Fumer noun
1. One that fumes.

2. One who makes or uses perfumes. [ Obsolete]

Embroiderers, feather makers, fumers .

Beau. & Fl.

Fumerell noun (Architecture) See Femerell .

Fumet noun [ Confer French fumier dung, Old French femier , from Latin fimus dung.] The dung of deer. B. Jonson.

Fumet 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 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.

Fumetere noun Fumitory. [ Obsolete]

Fumid adjective [ Latin fumidus , from fumus smoke. See Fume .] Smoky; vaporous. Sir T. Broune.

Fumidity, Fumidness noun The state of being fumid; smokiness.

Fumiferous adjective [ Latin fumifer ; fumus smoke + ferre to bear.] Producing smoke.

Fumifugist noun [ Latin fumus smoke + fugare to put to flight, fugere to flee.] One who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes.

Fumify transitive verb [ Fume + - fy .] To subject to the action of smoke. [ Obsolete] Sir T. Browne.

Fumigant adjective [ Latin fumigans , present participle of fumigare . See Fumigate .] Fuming. [ R.]

Fumigate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fumigated ; present participle & verbal noun Fumigating .] [ Latin fumigate , past participle of fumigare to fumigate, from fumus smoke. See Fume , noun ]
1. To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.

2. To smoke; to perfume. Dryden.

Fumigation noun [ Confer French fumigation .]

1. The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.

2. Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.

Fumigator noun One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating.

Fumigatory adjective [ Confer French fumigatoire .] Having the quality of purifying by smoke. [ R.]

Fumily adverb Smokily; with fume.

Fuming adjective Producing fumes, or vapors.

Cadet's fuming liquid (Chemistry) , alkarsin. -- Fuming liquor of Libavius (Old Chem.) , stannic chloride; the chloride of tin, SnCl ₄ , forming a colorless, mobile liquid which fumes in the air. Mixed with water it solidifies to the so-called butter of tin . -- Fuming sulphuric acid . (Chemistry) Same as Disulphuric acid , uder Disulphuric .

Fumingly adverb In a fuming manner; angrily. "They answer fumingly ." Hooker.

Fumish adjective Smoky; hot; choleric.

Fumishness noun Choler; fretfulness; passion.

Fumiter noun (Botany) Fumitory. [ Obsolete]

Fumitory noun [ Middle English fumetere , French fumeterre , prop., smoke of the ground, from Latin fumus smoke + terra earth. See Fume , and Terrace .] (Botany) 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.

Climbing fumitory (Botany) , the Alleghany vine ( Adlumia cirrhosa ); a biennial climbing plant with elegant feathery leaves and large clusters of pretty white or pinkish flowers looking like grains of rice.

Fummel noun (Zoology) A hinny.

Fumosity noun [ Confer Old French fumosité .] The fumes of drink. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Fumous adjective [ Latin fumosus , from fumus smoke: confer French fumeux .]
1. Producing smoke; smoky.

2. Producing fumes; full of fumes.

Garlic, onions, mustard, and such-like fumous things.

Barough (1625).

Fumy adjective Producing fumes; fumous. "Drowned in fumy wine." H. Brooke.

Fun noun [ Perh. of Celtic origin; confer Ir. & Gael. fonn pleasure.] Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement. "Oddity, frolic, and fun ." Goldsmith.

To make fun of , to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.

Funambulate intransitive verb [ See Funambulo .] To walk or to dance on a rope.

Funambulation noun Ropedancing.

Funambulatory adjective
1. Performing like a ropedancer. Chambers.

2. Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer.

This funambulatory track.

Sir T. Browne.

Funambulist noun A ropewalker or ropedancer.

Funambulo Fu*nam"bu*lus noun [ Spanish funambulo , or Italian funambolo , from Latin funambulus ; funis rope (perh. akin to English bind ) + ambulare to walk. See Amble , and confer Funambulist .] A ropewalker or ropedancer. [ Obsolete] Bacon.

Function noun [ Latin functio , from fungi to perform, execute, akin to Sanskrit bhuj to enjoy, have the use of: confer French fonction . Confer Defunct .]
1. The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; performance. "In the function of his public calling." Swift.

2. (Physiol.) 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.

3. 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.

As the mind opens, and its functions spread.

Pope.

4. The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.

Tradesmen . . . going about their functions .

Shak.

The malady which made him incapable of performing his
regal functions.

Macaulay.

5. (Math.) 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 x ² , 3 ^x , Log. x , and Sin. x , are all functions of x .

