FU'CATE,

FU'CATED, adjective [Latin fucatus, from fuco, to stain.]

Painted; disguised with paint; also, disguised with false show.

FU'CUS, noun [Latin See Feign.]

1. A paint; a dye; also, false show.

2. plural fucuses. In botany, a genus of Algae, or seaweed; the sea-wrack, etc.

FUDDER, of lead. [See Fother.]

FUD'DLE, verb transitive To make drunk; to intoxicate.

FUD'DLE, verb intransitive To drink to excess.

FUD'DLED, participle passive Drunk; intoxicated.

FUD'DLING, participle present tense Intoxicating; drinking to excess.

FUDGE, a word of contempt.

FU'EL, noun [Latin focus.]

1. Any matter which serves as aliment to fire; that which feeds fire; combustible matter, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

2. Any thing that serves to feed or increase flame, heat or excitement.

FU'EL, verb transitive

1. To feed with combustible matter.

Never, alas! the dreadful name, that fuels the infernal flame.

2. To store with fuel or firing.

FU'ELED, participle passive Fed with combustible matter; stored with firing.

FU'ELER, noun He or that which supplies fuel.

FU'ELING, participle present tense Feeding with fuel; supplying with fuel.

FUGA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin fugax, from fugo, to chase, or fugio, to flee.] Flying or fleeing away; volatile.

FUGA'CIOUSNESS, noun The quality of flying away; volatility.

FUGAC'ITY, noun [Latin fugax, supra.]

1. Volatility; the quality of flying away; as the fugacity of spires.

2. Uncertainty; instability.

FUGH, or FOH, an exclamation expressing abhorrence.

FU'GITIVE, adjective [Latin fugitivus, from fugio, to flee. Gr.]

1. Volatile; apt to flee away; readily wafted by the wind.

The more tender and fugitive parts -

2. Not tenable; not to be held or detained; readily escaping; as a fugitive idea.

3. Unstable; unsteady; fleeting; not fixed or durable.

4. Fleeing; running from danger or pursuit.

5. Fleeing from duty; eloping; escaping.

Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself, while her parents are in tears?

6. Wandering; vagabond; as a fugitive physician.

7. In literature, fugitive compositions are such as are short and occasional, written in haste or at intervals, and considered to be fleeting and temporary.

FU'GITIVE, noun

1. One who fees from his station or duty; a deserter; one who flees from danger.

2. One who has fled or deserted and taken refuge under another power, or one who has fled from punishment.

3. One hard to be caught or detained.

Or catch that airy fugitive called wit.

FU'GITIVENESS, noun

1. Volatility; fugacity; an aptness to fly away.

2. Instability; unsteadiness.

FUGUE, noun [Latin fuga.]

In music, a chase or succession in the parts; that which expresses the capital thought or sentiment of the piece, in causing it to pass successively and alternately from one part to another.

FU'GUIST, noun A musician who composes fugues, or performs them extemporaneously.

FUL'CIMENT, noun [Latin fulcimentum, from fulcio, to prop.]

A prop; a fulcrum; that on which a balance or lever rests. [Little used.]

FUL'CRATE, adjective [from Latin fulcrum, a prop.]

1. In botany, a fulcrate stem is one whose branches descend to the earth, as in Ficus.

2. Furnished with fulcres.

FUL'CRE, noun [Latin]

1. A prop or support.

2. In mechanics, that by which a lever is sustained.

3. In botany, the part of a plant which serves to support or defend it, or to facilitate some necessary secretion, as a stipule, a bracte, a tendril, a gland, etc.

FUL'CRUM,

FULFILL', verb transitive [A tautological compound of full and fill.]

1. To accomplish; to perform; to complete; to answer in execution or event what has been foretold or promised; as, to fulfill a prophecy or prediction; to fulfill a promise.

2. To accomplish what was intended; to answer a design by execution.

Here nature seems fulfilled in all her ends.

3. To accomplish or perform what was desired; to answer any desire by compliance or gratification.

He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him. Psalms 145:1.

4. To perform what is required; to answer a law by obedience.

If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well. James 2:1.

