Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 69
Fruticant (a.) Full of shoots. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.
Fruticose (a.) (Bot.) Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem. -- Gray.
Fruticose (a.) Of or relating to or resembling a shrub [syn: shrubby, fruticose, fruticulose].
Fruticous (a.) (Bot.) Fruticose. [R.]
Fruticulose (a.) (Bot.) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub. -- Gray.
Fruticulose (a.) Of or relating to or resembling a shrub [syn: shrubby, fruticose, fruticulose].
Fried (imp. & p. p.) of Fry
Frying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fry
Fry (v. t.) To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.
Fry (v. i.) To undergo the process of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat.
Fry (v. i.) To simmer; to boil. [Obs.]
With crackling flames a caldron fries. -- Dryden
The frothy billows fry. -- Spenser.
Fry (v. i.) To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.
To keep the oil from frying in the stomach. -- Bacon.
Fry (v. i.) To be agitated; to be greatly moved. [Obs.]
What kindling motions in their breasts do fry. -- Fairfax.
Ery (n.) A dish of anything fried.
Ery (n.) A state of excitement; as, to be in a fry. [Colloq.]
Fry (n.) (Zool.) The young of any fish.
Fry (n.) A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.
The fry of children young. -- Spenser.
To sever . . . the good fish from the other fry. -- Milton.
We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry. -- Walpole.
Fry (n.) English painter and art critic (1866-1934) [syn: Fry, Roger Fry, Roger Eliot Fry].
Fry (n.) English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907) [syn: Fry, Christopher Fry].
Fry (n.) A young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" [syn: child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling].
Fry (v.) Be excessively hot; "If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried".
Fry (v.) Cook on a hot surface using fat; "fry the pancakes".
Fry (v.) Kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair; "The serial killer was electrocuted" [syn: electrocute, fry].
Fry (v. i.) To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware failures. More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never said of software, only of hardware and humans. See fried, magic smoke.
Fry (v. t.) To cause to fail; to roach, toast, or hose a piece of hardware. Never used of software or humans, but compare fried.
Fry, () To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware failures. More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never said of software, only of hardware and humans. See fried, magic smoke.
Fry, () To cause to fail; to roach, toast, or hose a piece of hardware. Never used of software or humans, but compare fried.
Frying (n.) The process denoted by the verb fry.
Frying pan, An iron pan with a long handle, used for frying meat, vegetables, etc. ftp
Frying (n.) Cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle [syn: frying, sauteing].
Fuage (n.) Same as Fumage.
Fuar (n.) Same as Feuar. Fub
Fub (n.) Alt. of Fubs
Fubs (n.) A plump young person or child. [Obs.] -- Smart.
Fub (v. t.) To put off by trickery; to cheat. [Obs.]
I have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fabbed off, from this day to that day. -- Shak.
FUB, () Freie Universitaet Berlin (org.)
Fubbery (n.) Cheating; deception. -- Marston. Fubby
Fubby (a.) Alt. of Fubsy
Fubsy (a.) Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa. [Eng.]
A fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid. -- Mme. D'Arblay.
Fucate (a.) Alt. of Fucated
Fucated (a.) Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.
Fuchs (n.) (German Univ.) A student of the first year.
Fuchsias (n. pl. ) of Fuchsia
Fuchslae (n. pl. ) of Fuchsia
Fuchsia (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Fuchsia (n.) A plant belonging to the genus Fuschia.
Fuchsia (n.) Any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers; Central and South America and New Zealand and Tahiti.
Fuchsine (n.) (Chem.) 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.
Compare: Magenta
Magenta (n.) (Chem.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsin, fuchsine, roseine, etc.
Magenta (n.) The purplish-red color of magenta.
Fucivorous (a.) (Zool.) Eating fucus or other seaweeds.
Fuckfest (n.) [C] (pl. Fuckfests) (Vulgar, slang) Orgy, an act of group sex.
Fuckfest (n.) When two or more people get together and experience every sexual position known in a single night.
Fucoid (a.) Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideae) which are blackish in color, and produce oospores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character.
Fucoid (a.) In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.
Fucoid (n.) A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid, a.
Fucoidal (a.) Fucoid.
Fucoidal (a.) Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone.
Fuci (n. pl. ) of Fucus
Fucus (n.) A paint; a dye; also, false show.
Fucus (n.) A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.
Fucusol (n.) An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds.
Fud (n.) The tail of a hare, coney, etc.
Fud (n.) Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.
Fudder (n.) See Fodder, a weight.
Fuddled (imp. & p. p.,) of Fuddle
Fuddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fuddle
Fuddle (v. t.) 灌醉；使混亂 To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated. [Colloq.]