Algebraic function , a quantity whose connection with the variable is expressed by an equation that involves only the algebraic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to a given power, and extracting a given root; -- opposed to transcendental function . -- Arbitrary function . See under Arbitrary . -- Calculus of functions . See under Calculus . -- Carnot's function (Thermo-dynamics) , a relation between the amount of heat given off by a source of heat, and the work which can be done by it. It is approximately equal to the mechanical equivalent of the thermal unit divided by the number expressing the temperature in degrees of the air thermometer, reckoned from its zero of expansion. -- Circular functions . See Inverse trigonometrical functions (below). -- Continuous function, a quantity that has no interruption in the continuity of its real values, as the variable changes between any specified limits. -- Discontinuous function . See under Discontinuous . -- Elliptic functions , a large and important class of functions, so called because one of the forms expresses the relation of the arc of an ellipse to the straight lines connected therewith. -- Explicit function , a quantity directly expressed in terms of the independently varying quantity; thus, in the equations y = 6x ² , y = 10 - x ³ , the quantity y is an explicit function of x . -- Implicit function , a quantity whose relation to the variable is expressed indirectly by an equation; thus, y in the equation x ² + y ² = 100 is an implicit function of x . -- Inverse trigonometrical functions , or Circular function , the lengths of arcs relative to the sines, tangents, etc. Thus, AB is the arc whose sine is BD, and (if the length of BD is x ) is written sin ^-1 x, and so of the other lines. See Trigonometrical function (below). Other transcendental functions are the exponential functions , the elliptic functions , the gamma functions , the theta functions , etc. -- One- valued function , a quantity that has one, and only one, value for each value of the variable. -- Transcendental functions , a quantity whose connection with the variable cannot be expressed by algebraic operations; thus, y in the equation y = 10 ^x is a transcendental function of x. See Algebraic function (above). -- Trigonometrical function , a quantity whose relation to the variable is the same as that of a certain straight line drawn in a circle whose radius is unity, to the length of a corresponding are of the circle. Let AB be an arc in a circle, whose radius OA is unity let AC be a quadrant, and let OC, DB, and AF be drawnpependicular to OA, and EB and CG parallel to OA, and let OB be produced to G and F. E Then BD is the sine of the arc AB; OD or EB is the cosine, AF is the tangent, CG is the cotangent, OF is the secant OG is the cosecant, AD is the versed sine, and CE is the coversed sine of the are AB. If the length of AB be represented by x (OA being unity) then the lengths of Functions. these lines (OA being unity) are the trigonometrical functions of x , and are written sin x, cos x, tan x (or tang x), cot x, sec x, cosec x, versin x, coversin x. These quantities are also considered as functions of the angle BOA.

Function noun
1. (Eccl.) A religious ceremony, esp. one particularly impressive and elaborate.

Every solemn ‘ function ' performed with the requirements of the liturgy.

Card. Wiseman.

2. A public or social ceremony or gathering; a festivity or entertainment, esp. one somewhat formal.

This function , which is our chief social event.

W. D. Howells.

Function, Functionate intransitive verb To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.

Functional adjective
1. Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.

2. (Physiol.) Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general.

Functional disease (Medicine) , a disease of which the symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; the derangement of an organ arising from a cause, often unknown, external to itself opposed to organic disease , in which the organ itself is affected.

Functionalize transitive verb To assign to some function or office. [ R.]

Functionally adverb In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.

The organ is said to be functionally disordered.

Lawrence.

Functionary noun ; plural Functionaries . [ Confer French fonctionnaire .] One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary ; secular functionaries .

Functionless adjective Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.

Fund noun [ Old French font , fond , nom. fonz , bottom, ground, French fond bottom, foundation, fonds fund, from Latin fundus bottom, ground, foundation, piece of land. See Found to establish.]
1. An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.

2. A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.

3. plural The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds .

4. An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.

5. A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense.

An inexhaustible fund of stories.

Macaulay.

Sinking fund , the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a government, or of a corporation, by the accumulation of interest.

Fund transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Funded ; present participle & verbal noun Funding .]
1. To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes.

2. To place in a fund, as money.

3. To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.

Fundable adjective Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.

Fundament noun [ Middle English fundament , fundement , fondement , Old French fundement , fondement , French fondement , from Latin fundamentum foundation, from fundare to lay the bottom, to found, from fundus bottom. See Fund .]
1. Foundation. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

2. The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.) , the anus. Hume.

Fundamental adjective [ Confer French fondamental .] Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom.

The fundamental reasons of this war.

Shak.

Some fundamental antithesis in nature.

Whewell.

Fundamental bass (Mus.) , the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. -- Fundamental chord (Mus.) , a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root. -- Fundamental colors , red, green, and violet-blue. See Primary colors , under Color .

Fundamental noun A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith.

Fundamentally adverb Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. " Fundamentally defective." Burke.

Funded adjective
1. Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt.

2. Invested in public funds; as, funded money.

Fundholder adjective One who has money invested in the public funds. J. S. Mill.