5. To complete in time.

Fulfill her week. Genesis 29:1.

6. In general, to accomplish; to complete; to carry into effect.

FULFILL'ED, participle passive Accomplished; performed; completed; executed.

FULFILL'ER, noun One that fulfills or accomplishes.

FULFILL'ING, participle present tense Accomplishing; performing; completing.

FULFILL'MENT,

FULFILL'ING, noun

1. Accomplishment; completion; as the fulfillment of prophecy.

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

FUL'FRAUGHT, adjective [full and fraught.] Full-stored.

FUL'GENCY, noun [Latin fulgens, from fulgeo, to shine. See Effulgence.] Brightness; splendor; glitter.

FUL'GENT, adjective Shining; dazzling; exquisitely bright.

FUL'GID, adjective [Latin fulgidus, from fulgeo, to shine.] Shining; glittering; dazzling. [Not in use.]

FUL'GOR, noun [Latin] Splendor; dazzling brightness. [Little used.]

FUL'GURANT, adjective Lightening. [Not used.]

FUL'GURATE, verb intransitive To flash as lightning. [Not used.]

FULGURA'TION, noun [Latin fulguratio, from fulgur, lightning.]

Lightning; the act of lightening. [Little used or not at all.]

FULIGINOS'ITY, noun [Latin fuligo, soot, probably from the root of foul.]

Sootiness; matter deposited by smoke.

FULIG'INOUS, adjective [Latin fuligineus, fuliginosus, from fuligo, soot.]

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

2. Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke; dusky.

FULIG'INOUSLY, adjective By being sooty.

FU'LIMART, [See Foumart.]

FULL, adjective

1. Replete; having within its limits all that it can contain; as a vessel full of liquor.

2. Abounding with; having a large quantity or abundance; as a house full of furniture; life is full of cares and perplexities.

3. Supplied; not vacant.

Had the throne been full their meeting would not have been regular.

4. Plump; fat; as a full body.

5. Saturated; sated.

I am full of the burnt offerings of rams. Isaiah 1:11.

6. Crowded, with regard to the imagination or memory.

Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.

7. Large; entire; not partial; that fills; as a full meal.

8. Complete; entire; not defective or partial; as the full accomplishment of a prophecy.

9. Complete; entire; without abatement.

It came to pass, at the end of two full years, that Pharoah dreamed - Genesis 41:1.

10. Containing the whole matter; expressing the whole; as a full narration or description.

11. Strong; not faint or attenuated; loud; clear; distinct; as a full voice or sound.

12. Mature; perfect; as a person of full age.

13. Entire; complete; denoting the completion of a sentence; as a full stop or point.

14. Spread to view in all dimensions; as a head drawn with a full face.

15. Exhibiting the whole disk or surface illuminated; as the full moon.

16. Abundant; plenteous; sufficient. We have a full supply of provisions for the year.

17. Adequate; equal; as a full compensation or reward for labor.

18. Well fed.

19. Well supplied or furnished; abounding.

20. Copious; ample. The speaker or the writer was full upon that point.

A full band, in music, is when all the voices and instruments are employed.

A full organ, is when all or most of the stops are out.

FULL, noun

1. Complete measure; utmost extent. this instrument answers to the full

2. The highest state or degree.

The swan's down feather, that stands upon the swell at full of tide -

3. The whole; the total; in the phrase, at full

4. The state of satiety; as fed to the full

The full of the moon, is the time when it presents to the spectator its whole face illuminated, as it always does when in opposition to the sun.

FULL, adverb

1. Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution.

The pawn I proffer shall be full as good.

2. With the whole effect.

The diapason closing full in man.

3. Exactly.

FULL in the center of the sacred wood.

4. Directly; as, he looked him full in the face.

It is placed before adjectives and adverbs to heighten or strengthen their signification; as full sad.

FULL well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. Mark 7:9.

FULL is prefixed to other words, chiefly participles, to express utmost extent or degree.

FULL'AGE, noun Money paid for fulling cloth.

FULL'ED, participle passive Cleansed; thickened; made dense and firm in a mill.

