FULMINATORY — FURTIVE NWAD FULMINATORY.1

FULMINATORY, a. Thundering; striking terror. NWAD FULMINATORY.1

FULMINE, v.t. To thunder. [Not in use.] NWAD FULMINE.1

FULMINIC, a. Fulminic acid, in chimistry, is a peculiar acid contained in fulminating silver. NWAD FULMINIC.1

FULSOME, a. NWAD FULSOME.1

1. Nauseous; offensive. NWAD FULSOME.2

He that brings fulsome objects to my view, with nauseous images my fancy fills. NWAD FULSOME.3

2. Rank; offensive to the smell; as a rank and fulsome smell. NWAD FULSOME.4

3. Lustful; as fulsome ewes. NWAD FULSOME.5

4. Tending to obscenity; as a fulsome epigram. NWAD FULSOME.6

These are the English definitions of fulsome, but I have never witnessed such applications of the word in the United States. It seems then that full and foul are radically the same word, the primary sense of which is stuffed, crowded, from the sense of putting on or in. In the United States, the compound fullsome takes its signification from full, in the sense of cloying or satiating, and in England, fulsome takes its predominant sense from foulness. NWAD FULSOME.7

FULSOMELY, adv. Rankly; nauseously; obscenely. NWAD FULSOMELY.1

FULSOMENESS, n. Nauseousness; rank smell; obscenity. NWAD FULSOMENESS.1

FULVID, a. [See Fulvous, which is generally used.] NWAD FULVID.1

FULVOUS, a. [L. fulvus.] Yellow; tawny; saffron-colored. NWAD FULVOUS.1

FUMADO, n. [L. fumus, smoke.] A smoked fish. NWAD FUMADO.1

FUMATORY, n. [L. fumaria herba.] NWAD FUMATORY.1

A plant or genus of plants, called Fumaria, of several species. NWAD FUMATORY.2

FUMBLE, v.i. NWAD FUMBLE.1

1. To feel or grope about; to attempt awkwardly. NWAD FUMBLE.2

2. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse. NWAD FUMBLE.3

3. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over. NWAD FUMBLE.4

I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers. NWAD FUMBLE.5

FUMBLE, v.t. To manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together. NWAD FUMBLE.6

FUMBLER, n. One who gropes or manages awkwardly. NWAD FUMBLER.1

FUMBLING, ppr. Groping; managing awkwardly. NWAD FUMBLING.1

FUMBLINGLY, adv. In an awkward manner. NWAD FUMBLINGLY.1

FUME, n. [L. fumus.] NWAD FUME.1

1. Smoke; vapor from combustion, as from burning wood or tobacco. NWAD FUME.2

2. Vapor; volatile matter ascending in a dense body. NWAD FUME.3

3. Exhalation from the stomach; as the fumes of wine. NWAD FUME.4

4. Rage; heat; as the fumes of passion. NWAD FUME.5

5. Any thing unsubstantial or fleeting. NWAD FUME.6

6. Idle conceit; vain imagination. NWAD FUME.7

FUME, v.i. [L. fumo.] NWAD FUME.8

1. To smoke; to throw off vapor, as in combustion. NWAD FUME.9

Where the golden altar fumed. NWAD FUME.10

2. To yield vapor or visible exhalations. NWAD FUME.11

Silenus lay, whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain. NWAD FUME.12

3. To pass off in vapors. NWAD FUME.13

Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity. NWAD FUME.14

4. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger. NWAD FUME.15

He fret, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. NWAD FUME.16

FUME, v.t. NWAD FUME.17

1. To smoke; to dry in smoke. NWAD FUME.18

2. To perfume, NWAD FUME.19

She fumed the temples with an od’rous flame. NWAD FUME.20

3. To disperse or drive away in vapors. NWAD FUME.21

The heat will fume away most of the scent. NWAD FUME.22

FUMET, n. The dung of deer. NWAD FUMET.1

FUMID, a. [L. fumidus.] Smoky; vaporous. NWAD FUMID.1

FUMIGATE, v.t. [L. fumigo.] NWAD FUMIGATE.1

1. To smoke; to perfume. NWAD FUMIGATE.2

2. To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke; as in chimistry, or in medicine by inhaling it, or in cleansing infected apartments. NWAD FUMIGATE.3

