fuket (fuk)

[L. fucus: see fucus.] Same as fucus, 1. They make fukes to paint and embellish the eye-browes. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxiii. 4. -ful. [(1) 2400 climbing plants, as of ivy.-4. In mycology, one of the radiating appendages of the perithecia of Erysiphea.-5. In entom., the inferior horny surface of the ligula, found in many Hymenop tera, etc. Also called the os hyoideum.-6. In ichth., a special scale or spine on the fore edge Heterocercal Caudal Fin of a Sturgeon ( Acipenser brevirostris), showing the series of fulcrums, Fl, along the dorsal border. of the anterior fin-rays of the dorsal or caudal fins of certain ganoid fishes, as Lepidosteus, Aci penser, and many fo il genera. The spine-like splints known as fulcra , which are arranged in a single or double row on the upper edge and the first ray of the fins, are peculiar to ganoids. Claus, Zoology (trans.), II. 164. AS. synful, synfull, ME. synful , synfull , sinful , E. sinful , etc. (2) full , AS. -full furnish with a fulcrum; establish as a fulcrum. (= Dan. -vol = G. -voll = Icel. -fyllr = Sw. = Dan. -fuld ), a suffix (rare in AS. and ME.) formative of nouns, being the adj. ful, full, E. fulll, coalesced with the preceding (orig. separate) noun, as AS. hand full (not found in nom.), ME. handful, honful, E. handful (= D. handvol = G. handvoll = Icel. handfyllr = Dan. haand fuld): see full, a.] 1. A suffix attached to nouns to form adjectives denoting 'full of..., 'having.,' as artful, awful, graceful, harm ful, hopeful, peaceful, sinful, etc. It is also sometimes attached to verbs, as in bashful, bewitchful, etc., but in some such cases, as rueful, forgetful, etc., and in some other irregular instances, as grateful, a special explanation is to be sought in the history of the word. 2. A quasi-suffix attached to nouns denoting a containing thing, to form nouns expre ing the amount or volume contained, as handful, arm ful, cupful, gla ful, spoonful, bucketful, tubful, etc., meaning 'as much as the hand, arm, spoon, etc., can contain or hold.' In these compounds the second element has usually a fuller pronunciation than in the derivatives explained above.