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Fuchsine (?), n. [Named by the French inventor, from Fuchs a fox, the German equivalent of his own name, Renard.] (Chem.) Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. It consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See .
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Fucivorous (?), a. [Fucus + L. vorare to eat.] (Zoöl.) Eating fucus or other seaweeds.
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fuck n. A slang term for sexual intercourse. [vulgar slang]
Syn. -- fucking, screw, screwing, ass, piece of ass, roll in the hay, shag.
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fuck v. t. & i. to have sexual intercourse (with). [vulgar slang]
Syn. -- love, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, jazz, eff, have, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, get it on, bonk.
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fucked-up adj. snarled or stalled in complete confusion. [Vulgar slang]
Syn. -- snafued, fouled up.
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fucker n. a stupid foolish man. [vulgar slang]
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fuckhead n. 1. a stupid person; -- disparaging and vulgar. [disparaging, vulgar slang]
Syn. -- dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead.
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fucking n. the act of sexual intercourse. [vulgar slang]
Syn. -- fuck, screw, screwing, ass, piece of ass, roll in the hay, shag.
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fucking adj. unpleasant; annoying; -- also used as an informal intensifier. [Vulgar slang, prenominal]
Syn. -- bally(prenominal), blinking(prenominal), bloody(prenominal), crashing(prenominal), flaming(prenominal).
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Fucoid (?), a. [Fucus + -oid.] (Bot.) (a) Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideæ) which are blackish in color, and produce oöspores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character. (b) In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.
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Fucoid, n. (Bot.) A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See , a.
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Fucoidal (?), a. 1. (Bot.) Fucoid.
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2. (Geol.) Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone.
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Fucus (?), n.; pl. Fuci (#). [L. rock lichen, orchil, used as a red dye, red or purple color, disguise, deceit.] 1. A paint; a dye; also, false show. [Obs.]
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2. (Bot.) A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.
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☞ Formerly most marine algæ were called fuci.
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Fucusol (?), n. [Fucus + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.) An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds.
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Fud (?), n. [Of uncertain origin.] 1. The tail of a hare, coney, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.
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2. Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.
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Fudder (?), n. See , a weight.
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Fuddle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fuddled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fuddling (?).] [Perh. formed as a kind of dim. of full. Cf. .] To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated. [Colloq.]
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I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders. Steele.
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Fuddle, v. i. To drink to excess. [Colloq.]
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Fuddler (?), n. A drunkard. [Colloq.] Baxter.
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Fudge (?), n. [Cf. Prov. F. fuche, feuche, an interj. of contempt.] A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.
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Fudge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fudged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fudging.] 1. To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.
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Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness. N. Fairfax.
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2. To foist; to interpolate.
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That last “suppose” is fudged in. Foote.
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Fudge, n. A kind of soft candy composed of sugar or maple sugar, milk, and butter, and often chocolate or nuts, boiled and stirred to a proper consistency.
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fudge factor, n. a term or factor inserted into a calculation to compensate for anticipated errors, or to arbitrarily make the result conform to some desired conclusion.
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Fudge wheel (?). (Shoemaking) A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.
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Fuegian (?), a. Of or pertaining to Terra del Fuego. -- n. A native of Terra del Fuego.
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Fuel (?), n. [OF. fouail, fuail, or fouaille, fuaille, LL. focalium, focale, fr. L. focus hearth, fireplace, in LL., fire. See .] [Formerly written also fewel.] 1. Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.
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2. Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement.
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Coloq. Artificial fuel , fuel consisting of small particles, as coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or blocks.
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Fuel, v. t. 1. To feed with fuel. [Obs.]
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Never, alas I the dreadful name,
That fuels the infernal flame. Cowley.
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2. To store or furnish with fuel or firing. [Obs.]
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Well watered and well fueled. Sir H. Wotton.
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Fueler (?), n. One who, or that which, supplies fuel. [R.] [Written also fueller.] Donne.
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Fuero (?), n. [Sp., fr. L. forum.] (Sp. Law) (a) A code; a charter; a grant of privileges. (b) A custom having the force of law. (c) A declaration by a magistrate. (d) A place where justice is administered. (e) The jurisdiction of a tribunal. Burrill.
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Fuff (?), v. t. & i. [Of imitative origin. Cf. .] To puff. [Prov. Eng. A Local, U. S.] Halliwel.
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Fuffy, a. Light; puffy. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.]
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Fuga (?), n. [It.] (Mus.) A fugue.
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Fugacious (?), a. [L. fugax, fugacis, from fugere: cf. F. fugace. See .] 1. Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile.
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Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase. Jer. Taylor.
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2. (Biol.) Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual.
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Fugaciousness, n. Fugacity. [Obs.]
