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.

same as fussbudget.

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

To become moldy; to smell ill.

Moldy; ill-smelling.

The coloring matter of 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.

Made of fustian.

A writer of fustian.

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

To cudgel.

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

A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel.

A gross, fat, unwieldy person.

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

Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank.

Act of fusing; fusion.

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

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

Talkative; loquacious; tattling.

In a futile manner.

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

Futile; trifling.

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.

Capable of being future; possible to occur.

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.

In time to come.

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

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

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

The state of being future; futurity.

Studies projecting or predicting the future based on current trends.

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.

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

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.

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

To fly off in minute particles.

To make drunk; to intoxicate; to fuddle.

Not firmly woven; that ravels.

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

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

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

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

See Fit a song.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

To deceive; to lie.

A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods.

A liar; a deceiver.

Loud or rapid talk without meaning.

One who gabbles; a prater.

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).

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

A collector of gabels or taxes.

A tax, especially on salt.

A gabeler.

A beggar with a wallet; a licensed beggar.

See Gabardine.

A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress.

A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.

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.

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

The part of a fortification built of gabions.

Furnished with gabions.

See Gabionade.

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.

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

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

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

a native or inhabitant of Gabon.

A simpleton; a dunce; a lout.

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

A gadder

The gadfly.

One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.

Going about much, needlessly or without purpose.

In a roving, idle manner.

Disposed to gad.

A small British fish (Motella argenteola) of the Cod family. A pike, so called at Moray Firth; -- called also gead.

Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.

Of, belonging to, or designating, that division of the Celtic languages which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the cod (Gadus); -- applied to an acid obtained from cod-liver oil, viz., gadic acid.

Of or relating to Cadiz, in Spain. A native or inhabitant of Cadiz.