FULL'ER, noun One whose occupation is to full cloth.

FULL'ERY, noun The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.

FULL'ING, participle present tense Thickening cloth in a mill; making compact.

FULL'ING, noun The art or practice of thickening cloth and making it compact and firm in a mill, at the same time the cloth is cleansed of oily matter.

FULL'INGMILL, noun A mill for fulling cloth by means of pestles or stampers, which beat and press it to a close or compact state and cleanse it.

FULL'NESS, noun [from full.]

1. The state of being filled, so as to leave no part vacant.

2. The state of abounding or being in great plenty; abundance.

3. Completeness; the state of a thing in which nothing is wanted; perfection.

In thy presence is fullness of joy. Psalms 16:1.

4. Repletion; satiety; as from intemperance.

5. Repletion of vessels; as fullness of blood.

6. Plenty; wealth; affluence.

7. Struggling perturbation; swelling; as the fullness of the heart.

8. Largeness; extent.

There wanted the fullness of a plot, and variety of characters to form it as it ought.

9. Loudness; force of sound, such as fills the ear.

FULL'SOME, adjective Gross; disgusting by plainness, grossness or excess; as fullsome flattery or praise.

FULL'SOMELY, adverb Grossly; with disgusting plainness or excess.

FULL'SOMENESS, noun Offensive grossness, as of praise.

[These are the senses of this word and the only senses used in New England, as far as my knowledge extends.]

FUL'LY, adverb

1. Completely; entirely; without lack or defect; in a manner to give satisfaction; to the extent desired; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition.

2. Completely; perfectly. Things partially known in this life will be hereafter fully disclosed.

FUL'MAR, noun

1. A fowl of the genus Procellaria, or petrel kind, larger than a gull, possessing the singular faculty of spouting from its bill a quantity of pure oil against its adversary. It is an inhabitant of the Hebrides; it feeds on the fat of whales, and when one of them is taken, will perch on it even when alive and pick out pieces of flesh.

2. The foulemart or fulimart. [See Foumart.]

FUL'MINANT, adjective [Latin fulminans.] Thundering.

FUL'MINATE, verb intransitive [Latin fulmino, from fulmen, thunder, from a root in Bl, which signifies to throw or to burst forth.]

1. To thunder.

2. To make a loud sudden noise, or a sudden sharp crack; to detonate; as fulminating gold.

3. To hurl papal thunder; to issue forth ecclesiastical censures, as the pope.

FUL'MINATE, verb transitive

1. To utter or send out, as a denunciation or censure; to send out, as a menace or censure by ecclesiastical authority.

2. To cause to explode.

FULMINA'TION, noun

1. A thundering.

2. Denunciation of censure or threats, as by papal authority.

The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule.

3. The explosion of certain chimical preparations; detonation.

FUL'MINATORY, adjective Thundering; striking terror.

FUL'MINE, verb transitive To thunder. [Not in use.]

FULMIN'IC, adjective fulminic acid, in chimistry, is a peculiar acid contained in fulminating silver.

FUL'SOME, adjective

1. Nauseous; offensive.

He that brings fulsome objects to my view, with nauseous images my fancy fills.

2. Rank; offensive to the smell; as a rank and fulsome smell.

3. Lustful; as fulsome ewes.

4. Tending to obscenity; as a fulsome epigram.

These are the English definitions of fulsome but I have never witnessed such applications of the word in the United States. It seems then that full and foul are radically the same word, the primary sense of which is stuffed, crowded, from the sense of putting on or in. In the United States, the compound fullsome takes its signification from full, in the sense of cloying or satiating, and in England, fulsome takes its predominant sense from foulness.

FUL'SOMELY, adverb Rankly; nauseously; obscenely.

FUL'SOMENESS, noun Nauseousness; rank smell; obscenity.

FUL'VID, adjective [See Fulvous, which is generally used.]

FUL'VOUS, adjective [Latin fulvus.] Yellow; tawny; saffron-colored.

FUMA'DO, noun [Latin fumus, smoke.] A smoked fish.

FU'MATORY, noun [Latin fumaria herba.]

