Fullery Full"er·y noun ;
plural Fulleries The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
Fulling Full"ing noun The process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure. Fulling mill ,
a mill for fulling cloth as by means of pesties or stampers, which alternately fall into and rise from troughs where the cloth is placed with hot water and fuller's earth, or other cleansing materials.
Fullmart Full"mart" noun See Foumart . B. Jonson.
Fullness Full"ness noun The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness. [ Written also
fulness .]
"In thy presence is fullness of joy."
Ps. xvi. 11.
Fullonical Ful·lon"i·cal adjective [ Latin
fullonicus , from fullo a cloth fuller.]
Pertaining to a fuller of cloth. [ Obsolete]
Blount.
Fully Ful"ly adverb In a full manner or degree; completely; entirely; without lack or defect; adequately; satisfactorily; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition. Fully committed (Law) ,
committed to prison for trial, in distinction from being detained for examination. Syn. -- Completely; entirely; maturely; plentifully; abundantly; plenteously; copiously; largely; amply; sufficiently; clearly; distinctly; perfectly.
Fulmar Ful"mar (fŭlmär)
noun [ Icelandic
fūlmār . See
foul , and
Man a gull.]
(Zoology) One of several species of sea birds, of the family Procellariidæ , allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well-known species are the arctic fulmar ( Fulmarus glacialis ) (called also fulmar petrel , malduck , and mollemock ), and the giant fulmar ( Ossifraga gigantea ).
Fulminant Ful"mi·nant adjective [ Latin
fulminans ,
present participle of
fulminare to lighten: confer French
fulminant .]
Thundering; fulminating. [ R.]
Bailey.
Fulminate Ful"mi·nate intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Fulminated ;
present participle & verbal noun Fulminating .] [ Latin
fulminatus , past participle of
fulminare to lighten, strike with lightning, from
fulmen thunderbolt, from
fulgere to shine. See
Fulgent , and confer
Fulmine .]
1. To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report. 2. To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
Fulminate Ful"mi·nate transitive verb 1. To cause to explode. Sprat. 2. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority. They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.
De Quincey.
Fulminate Ful"mi·nate noun [ Confer P.
fulminate . See
Fulminate ,
intransitive verb ]
(Chemistry) (a) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic . (b) A fulminating powder. Fulminate of gold ,
an explosive compound of gold; -- called also fulminating gold , and aurum fulminans .
Fulminating Ful"mi·na"ting adjective 1. Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner. 2. Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures. Fulminating oil ,
nitroglycerin. --
Fulminating powder (Chemistry) any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate.
Fulmination Ful"mi·na`tion noun [ Latin
fulminatio a darting of lightning: confer French
fulmination .]
1. The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation. 2. The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority. 3. That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure. The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule.
Ayliffe.
Fulminatory Ful"mi·na·to·ry adjective [ Confer French
fulminatoire .]
Thundering; striking terror. Cotgrave.
Fulmine Ful"mine intransitive verb [ French
fulminer . See
Fulminate ,
v. ]
To thunder. [ Obsolete]
Spenser. Milton.
Fulmine Ful"mine transitive verb To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence. She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique.
Tennyson.
Fulmineous Ful·min"e·ous adjective [ Latin fulmen thunder.]
Of, or concerning thunder.
Fulminic Ful·min"ic adjective [ Confer French
fulminique .]
Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (Chemistry) , pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulminic acid. Fulminic acid (Chemistry) ,
a complex acid, H 2 C 2 N 2 O 2 , 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 Ful"mi·nu"ric adjective [
Fulmin ic + cya
nuric .]
(Chemistry) Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called. Fulminuric acid (Chemistry) ,
a white, crystalline, explosive substance, H 3 C 3 N 3 O 3 , forming well known salts, and obtained from the fulminates. It is isomeric with cyanuric acid, and hence is also called isocyanuric acid.
Fulness Ful"ness noun See Fullness .
Fulsamic Ful·sam"ic adjective [ See
Fulsome .]
Fulsome. [ Obsolete]
Fulsome Ful"some adjective [
Full , adjective +
-some .]
1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [ Obsolete]
His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome , fair, and fresh.
Golding. 2. 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. 3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. [ Obsolete] "Fulsome ewes."
Shak. --
Ful"some*ly ,
adverb --
Ful"some*ness ,
noun Dryden.
Fulvid Ful"vid adjective [ Late Latin
fulvidus , from Latin
fulvus .]
Fulvous. [ R.]
Dr. H. More.
Fulvous Ful"vous adjective [ Latin
fulvus .]
Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown. Lindley.
Fum Fum intransitive verb To play upon a fiddle. [ Obsolete]
Follow me, and fum as you go.
