Fruticant (a.) Full of shoots.
Fruticose (a.) Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem.
Fruticous (a.) Fruticose.
Fruticulose (a.) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
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.
Fry (v. i.) To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.
Fry (v. i.) To be agitated; to be greatly moved.
Ery (n.) A dish of anything fried.
Ery (n.) A state of excitement; as, to be in a fry.
Fry (n.) The young of any fish.
Fry (n.) A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.
Frying (n.) The process denoted by the verb fry.
Fuage (n.) Same as Fumage.
Fuar (n.) Same as Feuar.
Fub (n.) Alt. of Fubs
Fubs (n.) A plump young person or child.
Fub (v. t.) To put off by trickery; to cheat.
Fubbery (n.) Cheating; deception.
Fubby (a.) Alt. of Fubsy
Fubsy (a.) Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa.
Fucate (a.) Alt. of Fucated
Fucated (a.) Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.
Fuchs (n.) A student of the first year.
Fuchsias (pl. ) of Fuchsia
Fuchslae (pl. ) of Fuchsia
Fuchsia (n.) 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.
Fuchsine (n.) 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.
Fucivorous (a.) Eating fucus or other seaweeds.
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 (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.) To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
Fuddle (v. i.) To drink to excess.
Fuddler (n.) A drunkard.
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.) 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.
Fuel (v. t.) To feed with fuel.
Fuel (v. t.) To store or furnish with fuel or firing.
Fueler (n.) One who, or that which, supplies fuel.
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 (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.
-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.