A plant or genus of plants, called Fumaria, of several species.

FUM'BLE, verb intransitive

1. To feel or grope about; to attempt awkwardly.

2. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse.

3. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.

I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers.

FUM'BLE, verb transitive To manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.

FUM'BLER, noun One who gropes or manages awkwardly.

FUM'BLING, participle present tense Groping; managing awkwardly.

FUM'BLINGLY, adverb In an awkward manner.

FUME, noun [Latin fumus.]

1. Smoke; vapor from combustion, as from burning wood or tobacco.

2. Vapor; volatile matter ascending in a dense body.

3. Exhalation from the stomach; as the fumes of wine.

4. Rage; heat; as the fumes of passion.

5. Any thing unsubstantial or fleeting.

6. Idle conceit; vain imagination.

FUME, verb intransitive [Latin fumo.]

1. To smoke; to throw off vapor, as in combustion.

Where the golden altar fumed.

2. To yield vapor or visible exhalations.

Silenus lay, whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain.

3. To pass off in vapors.

Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity.

4. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.

He fret, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.

FUME, verb transitive

1. To smoke; to dry in smoke.

2. To perfume,

She fumed the temples with an od'rous flame.

3. To disperse or drive away in vapors.

The heat will fume away most of the scent.

FU'MET, noun The dung of deer.

FU'MID, adjective [Latin fumidus.] Smoky; vaporous.

FU'MIGATE, verb transitive [Latin fumigo.]

1. To smoke; to perfume.

2. To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke; as in chimistry, or in medicine by inhaling it, or in cleansing infected apartments.

FU'MIGATED, participle passive Smoked; exposed to smoke.

FU'MIGATING, participle present tense Smoking; applying smoke to.

FUMIGA'TION, noun [Latin fumigatio.]

1. The act of smoking or applying smoke, as in chimistry for softening a metal, or in the healing art by inhaling the smoke of certain substances. Expectoration is often assisted and sometimes ulcers of the lungs healed by fumigation fumigation is also used in cleansing infected rooms.

2. Vapors; scent raised by fire.

FU'MING, participle present tense Smoking; emitting vapors; raging; fretting.

FU'MINGLY, adverb Angrily; in a rage.

FU'MISH, adjective Smoky; hot; choleric. [Little used.]

FU'MITER, noun A plant.

FU'MOUS,

FU'MY, adjective Producing fume; full of vapor.

From dice and wine the youth retir'd to rest, and puffed the funny god from out his breast.

FU'MY, a. Producing fume; full of vapor.

FUN, noun Sport; vulgar merriment. A low word.

FUNAM'BULATORY, adjective Performing like a rope dancer; narrow like the walk of a rope dancer.

FUNAM'BULIST, noun [Latin funis, rope, and ambulo, to walk.] A rope walker or dancer.

FUNC'TION, noun [Latin functio, from fungor, to perform.]

1. In a general sense, the doing, executing or performing of any thing; discharge; performance; as the function of a calling or office. More generally,

2. Office or employment, or any duty or business belonging to a particular station or character, or required of a person in the station or character. Thus we speak of the functions of a chancellor, judge or bishop; the functions of a parent or guardian.

3. Trade; occupation. [Less proper.]

4. The office of any particular part of animal bodies; the peculiar or appropriate action of a member or part of the body, by which the animal economy is carried on. Thus we speak of the functions of the brain and nerves, of the heart, of the liver, of the muscles, etc.

5. Power; faculty, animal or intellectual.

As the mind opens, and its functions spread.

6. In mathematics, the function of a variable quantity, is any algebraic expression into which that quantity enters, mixed with other quantities that have invariable values.

FUNC'TIONALLY, adverb By means of the functions.

FUNC'TIONARY, noun One who holds an office or trust; as a public functionary; secular functionaries.

FUND, noun [Latin fundus, ground bottom, foundation; connected with Latin fundo, to found, the sense of which is to throw down, to set, to lay. Heb. to build. Latin funda, a sling, a casting net or purse.]