FUMIGATED, pp. Smoked; exposed to smoke. NWAD FUMIGATED.1

FUMIGATING, ppr. Smoking; applying smoke to. NWAD FUMIGATING.1

FUMIGATION, n. [L. fumigatio.] NWAD FUMIGATION.1

1. The act of smoking or applying smoke, as in chimistry for softening a metal, or in the healing art by inhaling the smoke of certain substances. Expectoration is often assisted and sometimes ulcers of the lungs healed by fumigation. Fumigation is also used in cleansing infected rooms. NWAD FUMIGATION.2

2. Vapors; scent raised by fire. NWAD FUMIGATION.3

FUMING, ppr. Smoking; emitting vapors; raging; fretting. NWAD FUMING.1

FUMINGLY, adv. Angrily; in a rage. NWAD FUMINGLY.1

FUMISH, a. Smoky; hot; choleric. [Little used.] NWAD FUMISH.1

FUMITER, n. A plant. NWAD FUMITER.1

FUMOUS, FUMY, a. Producing fume; full of vapor. NWAD FUMOUS.1

From dice and wine the youth retir’d to rest, and puffed the funny god from out his breast. NWAD FUMOUS.2

FUN, n. Sport; vulgar merriment. A low word. NWAD FUN.1

FUNAMBULATORY, a. Performing like a rope dancer; narrow like the walk of a rope dancer. NWAD FUNAMBULATORY.1

FUNAMBULIST, n. [L. funis, rope, and ambulo, to walk.] A rope walker or dancer. NWAD FUNAMBULIST.1

FUNCTION, n. [L. functio, from fungor, to perform.] NWAD FUNCTION.1

1. In a general sense, the doing, executing or performing of any thing; discharge; performance; as the function of a calling or office. More generally, NWAD FUNCTION.2

2. Office or employment, or any duty or business belonging to a particular station or character, or required of a person in the station or character. Thus we speak of the functions of a chancellor, judge or bishop; the functions of a parent or guardian. NWAD FUNCTION.3

3. Trade; occupation. [Less proper.] NWAD FUNCTION.4

4. The office of any particular part of animal bodies; the peculiar or appropriate action of a member or part of the body, by which the animal economy is carried on. Thus we speak of the functions of the brain and nerves, of the heart, of the liver, of the muscles, etc. NWAD FUNCTION.5

5. Power; faculty, animal or intellectual. NWAD FUNCTION.6

As the mind opens, and its functions spread. NWAD FUNCTION.7

6. In mathematics, the function of a variable quantity, is any algebraic expression into which that quantity enters, mixed with other quantities that have invariable values. NWAD FUNCTION.8

FUNCTIONALLY, adv. By means of the functions. NWAD FUNCTIONALLY.1

FUNCTIONARY, n. One who holds an office or trust; as a public functionary; secular functionaries. NWAD FUNCTIONARY.1

FUND, n. [L. fundus, ground bottom, foundation; connected with L. fundo, to found, the sense of which is to throw down, to set, to lay. Heb. to build. L. funda, a sling, a casting net or purse.] NWAD FUND.1

1. A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation, undertaken with a view to profit, and by means of which expenses and credit are supported. Thus the capital stock of a banking institution is called its fund; the joint stock of a commercial or manufacturing house constitutes its fund or funds; and hence the word is applied to the money which an individual may possess, or the means he can employ for carrying on any enterprise or operation. No prudent man undertakes an expensive business without funds. NWAD FUND.2

2. Money lent to government, constituting a national debt; or the stock of a national debt. Thus we say, a man is interested in the funds or public funds, when he owns the stock or the evidences of the public debt; and the funds are said to rise or fall, when a given amount of that debt sells for more or less in the market. NWAD FUND.3

3. Money or income destined to the payment of the interest of a debt. NWAD FUND.4

4. A sinking fund is a sum of money appropriated to the purchase of the public stocks or the payment of the public debt. NWAD FUND.5

5. A stock or capital to afford supplies of any kind; as a fund of wisdom or good sense; a fund of wit. Hence. NWAD FUND.6

6. Abundance; ample stock or store. NWAD FUND.7

FUND, v.t. NWAD FUND.8

1. To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources for discharging the annual interest of; as, to fund exchequer bills or government notes; to fund a national debt. NWAD FUND.9

2. To place money in a fund. NWAD FUND.10

FUNDAMENT, n. [L. fundamentum, from fundo, to set.] NWAD FUNDAMENT.1

1. The seat; the lower part of the body or of the intestinum rectum. NWAD FUNDAMENT.2

2. Foundation. [Not in use.] NWAD FUNDAMENT.3

FUNDAMENTAL, a. Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence, essential; important; as a fundamental truth or principle; a fundamental law; a fundamental sound or chord in music. NWAD FUNDAMENTAL.1

