fuage
-same as fumage.

fuar
-same as feuar.

fub
-alt. of fubs
-to put off by trickery; to cheat.

fubbery
-cheating; deception.

fubby
-alt. of fubsy

fubs
-a plump young person or child.

fubsy
-plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa.

fucate
-alt. of fucated

fucated
-painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.

fuchs
-a student of the first year.

fuchsia
-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.

fuchsias
-of fuchsia

fuchsine
-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.

fuchslae
-of fuchsia

fuci
-of fucus

fucivorous
-eating fucus or other seaweeds.

fucoid
-properly, belonging to an order of alga: (fucoideae) which are blackish in color, and produce oospores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. the common rockweeds and the gulfweed (sargassum) are fucoid in character.
-in a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.
-a plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. see fucoid, a.

fucoidal
-fucoid.
-containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone.

fucus
-a paint; a dye; also, false show.
-a genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.

fucusol
-an oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds.

fud
-the tail of a hare, coney, etc.
-woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.

fudder
-see fodder, a weight.

fuddle
-to make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
-to drink to excess.

fuddled
-of fuddle

fuddler
-a drunkard.

fuddling
-of fuddle

fudge
-a made
-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug;
-- often an exclamation of contempt.
-to make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.
-to foist; to interpolate.

fudge wheel
-a tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.

fudged
-of fudge

fudging
-of fudge

fuegian
-of or pertaining to terra del fuego.
-a native of terra del fuego.

fuel
-any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.
-anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement.
-to feed with fuel.
-to store or furnish with fuel or firing.

fueler
-one who, or that which, supplies fuel.

fuero
-a code; a charter; a grant of privileges.
-a custom having the force of law.
-a declaration by a magistrate.
-a place where justice is administered.
-the jurisdiction of a tribunal.

fuff
-to puff.

fuffy
-light; puffy.

fuga
-a fugue.

fugacious
-flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile.
-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
-fugacity.

fugacity
-the quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits.
-uncertainty; instability.

fugacy
-banishment.

fugato
-in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue.
-a composition resembling a fugue.

fugh
-an exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh.

fughetta
-a short, condensed fugue.

fugitive
-fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.
-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.
-one who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.
-something hard to be caught or detained.

fugitively
-in a fugitive manner.

fugitiveness
-the quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.

fugle
-to maneuver; to move hither and thither.

fugleman
-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.
-hence, one who leads the way.

fuglemen
-of fugleman

fugue
-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.

fuguist
-a musician who composes or performs fugues.

fulahs
-alt. of foolahs

fulbe
-same as fulahs.

fulciment
-a prop; a fulcrum.

fulcra
-see fulcrum.
-of fulcrum

fulcrate
-propped; supported by accessory organs.
-furnished with fulcrums.

fulcrum
-a prop or support.
-that by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body.
-an accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like.
-the horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects.
-one of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes.
-the connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye.

fulcrums
-of fulcrum

fuldble
-capable of being propped up.

fulfill
-to fill up; to make full or complete.
-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.

fulfilled
-of fulfill

fulfiller
-one who fulfills.

fulfilling
-of fulfill

fulfillment
-the act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy.
-execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise.

fulgency
-brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence.

fulgent
-exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent.

fulgently
-dazzlingly; glitteringly.

fulgid
-shining; glittering; dazzling.

fulgidity
-splendor; resplendence; effulgence.

fulgor
-dazzling brightness; splendor.

fulgurant
-lightening.

fulgurata
-a spectro
-electric tube in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed.

fulgurate
-to flash as lightning.

fulgurating
-resembling lightning;
-- used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy.

fulguration
-the act of lightening.
-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.

fulgurite
-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
-lightning.

fulham
-a false die.

fuliginosity
-the condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke.

fuliginous
-pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.
-pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke.

fuliginously
-in a smoky manner.

fulimart
-same as foumart.

full
-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.
-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.
-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.
-sated; surfeited.
-having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
-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.
-filled with emotions.
-impregnated; made pregnant.
-complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree.
-quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
-to become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight.
-to thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.
-to become fulled or thickened; as, this material fulls well.

full
-blooded
-having a full supply of blood.
-of pure blood; thoroughbred; as, a full
-blooded horse.

full
-bloomed
-like a perfect blossom.

full
-blown
-fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full
-bloun rose.
-fully distended with wind, as a sail.

full
-bottomed
-full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in great britain.
-of great capacity below the water line.

full
-butt
-with direct and violentop position; with sudden collision.

full
-drive
-with full speed.

full
-formed
-full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh.

full
-grown
-having reached the limits of growth; mature.

full
-hearted
-full of courage or confidence.

full
-hot
-very fiery.

full
-manned
-completely furnished wiith men, as a ship.

full
-orbed
-having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated; like the full moon.

