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.

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.

Eating fucus or other seaweeds.

to have sexual intercourse (with).

snarled or stalled in complete confusion.

a stupid foolish man.

a stupid person; -- disparaging and vulgar.

unpleasant; annoying; -- also used as an informal intensifier.

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

Fucoid.

A paint; a dye; also, false show.

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

The tail of a hare, coney, etc.

See Fodder, a weight.

To drink to excess.

A drunkard.

A kind of soft candy composed of sugar or maple sugar, milk, and butter, and often chocolate or nuts, boiled and stirred to a proper consistency.

a term or factor inserted into a calculation to compensate for anticipated errors, or to arbitrarily make the result conform to some desired conclusion.

Of or pertaining to Terra del Fuego. A native of Terra del Fuego.

To feed with fuel.

One who, or that which, supplies fuel.

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.

To puff.

Light; puffy.

A fugue.

Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile.

Fugacity.

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

Banishment.

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

An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh.

a short, condensed fugue.

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

In a fugitive manner.

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

To maneuver; to move hither and thither.

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.

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.

A musician who composes or performs fugues.

The language of the Fulani people, a member of the Niger-Congo family of languages.

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 Muslims. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah and Fulani are also used adjectively; as, Fulah or Fulani empire, tribes, language.

Same as Fulahs.

Capable of being propped up.

A prop; a fulcrum.

See Fulcrum.

Propped; supported by accessory organs.

To fill up; to make full or complete.

One who fulfills.

Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence.

Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent.

Dazzlingly; glitteringly.

Shining; glittering; dazzling.

Splendor; resplendence; effulgence.

Dazzling brightness; splendor.

Lightening.

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

To flash as lightning.

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

The act of lightening.

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.

A false die.

The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke.

Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.

In a smoky manner.

Same as Foumart.

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

Having a full supply of blood.

Like a perfect blossom.

Fully expanded, as a blossom; completely developed; as, a full-blown rose.

having a pronounced womanly shape, with well-developed breasts.

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

With direct and violent opposition; with sudden collision.

suitable for formal occasions; as, a full-dress uniform.

With full speed.

looking forward.

knitted to fit the shape of the body; as, full-fashioned hosiery.

having reached full development with fully grown adult plumage; ready to fly; -- of a bird.

Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh.

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Having reached the limits of growth; mature; fully developed; -- used mostly of living organisms; as, A full-grown lion can easily kill an unarmed man..

Full of courage or confidence.

Very fiery.

accommodating the full height of the human figure; as, a full-length mirror.

Completely furnished wiith men, as a ship.

the time when the moon is fully illuminated.

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

occupying an entire page in a book or paper; as, a full-page ad.

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

using all available resources; -- of actions; as, a full-scale effort to find the perpetrator.

Being of the same size as an original.

Undiluted; -- of liquids. Opposite of diluted.

Gestated for the entire duration of normal pregnancy; as, a healthy full-term baby; -- of new-born infants. Opposite of premature.

spending or requiring all of the time normally given to an activity; as, full-time students; a full-time job. Opposite of part-time.

Having large and strong or complete wings.

The money or price paid for fulling or cleansing cloth.

A false die. See Fulham.

To play the position of fullback on a football team; to be the fullback.

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

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

The process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure.

See Foumart.

The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness.

Pertaining to a fuller of cloth.

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.

One of several species of sea birds, of the family Procellariid/, 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).

A genus of birds including many of the fulmars.

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

Thundering; fulminating.

A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic. A fulminating powder.

The mercury salt of fulminic acid (Hg(CNO)2), called also mercury fulminate. It is prepared as gray crystals, and is used primarily in detonators for detonating high explosives, such as dynamite or TNT.

Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.

The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.

Thundering; striking terror.

To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence.

Of, or concerning thunder.

Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called.

See Fullness.

Fulsome.

Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled.

Fulvous.