Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 74
Fury (n.) Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Fury (n.) Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "Fury of the wind." -- Shak.
I do oppose my patience to his fury. -- Shak.
Fury (n.) (pl.) (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him. -- Emerson.
Fury (n.) One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.]
Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. -- Milton.
Fury (n.) A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
Syn: Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See Anger.
Fury (n.) A feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: {fury}, {rage}, {madness}].
Fury (n.) State of violent mental agitation [syn: {craze}, {delirium}, {frenzy}, {fury}, {hysteria}].
Fury (n.) The property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: {ferocity}, {fierceness}, {furiousness}, {fury}, {vehemence}, {violence}, {wildness}].
Fury (n.) (Classical mythology) The hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals [syn: {Fury}, {Eumenides}, {Erinyes}].
Fury (n.) As attributed to God, is a figurative expression for dispensing afflictive judgments (Lev. 26:28; Job 20:23; Isa. 63:3; Jer. 4:4; Ezek. 5:13; Dan. 9:16; Zech. 8:2).
Furze (n.) (Bot.) 【植】荊豆（花）；金雀花 A thorny evergreen shrub ({Ulex Europaeus), 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.
Furze (n.) Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden- yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe [syn: gorse, furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus].
Compare: Gorse
Gorse (n.) [ U ] 荊豆（花） also Furze, A wild bush with sharp thorns and small, yellow flowers.
Gorse (n.) (Bot.) Furze. See Furze
The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse. -- Cowper.
Gorse bird (Zool.), The European linnet; -- called also gorse hatcher. [Prov. Eng.]
Gorse chat (Zool.), The winchat.
Gorse duck, The corncrake; -- called also grass drake, land drake, and corn drake.
Gorse (n.) Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden- yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe [syn: gorse, furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus].
Furzechat (n.) (Zool.) The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck.
Furzeling (n.) (Zool.) An English warbler ({Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.
Furzen (a.) Furzy; gorsy. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Furzy (a.) 多金雀花的；金雀花的，金雀花茂盛的 Abounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze. -- Gay.
Fusain (n.) (Fine Arts) 炭畫筆；炭筆畫 Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.
Fusain (n.) (Fine Arts) A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal.
Fusain (n.) A stick of black carbon material used for drawing [syn: charcoal, fusain].
Fusarole (n.) (Arch.) A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.
Fuscation (n.) A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation. [R.] -- Blount.
Fuscin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.
Compare: Melanin
Melanin (n.) (Physiol.) A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina (then called fuscin), in the outer layer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin.
Fuscine (n.) (Chem.) A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil. [R.]
Fuscous (a.) [L. fuscus.] Brown or grayish black; darkish.
Sad and fuscous colors, as black or brown, or deep purple and the like. -- Burke.
Fused (imp. & p. p.) of Fuse
Fusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fuse
Fuse (v. t.) To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.
Fuse (v. t.) To unite or blend, as if melted together.
Whose fancy fuses old and new. -- Tennyson.
Fuse (v. i.) To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.
Fuse (v. i.) To be blended, as if melted together.
Fusing point, The degree of temperature at which a substance melts; the point of fusion; the melting point.
Fuse (n.) (Gunnery, Mining, etc.) 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.
Fuse hole, The hole in a shell prepared for the reception of the fuse. -- Farrow.
Fuse (n.) (Mil.) A mechanism in a bomb, torpedo, rocket, or artillery shell, usually having an easily detonated explosive charge and activated by the shock of impact, which detonates the main explosive charge. Some fuses may have timing mechanisms, delaying the explosion for a short time, or up to several days after impact. Fuses activated by other mechanisms more sophisticated than impact, such as proximity or heat, are used in modern weapons such as antiaircraft or antimissile missiles. Fuse
Fuse (n.) An electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded [syn: fuse, electrical fuse, safety fuse].
Fuse (n.) Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant [syn: fuse, fuze, fusee, fuzee, primer, priming].
Fuse (v.) Mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge].
Fuse (v.) Become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat; "The substances fused at a very high temperature".
Fuse (v.) Equip with a fuse; provide with a fuse [ant: defuse].
Fuse (v.) Make liquid or plastic by heating; "The storm fused the electric mains".
FUSE, () Filesystem in USErspace (Linux).
FUSE, () A DEC software development environment for ULTRIX, offering an integrated toolkit for developing, testing, debugging and maintenance.
Fusee (n.) A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.
Fusee (n.) A fuse. See Fuse, n.
Fusee (n.) A kind of match for lighting a pipe or cigar.
Fusee (n.) A small packet of explosive material with wire appendages allowing it to be conveniently attached to a railroad track. It will explode with a loud report when run over by a train, and is used to provide a warning signal to the engineer.
Fusee (n.) The track of a buck.
Fusee (n.) 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.
Fusee (n.) A similar wheel used in other machinery.