1. A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation, undertaken with a view to profit, and by means of which expenses and credit are supported. Thus the capital stock of a banking institution is called its fund; the joint stock of a commercial or manufacturing house constitutes its fund or funds; and hence the word is applied to the money which an individual may possess, or the means he can employ for carrying on any enterprise or operation. No prudent man undertakes an expensive business without funds.

2. Money lent to government, constituting a national debt; or the stock of a national debt. Thus we say, a man is interested in the funds or public funds, when he owns the stock or the evidences of the public debt; and the funds are said to rise or fall, when a given amount of that debt sells for more or less in the market.

3. Money or income destined to the payment of the interest of a debt.

4. A sinking fund is a sum of money appropriated to the purchase of the public stocks or the payment of the public debt.

5. A stock or capital to afford supplies of any kind; as a fund of wisdom or good sense; a fund of wit. Hence.

6. Abundance; ample stock or store.

FUND, verb transitive

1. To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources for discharging the annual interest of; as, to fund exchequer bills or government notes; to fund a national debt.

2. To place money in a fund

FUND'AMENT, noun [Latin fundamentum, from fundo, to set.]

1. The seat; the lower part of the body or of the intestinum rectum.

2. Foundation. [Not in use.]

FUNDAMENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence, essential; important; as a fundamental truth or principle; a fundamental law; a fundamental sound or chord in music.

FUNDAMENT'AL, noun A leading or primary principle, rule, law or article, which serves as the ground work of a system; essential part; as the fundamentals of the christian faith.

FUNDAMENT'ALLY, noun Primarily; originally; essentially; at the foundation. All power is fundamentally in the citizens of a state.

FUND'ED, participle passive Furnished with funds for regular payment of the interest of.

FUND'ING, participle present tense Providing funds for the payment of the interest of.

FUNE'BRIAL, adjective [Latin funebris.] Pertaining to funerals.

FU'NERAL, noun [Latin funus, from funale, a cord, a torch, from funis, a rope or cord, as torches were made of cords, and were used in burials among the Romans.]

1. Burial; the ceremony of buying a dead body; the solemnization of interment; obsequies.

2. The procession of persons attending the burial of the dead.

3. Burial; interment.

FU'NERAL, adjective Pertaining to burial; used at the interment of the dead; as funeral rites, honors or ceremonies; a funeral torch; funeral feast or games; funeral oration.

FUNERA'TION, noun Solemnization of a funeral. [Not used.]

FUNE'REAL, adjective

1. Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial.

2. Dark; dismal; mournful.

FUN'GATE, noun [from fungus.] A compound of fungic acid and a base.

FUN'GIC, adjective Pertaining to or obtained from mushrooms; as fungic acid.

FUN'GIFORM adjective [fungus and form.] In mineralogy, having a termination similar to the head of a fungus.

FUN'GITE, noun [from fungus.] A kind of fossil coral.

FUNGOS'ITY, noun Soft excrescence.

FUN'GOUS, adjective [See Fungus.]

1. Like fungus or a mushroom; excrescent; spungy; soft.

2. Growing suddenly, but not substantial or durable.

FUN'GUS, noun [Latin]

1. A mushroom, vulgarly called a toadstool. The Fungi constitute an order of plants of a peculiar organization and manner of growth. The word is also applied to excrescences on plants.

2. A spungy excrescence in animal bodies as proud flesh formed in wounds.

The term is particularly applied to any morbid excrescence, whether in wounds or arising spontaneously.

FU'NICLE, noun [Latin faniculus, dim of funis, a cord.]

A small cord; a small ligature; a fiber.

FUNIC'ULAR, adjective Consisting of a small cord or fiber.

FUNK, noun An offensive smell. [Vulgar.]

FUN'NEL, noun

1. A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance, particularly the shaft or hollow channel of a chimney through which smoke ascends.

2. A vessel for conveying fluids into close vessels; a kind of hollow cone with a pipe; a tunnel.

FUN'NELFORM,

FUN'NELSHAPED, adjective Having the form of a funnel or inverted hollow cone.

FUN'NY, adjective [from fun.] Droll; comical.

