furuncular (furungkular)

[ furunculus (fu-rung'kū-lus), n.; pl. furunculi (-li). [L.] Same as furuncle. fury (fū'ri), n.; pl. furies (-riz). [Early mod. E. also furie; ME. furie, fur ye, control; a storm of anger; madne . I do oppose My patience to his fury . Shak ., M. of V., iv. 1. As they rode on thro' Garioch land, He rode up in a fury . The Rantin ' Laddie (Child's Ballads, IV. 101). Thoult see my sword with furie smoke. Robin Hood and the Tanner's Daughter (Child's Ballads, [V. 338). 2. Violent or impetuous action of any kind; vehement manifestation of force; violence. Foundations here are of a Christian Temple; and two towers of marble, that have better resisted the fury of time. Sandys , Travailes, p. 18. It was not the Ships only that felt the fury of this storm, Dampier , Voyages, II. iii. 71. IMG:content-1965.png:[blocks in formation] thermore, forther more (or mare ) (=MLG. vorder mēr ), also, reversely, more further (or forther ), and, conjunctionally (def. 2), as one word, for thermore: see further, adv., and more, adv.] 1t. Still further; yet further: in reference to place, position, or motion. Now wille I rede forther mare , And shew yhow of sum paynes that er thare. Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 1. 2892. For thir mare gan he glyde. Sir Perceval (Thornton Romances, ed. Hall i well), 1. 2210. Quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, p. 439. 2. Moreover; besides; in addition to what has IMG:content-1966.jpg:[blocks in formation] To wish one further, to wish one in some other place, or out of the reach of something. [Slang.] Woman suffrage has had its inaugural experiment in Kansas, and it almost goes without saying that those who voted to confer the franchise on the sex must by this time have wished that they were " further " when they did so. Western Brewer, XII. 1028. further (fer'Ther), a. compar. [Also dial. fur der; not found as adj. in ME., where only the forms belonging to far are used adjectively: see further, adv., and far1, farther, adv. and There was a similar and ult. related form, ME. forther, fore, front, a. been said: a continuative adverb or conjunction. Furthermore, whilst we eat (say they), then health, which began to be appaired, fighteth by the help of food against hunger. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 7. This will he send or come for: furthermore , Our son is with him; we shall hear anon. Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine. Cf. fur furthermost (fèr'THėr-mōst), a. superl. [ On the western coast of Britain, where the Atlantic breakers roll in upon the shore, they have been known to exert a pre ure of between three and four tons on every square foot of surface exposed to their fury . Huxley, Physiography, p. 167. 3. Enthusiasm; inspired or frenzied excitement of the mind. Her staring eyes with sparkling fury roll, When all the god came rushing to her soul. Dryden, Æneid. 4. [ cap.] In cla ical myth., one of the avenging deities, called in Greek mythology the Erinyes or, by euphemism, Eumenides, and by the Romans the Furiæ or Diræ, daughters of Earth or of Night, represented as fearful maidens, often winged, and with serpents twined in their hair, clad in dusky garments girdled with red. They dwelt in the depth of Tartar us, and, owing to their dread power of avenging wrong, whether intentional or not, were feared by gods and men. According to fully developed Greek tradition, they were three in number and called Tis i phone, Alecto, and Megæra. They relentle ly punished crime, especially breaches of piety and hospitality, both before and after death. They were therefore also regarded as godde es of fate, in common with the Parcæ; hence the use of the name in the extract from Milton. Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. Milton , Lycidas, 1. 75. IMG:content-1967.png:[blocks in formation] Fear of death, infamy, torments, are those furies and vultures that vex and disquiet tyrants. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 564. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. Come, sir, you put me to a woman's madne , The glory of a fury . Beau, and Fl . , Phil aster, ii. 4. 61. [Found only in the pa age quoted, where the pl. furies , with the sense of L. fures , thieves (pl. of fur , a thief), is used, it seems, in jesting allusion to the Furies .] A thief. furze (fèrz), n. [ firs , fyrs , fyrris , firse , fyrs , furze (translated by L. rhamnus ) ; connections unknown.] 