Further Fur"ther adjective compar. [
Positive wanting ;
superl. Furthest .]
1. More remote; at a greater distance; more in advance; farther; as, the further end of the field. See Farther . 2. Beyond; additional; as, a further reason for this opinion; nothing further to suggest. » The forms
further and
farther are in general not differentiated by writers, but
further is preferred by many when application to quantity or degree is implied.
Further Fur"ther" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Furthered ;
present participle & verbal noun Furthering .] [ Middle English
furthren ,
forthren , Anglo-Saxon
fyrðran ,
fyrðrian . See
Further ,
adverb ]
To help forward; to promote; to advance; to forward; to help or assist. This binds thee, then, to further my design.
Dryden. I should nothing further the weal public.
Robynsom (More's Utopia).
Furtherance Fur"ther·ance noun The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress. I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your
furthersnce and joy of faith.
Phil. i. 25. Built of furtherance and pursuing, Not of spent deeds, but of doing.
Emerson.
Furtherer Fur"ther·er noun One who furthers. or helps to advance; a promoter. Shak.
Furthermore Fur"ther·more" adverb or conj. Moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said.
Furthermost Fur"ther·most" adjective Most remote; furthest.
Furthersome Fur"ther·some adjective Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous. [ R.]
You will not find it furthersome .
Carlyle.
Furthest Fur"thest adjective superl. Most remote; most in advance; farthest. See Further , adjective
Furthest Fur"thest adverb At the greatest distance; farthest.
Furtive Fur"tive adjective [ Latin
furtivus , from
furtum theft, from
fur thief, akin to
ferre to bear: confer French
furtif . See
Fertile .]
Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look. Prior. A hasty and furtive ceremony.
Hallam.
Furtively Fur"tive·ly adverb Stealthily by theft. Lover.
Furuncle Fu"run·cle noun [ Latin
furunculus a petty thief, a boil, dim. of
fur thief: confer French
furoncle .]
(Medicine) A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.
Furuncular Fu·run"cu·lar adjective Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles.
Fury Fu"ry noun [ Latin
fur .]
A thief. [ Obsolete]
Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies .
J. Fleteher.
Fury Fu"ry noun ;
plural Furies . [ Latin
furia , from
furere to rage: confer French
furie . Confer
Furor .]
1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired.
Sir P. Sidney. 2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "
Fury of the wind."
Shak. I do oppose my patience to his fury .
Shak. 3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra; the Erinyes or Eumenides. The Furies , they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him.
Emerson. 4. One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos. [ R.]
Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.
Milton. 5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant. Syn. -- Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See
Anger .
Furze Furze noun [ Middle English
firs , As.
fyrs .]
(Botany) A thorny evergreen shrub ( Ulex Europæus ), 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 Furze"chat" noun (Zoology) The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck .
Furzeling Furze"ling noun (Zoology) An English warbler ( Melizophilus provincialis ); -- called also furze wren , and Dartford warbler .
Furzen Furz"en adjective Furzy; gorsy. [ Obsolete]
Holland.
Furzy Furz"y adjective Abounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze. Gay.
Fusain Fu"sain" noun [ French, the spindle tree; also, charcoal made from it.]
(Fine Arts) (a) Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement. (b) A drawing made with it. See Charcoal , noun 2, and Charcoal drawing , under Charcoal .
Fusarole Fu"sa·role noun [ French
fusarolle , from Italian
fusaruolo , from
fuso spindle, shaft of a column. See
Fusee a conical wheel.]
(Architecture) A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.
Fuscation Fus·ca"tion noun [ Latin
fuscare ,
fuscatum , to make dark, from
fuscus dark.]
A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation. [ R.]
Blount.
Fuscin Fus"cin noun [ Latin
fuscus dark- colored, tawny.]
(Physiol. Chem.) A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.
Fuscine Fus"cine noun (Chemistry) A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil. [ R.]
Fuscous Fus"cous adjective [ Latin
fuscus .]
Brown or grayish black; darkish. Sad and fuscous colors, as black or brown, or deep purple
and the like.
Burke.
Fuse Fuse (fūz)
transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Fused (fūzd);
present participle & verbal noun Fusing .] [ Latin
fusus , past participle of
fundere to pour, melt, cast. See
Foundo to cast, and confer
Futile .]
1. To liquefy by heat; to render fluid; to dissolve; to melt. 2. To unite or blend, as if melted together. Whose fancy fuses old and new.
Tennyson.
Fuse Fuse intransitive verb 1. To be reduced from a solid to a fluid state by heat; to be melted; to melt. 2. To be blended, as if melted together. Fusing point ,
the degree of temperature at which a substance melts; the point of fusion.
Fuse Fuse noun [ For
fusee ,
fusil . See 2d
Fusil .]