Fusel (n.) Alt. of Fusel oil
Fuselage (n.) [ C ] 飛機機身 The main body of an aircraft.
// A close inspection revealed minute cracks in the aircraft's fuselage and wings.
Fusel oil (n.) 雜醇油 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 particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol.
Fusibility (n.) The quality of being fusible.
Fusible (v. t.) CapabIe of being melted or liquefied.
Fusiform (a.) Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.
Fusil (v. t.) Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible.
Fusil (v. t.) Running or flowing, as a liquid.
Fusil (v. t.) Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded.
Fusil (n.) A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.
Fusil (n.) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.
Fusile (a.) Same as Fusil, a.
Fusileer (n.) Alt. of Fusilier
Fusilier (n.) Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural:
Fusilier (n.) A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, "The Royal Fusiliers," etc.
Fusillade (n.) A simultaneous discharge of firearms.
Fusillade (n.) [ C ] A large number of bullets fired at the same time or one after another very quickly.
// A fusillade of automatic fire.
// (Formal figurative) A fusillade (= sudden large amount) of questions greeted the president at this afternoon's press conference.
Fusillader (imp. & p. p.) of Fusillade
Fusillading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fusillade
Fusillade (v. t.) To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.
Fusion (v. t.) The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.
Fusion (v. t.) The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.
Fusion (v. t.) The union or blending together of things, as, melted together.
Fusion (v. t.) The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.
Fusome (a.) Handy; reat; handsome; notable.
Fuss (n.) A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles. -- Byron.
Zealously, assiduously, and with a minimum of fuss or noise. -- Carlyle.
Fuss (n.) One who is unduly anxious about trifles; a fussbudget. [R.]
I am a fuss and I don't deny it. -- W. D. Howell.
Fussed (imp. & p. p.) of Fuss
Fussing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fuss
Fuss (v. i.) To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado. --Sir W. Scott.
Fuss (n.) An excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft" [syn: dither, pother, fuss, tizzy, flap].
Fuss (n.) An angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" [syn: fuss, trouble, bother, hassle].
Fuss (n.) A quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss].
Fuss (n.) A rapid active commotion [syn: bustle, hustle, flurry, ado, fuss, stir].
Fuss (v.) Worry unnecessarily or excessively; "don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now" [syn: fuss, niggle, fret].
Fuss (v.) Care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband" [syn: mother, fuss, overprotect].
Fussily (adv.) In a fussy manner. -- Byron.
Fussily (adv.) In a fussy manner; "he spoke to her fussily".
Fussiness (n.) The quality of being fussy.
Fussiness (n.) An irritable petulant feeling [syn: irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance, choler].
Fussiness (n.) Unnecessary elaborateness in details.
Fussy (a.) 大驚小怪的；難以取悅的；挑剔的 [（+about）] [+wh-]；（服飾等）過分裝飾的，過於講究的 Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety.
Not at all fussy about his personal appearance. -- R. G. White.
Fussy (a.) Annoyed and irritable [syn: crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered].
Fussy (a.) Overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design" [syn: busy, fussy].
Fussy (a.) Exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared" [syn: finical, finicky, fussy, particular, picky].
Fust (n.) (Arch.) The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. -- Gwilt.
Fust (n.) A strong, musty smell; mustiness.
Fust (v. i.) To become moldy; to smell ill. [Obs.]
Fusted (a.) Moldy; ill-smelling. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Fusteric (n.) The coloring matter of fustet. -- Ure.
Fustet (n.) The wood of the Rhus Cptinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant. -- Ure.
Compare: Venetian
Venetian (a.) Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy.
Venetian blind, A blind for windows, doors, etc., made of thin slats, either fixed at a certain angle in the shutter, or movable, and in the latter case so disposed as to overlap each other when closed, and to show a series of open spaces for the admission of air and light when in
other positions.
Venetian carpet, An inexpensive carpet, used for passages and stairs, having a woolen warp which conceals the weft; the pattern is therefore commonly made up of simple stripes.
Venetian chalk, A white compact talc or steatite, used for marking on cloth, etc.
Venetian door (Arch.), A door having long, narrow windows or panes of glass on the sides.
Venetian glass, A kind of glass made by the Venetians, for decorative purposes, by the combination of pieces of glass of different colors fused together and wrought into various ornamental patterns.
Venetian red, A brownish red color, prepared from sulphate of iron; -- called also scarlet ocher.
Venetian soap. See Castile soap, under Soap.
Venetian sumac (Bot.), A South European tree ({Rhus Cotinus) which yields the yellow dyewood called fustet; -- also called smoke tree.
Venetian window (Arch.), A window consisting of a main window with an arched head, having on each side a long and narrow window with a square head.
Fustian (n.) 棉亞麻混紡粗布；緯起毛織物；浮誇的話 A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
Fustian (n.) An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast.
Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretche fustian. -- Addison.
