Fumetere Fu"me·tere" noun Fumitory. [ Obsolete]
Fumid Fu"mid adjective [ Latin
fumidus , from
fumus smoke. See
Fume .]
Smoky; vaporous. Sir T. Broune.
Fumidity, Fumidness Fu·mid"i·ty, Fu"mid·ness noun The state of being fumid; smokiness.
Fumiferous Fu·mif"er·ous adjective [ Latin
fumifer ;
fumus smoke +
ferre to bear.]
Producing smoke.
Fumifugist Fu·mif"u·gist noun [ Latin
fumus smoke +
fugare to put to flight, fugere to flee.]
One who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes.
Fumify Fu"mi·fy transitive verb [
Fume +
- fy .]
To subject to the action of smoke. [ Obsolete]
Sir T. Browne.
Fumigant Fu"mi·gant adjective [ Latin
fumigans ,
present participle of
fumigare . See
Fumigate .]
Fuming. [ R.]
Fumigate Fu"mi·gate 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 Fum`iga"tion 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 Fu"mi·ga`tor noun One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating.
Fumigatory Fu"mi·ga·to·ry adjective [ Confer French
fumigatoire .]
Having the quality of purifying by smoke. [ R.]
Fumily Fum"i·ly adverb Smokily; with fume.
Fuming Fum"ing 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 Fum"ing·ly adverb In a fuming manner; angrily. "They answer
fumingly ."
Hooker.
Fumish Fum"ish adjective Smoky; hot; choleric.
Fumishness Fum"ish·ness noun Choler; fretfulness; passion.
Fumiter Fu"mi·ter` noun (Botany) Fumitory. [ Obsolete]
Fumitory Fu"mi·to·ry 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 Fum"mel noun (Zoology) A hinny.
Fumosity Fu·mos"i·ty noun [ Confer Old French
fumosité .]
The fumes of drink. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Fumous Fum"ous 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 Fum"y adjective Producing fumes; fumous. "Drowned in
fumy wine."
H. Brooke.
Fun 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 Fu·nam"bu·late intransitive verb [ See
Funambulo .]
To walk or to dance on a rope.
Funambulation Fu·nam"bu·la`tion noun Ropedancing.
Funambulatory Fu·nam"bu·la`to·ry adjective 1. Performing like a ropedancer. Chambers. 2. Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer. This funambulatory track.
Sir T. Browne.
Funambulist Fu·nam"bu·list noun A ropewalker or ropedancer.
Funambulo Fu·nam"bu·lo 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 Func"tion 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 Func"tion 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 Func"tion, Func"tion·ate intransitive verb To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
Functional Func"tion·al 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 Func"tion·al·ize transitive verb To assign to some function or office. [ R.]
Functionally Func"tion·al·ly adverb In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity. The organ is said to be functionally disordered.
Lawrence.
Functionary Func"tion·a·ry noun ;
plural Functionaries . [ Confer French
fonctionnaire .]
One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary ; secular functionaries .
Functionless Func"tion·less adjective Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.
Fund 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 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 Fund"a·ble adjective Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.
Fundament Fun"da·ment 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 Fun`da·men"tal 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 Fun"da·men`tal 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 Fun`da·men"tal·ly adverb Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "
Fundamentally defective."
Burke.
Funded Fund"ed adjective 1. Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt. 2. Invested in public funds; as, funded money.
Fundholder Fund"hold"er adjective One who has money invested in the public funds. J. S. Mill.
Funding Fund"ing adjective 1. Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt. 2. Investing in the public funds. Funding system ,
a system or scheme of finance or revenue by which provision is made for paying the interest or principal of a public debt.
Fundless Fund"less adjective Destitute of funds.
Fundus Fun"dus (fŭn"dŭs)
noun [ Latin , bottom.]
(Anat.) The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.
Funebrial Fu·ne"bri·al (fu*nē"brĭ*
a l)
adjective [ Latin
funebris belonging to a funeral, from
funus funeral.]
Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal. [ Obsolete] [ Written also
funebral .]
Sir T. Browne.
Funebrious Fu·ne"bri·ous adjective Funebrial. [ Obsolete]
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