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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. Fŭb'ber-y, n.p. 548Act of cheating; deception. Marston.
  2. Fŭb'by or Fŭb'sy, a.p. 548Plump; chubby. [Eng.] Nichols. Her daughter, a fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid. Madam D'Artlay.
  3. Fū'cate or Fū'cā-ted, a.p. 548Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show. Johnson.
  4. 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…
  5. Fu-cīv'o-rous, a.p. 548Eating, or subsisting on, sea-weed; as, fucivorous animals. Dana.
  6. Fū'coid, n.p. 548(Palæon.) Fossil sea-weed. Hitchcock.
  7. Fū'coid or Fū-coid'al, a.p. 548Pertaining to, or resembling, seaweed.
  8. 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.
  9. Fūd, n.p. 548The tail of a hare. Halliwell.
  10. Fŭd'dle, v. t.p. 548To make foolish or disordered by drink; to cause to become intoxicated. Thomson.
  11. Fŭd'dle, v. i.p. 548To drink to excess. L'Estrange.
  12. Fŭd'dler, n.p. 548A drunkard. Baxter.
  13. Fŭdġe, n.p. 548A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; — an exclamation of contempt. Goldsmith.
  14. 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.
  15. Fū-ē'gī-an, n.p. 548(Geog.) A native or inhabitant of Tierra del Fuego.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. Fū'el-er, n.p. 548One who, or that which, supplies fuel. [Rare.] Donne.
  19. Fū-e'ro, n.p. 548(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…
  20. Fŭff, v. i.p. 548To puff. [Prov. Eng., and local, U. S.] Brockett.
  21. Fŭff'y, a.p. 548Light; puffy. [Prov. Eng., and local, U. S.]
  22. Fū'ga, n.p. 548(Mus.) A fugue. See FUGUE.
  23. Fu-gā'cioŭs, a.p. 548Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; volatile. Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase. Bp. Taylor.
  24. Fu-gā’ciōus-ness, n.p. 548The quality of being fugacious; volatility.
  25. Fu-găç'i-ty, n.p. 548The quality of being fugacious; fugaciousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits. Boyle. 2. Uncertainty; instability. Johnson.
  26. Fū'ga-çy, n.p. 548Fugaciousness; fugacity. [Obs.] Milton.
  27. Fu-gä'to, n.p. 548(Mus.) A composition in the fugue style, but not strictly a fugue.
  28. Fūgh, interj.p. 548An exclamation expressing abhorrence. [Commonly written foh.] Dryden.
  29. Fū'gi-tive, a.p. 548Apt to flee away; given to flying away; inclined to escape; liable to disappear; uncertain; not to be relied upon. 2. Easily blown away or absorbed; volatile; evanescent. “Tender and fugitive parts .…
  30. Fū'gi-tive, n.p. 548One who flees from his station or duty; a deserter; one who flees from danger. 2. One who has fled or deserted, and taken refuge under another power, or one who has fled from punishment. Dryden. 3.…
  31. Fū'gi-tive-ly, adv.p. 548In a fugitive manner.
  32. Fū'gi-tive-ness, n.p. 548Liability or aptness to fly away; volatility; fugacity. Boyle. 2. Instability; unsteadiness. Johnson.
  33. Fū’gle-man, n.p. 548(Mil.) A soldier especially expert and well drilled, who takes his place in front of a military company, as an example or model to the others in their exercises; hence, a file-leader; an example; a…
  34. Fūgue, n.p. 548(Mus.) A musical composition in contrapuntal style, in which a subject is proposed by one part, and then responded to by the others, according to certain rules. All parts of the scheme are eternally…
  35. Fū'guist, n.p. 548(Mus.) A musician who composes or performs fugues. Busby.
  36. Fūl'çi-ble, a.p. 548Capable of being propped up. [Obs.] Cockeram.
  37. Fŭl'çi-ment, n.p. 548The support on which a balance or lever rests and turns; a prop; a fulcrum. [Obs.] Wilkins.
  38. Fŭl'crate, a.p. 548(Bot.) Descending to the earth; as, a fulcrate branch. [Rare.] Lee. 2. Furnished with fulcrums.
  39. Fūl'crum, n.p. 548A prop or support. 2. (Mech.) That by which a lever is sustained, or the point about which it turns in lifting or moving a body. 3. (Bot.) A part of a plant;—used in the plural to designate all the…
  40. Fŭl-fĭl', v. t.p. 548To fill up; to make full or complete. “Fulfill her week.” Gen. xxix. 27. “Corresponding and fulfilling bolts.” Shak. 2. To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or prophecy, a…
  41. Fŭl-fĭl'ler, n.p. 548One who fulfills or accomplishes.
  42. Fŭl-fĭll'ment, n.p. 548Accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy. 2. Execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise.
  43. Fūl'gen-cy, n.p. 548Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence. Bailey.
  44. Fūl'gent, a.p. 548Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent. Other Thracians . . . fulgent morions wore. Glover.
  45. Fūl'gent-ly, adv.p. 548Dazzlingly; glitteringly.
  46. Fūl'gid, a.p. 548Shining; glittering; dazzling. [Obs.] Pope.
  47. Fūl-gid'i-ty, n.p. 548Splendor; resplendence; effulgence. [Obs.] Bailey.
  48. Fūl’gōr, n.p. 548Dazzling brightness; splendor. [Obs.] Browne.
  49. Fūl’gu-rant, a.p. 548Lightening. [Obs.] More.
  50. Fūl'gu-rāte, v. i.p. 548To flash as lightning. [Obs.] Chambers.
  51. Fŭl’gu-rā’tiōn, n.p. 548The act of lightening. [Obs.] Donne. 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. A phenomenon…
  52. Fūl'gu-rīte, n.p. 548A vitrified sand-tube, supposed to have been produced by the striking of lightning on sand. P. Cyc.
  53. Fūl'gu-ry, n.p. 548Lightning. [Obs.] Cocceram.
  54. Fūl'ham, n.p. 548A false die. [Cant.] Shak.
  55. Fūl'i-cā, n.p. 548(Ornith.) A genus of aquatic birds; the coot. F. atra, found throughout Europe and in Japan, and indigenous to Great Britain, is black, with the exception of the beak, which is white, and also of a…
  56. Fu-lĭg'ĭ-nōs'ĭ-ty, n.p. 549The condition or quality of being fuliginous; that which is, or which makes, fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke. [Obs.]
  57. Fu-lĭg'ĭ-nōŭs, a.p. 549Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky. 2. Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke; dusky. Shenstone.
  58. Fū-lĭg'ĭ-noŭs-ly, adv.p. 549In a smoky manner; duskily.
  59. Fūl'i-mārt, n.p. 549The same as FOUMART.
  60. Full, a.p. 549Filled up; having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; — said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence, of any thing else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of…