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Fugacity (?), a. [L fugacitas: cf. F. fugacité.] 1. The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits. Boyle.
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2. Uncertainty; instability. Johnson.
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Fugacy (?), n. Banishment. [Obs.] Milton.
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Fugato (?), a. (Mus.) in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue. -- n. A composition resembling a fugue.
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Fugh (?), interj. An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh. Dryden.
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Fughetta (?), n. [It.] (Mus.) a short, condensed fugue. Grove.
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Fugitive (?), a. [OE. fugitif, F. fugitif, fr. L. fugitivus, fr. fugere to flee. See to bend, and cf. .] 1. Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.
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The fugitive Parthians follow. Shak.
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Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself while her parents are in tear? Richardson
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A libellous pamphlet of a fugitive physician. Sir H. Wotton.
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2. Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea.
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The me more tender and fugitive parts, the leaves . . . of vegatables. Woodward.
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Coloq. Fugitive compositions , Such as are short and occasional, and so published that they quickly escape notice.

Syn. -- Fleeting; unstable; wandering; uncertain; volatile; fugacious; fleeing; evanescent.
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Fugitive (?), n. 1. One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.
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2. Something hard to be caught or detained.
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Or Catch that airy fugitive called wit. Harte.
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Coloq. Fugitive from justice (Law), one who, having committed a crime in one jurisdiction, flees or escapes into another to avoid punishment.
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Fugitively, adv. In a fugitive manner.
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Fugitiveness, n. The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.
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Fugle (?), v. i. To maneuver; to move hither and thither. [Colloq.]
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Wooden arms with elbow joints jerking and fugling in the
air. Carlyle.
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Fugleman (?), n.; pl. Fuglemen (#). [G. flügelmann file leader; flügel wing (akin to E. fly) + mann man. Cf. .] 1. (Mil.) A soldier especially expert and well drilled, who takes his place in front of a military company, as a guide for the others in their exercises; a file leader. He originally stood in front of the right wing. [Written also flugelman.]
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2. Hence, one who leads the way. [Jocose]
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Fugue (?), n. [F., fr. It. fuga, fr. L. fuga a fleeing, flight, akin to fugere to fiee. See .] (Mus.) A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears.
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All parts of the scheme are eternally chasing each other, like the parts of a fugue. Jer. Taylor.
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Fuguist (?), n. (Mus.) A musician who composes or performs fugues. Busby.
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-ful (?). [See , a.] A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful.

Fulahs, Foolahs, Fulani (�), n. pl.; sing. Fulah, Foolah (�). (Ethnol.) A peculiar African race of uncertain origin, but distinct from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze. They are Mohammedans. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah and Fulani are also used adjectively; as, Fulah or Fulani empire, tribes, language.
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Fulani n. The language of the Fulani people, a member of the Niger-Congo family of languages. RHUD
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Fulbe (f�lb�), n. (Ethnol.) Same as .
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Fulcible (fŭlsĭb'l), a. [L. fulcire to prop.] Capable of being propped up. [Obs.] Cockeram.
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Fulciment (fŭlsĭm�nt), n. [L. fulcimentum, fr. fulcire to prop.] A prop; a fulcrum. [Obs.] Bp. Wilkins.
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Fulcra (?), n. pl. See .
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Fulcrate (?), a. [See .] 1. (Bot.) Propped; supported by accessory organs. [R.] Gray.
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2. Furnished with fulcrums.
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Fulcrum (?), n.; pl. L. Fulcra (#), E. Fulcrums (#). [L., bedpost, fr. fulcire to prop.]
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1. A prop or support.
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2. (Mech.) That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body.
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3. (Bot.) An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like. [R.] Gray.
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4. (Zoöl.) (a) The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects. (b) One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes.
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5. (Anat.) The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye.
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Fulfill (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fulfilled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fulfilling.] [OE. fulfillen, fulfullen, AS. fulfyllan; ful full + fyllan to fill. See , a., and , v. t.] [Written also fulfil.] 1. To fill up; to make full or complete. [Obs.] “Fulfill her week” Gen. xxix. 27.
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Suffer thou that the children be fulfilled first, for it is not good to take the bread of children and give to hounds. Wyclif (Mark vii. 27).
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2. To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a purpose or design; to effectuate.
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He will, fulfill the desire of them fear him. Ps. cxlv. 199.
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Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends. Milton.
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Servants must their masters' minds fulfill. Shak.
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Fulfiller (?), n. One who fulfills. South.
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Fulfillment (?), n. [Written also fulfilment.]
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1. The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy.
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2. Execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise.
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Fulgency (?), n. [See .] Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence. Bailey.
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Fulgent (?), a. [L. fulgens, -entis, p. pr. of fulgere to flash, glitter, shine, akin to Gr. � to burn. See , .] Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent.
