Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 71
Fulmiaic (a.) Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (Chem.), pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulminic acid.
Fulminic acid (Chem.), A complex acid, H2C2N2O2, isomeric with cyanic and cyanuric acids, and not known in the free state, but forming a large class of highly explosive salts, the fulminates. Of these, mercuric fulminate, the most common, is used, mixed with niter, to fill percussion caps, charge cartridges, etc. Fulminic acid is made by the action of nitric acid on alcohol.
Fulminuric (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called.
Fulminuric acid (Chem.), A white, crystalline, explosive substance, H3C3N3O3, forming well known salts, and obtained from the fulminates. It is isomeric with cyanuric acid, and hence is also called isocyanuric acid.
Fullness (n.) The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness. [Written also fulness.]
"In thy presence is fullness of joy." -- Ps. xvi. 11.
Fulness (n.) See Fullness.
Fulness, () (1.) Of time (Gal. 4:4), the time appointed by God, and foretold by the prophets, when Messiah should appear. (2.) Of Christ (John 1:16), the superabundance of grace with which he was filled. (3.) Of the Godhead bodily dwelling in Christ (Col. 2:9), i.e., the whole nature and attributes of God are in Christ. (4.) Eph. 1:23, the church as the fulness of Christ, i.e., the church makes Christ a complete and perfect head.
Fulsamic (a.) Fulsome. [Obs.]
Fulsome (a.) Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.]
His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. -- Golding.
Fulsome (a.) Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.
And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. -- Cowper.
Fulsome (a.) Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. [Obs.] "Fulsome ewes." -- Shak. -- Ful"some*ly, adv. -- Ful"some*ness, n. -- Dryden.
Fulsome (a.) Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments" [syn: buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous].
Fulvid (a.) Fulvous. [R.] -- Dr. H. More.
Fulvous (a.) Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown. -- Lindley.
Fum (v. i.) To play upon a fiddle. [Obs.]
Follow me, and fum as you go. -- B. Jonson.
Fum (n.) [XEROX PARC] At PARC, often the third of the standard metasyntactic variables (after foo and bar). Competes with baz, which is more common outside PARC.
Fum, () At Xerox PARC, often the third standard metasyntactic variable after foo and bar. baz is more common outside PARC. [{Jargon File] (2003-09-24)
Fumacious (a.) Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco. Fumade
Fumades (n. pl. ) of Fumado.
Fumadoes (n. pl. ) of Fumado.
Fumade (v. i.) Alt. of Fumado.
Fumado (v. i.) A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.
Fumage (n.) Hearth money.
Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. -- Blackstone.
Fumarate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of fumaric acid.
Fumaric (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory ({Fumaria officinalis).
Fumaric acid (Chem.), A widely occurring organic acid, extracted from fumitory as a white crystallline substance, C2H2(CO2H)2, and produced artificially in many ways, as by the distillation of malic acid; boletic acid. It is found also in the lichen, Iceland moss, and hence was also called lichenic acid.
Fumarine (n.) An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.
Fumarole (n.) A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.
Fumatory (n.) See Fumitory.
Fumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Fumble.
Fumbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fumble.
Fumble (v. t.) 亂摸；摸索；笨拙地做；笨手笨腳地造成 To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together. -- Shak.
Fumble (v. i.) 亂摸；摸索 [（+about/ around/ for）]；笨拙地行動 [（+with/ at）] To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.
Adams now began to fumble in his pockets. -- Fielding.
Fumble (v. i.) To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse. -- Dryden.
My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles. -- Chesterfield.
Alas! how he fumbles about the dom -- Wordsworth.
Fumble (v. i.) To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers. -- Shak.
Fumble (n.) (Sports) 亂摸；摸索；笨拙的處理；笨拙的企圖 [C] Dropping the ball [syn: fumble, muff].
Fumble (v.) Feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom" [syn: grope, fumble].
Fumble (v.) Make one's way clumsily or blindly; "He fumbled towards the door" [syn: fumble, blunder].
Fumble (v.) Handle clumsily.
Fumble (v.) Make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up].
Fumble (v.) Drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder; "fumble a grounder".
Fumbler (n.) One who fumbles.
Fumblingly (adv.) In the manner of one who fumbles.
Fume (n.) （有害，濃烈，或難聞的）煙，氣，汽 [P]；憤怒；煩惱 [S] Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.
The fumes of new shorn hay. -- T. Warton.
The fumes of undigested wine. -- Dryden.
Fume (n.) Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion. -- South.
Fume (n.) Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
A show of fumes and fancies. -- Bacon.
Fume (n.) The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
To smother him with fumes and eulogies. -- Burton.
