. fustis stick, in LL., tree, See 1st Fust, and cf. Fustic.]

Defn: The wood of the Rhus Cptinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant. Ure.

FUSTIAN
Fus"tian, n. Etym: [OE. fustan, fustian, OF. fustaine, F. futaine,
It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr. fustani, Sp.
fustan. So called from Fustat, i. e., Cairo, where it was made.]

1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.

2. An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high- sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast. Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian. Addison.

FUSTIAN
Fus"tian, a.

1. Made of fustian.

2. Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. Walpole.

FUSTIANIST
Fus"tian*ist, n.

Defn: A writer of fustian. [R.] Milton.

FUSTIC
Fus"tic, n. Etym: [F. fustoc, Sp. fustoc. Cf. Fustet.]

Defn: The wood of the Maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; — called also old fustic. [Written also fustoc.]

Note: Other kinds of yellow wood are often called fustic; as that of species of Xanthoxylum, and especially the Rhus Cotinus, which is sometimes called young fustic to distinguish it from the Maclura. See Fustet.

FUSTIGATE
Fus"ti*gate, v. t. Etym: [L. fustigare, fr. fustis stick. See 1st
Fust.]

Defn: To cudgel. [R.] Bailey.

FUSTIGATION
Fus"ti*ga"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fustigation.]

Defn: A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.
This satire, composed of actual fustigation. Motley.

FUSTILARIAN
Fus"ti*la"ri*an, n. Etym: [From Fusty.]

Defn: A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel. [Obs.] Shak.

FUSTILUG; FUSTILUGS Fus"ti*lug` (, Fus"ti*lugs`, n. Etym: [Fusty + lug someting heavy, to be drawn or carried.]

Defn: A gross, fat, unwieldy person. [Obs.] F. Junius.

FUSTINESS
Fus"ti*ness, n.

Defn: A fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.

FUSTY
Fusty, a. [Compar. Fustier; superl Fustiest.] Etym: [See 2d Fust.]

1. Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. "A fusty plebeians." Shak.

2. Moping. [Archaic] A melancholy, fusty humor. Pepys.

FUSURE
Fu"sure, n. Etym: [L. fusura, fr. fundere, fusum. See Fuse, v. t.]

Defn: Act of fusing; fusion. [R.]

FUTCHEL
Futch"el, n.

Defn: The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted. Knight.

FUTHORC; FUTHORK
Fu"thorc Fu"thork, n. [Written also futharc, futhark.]

Defn: The Runic alphabet; — so called from the six letters f, u, þ (th), o (or a), r, c (=k).

The letters are called Runes and the alphabet bears the name Futhorc from the first six letters. I. Taylor.

The spelling futharc represents most accurately the original values of these six Runic letters.

FUTILE Fu"tile, a. Etym: [L. futilis that easily pours out, that easily lets loose, vain, worthless, from the root of fundere to pour out: cf. F. futile. See Fuse, v. t.]

1. Talkative; loquacious; tattling. [Obs.] Talkers and futile persons. Bacon.

2. Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless. "Futile theories." I. Taylor. His reasoning . . . was singularly futile. Macaulay.

FUTILELY
Fu"tile*ly, adv.

Defn: In a futile manner.

FUTILITY
Fu"til`i*ty, n. Etym: [L. futilitas: cf. F. futilité.]

1. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [Obs.]

2. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The futility of this mode of philosophizing. Whewell.

FUTILOUS
Fu"til*ous, a.

Defn: Futile; trifling. [Obs.]

FUTTOCK
Fu"ttock, n. Etym: [Prob. corrupted fr. foothook.] (Naut.)

Defn: One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel. Futtock plates (Naut.), plates of iron to which the dead-eyes of the topmast rigging are secured. — Futtock shrouds, short iron shrouds leading from the upper part of the lower mast or of the main shrouds to the edge of the top, or through it, and connecting the topmast rigging with the lower mast. Totten.

FUTURABLE
Fu"tur*a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being future; possible to occur. [R.]
Not only to things future, but futurable. Fuller.

FUTURE Fu"ture, a. Etym: [F. futur, L. futurus, used as fut. p. of esse to be, but from the same root as E. be. See Be, v. i.]

