From – Functionary

From

FROM, preposition

The sense of from may be expressed by the noun distance, or by the adjective distant, or by the participles, departing, removing to a distance. Thus it is one hundred miles from Boston to Hartford. He took his sword from his side. Light proceeds from the sun. Water issues from the earth in springs. Separate the coarse wool from the fine. Men have all sprung from Adam. Men often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse. The merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds. Men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony. We should aim to judge from undeniable premises.

The sense of from is literal or figurative, but it is uniformly the same.

In certain phrases, generally or always elliptical, from is followed by certain adverbs, denoting place, region or position, indefinitely, no precise point being expressed; as,

FROM above, from the upper regions.

FROM afar, from a distance.

FROM beneath, from a place or region below.

FROM below, from a lower place.

FROM behind, from a place or position in the rear.

FROM far, from a distant place.

FROM high, from on high, from a high place, from an upper region, or from heaven.

FROM hence, from this place; but from is superfluous before hence. The phrase however is common.

FROM thence, from that place; from being superfluous.

FROM whence, from which place; from being superfluous.

FROM where, from which place.

FROM within, from the interior or inside.

FROM without, from the outside, from abroad.

FROM precedes another preposition, followed by its proper object or case.

FROM amidst, as from amidst the waves.

FROM among, as from among the trees.

FROM beneath, as from beneath my head.

FROM beyond, as from beyond the river.

FROM forth, as from forth his bridal bower. But this is an inverted order of the words; forth from his bower.

FROM off, as from off the mercy seat, that is, from the top or surface.

FROM out, as from out a window, that is, through an opening or from the inside.

FROM out of, is an ill combination of words and not to be used.

FROM under, as from under the bed, from under the ashes, that is, from beneath or the lower side.

FROM within, as from within the house, that is, from the inner part or interior.

Fromward

FROM'WARD, adverb Away from; the contrary of toward.

Frond

FROND, noun [Latin frons, frondis. the sense is a shoot or shooting forward, as in frons, frontis.]

In botany, a term which Linne applies to the peculiar leafing of palms and ferns. He defines it, a kind of stem which has the branch united with the leaf and frequently with the fructification. The term seems to import the union of a leaf and a branch.

Frondation

FRONDA'TION, noun A lopping of trees.

Frondescence

FRONDES'CENCE, noun [Latin frondesco, from frons.]

In botany, the precise time of the year and month in which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.

Frondiferous

FRONDIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin frons, and fero, to bear.] Producing fronds.

Frondous

FROND'OUS, adjective A frondous flower is one which is leafy, one which produces branches charged with both leaves and flowers. Instances of this luxuriance sometimes occur in the rose and anemone.

Front

FRONT, noun [Latin frons, frontis; Gr. the nose.]

1. Properly, the forehead, or part of the face above the eyes; hence, the whole face.

His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.

2. The forehead or face, as expressive of the temper or disposition; as a fold front equivalent to boldness or impudence. So a hardened front is shamelessness.

3. The forepart of any thing; as the front of a house, the principal face or side.

4. The forepart or van of an army or a body of troops.

5. The part or place before the face, or opposed to it, or to the forepart of a thing. He stood in front of his troops. The road passes in front of his house.

6. The most conspicuous part or particular.

7. Impudence; as men of front

FRONT, verb transitive

1. To oppose face to face; to oppose directly.

I shall front thee, like some staring ghost, with all my wrongs about me.

2. To stand opposed or opposite, or over against any thing; as, his house fronts the church.

FRONT, verb intransitive

1. To stand foremost.

2. To have the face or front towards any point of compass.

Frontal

FRONT'AL, noun [Latin frontale., frons.]

1. In medicine, a medicament or preparation to be applied to the forehead.

2. In architecture, a little pediment or frontpiece, over a small door or window.

3. In Jewish ceremonies, a frontlet or browband, consisting of four pieces of vellum, laid on leather, and tied round the forehead in the synagogue; each piece containing some text of scripture.

Frontbox

FRONT'BOX, noun The box in a playhouse before the rest.

Fronted

FRONT'ED, adjective Formed with a front.

Frontier

FRONTIE'R, noun

The marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; that is, the part furthest advanced, or the part that fronts an enemy, or which an invading enemy meets in front, or which fronts another country.

FRONTIE'R, adjective Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as a frontier town.

Frontiered

FRONTIE'RED, adjective Guarded on the frontiers.