Fume (n.) (Metal.) Solid material deposited by condensation of fumes; as, lead fume (a grayish powder chiefly lead sulphate).
In a fume, In ill temper, esp. from impatience.
Fumed (imp. & p. p.) of Fume.
Fuming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fume.
Fume (v. i.) 冒煙（或氣，汽）；（煙，汽等）冒出；發怒；怒氣衝衝地說話 [（+at/ over）] To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.
Where the golden altar fumed. -- Milton.
Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain. -- Roscommon.
Fume (v. i.) To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
Keep his brain fuming. -- Shak.
Fume (v. i.) To pass off in fumes or vapors.
Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity. -- Cheyne.
Fume (v. i.) To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. -- Dryden.
While her mother did fret, and her father did fume. -- Sir W. Scott.
To fume away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.
Fume (v. t.) 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.
She fumed the temple with an odorous flame. -- Dryden.
Fume (v. t.) To praise inordinately; to flatter.
They demi-deify and fume him so. -- Cowper.
Fume (v. t.) To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.
The heat will fume away most of the scent. -- Montimer.
How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain! -- Young.
Fume (n.) A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas [syn: smoke, fume].
Fume (v.) Be mad, angry, or furious.
Fume (v.) Emit a cloud of fine particles; "The chimney was fuming" [syn: fume, smoke].
Fume (v.) Treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests [syn: fumigate, fume].
Fume (v.) Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face [syn: reek, fume].
Fumeless (a.) Free from fumes.
Fumer (n.) One that fumes.
Fumer (n.) One who makes or uses perfumes. [Obs.]
Embroiderers, feather makers, fumers. -- Beau. & Fl.
Fumerell (n.) See Femerell.
Fumet (n.) The dung of deer.
Fumet (n.) Alt. of Fumette.
Fumette (n.) The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long.
Fumetere (n.) Fumitory.
Fumid (a.) Smoky; vaporous.
Fumidity (n.) Alt. of Fumidness
Fumidness (n.) The state of being fumid; smokiness.
Fumiferous (a.) Producing smoke.
Fumifugist (n.) One who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes.
Fumify (v. t.) To subject to the action of smoke.
Fumigant (a.) Fuming.
Fumigated (imp. & p. p.) of Fumigate.
Fumigating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fumigate.
Fumigate (n.) To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.
Fumigate (n.) To smoke; to perfume.
Fumigation (n.) The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.
Fumigation (n.) Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.
Fumigator (n.) One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating.
Fumigatory (a.) Having the quality of purifying by smoke.
Fumlly (adv.) Smokily; with fume.
Fuming (a.) Producing fumes, or vapors.
Fumingly (adv.) In a fuming manner; angrily.
Famish (a.) Smoky; hot; choleric.
Fumishness (n.) Choler; fretfulness; passion.
Fumitez (n.) Fumitory.
Fumitory (n.) 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.
Fummel (n.) A hinny.
Fumosity (n.) The fumes of drink.
Fumous (a.) Producing smoke; smoky.
Fumous (a.) Producing fumes; full of fumes.
Fumy (a.) Producing fumes; fumous.
Fun (n.) Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.
Funambulate (v. i.) To walk or to dance on a rope.
Funambulation (n.) Ropedancing.
Funambulatory (a.) Performing like a ropedancer.
Funambulatory (a.) Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer.
Funambulist (n.) A ropewalker or ropedancer.
Funambulo (n.) Alt. of Funambulus.
Funambulus (n.) A ropewalker or ropedancer.
Function (n.) The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.
Function (n.) The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.
Function (n.) The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.
Function (n.) The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.
Function (n.) A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.
Function (v. i.) Alt. of Functionate.
Functionate (v. i.) To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
Functional (a.) 功能的，有作用的；函數的，泛函的 Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.
Functional (a.) Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general.
Functionalize (v. t.) To assign to some function or office.
Functionally (adv.) In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.
Functionaries (n. pl. ) of Functionary.
Functionary (n.) （尤指政府，政黨等的）官員；公務員 One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
Functionary (n.) A worker who holds or is invested with an office [syn: official, functionary].
Functionary (n.) [ C ] (Formal) （尤指政府機關或政黨的） 工作人員，公務員 A person who has official duties, especially in a government or political party.
// The visitors were met by a functionary who escorted them to the director's office.
// A government functionary.
Functionary (in British) (n. pl. - aries) A person acting in an official capacity, as for a government; an official.
Functionary (a.) 職務上的；官員的；公務員的 A less common word for functional, official.
Functionless (a.) Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.
Fund (n.) An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.