FUNDAMENTAL, n. A leading or primary principle, rule, law or article, which serves as the ground work of a system; essential part; as the fundamentals of the christian faith. NWAD FUNDAMENTAL.2

FUNDAMENTALLY, n. Primarily; originally; essentially; at the foundation. All power is fundamentally in the citizens of a state. NWAD FUNDAMENTALLY.1

FUNDED, pp. Furnished with funds for regular payment of the interest of. NWAD FUNDED.1

FUNDING, ppr. Providing funds for the payment of the interest of. NWAD FUNDING.1

FUNEBRIAL, a. [L. funebris.] Pertaining to funerals. NWAD FUNEBRIAL.1

FUNERAL, n. [L. funus, from funale, a cord, a torch, from funis, a rope or cord, as torches were made of cords, and were used in burials among the Romans.] NWAD FUNERAL.1

1. Burial; the ceremony of buying a dead body; the solemnization of interment; obsequies. NWAD FUNERAL.2

2. The procession of persons attending the burial of the dead. NWAD FUNERAL.3

3. Burial; interment. NWAD FUNERAL.4

FUNERAL, a. Pertaining to burial; used at the interment of the dead; as funeral rites, honors or ceremonies; a funeral torch; funeral feast or games; funeral oration. NWAD FUNERAL.5

FUNERATION, n. Solemnization of a funeral. [Not used.] NWAD FUNERATION.1

FUNEREAL, a. NWAD FUNEREAL.1

1. Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial. NWAD FUNEREAL.2

2. Dark; dismal; mournful. NWAD FUNEREAL.3

FUNGATE, n. [from fungus.] A compound of fungic acid and a base. NWAD FUNGATE.1

FUNGIC, a. Pertaining to or obtained from mushrooms; as fungic acid. NWAD FUNGIC.1

FUNGIFORM, a. [fungus and form.] In mineralogy, having a termination similar to the head of a fungus. NWAD FUNGIFORM.1

FUN-GIN, n. The fleshy part of mushrooms, now considered as a peculiar vegetable principle. NWAD FUN-GIN.1

FUNGITE, n. [from fungus.] A kind of fossil coral. NWAD FUNGITE.1

FUNGOSITY, n. Soft excrescence. NWAD FUNGOSITY.1

FUNGOUS, a. [See Fungus.] NWAD FUNGOUS.1

1. Like fungus or a mushroom; excrescent; spungy; soft. NWAD FUNGOUS.2

2. Growing suddenly, but not substantial or durable. NWAD FUNGOUS.3

FUNGUS, n. [L.] NWAD FUNGUS.1

1. A mushroom, vulgarly called a toadstool. The Fungi constitute an order of plants of a peculiar organization and manner of growth. The word is also applied to excrescences on plants. NWAD FUNGUS.2

2. A spungy excrescence in animal bodies as proud flesh formed in wounds. NWAD FUNGUS.3

The term is particularly applied to any morbid excrescence, whether in wounds or arising spontaneously. NWAD FUNGUS.4

FUNICLE, n. [L. faniculus, dim of funis, a cord.] NWAD FUNICLE.1

A small cord; a small ligature; a fiber. NWAD FUNICLE.2

FUNICULAR, a. Consisting of a small cord or fiber. NWAD FUNICULAR.1

FUNK, n. An offensive smell. [Vulgar.] NWAD FUNK.1

FUNNEL, n. NWAD FUNNEL.1

1. A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance, particularly the shaft or hollow channel of a chimney through which smoke ascends. NWAD FUNNEL.2

2. A vessel for conveying fluids into close vessels; a kind of hollow cone with a pipe; a tunnel. NWAD FUNNEL.3

FUNNELFORM, FUNNELSHAPED, a. Having the form of a funnel or inverted hollow cone. NWAD FUNNELFORM.1

FUNNY, a. [from fun.] Droll; comical. NWAD FUNNY.1

FUNNY, n. A light boat. NWAD FUNNY.2

FUR, n. NWAD FUR.1

1. The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser. Fur is one of the most perfect non-conductors of heat, and serves to keep animals warm in cold climates. NWAD FUR.2

2. The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as a cargo of furs. NWAD FUR.3

3. Strips of skin with fur, used on garments for lining or for ornament. Garments are lined or faced with fur. NWAD FUR.4