1. The common name for the Ulex Europæus , a low, much-branched, and spiny leguminous shrub, with yellow flow- ers. It is abundant in barren, heathy districts through out the west of Europe, and sometimes covers large areas. It is used for fuel, and the young shoots for fodder, and is also cultivated for ornament, especially a double-flow- ered variety and a more slender and le rigid form known as Irish furze . The dwarf or tame furze is a much smaller species, U. nan us. Also called gorse and whin . With a wispe of firses . Piers Plowman (B), v. 351. Fyrris, or qwyce tre or gorstys tre, ruscus. One ask'd, If that high Furze of Hair Was, bona fide, all your own. furzy (fer'zi), a. [ furze + -yl.] Overgrown with furze; full of furze. Their route was laid Acro the furzy hills of Braid. fusc (fusk), a . Sp. Pg. fusco [= Sp. It. fosco , fusco , L. fusc us , dark, swarthy, dusky, tawny, prob. orig. * furscus , allied to furvus , dark, dusky, gloomy, and perhaps ult. to E. brown , q. v. Cf. fuscous .] Same as fuscous . [Rare.] Expectation was alert on the receipt of your strange shaped present, while yet undisclosed from its fuse en- velope. Lamb, To H. C. Robinson, fuscationt (fus-ka's hon), n. [L. fuscare , dark- en, fusc us , dark: see fusc , fuscous. Cf. ob- fuscate , obfuscation .] A darkening; obscurity. Blount. fuscescent (fu-ses'ent), a . [L. fusc us , dark, dusky (see fusc ), + -escent.] In zoöl . and bot . , somewhat fuscous; approaching dark brown, or tinged with that color. fusc in (fus'in), n. [ fusc us , dark, dusky (see fusc ), + -in2.] A brownish matter ob- tained from empyreumatic animal oil. It is insoluble in water, but may be di olved by alcohol. fuscite (fus'it), n. [L. fusc us , dark (see fusc ), + -ite2 .] Same as gabbro nite . fuscoferruginous (fus"ko-fe-röʻji-nus), a . [ fusc us , dark, dusky (see fusc ), + ferrugi- nus , rusty: see ferruginous .] In entom., rust- colored with a brownish tinge. fuse3t, n. [Cf. feute.] buck in the gra . Also fusee . [ spindle . fuse-auger (fuz'a"ger), n. An instrument for diminishing the time of burning of a fuse by removing a part of the incendiary composition from the exterior end of it. fuscotestaceous (fus kō-tes-tā shius), a. L. fusc us , dark, dusky (see fusc ), + test ace us , brick-colored: see testaceous .] In entom ., dull reddish-brown; testaceous with a reddish tinge. fuscous (fus'kus), a . [L. fusc us , dark, dusky: see fusc .] Brown; brown tinged with gray; of a dark, swarthy color. intended, the materials and ornaments ought neither to red, nor violet, nor spotted, but of sad and fuscous col- be white, nor green, nor yellow, nor blue, nor of a pale ours, as black, or brown, or deep purple, and the like. Burke , Sublime and Beautiful, § 16. fusel (fūz), v.; pret. and pp. fused , ppr. fusing . [ fusus , pp. of fundere , pour out, shed; of metals, melt, cast, found: see founds , and cf. fuse, affuse , confuse, diffuse, effuse, infuse , pro- fuse, suffuse , transfuse, etc.] I. trans. 1. To melt; liquefy by heat; render fluid. I know the quarry whence he had the stone; The forest, too, where all the timber grow'd; The forge wherein his fused metals flow'd. That delirious man Whose fancy fuses old and new, And flashes into false and true, And mingles all without a plan. The dramas of Jonson are formed of solid materials, bound and welded rather than fused together. Whipple, Old Eng. Dram. A girl whose ardent nature turned all her small allow ance of knowledge into principles, fusing her actions into their mould. George Eliot , Middle march, I. 213. An island of the size of Britain, an island forming a world of its own, could not be fused into the ma of the Empire in the same way as the lands which are geograph- ically continuous. E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 125. = Syn. 1. Di olve , Thaw , etc. See melt . -2. To amalga- 2. To become intermingled and blended as if melted together. With such a heart the mind fuses naturally - a holy and heated fusion. D. G. Mitchell, Rev. of a Bachelor, ii. Both coasts are irregular, both coasts are mountainous, and the mountains on both sides fuse into one general E. A. Freeman , Venice, p. 338. spring-clock on which is wound a chain or cord, attached at one end to its widest part and at the other to the barrel containing the mainspring, the action of which unwinds it, transferring it to the barrel. The object of the fusee is to equalize the effect of the mainspring, as its force is relaxed through regular diminution of tension, by gradually diminishing the resistance of the chain or cord through its increasing distance from the axis of the fusee. This axis is the arbor of the main wheel, which is attached to the fusee and imparts the motion derived from the spring to the other wheels. In many watches the fusee is now dispensed with, its object being attained by other contrivances. The term is also applied to similar mechanical contrivances used for other purposes. Also called fuse -wheel. 