Frontinac

FRONTINAC'

FRONTINIAC, noun A species of French wine, named from the place in Languedoc where it is produced.

Frontiniac

FRONTINIAC, n. A species of French wine, named from the place in Languedoc where it is produced.

Frontispiece

FRONT'ISPIECE, noun [Latin frontispicium; frons and specio, to view.]

1. In architecture, the principal face of a building; the face that directly presents itself to the eye.

2. An ornamental figure or engraving fronting the first page of a book, or at the beginning.

Frontless

FRONT'LESS, adjective Wanting shame or modesty; not diffident; as frontless vice; frontless flattery.

Frontlet

FRONT'LET, noun [from front.] A frontal or browband; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. Deuteronomy 6:8.

Frontroom

FRONTROOM, noun a room or apartment in the forepart of a house.

Froppish

FROP'PISH, adjective Peevish; froward. [Not in use.]

Frore

FRORE, adjective Frozen

Frorne

FRORNE, adjective Frozen

Frory

FRO'RY, adjective

1. Frozen.

2. Covered with a froth resembling hoarfrost. [Not in use.]

Frost

FROST, noun

1. A fluid congealed by cold into ice or crystals; as hoar-frost, which is dew or vapor congealed.

He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. Psalms 147:1.

2. The act of freezing; congelation of fluids.

The third day comes a frost a killing frost

3. In physiology, that state or temperature of the air which occasions freezing or the coagelation of water.

4. The appearance of plants sparkling with icy crystals.

FROST, verb transitive

1. In cookery, to cover or sprinkle with a composition of sugar, resembling hoar-frost; as, to frost cake.

2. To cover with any thing resembling hoarfrost.

Frostbitten

FROST'BITTEN, adjective Nipped, withered or affected by frost.

Frosted

FROST'ED, participle passive

1. Covered with a composition like white frost.

2. adjective Having hair changed to a gray or white color, as if covered with hoar-frost; as a head frosted by age.

Frostily

FROST'ILY, adverb

1. With frost or excessive cold.

2. Without warmth of affection; coldly.

Frostiness

FROST'INESS, noun The state or quality of being frosty; freezing cold.

Frosting

FROST'ING, participle present tense covering with something resembling hoar-frost.

FROST'ING, noun the composition resembling hoar-frost, used to cover cake, etc.

Frostless

FROST'LESS, adjective Free from frost; as a frostless winter.

Frostnail

FROST'NAIL, noun a nail driven into a horse-shoe, to prevent the horse from slipping on ice. In some of the United States, the ends of the shoe are pointed for this purpose, and these points are called calks.

Frostwork

FROST'WORK, noun Work resembling hoar-frost on shrubs.

Frosty

FROST'Y, adjective

1. Producing frost; having power to congeal water; as a frosty night; frosty weather.

2. Containing frost; as, the grass is frosty

3. Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage.

4. Resembling hoar-frost; white gray-haired; as a frosty head.

Froth

FROTH, noun frauth. [Gr.]

1. Spume; foam; the bubbles causes in liquors by fermentation or agitation.

2. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence.

3. Light, unsubstantial matter.

FROTH, verb transitive To cause to foam.

FROTH, verb intransitive To foam; to throw up spume; to throw out foam or bubbles. Beer froths in fermentation. The sea froths when violently agitated. A horse froths at the mouth when heated.

Frothily

FROTH'ILY, adverb

1. With foam or spume.

2. In an empty trifling manner.

Frothiness

FROTH'INESS, noun The state of being frothy; emptiness; senseless matter.

Frothy

FROTH'Y, adjective

1. Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles.

2. Soft; not firm or solid.

3. Vain; light; empty; unsubstantial; as a vain frothy speaker; a frothy harangue.

Frounce

FROUNCE, noun A distemper of hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the bill. [See the Verb.]

FROUNCE, verb transitive

To curl or frizzle the hair about the face.

Not tricked and frounced as she was wont.

FROUNCE, noun A wrinkle, plait or curl; an ornament of dress.

Frounced

FROUN'CED, participle passive Curled; frizzled.

Frounceless

FROUN'CELESS, adjective Having no plait or wrinkle.

Frouncing

FROUN'CING, participle present tense Curling; crisping.

Frouzy

FROU'ZY, adjective Fetid; musty; rank; dim; cloudy.

Frow

FROW, noun A woman. [Not used.]