full
-sailed
-having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation.

full
-winged
-having large and strong or complete wings.
-beady for flight; eager.

fullage
-the money or price paid for fulling or cleansing cloth.

fullam
-a false die. see fulham.

fulled
-of full

fuller
-one whose occupation is to full cloth.
-a die; a half
-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron;
-- called also a creaser.
-to form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet.

fulleries
-of fullery

fullery
-the place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.

fulling
-of full
-the process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure.

fullmart
-see foumart.

fullness
-the state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness.

fullonical
-pertaining to a fuller of cloth.

fully
-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.

fulmar
-one of several species of sea birds, of the family procellariidae, 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).

fulmiaic
-pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (chem.), pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulminic acid.

fulminant
-thundering; fulminating.

fulminate
-to thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
-to issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
-to cause to explode.
-to utter or send out with denunciations or censures;
-- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.
-a salt of fulminic acid. see under fulminic.
-a fulminating powder.

fulminated
-of fulminate

fulminating
-of fulminate
-thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.
-hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures.

fulmination
-the act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.
-the act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.
-that which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.

fulminatory
-thundering; striking terror.

fulmine
-to thunder.
-to shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence.

fulmineous
-of, or concerning thunder.

fulminuric
-pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called.

fulsamic
-fulsome.

fulsome
-full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled.
-offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.
-lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity.

fulvid
-fulvous.

fulvous
-tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown.

fum
-to play upon a fiddle.

fumacious
-smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco.

fumade
-alt. of fumado

fumades
-of fumado

fumado
-a salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.

fumadoes
-of fumado

fumage
-hearth money.

fumarate
-a salt of fumaric acid.

fumaric
-pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (fumaria officinalis).

fumarine
-an alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.

fumarole
-a hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.

fumatory
-see fumitory.

fumble
-to feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.
-to grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse.
-to handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
-to handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.

fumbled
-of fumble

fumbler
-one who fumbles.

fumbling
-of fumble

fumblingly
-in the manner of one who fumbles.

fume
-exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.
-rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self
-control; as, the fumes of passion.
-anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
-the incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
-to smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.
-to be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
-to pass off in fumes or vapors.
-to be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
-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.
-to praise inordinately; to flatter.
-to throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.

fumed
-of fume

fumeless
-free from fumes.

fumer
-one that fumes.
-one who makes or uses perfumes.

fumerell
-see femerell.

fumet
-the dung of deer.
-alt. of fumette

fumetere
-fumitory.

fumette
-the stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long.

fumid
-smoky; vaporous.

fumidity
-alt. of fumidness

fumidness
-the state of being fumid; smokiness.

fumiferous
-producing smoke.

fumifugist
-one who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes.

fumify
-to subject to the action of smoke.

fumigant
-fuming.

fumigate
-to apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.
-to smoke; to perfume.

fumigated
-of fumigate

fumigating
-of fumigate

fumigation
-the act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.
-vapor raised in the process of fumigating.

fumigator
-one who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating.

fumigatory
-having the quality of purifying by smoke.

fuming
-of fume
-producing fumes, or vapors.

fumingly
-in a fuming manner; angrily.

fumishness
-choler; fretfulness; passion.

fumitez
-fumitory.

fumitory
-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.

fumlly
-smokily; with fume.

fummel
-a hinny.

fumosity
-the fumes of drink.

fumous
-producing smoke; smoky.
-producing fumes; full of fumes.

fumy
-producing fumes; fumous.

fun
-sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.

funambulate
-to walk or to dance on a rope.

funambulation
-ropedancing.

funambulatory
-performing like a ropedancer.
-narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer.

funambulist
-a ropewalker or ropedancer.

funambulo
-alt. of funambulus

funambulus
-a ropewalker or ropedancer.

function
-the act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.
-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.
-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.
-the course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.
-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.
-alt. of functionate

functional
-pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.
-pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general.

functionalize
-to assign to some function or office.

functionally
-in a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.

functionaries
-of functionary

functionary
-one charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.

functionate
-to execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.

functionless
-destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. darwin.

fund
-an aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-to place in a fund, as money.
-to put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.

fundable
-capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.

fundament
-foundation.
-the part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (anat.), the anus.

fundamental
-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.
-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
-primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents.

funded
-of fund
-existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt.
-invested in public funds; as, funded money.

fundholder
-one who has money invested in the public funds.

funding
-of fund
-providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.
-investing in the public funds.

fundus
-the bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.

funebrial
-pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal.

funebrious
-funebrial.

funeral
-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.
-the procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.
-a funeral sermon;
-- usually in the plural.
-per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies.

funerate
-to bury with funeral rites.

funeration
-the act of burying with funeral rites.

funereal
-suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. hence: dark; dismal; mournful.

funest
-lamentable; doleful.

fungal
-of or pertaining to fungi.