4. Hair in general; a loose application of the word. NWAD FUR.5

5. A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever. NWAD FUR.6

FUR, v.t. NWAD FUR.7

1. To line, face or cover with fur; as a furred robe. NWAD FUR.8

2. To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue. NWAD FUR.9

3. To line with a board, as in carpentry. NWAD FUR.10

FURWROUGHT, a. fur’raut. Made of fur. NWAD FURWROUGHT.1

FURACIOUS, a. [L. furax, from furer, to steal.] NWAD FURACIOUS.1

Given to theft; inclined to steal; thievish. [Little used.] NWAD FURACIOUS.2

FURACITY, n. Thievishness. [Little used.] NWAD FURACITY.1

FURBELOW, n. A piece of stuff plaited and puckered, on a gown or petticoat; a flounce; the plaited border of a petticoat or gown. NWAD FURBELOW.1

FURBELOW, v.t. To put on a furbelow; to furnish with an ornamental appendage of dress. NWAD FURBELOW.2

FURBISH, v.t. NWAD FURBISH.1

To rub or scour to brightness; to polish; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear; to furbish arms. NWAD FURBISH.2

FURBISHED, pp. Scoured to brightness; polished; burnished. NWAD FURBISHED.1

FURBISHER, n. One who polishes or makes bright by rubbing; one who cleans. NWAD FURBISHER.1

FURBISHING, ppr. Rubbing to brightness; polishing. NWAD FURBISHING.1

FURCATE, a. [L. furca, a fork.] Forked; branching like the prongs of a fork. NWAD FURCATE.1

FURCATION, n. A forking; a branching like the times of a fork. NWAD FURCATION.1

FURDLE, v.t. To draw up into a bundle. [Not used.] NWAD FURDLE.1

FURFUR, n. [L.] Dandruff; scurf; scales like bran. NWAD FURFUR.1

FURFURACEOUS, a. [L. furfuraceus.] Scaly; branny; scurfy; like bran. NWAD FURFURACEOUS.1

FURIOUS, a. [See Fury.] NWAD FURIOUS.1

1. Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as a furious stream; a furious wind or storm. NWAD FURIOUS.2

2. Raging; violent; transported with passion; as a furious animal. NWAD FURIOUS.3

3. Mad; phrenetic. NWAD FURIOUS.4

FURIOUSLY, adv. With impetuous motion or agitation; violently; vehemently; as, to run furiously; to attack one furiously. NWAD FURIOUSLY.1

FURIOUSNESS, n. NWAD FURIOUSNESS.1

1. Impetuous motion or rushing; violent agitation. NWAD FURIOUSNESS.2

2. Madness; phrensy; rage. NWAD FURIOUSNESS.3

FURL, v.t. NWAD FURL.1

To draw up; to contract; to wrap or roll a sail close to the yard, stay or mast, and fasten it by a gasket or cord. NWAD FURL.2

FURLED, pp. Wrapped and fastened to a yard, etc. NWAD FURLED.1

FURLING, ppr. Wrapping or rolling and fastening to a yard, etc. NWAD FURLING.1

FURLONG, n. NWAD FURLONG.1

A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods, poles or perches. NWAD FURLONG.2

FURLOW, n. [See Fare and Leave.] NWAD FURLOW.1

Leave of absence; a word used only in military affairs. Leave or license given by a commanding officer to an officer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time. NWAD FURLOW.2

FURLOW, v.t. To furnish with a furlow; to grant leave of absence to an officer or soldier. NWAD FURLOW.3

FURMENTY, n. [See Frumenty.] NWAD FURMENTY.1

FURNACE, n. [L. fornax, furnus, either from burning, or the sense is an arch.] NWAD FURNACE.1

1. A place where a vehement fire and heat may be made and maintained, for melting ores or metals, etc. A furnace for casting cannon and other large operations is inclosed with walls through which a current of air is blown from a large bellows. In smaller operations a vessel is constructed with a chamber or cavity, with a door and a grate. NWAD FURNACE.2