FUN'NY, noun A light boat.

FUR, noun

1. The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser. fur is one of the most perfect non-conductors of heat, and serves to keep animals warm in cold climates.

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

3. Strips of skin with fur used on garments for lining or for ornament. Garments are lined or faced with fur

4. Hair in general; a loose application of the word.

5. A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.

FUR, verb transitive

1. To line, face or cover with fur; as a furred robe.

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

3. To line with a board, as in carpentry.

FURA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin furax, from furer, to steal.]

Given to theft; inclined to steal; thievish. [Little used.]

FURAC'ITY, noun Thievishness. [Little used.]

FUR'BELOW, noun A piece of stuff plaited and puckered, on a gown or petticoat; a flounce; the plaited border of a petticoat or gown.

FUR'BELOW, verb transitive To put on a furbelow; to furnish with an ornamental appendage of dress.

FUR'BISH, verb transitive

To rub or scour to brightness; to polish; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear; to furbish arms.

FUR'BISHED, participle passive Scoured to brightness; polished; burnished.

FUR'BISHER, noun One who polishes or makes bright by rubbing; one who cleans.

FUR'BISHING, participle present tense Rubbing to brightness; polishing.

FUR'CATE, adjective [Latin furca, a fork.] Forked; branching like the prongs of a fork.

FURCA'TION, noun A forking; a branching like the times of a fork.

FUR'DLE, verb transitive To draw up into a bundle. [Not used.]

FUR'FUR, noun [Latin] Dandruff; scurf; scales like bran.

FURFURA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin furfuraceus.] Scaly; branny; scurfy; like bran.

FU'RIOUS, adjective [See Fury.]

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

2. Raging; violent; transported with passion; as a furious animal.

3. Mad; phrenetic.

FU'RIOUSLY, adverb With impetuous motion or agitation; violently; vehemently; as, to run furiously; to attack one furiously

FU'RIOUSNESS, noun

1. Impetuous motion or rushing; violent agitation.

2. Madness; phrensy; rage..

FURL, verb transitive

To draw up; to contract; to wrap or roll a sail close to the yard, stay or mast, and fasten it by a gasket or cord.

FURL'ED, participle passive Wrapped and fastened to a yard, etc.

FURL'ING, participle present tense Wrapping or rolling and fastening to a yard, etc.

FUR'LONG, noun

A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods, poles or perches.

FUR'LOW, noun [See Fare and Leave.]

Leave of absence; a word used only in military affairs. Leave or license given by a commanding officer to an officer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time.

FUR'LOW, verb transitive To furnish with a furlow; to grant leave of absence to an officer or soldier.

FUR'MENTY, noun [See Frumenty.]

FUR'NACE, noun [Latin fornax, furnus, either from burning, or the sense is an arch.]

1. A place where a vehement fire and heat may be made and maintained, for melting ores or metals, etc. A furnace for casting cannon and other large operations is inclosed with walls through which a current of air is blown from a large bellows. In smaller operations a vessel is constructed with a chamber or cavity, with a door and a grate.

2. In scripture, a place of cruel bondage and affliction. Deuteronomy 4:20.

3. Grievous afflictions by which men are tried. Ezekiel 22:18.

4. A place of temporal torment. Daniel 3:6.

5. Hell; the place of endless torment. Matthew 13:42.

FUR'NACE, verb transitive To throw out sparks as a furnace

FUR'NIMENT, noun Furniture. [Not in use.]

FUR'NISH, verb transitive [There is a close affinity, in sense and elements, between furnish garnish, and the Latin orno, which may have been forno or horno. We see in furlow, above the f is lost in three of the languages, and it may be so in orno. The primary sense is to put on, or to set on.]

1. To supply with any thing wanted or necessary; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish arms for defense; to furnish a table; to furnish a library; to furnish one with money or implements.

2. To supply; to store; as, to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles.

3. To fit up; to supply with the proper goods, vessels or ornamental appendages; as, to furnish a house or a room.

4. To equip; to fit for an expedition; to supply.

FUR'NISHED, adjective Supplied; garnished; fitted with necessaries.