(Gunnery, Mining, etc.) 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 . Fuse hole ,
the hole in a shell prepared for the reception of the fuse. Farrow.
Fuse, Fuze Fuse, Fuze noun (Electricity) A wire, bar, or strip of fusible metal inserted for safety in an electric circuit. When the current increases beyond a certain safe strength, the metal melts, interrupting the circuit and thereby preventing possibility of damage.
Fuse, Fuze, plug Fuse, Fuze, plug 1. (Ordnance) A plug fitted to the fuse hole of a shell to hold the fuse. 2. A fusible plug that screws into a receptacle, used as a fuse in electric wiring.
Fusee Fu·see" noun [ See 2d
Fusil , and confer
Fuse ,
noun ]
1. A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil . [ Obsolete]
2. A fuse. See Fuse , noun 3. A kind of match for lighting a pipe or cigar.
Fusee Fu·see" noun [ Etymol. uncertain.]
The track of a buck. Ainsworth.
Fusee Fu·see" noun [ French
fusée a spindleful, fusee, Late Latin
fusata , from
fusare to use a spindle, Latin
fusus spindle.]
(a) 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. (b) A similar wheel used in other machinery.
Fusee Fu·see" noun 1. (Railroads) A signal used principally for the protection of trains, consisting of a tube filled with a composition which burns with a bright colored light for a definite time. 2. (a) A friction match for smokers' use having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind. (b) A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
Fusel Fu"sel noun ,
Fu"sel oil [ German
fusel bad liquor.]
(Chemistry) 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.
Fuselage Fu"se·lage noun (Aëronautics) An elongated body or frame of an aëroplane or flying machine; sometimes, erroneously, any kind of frame or body. Many aëroplanes have no fuselage, properly so called.
Fusibility Fu"si·bil"i·ty noun [ Confer French
fusibilité .]
The quality of being fusible.
Fusible Fu"si·ble adjective [ French
fusible . See
Fuse ,
transitive verb ]
CapabIe of being melted or liquefied. Fusible metal ,
any alloy of different metals capable of being easily fused, especially an alloy of five parts of bismuth, three of lead, and two of tin, which melts at a temperature below that of boiling water. Ure. --
Fusible plug (Steam Boiler) ,
a piece of easily fusible alloy, placed in one of the sheets and intended to melt and blow off the steam in case of low water.
Fusiform Fu"si·form adjective [ Latin
fusus spindle +
-form : confer French
fusiforme .]
Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.
Fusil Fu"sil adjective [ Latin
fusilis molten, fluid, from
fundere ,
fusum , to pour, cast. See
Fuse ,
transitive verb ]
1. Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. [ R.] "A kind of
fusil marble"
Woodward. 2. Running or flowing, as a liquid. [ R.] "A
fusil sea."
J. Philips. 3. Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded. [ Obsolete]
Milton.
Fusil Fu"sil noun [ French
fusil , Late Latin
fosile a steel for kindling fire, from Latin
focus hearth, fireplace, in Late Latin fire. See
Focus , and confer
Fusee a firelock.]
A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.
Fusil Fu"sil noun [ See 3d
Fusee .]
(Her.) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle. » It differs from a lozenge in being longer in proportion to its width.
Fusile Fu"sile adjective Same as Fusil , adjective
Fusileer, Fusilier Fu"sil·eer", Fu"sil·ier" noun [ French
fusilier , from
fusil .]
(Mil.) (a) Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural: (b) A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, "The Royal Fusiliers ," etc.
Fusillade Fu"sil·lade" noun [ French
fusillade , confer Italian
fucilata . See
Fusil a firelock.]
(Mil.) A simultaneous discharge of firearms.
Fusillade Fu"sil·lade" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Fusillader ;
present participle & verbal noun Fusillading .]
To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.
Fusion Fu"sion noun [ Latin
fusio , from
fundere ,
fusum to pour, melt: confer French
fusion . See
Fuse ,
transitive verb , and confer
Foison .]
1. The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals. 2. The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion. 3. The union or blending together of things, as, melted together. The universal fusion of races, languages, and customs . . .
had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds.
C. Kingsley. Watery fusion (Chemistry) the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization. 4. (Biol.) The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.
Fusome Fu"some adjective [ Anglo-Saxon
f...san to hasten, from
f...s ready, prompt, quick; akin to Old Saxon
f...s , Old High German
funs , Icelandic
fuss willing; probably from the root of English
find .]
Handy; reat; handsome; notable. [ Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Fuss Fuss noun [ Confer
Fusome .]
1. A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles. Byron. Zealously, assiduously, and with a minimum of fuss or noise
Carlyle. 2. One who is unduly anxious about trifles. [ R.]
I am a fuss and I don't deny it.
W. D. Howell.
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