Defn: That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present. Future tense (Gram.), the tense or modification of a verb which expresses a future act or event.

FUTURE
Fu"ture, n. Etym: [Cf. F. futur. See Future, a.]

1. Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come. "Lay the future open." Shak.

2. The possibilities of the future; — used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him.

3. (Gram.)

Defn: A future tense. To deal in futures, to speculate on the future values of merchandise or stocks. [Brokers' cant]

FUTURELESS
Fu"ture*less, a.

Defn: Without prospect of betterment in the future. W. D. Howells.

FUTURELY
Fu"ture*ly, adv.

Defn: In time to come. [Obs.] Raleigh.

FUTURISM
Fu"tur*ism, n. (Painting)

Defn: A movement or phase of post-impressionism (which see, below).

FUTURIST
Fu"tur*ist, n.

1. One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.

2. (Theol.)

Defn: One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.

FUTURITIAL
Fu`tu*ri"tial, a.

Defn: Relating to what is to come; pertaining to futurity; future.
[R.]

FUTURITION
Fu`tu*ri"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. futurition.]

Defn: The state of being future; futurity. [R.] Nothing . . . can have this imagined futurition, but as it is decreed. Coleridge.

FUTURITY
Fu*tu"ri*ty, n.; pl. Futurities (.

1. State of being that is yet to come; future state.

2. Future time; time to come; the future.

3. Event to come; a future event. All futurities are naked before the All-seeing Eye. South.

FUZE
Fuze, n.

Defn: A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n. Chemical fuze, a fuze in which substances separated until required for action are then brought into contact, and uniting chemically, produce explosion. — Concussion fuze, a fuze ignited by the striking of the projectile. — Electric fuze, a fuze which is ignited by heat or a spark produced by an electric current. — Friction fuze, a fuze which is ignited by the heat evolved by friction. — Percussion fuze, a fuze in which the ignition is produced by a blow on some fulminating compound. — Time fuze, a fuze adapted, either by its length or by the character of its composition, to burn a certain time before producing an explosion.

FUZZ
Fuzz, v. t.

Defn: To make drunk. [Obs.] Wood.

FUZZ
Fuzz, n. Etym: [Cf. Prov. E. fuzzy that ravels (of silk or cotton),
D. voos spongy, fungous, G. faser filament. E. feaze to untwist.]

Defn: Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter. Fuzz ball, a kind of fungus or mushroom, which, when pressed, bursts and scatters a fine dust; a puffball.

FUZZ
Fuzz, v. i.

Defn: To fly off in minute particles.

FUZZLE Fuz"zle, v. t. Etym: [Cf. LG. fuseln to drink common liquor, fr. fusel bad liquor.]

Defn: To make drunk; to intoxicate; to fuddle. [Obs.] Burton.

FUZZY
Fuzz"y, a. Etym: [See Fuzz, n.]

1. Not firmly woven; that ravels. [Written also fozy.] [Prov. Eng.]

2. Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz; as, the fuzzy skin of a peach.

-FY -fy. Etym: [Through French verbs in -fier, L. -ficare, akin to facere to do, make. See Fact.]

Defn: A suffix signifying to make, to form into, etc.; as, acetify, amplify, dandify, Frenchify, etc.

FY
Fy, interj. Etym: [See Fie, interj.]

Defn: A word which expresses blame, dislike, disapprobation, abhorrence, or contempt. See Fie.

FYKE
Fyke, n. Etym: [D. fuik a bow net.]

Defn: A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; — called also fyke net. Cozzens.

FYLLOT
Fyl"lot, n. Etym: [Prov. fr. AS. fy, fierf, feówerf. See Four, and
Foot, n.]

Defn: A rebated cross, formerly used as a secret emblem, and a common ornament. It is also called gammadion, and swastika.

FYRD; FYRDUNG
Fyrd, Fyr"dung (, n. Etym: [AS.; akin to E. fare, v. i.] (Old. Eng.
Hist.)

Defn: The military force of the whole nation, consisting of all men
able to bear arms.
The national fyrd or militia. J. R. Green.

FYTTE
Fytte, n.

Defn: See Fit a song. [Archaic]