Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 71

Fulmiaic (a.) Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (Chem.), pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulminic acid.

Fulminuric (a.) Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating an acid so called.

Falness (n.) See Fullness.

Fulsamic (a.) Fulsome.

Fulsome (a.) Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled.

Fulsome (a.) Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.

Fulsome (a.) Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity.

Fulvid (a.) Fulvous.

Fulvous (a.) Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown.

Fum (v. i.) To play upon a fiddle.

Fumacious (a.) Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco.

Fumades (pl. ) of Fumado

Fumadoes (pl. ) of Fumado

Fumade (v. i.) Alt. of Fumado

Fumado (v. i.) A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.

Fumage (n.) Hearth money.

Fumarate (n.) A salt of fumaric acid.

Fumaric (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (Fumaria officinalis).

Fumarine (n.) An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.

Fumarole (n.) A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.

Fumatory (n.) See Fumitory.

Fumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Fumble

Fumbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fumble

Fumble (v. i.) To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.

Fumble (v. i.) To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse.

Fumble (v. i.) To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.

Fumble (v. t.) To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.

Fumbler (n.) One who fumbles.

Fumblingly (adv.) In the manner of one who fumbles.

Fume (n.) Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.

Fume (n.) Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion.

Fume (n.) Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.

Fume (n.) The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.

Fumed (imp. & p. p.) of Fume

Fuming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fume

Fume (n.) To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.

Fume (n.) To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.

Fume (n.) To pass off in fumes or vapors.

Fume (n.) To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.

Fume (v. t.) 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.

Fume (v. t.) To praise inordinately; to flatter.

Fume (v. t.) To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.

Fumeless (a.) Free from fumes.

Fumer (n.) One that fumes.

Fumer (n.) One who makes or uses perfumes.

Fumerell (n.) See Femerell.

Fumet (n.) The dung of deer.

Fumet (n.) Alt. of Fumette

Fumette (n.) The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long.

Fumetere (n.) Fumitory.

Fumid (a.) Smoky; vaporous.

Fumidity (n.) Alt. of Fumidness

Fumidness (n.) The state of being fumid; smokiness.

Fumiferous (a.) Producing smoke.

Fumifugist (n.) One who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes.

Fumify (v. t.) To subject to the action of smoke.

Fumigant (a.) Fuming.

Fumigated (imp. & p. p.) of Fumigate

Fumigating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fumigate

Fumigate (n.) To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.

Fumigate (n.) To smoke; to perfume.

Fumigation (n.) The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.

Fumigation (n.) Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.

Fumigator (n.) One who, or that which, fumigates; an apparattus for fumigating.

Fumigatory (a.) Having the quality of purifying by smoke.

Fumlly (adv.) Smokily; with fume.

Fuming (a.) Producing fumes, or vapors.

Fumingly (adv.) In a fuming manner; angrily.

Famish (a.) Smoky; hot; choleric.

Fumishness (n.) Choler; fretfulness; passion.

Fumitez (n.) Fumitory.

Fumitory (n.) 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.

Fummel (n.) A hinny.

Fumosity (n.) The fumes of drink.

Fumous (a.) Producing smoke; smoky.

Fumous (a.) Producing fumes; full of fumes.

Fumy (a.) Producing fumes; fumous.

Fun (n.) Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.

Funambulate (v. i.) To walk or to dance on a rope.

Funambulation (n.) Ropedancing.

Funambulatory (a.) Performing like a ropedancer.

Funambulatory (a.) Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer.

Funambulist (n.) A ropewalker or ropedancer.

Funambulo (n.) Alt. of Funambulus

Funambulus (n.) A ropewalker or ropedancer.

Function (n.) The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.

Function (n.) 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.

Function (n.) 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.

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

Function (n.) 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 x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.

Function (v. i.) Alt. of Functionate

Functionate (v. i.) To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.

Functional (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.

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

Functionalize (v. t.) To assign to some function or office.

Functionally (adv.) In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.

Functionaries (pl. ) of Functionary

Functionary (n.) One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.

Functionless (a.) Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.

Fund (n.) An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.

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