fucus (fukus)

[L., rock-lichen, orchil, used as a red dye for woolen goods, hence red or purple in color, rouge, pretense, disguise, Amo. Can you help my complexion, here? Per. O yes, sir, I have an excellent mineral fucus for the purpose. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. Here is the burned powder of a hog's jaw bone, to be laid with the oil of white poppy, an excellent fucus to kill morphew. Dekker and Webster , Westward Ho, i. 1. She must have no fucus but blushings. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 716. No fucus , nor vain supplement of art, Shall falsify the language of my heart. Sandys, Paraphrase of Job, p. 52. 2. [ cap.] A genus of Fucaceæ, characterized by dichotomously branching fronds in which there is no distinction of stem and leaves, and which are provided with a midrib and often with air-bladders. The plants are either hermaphrodite or diœcio us. The conceptacles containing the fruit are in a terminal part of the frond. Formerly all marine algæ were included in this genus, but it is now limited as above. The species of Fucus are known as rockweeds, Tom Brown , Works, III. 93. A drunkard. fuddler (fud'ler), n. fudge (fuj), v.; pret. and pp. fudged, ppr. ppr. fudg ing. [A dial. word, of obscure origin.] e origin. I. trans. -2. To foist. Now let us see your supposes.-. That last suppose is fudged in why, would you cram these upon me for a couple? Foote , The Bankrupt, iii. 2. 3. To make or fix awkwardly or clumsily; arrange confusedly; botch; bungle. Fudged up into such a smirkish liveline . Fairfax, Bulk and Selvedge of the World, [Ded. (1674). ( Hall i well.) A stout, resolute matron, in heavy boots, a sensible stuff gown, with a lot of cotton lace fudged about her neck. C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 297. To fudge a day's work ( naut. ), to compute a ship's change of position from one noon to the next by dead-reckoning, determining by means of tables the northing, southing, easting, and westing made by the different courses and distances sailed, and applying the result to the latitude and longitude of the previous noon. By the time they had arrived at Malta, Jack could fudge a day's work. Marryat. II. in trans. To work clumsily; labor in a clumsy fashion.