Fury (n.) Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
Fury (n.) Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
Fury (n.) pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
Fury (n.) One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
Fury (n.) A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
Furze (n.) 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.
Furzechat (n.) The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck.
Furzeling (n.) An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.
Furzen (a.) Furzy; gorsy.
Furzy (a. a.) bounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze.
Fusain (n.) Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.
Fusain (n.) A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal.
Fusarole (n.) 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.
Fuscin (n.) A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.
Fuscine (n.) A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil.
Fuscous (a.) Brown or grayish black; darkish.
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.
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.
Fuse (n.) 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.
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 () Alt. of Fusel oil
Fusel oil () 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.
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.
Fuss (n.) One who is unduly anxious about trifles.
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.
Fussily (adv.) In a fussy manner.
Fussiness (n.) The quality of being fussy.
Fussy (superl) Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety.
Fast (n.) The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
Fust (n.) A strong, musty smell; mustiness.
Fust (v. i.) To become moldy; to smell ill.
Fusted (a.) Moldy; ill-smelling.
Fusteric (n.) The coloring matter of fustet.
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.
Fustian (n.) 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.
Fustian (a.) Made of fustian.
Fustian (a.) Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.
Fustianist (n.) A writer of fustian.
Fustic (n.) The wood of the Maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; -- called also old fustic.
Fustigate (v. t.) To cudgel.
Fustigation (n.) A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.
Fastilarian (n.) A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel.
Fustilug (n.) Alt. of Fustilugs
Fustilugs (n.) A gross, fat, unwieldy person.
Fusiness (n.) A fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.
Fusty (superl) Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank.
Fusty (superl) Moping.
Fussure (v. t.) Act of fusing; fusion.
Futchel (n.) The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted.
Futile (v. t.) Talkative; loquacious; tattling.
Futile (v. t.) Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless.
Futilely (adv.) In a futile manner.
Futility (n.) The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.
Futility (n.) The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.
Futilous (a.) Futile; trifling.
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.
Futurable (a.) Capable of being future; possible to occur.
Future (v. i.) 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 (a.) 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.
Future (a.) The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him.
Future (a.) A future tense.
Futureless (a.) Without prospect of betterment in the future.
Futurely (adv.) In time to come.
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.) One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.