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Fullam

A false die. See Fulham.

fullback

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

Fuller

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

Fullery

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

Fulling

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

Fullness

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

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 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).

Fulmarus

A genus of birds including many of the fulmars.

Fulmiaic

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

Fulminate

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

fulminate of mercury

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.

Fulminating

Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.

Fulmination

The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.

Fulmine

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

Fulminuric

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

Fulsome

Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled.

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.

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.

Fumatorium

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

Fumble

To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.

Fume

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.

Fumet

A high-flavored substance, such as extract of game, for flavoring dishes of food; less properly, a ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.

Fumette Fumet

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

Fumifugist

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

Fumify

To subject to the action of smoke.

Fumigate

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

Fumigator

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

Fumigatory

Having the quality of purifying by smoke.

Fuming

Producing fumes, or vapors.

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.

Fumy

Producing fumes; fumous.

Fun

Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.

fun

Of or pertaining to fun; causing pleasure or amusement; as, a fun thing to do.

Funafuti

The capital city of Tuvalu. Population (2000) = 3,839.

Function

The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; performance.

Functional

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

functionalism

a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment.

Functionally

In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.

Functionary

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

Functionate Function

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

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.

Fundable

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

Fundamental

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.

fundamentalism

A system of beliefs based on the interpretation of every word in the Bible, both old and new testaments, as literal truth. It is primarily held by a branch of American Protestants.

Fundamentally

Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents.

Funded

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

Fundholder

One who has money invested in the public funds.

Funding

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

Fundus

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

Funebrial

Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal.

Funeral

Pertaining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies.

funeral home

An establishment, usually commercial, where the bodies of dead persons are prepared for viewing before burial or cremation; called also funeral parlor, mortuary, funeral chapel and informally, undertaker's. The body may or may not be preserved by embalming before viewing or burial, and in some cases the body is not exposed for viewing, though present in a casket. Often, some form of memorial service is held for the deceased at the funeral home, where friends and relatives may come to pay their respects to the dead, and express condolence to the family. The work of preparation of the body and many other arrangements related to the funeral and burial are carried out by an undertaker or mortician who manages the funeral home.

funerary

of or pertaining to a funeral or to burial of human remains; as, funerary urn.

Funereal

Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn; as, at a funereal pace. Dark; dismal; mournful.

Fungal

Of or pertaining to fungi.

Funge

A blockhead; a dolt; a fool.

Fungi

A group of thallophytic plant-like organisms of low organization, destitute of chlorophyll, in which reproduction is mainly accomplished by means of asexual spores, which are produced in a great variety of ways, though sexual reproduction is known to occur in certain Phycomycetes, or so-called algal fungi. They include the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each. In the two-kingdom classification system they were classed with the plants, but in the modern five-kingdom classification, they are not classed as plants, but are classed in their own separate kingdom fungi, which includes the phyla Zygomycota (including simple fungi such as bread molds), Ascomycota (including the yeasts), Basidiomycota (including the mushrooms, smuts, and rusts), and Deuteromycota (the fungi imperfecti). Some of the forms, such as the yeasts, appear as single-celled microorganisms, but all of the fungi are are eukaryotic, thus distinguishing them from the prokaryotic microorganisms of the kingdon Monera.

Fungi Imperfecti

A heterogenous phylum of fungi which lack a sexual phase, or of which the sexual phase is not known. Some undoubtedly represent the conidium stages of various Ascomycetes. It is not considered a natural phylum, and is also called the Deuteromycota. The group is divided into the orders Sph/ropsidales, Melanconiales, and Moniliales. It includes the genera Penicillium and Aspergillus, which reproduce asexually by means of conidia.

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 Fungid/, a family of stony corals. One of the Fungid/.

Fungibles

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

Fungic

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

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.

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