I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders. -- Steele.
Fuddle (v. i.) 酗酒 To drink to excess. [Colloq.]
Fuddle (n.) 醉；酗酒；混亂 A confused multitude of things [syn: clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother].
Fuddle (v.) Make stupid with alcohol [syn: befuddle, fuddle].
Fuddle (v.) Consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night" [syn: drink, booze, fuddle].
Fuddle (v.) Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" [syn: confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate].
Fuddler (n.) A drunkard. [Colloq.] -- Baxter.
Compare: Drunkard
Drunkard (n.) 酒鬼；醉漢 [C] A person who is habitually drunk.
Fudge (n.) A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.
Fudged (imp. & p. p.) of Fudge
Fudging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fudge
Fudge (v. t.) To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.
Fudge (v. t.) To foist; to interpolate.
Fudge wheel () A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.
Fuegian (a.) Of or pertaining to Terra del Fuego.
Fuegian (n.) A native of Terra del Fuego.
Fuel (n.) (pl. Fuels) 燃料 [C] [U]；刺激因素 [U] [（+for/ of）] Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.
Fuel (n.) Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement.
Artificial fuel, Fuel consisting of small particles, as coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or blocks.
Fuel (v. t.) 對……供給燃料；給……加油；激起；刺激 (v. i.) 加燃料；加油 [（+up）] To feed with fuel. [Obs.]
Never, alas I the dreadful name, That fuels the infernal flame. -- Cowley.
Fuel (v. t.) To store or furnish with fuel or firing. [Obs.]
動詞變化：fueled, fuelled, fueled, fuelled, fueling, fuelling.
Well watered and well fueled. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Fuel (n.) A substance that can be consumed to produce energy; "more fuel is needed during the winter months"; "they developed alternative fuels for aircraft".
Fuel (v.) Provide with a combustible substance that provides energy; "fuel aircraft, ships, and cars".
Fuel (v.) Provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace" [syn: fuel, fire].
Fuel (v.) Take in fuel, as of a ship; "The tanker fueled in Bahrain".
Fuel (v.) Stimulate; "fuel the debate on creationism".
Fueler (n.) One who, or that which, supplies fuel. [R.] [Written also fueller.] -- Donne.
Fuero (n.) A code; a charter; a grant of privileges.
Fuero (n.) A custom having the force of law.
Fuero (n.) A declaration by a magistrate.
Fuero (n.) A place where justice is administered.
Fuero (n.) The jurisdiction of a tribunal.
Fuff (v. t. & i.) To puff.
Fuffy (a.) Light; puffy.
Fuga (n.) A fugue.
Fugacious (a.) Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile.
Fugacious (a.) Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual.
Fugaciousness (n.) Fugacity.
Fugacity (a.) The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits.
Fugacity (a.) Uncertainty; instability.
Fugacy (n.) Banishment.
Fugato (a.) in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue.
Fugato (n.) A composition resembling a fugue.
Fugh (interj.) An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh.
Fughetta (n.) a short, condensed fugue.
Fugitive (a.) Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.
Fugitive (a.) Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea.
Fugitive (n.) One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.
Fugitive (n.) Something hard to be caught or detained.
Fugitively (adv.) In a fugitive manner.
Fugitiveness (n.) The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.
Fugle (v. i.) To maneuver; to move hither and thither.
Fuglemen (n. pl. ) of Fugleman
Fugleman (n.) 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.
Fugleman (n.) Hence, one who leads the way.
Fugue (n.) 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.
Fuguist (n.) A musician who composes or performs fugues.
Fujiwhara effect (n.) 藤原效應 The Fujiwhara effect, sometimes referred to as Fujiwara interaction or binary interaction, is when two nearby cyclonic vortices orbit each other and close the distance between the circulations of their corresponding low-pressure areas. The effect is named after Sakuhei Fujiwhara, the Japanese meteorologist who initially described the effect. Binary interaction of smaller circulations can cause the development of a larger cyclone, or cause two cyclones to merge into one. Extratropical cyclones typically engage in binary interaction when within 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) of one another, while tropical cyclones typically interact within 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) of each other.
-ful (a.) A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful.
Fulahs (n. pl.) Alt. of Foolahs
Foolahs (n. pl.) 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 Mohammedans. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah is also used adjectively; as, Fulah empire, tribes, language.
Fulbe (n.) Same as Fulahs.
Fuldble (a.) Capable of being propped up.
Fulciment (n.) A prop; a fulcrum.
Fulcra (n. pl.) See Fulcrum.
Fulcrate (a.) Propped; supported by accessory organs.