A fossil coral resembling Fungia.
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Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
Like a fungus; fungous; spongy.
A mycologist.
Mycology.
The quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence.
Of the nature of fungi; spongy.
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. See fungi.
resembling a fungus or fungi.
Funicular.
A small cord, ligature, or fiber.
Forming a narrow ridge.
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.
Resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees.
A cord; specifically, the umbilical cord or navel string.
To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
A genus of robust East Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers: plantain lilies; sometimes placed in the family Hostaceae.
one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae, but not widely accepted; it includes the genus Hosta.
A shrinking back through fear.
having an earthy, unsophisticated style or feeling; earthy and seemingly unsophisticated, having elements of black American blues and gospel. See 2nd funk, n.
A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids or pourable solids into a vessel with a narrow opening; a tunnel.
Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform.
The section of a newspaper containing comic strips; called also funny papers and comics. Rarely encountered in the singular.
a comic incident or series of incidents.
A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling.
To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes.
Given to theft; thievish.
Addictedness to theft; thievishness.
To put a furbelow on; to ornament.
To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear.
Capable of being furbished.
One who furbishes; esp., a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons.
Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.
A branching like a fork.
Rascally; scandalous.
A forked process; the wishbone or furculum.
Shaped like a fork; furcate.
The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.
To draw up into a bundle; to roll up.
Scurf; dandruff.
Made of bran; like bran; scurfy.
A colorless, oily substance, C4H4O, obtained by distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.; -- called also tetraphenol.
Falling of scurf from the head; desquamation.
A white, crystalline base, obtained indirectly from 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.
Made of bran; furfuraceous.
Furious; raging; tormenting.
Full of rage.
See Fury, 3.
A yellow, crystalline substance, (C4H3O)2.C2O2, obtained by the oxidation of furoin.
Pertaining to, or derived from, furile; as, furilic acid.
With great force or vigor; vehemently.
Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.
The quality of being furious.
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.
rolled up and secured; as, furled sails bound securely to the spar; a furled flag.
A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.
To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an officer or soldier.
Same as Frumenty.
To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.
A natural family including ovenbirds.
The type genus of the Furnariidae, comprising the South American ovenbirds.
Furniture.
That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply.
provided with necessary furnishings; -- used especially of rented apartments having furniture included in the rental price; as, a furnished apartment. Opposite of unfurnished.
One who supplies or fits out.
the furniture and appliances and other movable accessories (including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other building) livable.
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture.
That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.
A colorless, crystalline substance, C10H8O4, from furfurol.
an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; a fad.
Excitement; commotion; enthusiasm.
covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs.
A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells fur goods.
Furs, in general.
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.
To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea.
Furrowed.
Covered with fur; dressed in fur.
To help forward; to promote; to advance; to forward; to help or assist.
The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress.
One who furthers. or helps to advance; a promoter.
or conj. Moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said.
Most remote; furthest.
Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous.
At the greatest distance; farthest.
Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look.
Stealthily by theft.
A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.
Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles.
Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europ/us), 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.
The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck.
An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.
Furzy; gorsy.
Abounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze.
Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement. A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal.
A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.
A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation.
A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.
A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil.
Brown or grayish black; darkish.
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.
joined together into a whole.
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.
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 mostly of amyl alcohol; amyl alcohol or a mixture of amyl alcohols.
The central, approximately cylindrical portion of an airplane which carries the passengers, crew, and cargo. It usually forms the main structural portion of an airplane, and to it are typically attached the wings, tail, and sometimes the engines. In single-propeller airplanes, the propeller is typically fixed at the front of the fuselage, although variants have been produced with the propeller at the rear. Some airplanes have no fuselage, properly so called.
The quality of being fusible.
CapabIe of being melted or liquefied.
Shaped like a spindle; shaped like a cylinder that tapers at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.
A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.
Same as Fusil, a.
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.
To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.
The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.
Handy; reat; handsome; notable.
To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado.
a person who thinks excessively about unfortunate things that might happen; one who is excessively concerned about matters of trifling importance.
Like a fussbudget; fussy; grouchy.
In a fussy manner.
The quality of being fussy.
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