B. Jonson.
Fumacious Fu·ma"cious adjective [ From Fume.]
Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco.
Fumade, Fumado Fu·made", Fu·ma"do noun ;
plural Fumades ,
Fumadoes . [ Spanish
fumodo smoked, past participle of
fumar to smoke, from Latin
fumare . See
Fume ,
intransitive verb ]
A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.
Fumage Fu"mage noun [ Old French
fumage ,
fumaige , from Latin
fumus smoke.]
Hearth money. Fumage , or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings.
Blackstone.
Fumarate Fu"ma·rate noun (Chemistry) A salt of fumaric acid.
Fumaric Fu·mar"ic adjective (Chemistry) Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory ( Fumaria officinalis ). Fumaric acid (Chemistry) ,
a widely occurring organic acid, extracted from fumitory as a white crystallline substance, C 2 H 2 (CO 2 H) 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 Fu"ma·rine noun [ Latin
fumus smoke, fume.]
(Chemistry) An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.
Fumarole Fu"ma·role noun [ Italian
fumaruola , from
fumo smoke, Latin
fumus : confer French
fumerolle ,
fumarolle .]
A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.
Fumatorium Fu`ma·to"ri·um noun ;
Latin plural -ria . [ New Latin , from Latin
fumare ,
fumatum , to smoke.]
An air-tight compartment in which vapor may be generated to destroy germs or insects; esp., the apparatus used to destroy San José scale on nursery stock, with hydrocyanic acid vapor.
Fumatory Fu"ma·to·ry noun See Fumitory . [ Obsolete]
Fumatory Fu"ma·to·ry adjective [ See
Fumatorium .]
Pert. to, or concerned with, smoking. - -
noun ;
plural -ries A place for subjecting things to smoke or vapor.
Fumble Fum"ble intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Fumbled ;
present participle & verbal noun Fumbling .] [ Akin to Dutch
fommelen to crumple, fumble, Swedish
fumla to fusuble,
famla to grope, Danish
famle to grope,
fumble , Icelandic
falme , Anglo-Saxon
folm palm of the hand. See
Feel , and confer
Fanble ,
Palm .]
1. To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. Adams now began to fumble in his pockets.
Fielding. 2. 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 domains.
Wordsworth. 3. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over. I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers.
Shak.
Fumble Fum"ble transitive verb To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together. Shak.
Fumbler Fum"bler noun One who fumbles.
Fumblingly Fum"bling·ly adverb In the manner of one who fumbles.
Fume Fume (fūm)
noun [ Latin
fumus ; akin to Sanskrit
dhūma smoke,
dhū to shake, fan a flame, confer Greek
qy`ein to sacrifice, storm, rage,
qy`mon ,
qy`mos , thyme, and perhaps to E. dust: confer Old French
fum smoke, French
fumée . Confer
Dust ,
noun ,
Femerell ,
Thyme .]
1. 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. 2. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion. South. 3. Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination. A show of fumes and fancies.
Bacon. 4. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery. To smother him with fumes and eulogies.
Burton. In a fume ,
in ill temper, esp. from impatience.
Fume Fume intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Fumed ;
present participle & verbal noun Fuming .] [ Confer French
fumer , Latin
fumare to smoke. See
Fume ,
noun ]
1. 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. 2. To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied. Keep his brain fuming .
Shak. 3. To pass off in fumes or vapors. Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity.
Cheyne. 4. 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 Fume transitive verb 1. 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. 2. To praise inordinately; to flatter. They demi-deify and fume him so.
Cowper. 3. 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 Fume noun (Metal.) Solid material deposited by condensation of fumes; as, lead fume (a grayish powder chiefly lead sulphate).
Fumed oak Fumed oak (Cabinetwork) Oak given a weathered appearance by exposure in an air-tight compartment to fumes of ammonia from uncorked cans, being first given a coat of filler.
Fumeless Fume"less adjective Free from fumes.
Fumer Fum"er noun 1. One that fumes. 2. One who makes or uses perfumes. [ Obsolete]
Embroiderers, feather makers, fumers .
Beau. & Fl.
Fumerell Fu"mer·ell noun (Architecture) See Femerell .
Fumet Fu"met noun [ Confer French
fumier dung, Old French
femier , from Latin
fimus dung.]
The dung of deer. B. Jonson.
Fumet Fu"met Fu*mette" noun [ French fumet odor, fume of wine or meat, from Latin fumus smoke. See Fume , noun ] The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long. Swift.
Fumet Fu`met" noun [ French]
A high- flavored substance, such as extract of game, for flavoring dishes of food; less properly, a ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.
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