3. In farriery , a kind of splint applied to the leg of a horse. fusee3t, n. See fuse3 . fusee-engine (fu-zē'en"jin), n . A machine for making fusees for watches and clocks. fuse-extractor (füz'eks-traktor), n. A power- ful instrument used for extracting wooden fuses from loaded shells. fuse-gage (füz'gāj), n. An adjustable fuse-cut- ter for cutting time-fuses, as those of projec- tiles. It consists of a block of wood with a graduated metal gage on one side and a hinged knife to cut off the fuse. The gage is marked to seconds and fractions, so that the fuse can be cut so as to burn just the length of time required. fuse2 (fūz), n. [Abbr. of fuseel .] A tube, cas- ing, ribbon, etc., of various materials, filled or pared for the reception of the fuse. saturated with a combustible compound, and used as an exploder for firing a blast or for igniting any exploding charge, as of a military shell. A common fuse consists of a rope-like tube filled with some slow-burning composition, as niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, its commonest use being to allow the one who ignites it time to get to a place of safety before the explosion. An electric fuse consists of the explosive sub- fuselt, n. Same as fusill , fusella (fö-zel'lä), n.; pl. fuselle (-le). [It., dim. of fusa .] In medieval music, a sixteenth-note, stance so arranged as to be fired either by a spark of high potential electricity formed at a break in an electric circuit (the so-called tension - fuse ), or by the incandescence of a fine (for example, platinum) wire which forms part of the circuit through which the current is pa ed (the so-called quantity-fuse). By extension, devices performing the same function as the common fuse, as mechanical and chem i- cal exploders of all kinds, are termed fuses . The fuses used for exploding projectiles are of four kinds: time , per- cu ion , concu ion, and combination. In the first cla the time of burning is regulated by cutting the ribbon, composition-filled tube, etc., to the required length; the second is ignited by the impact of the projectile against an object; the third is operated by the shock of discharge; IMG:content-1968.jpg:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small] as the radish, and in zoölogy to joints, organs, marks, etc., which are broadest in the middle and diminish regularly and rapidly to the ends. bundle of chopped stems and miscellaneous I am not unacquainted with that fusiform , spiral-wound bles, the cigar. O. W. Holmes, Autocrat, v. A very great quantity of fusiform nervous cells. Alien. and Neurol., VI. 317. 2. In ichth . , having the dorsal and ventral con- tours symmetrical, and approximated to each other from a middle point toward each end, as the mackerel, tunny, and stickleback. Also fusate , fusoid . - Fusiform palpi, in entom . , those pal- pi in which the two terminal joints are cone-shaped with Military execution on the instant: give them shriving if they want it; that done, fusillade them all. Carlyle , Sterling, i. 18. The Mahdi's adherents fusilladed his palace at Khar- toum. The Century , XXVIII. 560, fusillet, n. An obsolete form of fusil2 . fusillée (F. (F. pron. fü-zē-lyā'), fü-zē-lyā'), a . [Heraldic F., fusilly . fusilly (fū'zi-li), a. [F. fusillée .] In her., covered with fusils; divided by diagonal lines bendwise dexter and sinister, but at more acute angles, so as to form fusils: said of the field.- Fusilly bendy, having three, four, or more fusils touch- ing by their obtuse points, the whole series being arranged in the direction of the bend. fusil-mortar (fūzil-môrtär), n. A small mor- tar fixed on a stock like that of a musket, for- merly used for throwing grenades. See hand- mortar. fusillt (fū'zil), n. [Formerly also fusel (also fusee : see fuseel ); fusil , a steel for strik- ing fire (cf. pierre à fusil , a gun-flint), hence also a gun, musket (> Sp. fusil , firelock, a small fusil-shapedt (fü'zil-shāpt), a. musket, = Pg. fusil , a musket, fuzil , a steel for striking fire), = It. focile , a steel for striking fire, fucile , a steel for striking fire, firelock, a musket, focile , a steel for striking fire, focus , a fireplace, ML. fire (> F. feu , etc., fire): see focus , fuel.] A flint-lock musket: originally