FUR'NISHER, noun One who supplies or fits out.

FUR'NISHING, participle present tense Supplying; fitting; garnishing.

FUR'NITURE, noun

1. Goods, vessels, utensils and other appendages necessary or convenient for housekeeping; whatever is added to the interior of a house or apartment, for use or convenience.

2. Appendages; that which is added for use or ornament; as the earth with all its furniture

3. Equipage; ornaments; decorations; in a very general sense.

FUR'RED, participle passive Lined or ornamented with fur; thickened by the addition of a board.

FUR'RIER, noun A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells muffs, tippets, etc.

FUR'RIERY, noun Furs in general.

FUR'RING, participle present tense Lining or ornamenting with fur; lining with a board.

FUR'ROW, noun [Gr. to plow.]

1. A trench in the earth made by a plow.

2. A long narrow trench or channel in wood or metal; a groove.

3. A hollow made by wrinkles in the face.

FUR'ROW, verb transitive

1. To cut a furrow; to make furrows in; to plow.

2. To make long narrow channels or grooves in.

3. To cut; to make channels in; to plow; as, to furrow the deep.

4. To make hollows in by wrinkles. Sorrow furrows the brow.

FUR'ROWFACED, adjective Having a wrinkled or furrowed face.

FUR'ROWWEED, noun A weed growing on plowed land.

FUR'RY, adjective [from fur.]

1. Covered with fur; dressed in fur.

2. Consisting of fur or skins; as furry spoils.

FUR'THER, adjective

1. More or most distant; as the further end of the field.

2. Additional. We have a further reason for this opinion. We have nothing further to suggest.

What further need have we of witnesses? Matthew 26:39.

FUR'THER, adverb To a greater distance. He went further

FUR'THER, verb transitive

To help forward; to promote; to advance onward; to forward; hence, to help or assist.

This binds thee then to further my design.

FUR'THERANCE, noun A helping forward; promotion; advancement.

I know that I shall abide and continue with you all, for your furtherance and joy of faith. Philippians 1:12.

FUR'THERED, participle passive Promoted; advanced.

FUR'THERER, noun One who helps to advance; a promoter.

FUR'THERMORE, adverb Moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said.

FUR'THEST, adjective Most distant either in time or place.

FUR'THEST, adverb At the greatest distance.

FUR'TIVE, adjective [Latin furtivus.]

Stolen; obtained by theft.

FU'RUNCLE, noun [Latin furunculus, furia, furo.]

A small tumor or boil, with inflammation and pain, arising under the skin in the adipose membrane.

FUR'WROUGHT, a fur'raut. Made of fur.

FU'RY, noun [Latin furor, furia, furo, to rage.]

1. A violent rushing; impetuous motion; as the fury of the winds.

2. Rage; a storm of anger; madness; turbulence.

I do oppose my patience to his fury

3. Enthusiasm; heat of the mind.

4. In mythology, a deity; a goddess of vengeance; hence, a stormy turbulent, violent woman.

FU'RYLIKE, adjective Raging; furious; violent.

FURZ, noun

Gorse; whin; a thorny plant of the genus Ulex.

FURZ'Y, adjective Overgrown with furz; full of gorse.

FUS'CITE, noun A mineral of a grayish or greenish black color, found in Norway.

FUS'COUS, adjective [Latin fuscus.] Brown; of a dark color.

FUSE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin fundo, fusum, to pour out.]

To melt; to liquefy by heat; to render fluid; to dissolve.

FUSE, verb intransitive To be melted; to be reduced from a solid to a fluid state by heat.

FU'SED, participle passive Melted; liquefied.

FUSEE', noun s as z. [Latin fusus, a spindle, from fundo, fudi, fusum.]

The cone or conical part of a watch or clock, round which is wound the chain or cord.

FUSEE', noun s as z.

1. A small neat musket or firelock. But we now use fusil.

2. fusee or fuse of a bomb or granade, a small pipe filled with combustible matter by which fire is communicated to the powder in the bomb; but as the matter burns slowly, time is given before the charge takes fire, for the bomb to reach its destination.