2. In scripture, a place of cruel bondage and affliction. Deuteronomy 4:20. NWAD FURNACE.3

3. Grievous afflictions by which men are tried. Ezekiel 22:20-22. NWAD FURNACE.4

4. A place of temporal torment. Daniel 3:6, 11, 15. NWAD FURNACE.5

5. Hell; the place of endless torment. Matthew 13:42, 50. NWAD FURNACE.6

FURNACE, v.t. To throw out sparks as a furnace. NWAD FURNACE.7

FURNIMENT, n. Furniture. [Not in use.] NWAD FURNIMENT.1

FURNISH, v.t. [There is a close affinity, in sense and elements, between furnish, garnish, and the L. orno, which may have been forno or horno. We see in furlow, above the f is lost in three of the languages, and it may be so in orno. The primary sense is to put on, or to set on.] NWAD FURNISH.1

1. To supply with any thing wanted or necessary; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish arms for defense; to furnish a table; to furnish a library; to furnish one with money or implements. NWAD FURNISH.2

2. To supply; to store; as, to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles. NWAD FURNISH.3

3. To fit up; to supply with the proper goods, vessels or ornamental appendages; as, to furnish a house or a room. NWAD FURNISH.4

4. To equip; to fit for an expedition; to supply. NWAD FURNISH.5

FURNISHED, a. Supplied; garnished; fitted with necessaries. NWAD FURNISHED.1

FURNISHER, n. One who supplies or fits out. NWAD FURNISHER.1

FURNISHING, ppr. Supplying; fitting; garnishing. NWAD FURNISHING.1

FURNITURE, n. NWAD FURNITURE.1

1. Goods, vessels, utensils and other appendages necessary or convenient for housekeeping; whatever is added to the interior of a house or apartment, for use or convenience. NWAD FURNITURE.2

2. Appendages; that which is added for use or ornament; as the earth with all its furniture. NWAD FURNITURE.3

3. Equipage; ornaments; decorations; in a very general sense. NWAD FURNITURE.4

FURRED, pp. Lined or ornamented with fur; thickened by the addition of a board. NWAD FURRED.1

FURRIER, n. A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells muffs, tippets, etc. NWAD FURRIER.1

FURRIERY, n. Furs in general. NWAD FURRIERY.1

FURRING, ppr. Lining or ornamenting with fur; lining with a board. NWAD FURRING.1

FURROW, n. [Gr. to plow.] NWAD FURROW.1

1. A trench in the earth made by a plow. NWAD FURROW.2

2. A long narrow trench or channel in wood or metal; a groove. NWAD FURROW.3

3. A hollow made by wrinkles in the face. NWAD FURROW.4

FURROW, v.t. NWAD FURROW.5

1. To cut a furrow; to make furrows in; to plow. NWAD FURROW.6

2. To make long narrow channels or grooves in. NWAD FURROW.7

3. To cut; to make channels in; to plow; as, to furrow the deep. NWAD FURROW.8

4. To make hollows in by wrinkles. Sorrow furrows the brow. NWAD FURROW.9

FURROWFACED, a. Having a wrinkled or furrowed face. NWAD FURROWFACED.1

FURROWWEED, n. A weed growing on plowed land. NWAD FURROWWEED.1

FURRY, a. [from fur.] NWAD FURRY.1

1. Covered with fur; dressed in fur. NWAD FURRY.2

2. Consisting of fur or skins; as furry spoils. NWAD FURRY.3

FURTHER, a. NWAD FURTHER.1

1. More or most distant; as the further end of the field. NWAD FURTHER.2

2. Additional. We have a further reason for this opinion. We have nothing further to suggest. NWAD FURTHER.3

What further need have we of witnesses? Matthew 26:65. NWAD FURTHER.4

FURTHER, adv. To a greater distance. He went further. NWAD FURTHER.5

FURTHER, v.t. NWAD FURTHER.6

To help forward; to promote; to advance onward; to forward; hence, to help or assist. NWAD FURTHER.7

This binds thee then to further my design. NWAD FURTHER.8

FURTHERANCE, n. A helping forward; promotion; advancement. NWAD FURTHERANCE.1

I know that I shall abide and continue with you all, for your furtherance and joy of faith. Philippians 1:25. NWAD FURTHERANCE.2

FURTHERED, pp. Promoted; advanced. NWAD FURTHERED.1

FURTHERER, n. One who helps to advance; a promoter. NWAD FURTHERER.1

FURTHERMORE, adv. Moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said. NWAD FURTHERMORE.1

FURTHEST, a. Most distant either in time or place. NWAD FURTHEST.1

FURTHEST, adv. At the greatest distance. NWAD FURTHEST.2

FURTIVE, a. [L. furtivus.] NWAD FURTIVE.1

Stolen; obtained by theft. NWAD FURTIVE.2