so called in English, to distinguish it from the matchlock previously in use, from the French name of the piece of steel against year 1680, says the fusil or firelock was then in use in our army. Fusil de rempart [F., rampart gun], in the seventeenth century and later, a firearm adapted for use in defending contrivance, and the stock was often made to fit the shoul- der for convenience of pointing; the barrel was of great length, and the piece threw a ball an inch in diameter or even larger. * fusillus , fusellus (> F. fuseau ), a spindle, dim. of L. fusus (> It. Pg. fuso Sp. huso = Pg. fus ), a spindle: see fusee2 .] In her .: (a) A bearing differing from the lozenge in being longer in proportion to its breadth, and named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle. This collar,. with its double fusilles interchanged with these knobs which are supposed to represent flint stones sparkling with fire,... is the badge of the noble Order of the Golden Fleece. Scott , Kenilworth, vii. IMG:content-1969.png:[blocks in formation] dendriticum is very common in Europe and Am eric at causing disease called scab on on apples and pears. It grows on twigs, leaves, and fruit of apple and pear-trees, often causing the fruit to fall when very young. In other cases it causes distortion, or produces a scab-like or gnarly appearance upon the fruit. Fusidæ (fū'si-dē), n . pl . [NL., Fusus +-ida.] A family of gastropods, named from the genus Fusus : same as Fasciolariida . Fusidium (fū-sid'i-um), n. [NL., -idium .] A white hyphomycetous mold having short, simple hyphæ and fusiform concatenate conidia, which are hyaline or light- ly tinted. The species grow on dead stems and leaves. fusil3t, fusilet (fū'zil), a . [ fusil is , fluid, liquid, molten, fundere , pp. fusus , pour, melt: see fusel and found3.] 1. Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat. The liquid ore he drain'd Into fit moulds prepared; from which he form'd First his own tools: then, what might else be wrought Fusil or graven in metal. Milton , P. L., xi. 573. 2. Running or flowing, as a liquid. Perpetual flames, O'er sand and ashes, and the stubborn flint, Prevailing, turn into a fusil sea. Woodward, E ay towards a Nat. Hist. of the Earth. fusileer, fusilier (fū-zi-lēr'), n. [ fusilier (= Sp. fusilero = Pg. fuzileiro = It. fuciliere ), fusil , a musket: see fusill .] Properly, a sol- dier armed with a fusil; in general, an infantry soldier who bears firearms, as formerly dist in- guished from a pikeman or an archer. The name is still retained by a regiment of the line in the British army (the 7th), called the Royal Fusiliers. fusillade (fū-zi-lād'), n. [F. fusillade = Pg. fuzilada (after It. fucilata ), fusiller (=It. fuci- lare = Pg.fuzilar ), shoot, fusil , a musket: see fusill.] A simultaneous or continuous dis- charge of musketry: sometimes used figura- tively. Then both men broke into a fusillade of excited and ad- miring ejaculations. S. L. Clemens, Life on Mi i ippi, p. 357. The men found relief in such fusillades of swearing as I had never before heard or even imagined. Geikie, Geol. Sketches, ii. 18. Those of them who had guns kept up a continued fusil- lade upon the koppie. Harper's Mag ., LXXVII. 353. fusillade (fü-zi-lad'), v. t .; pret. and pp. fusil- laded , ppr. fusillading . [ fusillade , n.] To at- tack or shoot down by a fusillade. IMG:content-1970.png:[blocks in formation] J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 139. The altruistic impulse is formed out of the social fusion and transmutation of the egoistic impulses. Maudsley, Body and Will, p. 252. Specifically-4. In politics , the coalition of two parties or factions. Breckinridge electors on the regular Democratic ticket. H. Greeley, Amer. Conflict, I. 328. 5t. Abundance; plenty; profusion: same as foison . Off vitaill and wines saw he gret fusion , Which tho was had in this garnyson. IMG:content-1971.png:[graphic][graphic] fusion fusion, the melting of anhydrous salts by heat without their undergoing any decomposition. Latent heat of fusion, the heat which is expended in the molecular work involved in the change from the solid to the liquid state. (See latent heat, under heat. ) Thus, to change a pound of ice at the freezing-point to a pound of water at the same temperature requires about 80 thermal units, which number expre es, therefore, the latent heat of the fusion of ice. - Point of fusion of metals, the degree of heat at which they melt or liquefy. This point is very different for different metals. Thus, mercury becomes liquid at-39, while