fungate
-a salt of fungic acid.

funge
-a blockhead; a dolt; a fool.

fungi
-see fungus.
-of fungus

fungia
-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
-of or pertaining to the fungidae, a family of stony corals.
-one of the fungidae.

fungibles
-things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things;
-- called also fungible things.
-movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually.

fungic
-pertaining to, or obtained from, mushrooms; as, fungic acid.

fungicide
-anything that kills fungi.

fungiform
-shaped like a fungus or mushroom.

fungilliform
-shaped like a small fungus.

fungin
-a name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.

fungite
-a fossil coral resembling fungia.

fungivorous
-eating fungi;
-- said of certain insects and snails.

fungoid
-like a fungus; fungous; spongy.

fungologist
-a mycologist.

fungology
-mycology.

fungosity
-the quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence.

fungous
-of the nature of fungi; spongy.
-growing suddenly, but not substantial or durable.

fungus
-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.
-a spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds.

funguses
-of fungus

funic
-funicular.

funicle
-a small cord, ligature, or fiber.
-the little stalk that attaches a seed to the placenta.

funicular
-consisting of a small cord or fiber.
-dependent on the tension of a cord.
-pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament.

funiculate
-forming a narrow ridge.

funiculi
-of funiculus

funiculus
-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.
-a short cord which connects the embryo of some myriapods with the amnion.
-in bryozoa, an organ extending back from the stomach. see bryozoa, and phylactolema.

funiliform
-resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees.

funis
-a cord; specifically, the umbilical cord or navel string.

funk
-an offensive smell; a stench.
-to envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
-to emit an offensive smell; to stink.
-to be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.
-alt. of funking

funking
-a shrinking back through fear.

funky
-pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.

funnel
-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.
-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.

funnelform
-having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform.

funnies
-of funny

funny
-droll; comical; amusing; laughable.
-a clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling.

funuless
-destitute of funds.

fur
-the short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.
-the skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.
-strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.
-articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).
-any coating considered as resembling fur
-a coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
-the soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
-the deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
-one of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. there are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.
-of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade.
-to line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes.
-to cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.
-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.

furacious
-given to theft; thievish.

furacity
-addictedness to theft; thievishness.

furbelow
-a plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.

furbelowed
-of furhelow

furbelowing
-of furhelow

furbish
-to rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear.

furbishable
-capable of being furbished.

furbished
-of furbish

furbisher
-one who furbishes; esp., a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons.

furbishing
-of furbish

furcate
-alt. of furcated

furcated
-forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.

furcation
-a branching like a. fork.

furciferous
-rascally; scandalous.

furcula
-a forked process; the wishbone or furculum.

furcular
-shaped like a fork; furcate.

furculum
-the wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.

furdle
-to draw up into a bundle; to roll up.

furfur
-scurf; dandruff.

furfuraceous
-made of bran; like bran; scurfy.

furfuran
-a colorless, oily substance, c4h4o, obtained by distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.;
-- called also tetraphenol.

furfuration
-falling of scurf from the head; desquamation.

furfurine
-a white, crystalline base, obtained indirectly from furfurol.

furfurol
-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
-made of bran; furfuraceous.

furhelow
-to put a furbelow on; to ornament.

furial
-furious; raging; tormenting.

furibundal
-full of rage.

furies
-see fury, 3.
-of fury

furile
-a yellow, crystalline substance, (c4h3o)2.c2o2, obtained by the oxidation of furoin.

furilic
-pertaining to, or derived from, furile; as, furilic acid.

furioso
-with great force or vigor; vehemently.

furious
-transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.
-rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.

furl
-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.

furld
-of furl

furling
-of furl

furlong
-a measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.

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

furloughed
-of furlough

furloughing
-of furlough

furmity
-same as frumenty.

furmonty
-alt. of furmity

furnace
-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.
-a place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
-to throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.

furniment
-furniture.

furnish
-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.
-to offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense.
-that which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply.

furnished
-of furnish

furnisher
-one who supplies or fits out.

furnishing
-of furnish

furnishment
-the act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture.

furniture
-that with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.
-articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.
-the necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc.
-the masts and rigging of a ship.
-the mountings of a gun.
-builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings.
-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.
-a mixed or compound stop in an organ;
-- sometimes called mixture.

furoin
-a colorless, crystalline substance, c10h8o4, from furfurol.

furore
-excitement; commotion; enthusiasm.

furred
-of fur

furrier
-a dealer in furs; one who makes or sells fur goods.

furriery
-furs, in general.
-the business of a furrier; trade in furs.

furring
-of fur
-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.
-the strips thus laid on.
-double planking of a ship's side.
-a deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit.

furrow
-a trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.
-any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age.
-to cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea.
-to mark with channels or with wrinkles.