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Other Thracians . . . fulgent morions wore. Glower.
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Fulgently, adv. Dazzlingly; glitteringly.
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Fulgid (?), a. [L. fulgidus. See .] Shining; glittering; dazzling. [R.] Pope.
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Fulgidity (?), n. Splendor; resplendence; effulgence. [R.] Bailey.
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Fulgor (?), n. [L. fulgor, fr. fulgere to shine.] Dazzling brightness; splendor. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
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Fulgurant (?) a. [L. fulgurans, p. pr. of fulgurare.] Lightening. [R.] Dr. H. More.
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Fulgurata (?), n. [NL.] (Electricity) A spectro-electric tube in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed. Knight.
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Fulgurate (?), v. i. [L. fulguratus, p. p. of fulgurare to flash, fr. fulgur lightning, fr. fulgere to shine. See .] To flash as lightning. [R.]
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Fulgurating (?), a. (Med.) Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy.
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Fulguration (?), n. [L. fulguratio: cf. F. fulguration.] 1. The act of lightening. [R.] Donne.
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2. (Assaying) The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; -- also called blick.
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A phenomenon called, by the old chemists, fulguration. Ure.
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Fulgurite (?), n. [L. fulguritus, p. p. of fulgurire to strike with lightning, fr. fulgur lightning: cf. F. fulgurite.] A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge.
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Fulgury (?), n. [L. fulgur.] Lightning. [Obs.]
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Fulham (?), n. [So named because supposed to have been chiefly made at Fulham, in Middlesex, Eng.] A false die. [Cant] [Written also fullam.] Shak.
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Fuliginosity (?), n. [Cf. F. fuliginosité.] The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke. [R.]
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Fuliginous (?), a. [L. fuliginosus, from fuligo soot: cf. F. fuligineux. See .] 1. Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.
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2. Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke.
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Fuliginously, adv. In a smoky manner.
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Fulimart (?), n. Same as .
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Full (fụl), a. [Compar. Fuller (fụlẽr); superl. Fullest.] [OE. & AS. ful; akin to OS. ful, D. vol, OHG. fol, G. voll, Icel. fullr, Sw. full, Dan. fuld, Goth. fulls, L. plenus, Gr. plhrhs, Skr. pūṛna full, prā to fill, also to Gr. polys much, E. poly-, pref., G. viel, AS. fela. √80. Cf. , , , .] 1. Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people.
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Had the throne been full, their meeting would not have been regular. Blackstone.
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2. Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full compensation; a house full of furniture.
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3. Not wanting in any essential quality; complete; entire; perfect; adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full age; a full stop; a full face; the full moon.
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It came to pass, at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh
dreamed. Gen. xii. 1.
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The man commands
Like a full soldier. Shak.
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I can not
Request a fuller satisfaction
Than you have freely granted. Ford.
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4. Sated; surfeited.
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I am full of the burnt offerings of rams. Is. i. 11.
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5. Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
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Reading maketh a full man. Bacon.
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6. Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project.
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Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions. Locke.
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7. Filled with emotions.
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The heart is so full that a drop overfills it. Lowell.
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8. Impregnated; made pregnant. [Obs.]
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Ilia, the fair, . . . full of Mars. Dryden.
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Coloq. At full , when full or complete. Shak. -- Coloq. Full age (Law) the age at which one attains full personal rights; majority; -- in England and the United States the age of 21 years. Abbott. -- Coloq. Full and by (Naut.), sailing closehauled, having all the sails full, and lying as near the wind as poesible. -- Coloq. Full band (Mus.), a band in which all the instruments are employed. -- Coloq. Full binding , the binding of a book when made wholly of leather, as distinguished from half binding. -- Coloq. Full bottom , a kind of wig full and large at the bottom. -- Coloq. Full brother or Coloq. Full sister , a brother or sister having the same parents as another. -- Coloq. Full cry (Hunting), eager chase; -- said of hounds that have caught the scent, and give tongue together. -- Coloq. Full dress , the dress prescribed by authority or by etiquette to be worn on occasions of ceremony. -- Coloq. Full hand (Poker), three of a kind and a pair. -- Coloq. Full moon . (a) The moon with its whole disk illuminated, as when opposite to the sun. (b) The time when the moon is full. -- Coloq. Full organ (Mus.), the organ when all or most stops are out. -- Coloq. Full score (Mus.), a score in which all the parts for voices and instruments are given. -- Coloq. Full sea , high water. -- Coloq. Full swing , free course; unrestrained liberty; “Leaving corrupt nature to . . . the full swing and freedom of its own extravagant actings.” South (Colloq.) -- Coloq. In full , at length; uncontracted; unabridged; written out in words, and not indicated by figures. -- Coloq. In full blast . See under .
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