Fustian (a.) 用緯起毛織物的；浮誇的 Made of fustian.
Fustian (a.) Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. -- Walpole.
Fustian (n.) Pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah].
Fustian (n.) A strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap.
Fustianist (n.) A writer of fustian. [R.] -- Milton.
Fustic (n.) The wood of the Maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; -- called also old fustic. [Written also fustoc.]
Note: Other kinds of yellow wood are often called fustic; as that of species of Xanthoxylum, and especially the Rhus Cotinus, which is sometimes called young fustic to distinguish it from the Maclura. See Fustet.
Fustigate (v. t.) To cudgel. [R.] -- Bailey.
Fustigate (v.) Strike with a cudgel [syn: cudgel, fustigate].
Fustigation (n.) A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.
This satire, composed of actual fustigation. -- Motley.
Fustilarian (n.) A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Fustilug (n.) Alt. of Fustilugs
Fustilugs (n.) A gross, fat, unwieldy person. [Obs.] -- F. Junius.
Fustiness (n.) A fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.
Fusty (a.) 霉臭的；守舊的；過時的 Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. "A fusty nut." "Fusty plebeians." -- Shak.
Fusty (a.) Moping. [Archaic]
A melancholy, fusty humor. -- Pepys.
Fusty (a.) Stale and unclean smelling [syn: fusty, musty, frowsty].
Fusty (a.) Old-fashioned and out of date [syn: fusty, standpat(a), unprogressive, nonprogressive].
Fusure (v. t.) Act of fusing; fusion. [R.]
Futchel (n.) The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted. -- Knight. Futhorc, futhork.
Futhark (n.) (Also Futhorc, Futhork) 北歐古字母 [From the sounds of the first five letters.] The Runic alphabet; -- so called from the first six letters f, u, [thorn] (th), o (or a), r, c (=k). See rune. [Also spelled futhark]
Note: The spelling futharc represents most accurately the original values of these six Runic letters.
Note: The name is derived from the sounds of the first five letters of the runic alphabet, f, u, th, o, r, and c. The vowel sound of the fourth letter corresponded more closely to a in the earlier versions used in Scandinavian countries, and the earlier alphabet is therefore referred to as the futharc or futhark. The fifth rune had a sound like that of k, and in the Danish futhark the fifth character is that transliterated as k. Thus the runic alphabet is also called the futhork or futhark. The third rune had a sound and form resembling that of the Anglo-Saxon thorn, which represented the th sound at the beginning of the word thorn. The origins of the runic alphabet are obscure, but the earliest forms may have been invented around the second century A.D. in eastern Europe. The forms of some of the letters show a relation to the Latin or Greek alphabets, and the futhorc was presumably in part an adaptation of those alphabets to the sound of the Germanic tongues. An inscription of the futhark itself, an ordered list of the runes, was found on an object dated as early as the fifth century A.D. The Scandinavian futharc had 16 runes, but the futhorc used in Anglo-Saxon England had 31. The futhark was mostly used for writing on wood, for which reason the runes were comprised of only vertical and diagonal strokes. The degree of widespread use of the futharc is not known but it was probably used mostly for short messages or inscriptions on objects. Fewer than 10,000 runic inscriptions, both on wood and stone, have been found. The number and forms of some of the runes varied over time and locality. -- R. I. Page, "Runes".
The letters are called Runes and the alphabet bears the name Futhorc from the first six letters. -- I. Taylor.
Futile (v. t.) Talkative; loquacious; tattling. [Obs.]
Talkers and futile persons. -- Bacon.
Futile (v. t.) Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless ; pointless. "Futile theories." -- I. Taylor.
His reasoning . . . was singularly futile. -- Macaulay.
Futilely (adv.) In a futile manner.
Futility (n.) The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [Obs.]
Futility (n.) The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.
The futility of this mode of philosophizing. -- Whewell.
Futilous (a.) Futile; trifling. [Obs.]
Futtock (n.) 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.
Futtock plates (Naut.), Plates of iron to which the dead-eyes of the topmast rigging are secured.
Futtock shrouds, Short iron shrouds leading from the upper part of the lower mast or of the main shrouds to the edge of the top, or through it, and connecting the topmast rigging with the lower mast. -- Totten.
Futurable (a.) Capable of being future; possible to occur. [R.]
Not only to things future, but futurable. -- Fuller.
Future (a.) 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.
Future tense (Gram.), The tense or modification of a verb which expresses a future act or event.
Future (n.) Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come. "Lay the future open." -- Shak.
Future (n.) The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him.
Future (n.) (Gram.) A future tense.
To deal in futures, to speculate on the future values of merchandise or stocks. [Brokers' cant]
Futureless (a.) Without prospect of betterment in the future. -- W. D. Howells.
Futurely (adv.) In time to come. [Obs.] -- Raleigh.
Futurist (n.) One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.
Futurist (n.) (Theol.) One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.