furrowed
-of furrow

furrowing
-of furrow

furrowy
-furrowed.

furry
-covered with fur; dressed in fur.
-consisting of fur; as, furry spoils.
-resembling fur.

further
-to a greater distance; in addition; moreover. see farther.
-more remote; at a greater distance; more in advance; farther; as, the further end of the field. see farther.
-beyond; additional; as, a further reason for this opinion; nothing further to suggest.
-to help forward; to promote; to advance; to forward; to help or assist.

furtherance
-the act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress.

furthered
-of further

furthering
-of further

furthermore
-or conj. moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said.

furthermost
-most remote; furthest.

furthersome
-tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous.

furthest
-superl. most remote; most in advance; farthest. see further, a.
-at the greatest distance; farthest.

furtive
-stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look.

furtively
-stealthily by theft.

furuncle
-a superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.

fury
-a thief.
-violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
-violent anger; extreme wrath; rage;
-- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
-pl. (greek myth.) the avenging deities, tisiphone, alecto, and megaera; the erinyes or eumenides.
-one of the parcae, or fates, esp. atropos.
-a stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

furze
-a thorny evergreen shrub (ulex europaeus), 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
-the whinchat;
-- called also furzechuck.

furzeling
-an english warbler (melizophilus provincialis);
-- called also furze wren, and dartford warbler.

furzen
-furzy; gorsy.

furzy
-bounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze.

fusain
-fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.
-a drawing made with it. see charcoal, n. 2, and charcoal drawing, under charcoal.

fusarole
-a molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the doric, ionic, and corinthian orders of architecture.

fuscation
-a darkening; obscurity; obfuscation.

fuscin
-a brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.

fuscine
-a dark
-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil.

fuscous
-brown or grayish black; darkish.

fuse
-to liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.
-to unite or blend, as if melted together.
-to be reduced from a solid to a quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.
-to be blended, as if melted together.
-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.

fused
-of fuse

fusee
-a flintlock gun. see 2d fusil.
-a fuse. see fuse, n.
-a kind of match for lighting a pipe or cigar.
-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.
-the track of a buck.
-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.
-a similar wheel used in other machinery.

fusel
-alt. of fusel oil

fusel oil
-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.

fusibility
-the quality of being fusible.

fusible
-capabie of being melted or liquefied.

fusiform
-shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.

fusil
-capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible.
-running or flowing, as a liquid.
-formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded.
-a light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.
-a bearing of a rhomboidal figure;
-- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.

fusile
-same as fusil, a.

fusileer
-alt. of fusilier

fusilier
-formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. hence, in the plural:
-a title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, "the royal fusiliers," etc.

fusillade
-a simultaneous discharge of firearms.
-to shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.

fusillader
-of fusillade

fusillading
-of fusillade

fusiness
-a fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.

fusing
-of fuse

fusion
-the act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.
-the state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.
-the union or blending together of things, as, melted together.
-the union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.

fusome
-handy; reat; handsome; notable.

fuss
-a tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.
-one who is unduly anxious about trifles.
-to be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado.

fussed
-of fuss

fussily
-in a fussy manner.

fussiness
-the quality of being fussy.

fussing
-of fuss

fussure
-act of fusing; fusion.

fussy
-making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety.

fust
-a strong, musty smell; mustiness.
-to become moldy; to smell ill.

fusted
-moldy; ill
-smelling.

fusteric
-the coloring matter of fustet.

fustet
-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.

fustian
-a kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
-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.
-made of fustian.
-pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.

fustianist
-a writer of fustian.

fustic
-the wood of the maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the west indies, used in dyeing yellow;
-- called also old fustic.

fustigate
-to cudgel.

fustigation
-a punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.

fustilug
-alt. of fustilugs

fustilugs
-a gross, fat, unwieldy person.

fusty
-moldy; musty; ill
-smelling; rank.
-moping.

futchel
-the jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted.

futile
-talkative; loquacious; tattling.
-of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless.

futilely
-in a futile manner.

futility
-the quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.
-the quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.

futilous
-futile; trifling.

futtock
-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.

futurable
-capable of being future; possible to occur.

future
-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.
-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.
-the possibilities of the future;
-- used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him.
-a future tense.

futureless
-without prospect of betterment in the future.

futurely
-in time to come.

futurist
-one whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.
-one who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the bible is to be in the future.

futuritial
-relating to what is to come; pertaining to futurity; future.

futurities
-of futurity

futurition
-the state of being future; futurity.

futurity
-state of being that is yet to come; future state.
-future time; time to come; the future.
-event to come; a future event.

fuze
-a tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. see fuse, n.

fuzz
-to make drunk.
-fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter.
-to fly off in minute particles.

fuzzle
-to make drunk; to intoxicate; to fuddle.

fuzzy
-not firmly woven; that ravels.
-furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz; as, the fuzzy skin of a peach.