3. The track of a buck.

FUSIBIL'ITY, noun [See fusible.] The quality of being fusible, or of being convertible from a solid to a fluid state by heat.

FU'SIBLE, a s as z. [Latin fusus, from fundo.]

That may be melted or liquefied. The earths are found to be fusible

FU'SIFORM, adjective [Latin fusus, a spindle, and form.]

Shaped like a spindle.

FU'SIL, a, s as z. [Latin fusilis, from fusus, fundo.]

1. Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat.

2. Running; flowing, as a liquid.

FU'SIL, noun s as z. [Latin fusus, fundo.]

1. A light musket or firelock.

2. A bearing in heraldry of a rhomboidal figure, named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.

FUSILEE'R, noun [from fusil.] Properly, a soldier armed with a fusil; but in modern times, a soldier armed like others of the infantry, and distinguished by wearing a cap like a grenadier, but somewhat shorter.

FU'SION, noun s as z. [Latin fusio, from fundo, fusum.]

1. The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat, without the aid of a solvent; as the fusion of ice or 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

Watery fusion the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization.

FUSS, noun [allied perhaps to Gr. to blow or puff.]

A tumult; a bustle; but the word is vulgar.

FUST, noun [Latin fustis, a staff.] The shaft of a column.

FUST, noun A strong musty smell.

FUST', verb intransitive To become moldy; to smell ill.

FUST'ED, adjective Moldy; ill smelling.

FUS'TET, noun The wood of the Rhus cotinus, which yields a fine orange color.

FUS'TIAN, noun

1. A kind of cotton stuff, or stuff of cotton and linen.

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; a swelling style; bombast.

Fustian is thoughts and words ill sorted.

FUS'TIAN, adjective Made of fustian

1. In style, swelling above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; too pompous; ridiculously tumid; bombastic.

FUS'TIANIST, noun One who writes bombast.

FUS'TIC, noun [Latin fustis.] The wood of the Morus tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, imported and used in dyeing yellow.

FUSTIGA'TION, noun [Latin fustigatio, from fustigo, to beat with a cudgel, from fustis, a stick or club.] Among the Ancient Romans, a punishment by beating with a stick or club, inflicted on freemen.

FUST'INESS, noun A fusty state or quality; an ill smell from moldiness, or moldiness itself.

FUST'Y, adjective [See Fust.] Moldy; musty; ill smelling; rank; rancid.

FU'TILE, adjective [Latin futilis, from futio, to pour out; effutio, to prate or babble; Heb. to utter rashly or foolishly.]

1. Talkative; loquacious; tattling.

2. Trifling; of no weight or importance; answering no valuable purpose; worthless.

3. Of no effect.

FUTIL'ITY, noun Talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [In this sense, not now used.]

1. Triflingness; unimportance; want of weight or effect; as, to expose the futility of arguments.

2. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; as the futility of measures or schemes.

FU'TILOUS, adjective Worthless; trifling. [Not used.]

FUT'TOCK, noun It is more probably corrupted from foot-lock.]

In a ship, the futtocks are the middle timbers, between the floor and the upper timbers, or the timbers raised over the keel which form the breadth of the ship.

FU'TURE, adjective [Latin futurus.] That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present, indefinitely. The next moment is future to the present.

1. The future tense, in grammar, is the modification of a verb which expresses a future act or event.

FU'TURE, noun Time to come; a time subsequent to the present; as, the future shall be as the present; in future; for the future In such phrases, time or season is implied.

FU'TURELY, adverb In time to come. [Not used.]

FUTURI'TION, noun The state of being to come or exist hereafter.

FUTU'RITY, noun Future time; time to come.

1. Event to come.

All futurities are naked before the all-seeing eye.

2. The state of being yet to come, or to come hereafter.

FUZZ, verb intransitive To fly off in minute particles.

FUZZ, noun Fine, light particles; loose, volatile matter.

FUZZ'BALL, noun A kind of fungus or mushroom, which when pressed bursts and scatters a fine dust.

1. A puff.

FUZ'ZLE, verb transitive To intoxicate.