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Furrow

To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea.

Furry

Covered with fur; dressed in fur.

Further

To help forward; to promote; to advance; to forward; to help or assist.

Furtherance

The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress.

Furtherer

One who furthers. or helps to advance; a promoter.

Furthermore

or conj. Moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said.

Furthersome

Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous.

Furthest

At the greatest distance; farthest.

Furtive

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

Furuncle

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

Furuncular

Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles.

Fury

Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.

Furze

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.

Furzechat

The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck.

Furzeling

An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.

Furzy

Abounding 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

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

joined together into a whole.

Fusee

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 oil Fusel

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.

fuselage

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.

Fusible

CapabIe of being melted or liquefied.

Fusiform

Shaped like a spindle; shaped like a cylinder that tapers at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.

Fusil

A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.

Fusilier Fusileer

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

To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.

Fusion

The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.

Fusome

Handy; reat; handsome; notable.

Fuss

To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado.

fussbudget

a person who thinks excessively about unfortunate things that might happen; one who is excessively concerned about matters of trifling importance.

Fussy

Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety.

Fust

To become moldy; to smell ill.

Fustet

The wood of the Rhus Cotinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant.

Fustic

The wood of the Maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; -- called also old fustic.

Fustigation

A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.

Fustiness

A fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.

Fusty

Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank.

Futchel

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

futharc futhorc futhork

The Runic alphabet; -- so called from the first six letters f, u, / (th), o (or a), r, c (=k). See rune.

Futile

Talkative; loquacious; tattling.

Futility

The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.

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.

Futureless

Without prospect of betterment in the future.

Futurism

A movement or phase of post-impressionism (which see, below).

Futurist

One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.

Futuritial

Relating to what is to come; pertaining to futurity; future.

futurology

Studies projecting or predicting the future based on current trends.

futz

To fool around; to act without plan or purpose; -- usually used with around; as, don't futz around with a device without understanding its operation.

Fuze

A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n.

Fuze Fuse

A wire, bar, or strip of fusible metal inserted for safety in an electric circuit. When the current increases beyond a certain safe strength, the metal melts, interrupting the circuit and thereby preventing possibility of damage. It serves the same function as a circuit breaker.

fuzee

a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind.

Fuzz

To fly off in minute particles.

Fuzzle

To make drunk; to intoxicate; to fuddle.

Fuzzy

Not firmly woven; that ravels.

Fy

A word which expresses blame, dislike, disapprobation, abhorrence, or contempt. See Fie.

Fyke

A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; -- called also fyke net.

Fyllot

A rebated cross, formerly used as a secret emblem, and a common ornament. It is also called gammadion, and swastika.

Fyrdung Fyrd

The military force of the whole nation, consisting of all men able to bear arms.

G-Jo

A Chinese and Japanese medical treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body.

G-man

A special law-enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

G-spot

A small spot on the front wall of the vagina in women, reported to be exceptionally able to produce high sexual excitement or orgasm when stimulated. Its existence is not universally accepted.

G-string

a patch of cloth attached to and supported by string-like cords, worn over the hips, and serving to cover only the pubic area; -- often worn by stripteasers.

G-suit G suit

A suit worn by aviators and astronauts, designed to counteract the effects of high accelerations experienced in aerial maneuvers, in particular to avoid unconsciousness; called also anti-g suit. It exerts force on the abdomen and legs to prevent blackouts by counteracting the tendency of blood to accumulate below the heart, thus reducing the supply to the brain, when the forces due to acceleration are directed from head to toe.

Gab

To deceive; to lie.

Gabarage

A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods.

Gabble

Loud or rapid talk without meaning.

Gabbro

A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).

Gabel

A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.

Gabeler

A collector of gabels or taxes.

Gabert

A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.

Gabion

A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

Gabionade

A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire.

Gabionage

The part of a fortification built of gabions.

Gable

The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like. The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side. A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway.

gabled

furnished or constructed with a gable; -- of a house or roof; as, a gabled roof. Opposite of ungabled.

Gablet

A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.

Gablock

A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock.

Gabonese

a native or inhabitant of Gabon.

Gaby

A simpleton; a dunce; a lout.

Gad

To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled.

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