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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Fru'i-tive, a.p. 547Enjoying. [Obs.] Boyle.
  2. Fruit'less, a.p. 547Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. Shak. 2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless…
  3. Fruit'less-ly, adv.p. 547In a fruitless manner; without any valuable effect; idly; vainly; unprofitably.
  4. Fruit'less-ness, n.p. 547The quality of being fruitless, or unprofitable.
  5. Fruit'-lōft, n.p. 547A loft for the preservation of fruit.
  6. Fruit'-tree, n.p. 547A tree cultivated for its fruit; especially, one producing fruit agreeable to the taste.
  7. Fruit'y, a.p. 547Resembling fruit, or the taste of fruit. Dickens.
  8. Fru'men-tā'ceoŭs, a.p. 547Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.
  9. Fru'men-tā'ri-ŏŭs, a.p. 547Pertaining to wheat or grain. [Obs.] Coles.
  10. Fru'men-tā'tion, n.p. 547(Rom. Antiq.) A largess of grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy.
  11. Fru'men-ty, n.p. 547Food made of wheat boiled in milk, and seasoned with sugar, cinnamon, &c. Halliwell.
  12. Frŭmp, n.p. 547A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout. [Obs.] B. & Fl. 2. A cross-tempered, old-fashioned female; a gossip. [Colloq.] Halliwell.
  13. Frŭmp, v. t.p. 547To insult; to flout. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
  14. Frŭmp'er, n.p. 547A mocker. [Obs.] Colgrave.
  15. Frŭmp'ish, a.p. 547Cross tempered; scornful. [Obs.] 2. Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress. Our Bell . . . looked very frumpish. Foote.
  16. Frŭsh, v. t.p. 547To bruise or dash violently to pieces. I like thine armor well; I'll frush it and unlock its rivets all, Or I'll be master of it. Shak.
  17. Frūsh, a.p. 547Broken or crushed; as, the thatch of a room becomes frush. Prof. Wilson.
  18. Frŭsh, n.p. 547Noise of things dashing or dashed together. [Rare.] Horrible uproar and frush Of rocks that meet in battle. Southey.
  19. Frŭsh, n.p. 547(Far.) A sort of tender substance in the middle of the sole of a horse; the frog. 2. A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse’s foot;—also called thrush.
  20. Frŭs'tra-ble, a.p. 547Capable of being frustrated or defeated. [Rare.]
  21. Frŭs-trā'ne-ŏŭs, a.p. 547Vain; useless; unprofitable. [Obs.] Sir T. More. South.
  22. Frŭs'trāte, v. t.p. 548To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, his enemy was frustrated; to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.…
  23. Früs'trate, a.p. 548Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable, null; void; nugatory; of no effect. “Our frustrate search.” Shak.
  24. Früs'trate-ly, adv.p. 548In vain. [Obs.] Vicars.
  25. Frus-trā'tion, n.p. 548The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's attempt or design.
  26. Frŭs'tra-tive, a.p. 548Tending to defeat; fallacious. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
  27. Früs'tra-to-ry, a.p. 548Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
  28. Früst'ü-lent, a.p. 548Abounding in fragments.
  29. Früs'tum, n.p. 548(Geom.) The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the top; or, the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, &c., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each…
  30. Frŭt'age, n.p. 548A picture of fruit; a fruit-piece. The cornices consist of fruitages and festoons. Evelyn. 2. A confection of fruit. Nares.
  31. Fru-tē'scent, a.p. 548(Bot.) Becoming shrubby, or having the appearance of a shrub; as, a frutescent stem. Martyn.
  32. Frŭ'tex, n.p. 548(Bot.) A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub. Milne.
  33. Frŭ'ti-cant, a.p. 548Full of shoots. [Obs.] Evelyn.
  34. Frū'ti-cōse' or Frū'ti-cōus, a.p. 548(Bot.) Pertaining to shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrub-like; as, a fruticous stem. Gray.
  35. Fru-tĭc'ū-lōse', a.p. 548(Bot.) Like a small shrub. Gray.
  36. Frȳ, v. t.p. 548To dress with fat by heating or roasting in a pan over a fire; to cook and prepare for eating in a frying-pan; as, to fry meat or vegetables.
  37. Frȳ, v. i.p. 548To be heated and agitated, as meat in a frying-pan; to undergo the action of fire or extreme heat; to simmer; hence, to ferment, to foam, or to dissolve with heat. “With crackling flames a caldron…
  38. Frȳ, n.p. 548A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; a large number. “The fry of children young.” Spenser. “To sever . . . the good fish from the other fry.” Milton. We have burned two frigates, and a…
  39. Fry'ing-păn, n.p. 548A pan with a long handle, used for frying meat and vegetables.
  40. Fū'age, n.p. 548The same as FUMAGE.
  41. Fū'ar, n.p. 548A small freeholder of land in fee. [Scot.] W. Scott.
  42. Fŭb, n.p. 548A plump young person. [Obs.] [Written also fubs.]
  43. Fŭb, v. t.p. 548To put off; to delay; to cheat. [Obs.] I have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, from this day to that day. Shak.
  44. Fŭb'ber-y, n.p. 548Act of cheating; deception. Marston.
  45. Fŭb'by or Fŭb'sy, a.p. 548Plump; chubby. [Eng.] Nichols. Her daughter, a fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid. Madam D'Artlay.
  46. Fū'cate or Fū'cā-ted, a.p. 548Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show. Johnson.
  47. Fūch'si-ā, n.p. 548(Bot.) A genus of flowering plants, named in honor of Leonard Fuchs, a German botanist. F. coccinia is one of the most elegant of deciduous greenhouse shrubs; the young wood and leaves are tinged…
  48. Fu-cīv'o-rous, a.p. 548Eating, or subsisting on, sea-weed; as, fucivorous animals. Dana.
  49. Fū'coid, n.p. 548(Palæon.) Fossil sea-weed. Hitchcock.
  50. Fū'coid or Fū-coid'al, a.p. 548Pertaining to, or resembling, seaweed.
  51. Fū'cus, n.p. 548A paint; a dye; hence, false show, B. Jonson. 2. (Bot.) A genus of sea-weeds of a tough, leathery kind, and usually of a dull, brownish-green color; sea-wrack, and other species.
  52. Fūd, n.p. 548The tail of a hare. Halliwell.
  53. Fŭd'dle, v. t.p. 548To make foolish or disordered by drink; to cause to become intoxicated. Thomson.
  54. Fŭd'dle, v. i.p. 548To drink to excess. L'Estrange.
  55. Fŭd'dler, n.p. 548A drunkard. Baxter.
  56. Fŭdġe, n.p. 548A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; — an exclamation of contempt. Goldsmith.
  57. Fŭdge, v. t.p. 548To devise; to contrive; to fabricate. Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness. Fairfax. 2. To foist; to interpolate. “That last . . . is fudged in. Foote.
  58. Fū-ē'gī-an, n.p. 548(Geog.) A native or inhabitant of Tierra del Fuego.
  59. Fū'el, n.p. 548Any matter which serves as aliment to fire; that which feeds fire; combustible matter, as wood, coal, peat, &c. 2. Any thing that serves to feed or increase flame, heat, or excitement.
  60. Fū'el, v. t.p. 548To feed with fuel or combustible matter. [Obs.] Never, alas! the dreadful name, That fuels the infernal flame. Cowley. 2. To store or furnish with fuel or firing. Wotton.