Froward

FRO'WARD, adjective [Latin versus:turned or looking from.]

Perverse, that is, turning from, with aversion or reluctance; not willing to yield or comply with what is required; unyielding; ungovernable; refractory; disobedient; peevish; as a froward child.

They are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. Deuteronomy 32:20.

Frowardly

FRO'WARDLY, adverb Perversely; in a peevish manner.

Frowardness

FRO'WARDNESS, noun Perverseness; reluctance to yield or comply; disobedience; peevishness.

Frower

FROW'ER, noun A sharp edged tool to cleave laths.

Frown

FROWN, verb intransitive

1. To express displeasure by contracting the brow, and looking grim or surly; to look stern; followed by on or at; as, to frown on a profligate man, or to frown at his vices.

Heroes in animated marble frown

2. To manifest, displeasure in any manner. When providence frowns on our labors, let us be humble and submissive.

3. To lower; to look threatening.

FROWN, verb transitive To repel by expressing displeasure; to rebuke. frown the impudent fellow into silence.

FROWN, noun

1. A wrinkled look, particularly expressing dislike; a sour, severe or stern look, expressive of displeasure.

His front yet threatens and his frowns command.

2. Any expression of displeasure; as the frowns of providence; the frown of fortune.

Frowning

FROWN'ING, participle present tense Knitting the brow in anger or displeasure; expressing displeasure by a surly, stern or angry look; lowering; threatening.

Frowningly

FROWN'INGLY, adverb Sternly; with a look of displeasure.

Frowy

FROW'Y, adjective [The same as frouzy; perhaps a contracted word.] Musty; rancid; rank; as frowy butter.

Frozen

FRO'ZEN, participle passive of freeze.

1. Congealed by cold.

2. Cold; frosty; chill; as the frozen climates of the north.

3. Chill or cold in affection.

4. Void of natural heat or vigor.

F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal Society.

Frubish

FRUBISH, for furbish, is not used.

Fructed

FRUCT'ED, adjective [Latin fructus, fruit.] In heraldry, bearing fruit.

Fructescence

FRUCTES'CENCE, noun [from Latin fructus, fruit. See Fruit.]

In botany, the precise time when the fruit of a plant arrives at maturity, and its seeds are dispersed; the fruiting season.

Fructiferous

FRUCTIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin fructus, fruit, and fero, to bear.] Bearing or producing fruit.

Fructification

FRUCTIFICA'TION, noun [See Fructify.]

1. The act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.

2. In botany, the temporary part of a plant appropriated to generation, terminating the old vegetable and beginning the new. It consists of seven parts, the calyx, impalement or flower-cup, the corol or petals, the stamens, and the pistil, which belong to the flower, the pericarp and seed, which pertain to the fruit, and the receptacle or base, on which the other parts are seated. The receptacle belongs both to the flower and fruit.

Fructify

FRUC'TIFY, verb transitive [Low Latin fructifico.]

To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.

FRUC'TIFY, verb intransitive To bear fruit. [Unusual.]

Fructuation

FRUCTUA'TION, noun Produce; fruit. [Not used.]

Fructuous

FRUC'TUOUS, adjective Fruitful; fertile; also, impregnating with fertility.

Fructure

FRUC'TURE, noun Use; fruition; enjoyment. [Not used.]

Frugal

FRU'GAL, adjective [Latin frugalis. See Fruit.]

Economical in the use or appropriation of money, goods or provisions of any kind; saving unnecessary expense, either of money or of any thing else which is to be used or consumed; sparing; not profuse, prodigal or lavish. We ought to be frugal not only in the expenditure of money and of goods, but in the employment of time. It is followed by of, before the thing saved; as frugal of time. It is not synonymous with parsimonious, nor with thrifty, as now used.

Frugality

FRUGAL'ITY, noun

1. Prudent economy; good husbandry or housewifery; a sparing use or appropriation of money or commodities; a judicious use of any thing to be expended or employed; that careful management of money or goods which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; that use in which nothing is wasted. It is not equivalent to parsimony, the latter being an excess of frugality and a fault. frugality is always a virtue. Nor is it synonymous with thrift, in its proper sense; for thrift is the effect of frugality

Without frugality none can become rich, and with it few would be poor.

2. A prudent and sparing use or appropriation of any thing; as frugality of praise.

Frugally

FRU'GALLY, adverb With economy; with good management; in a saving manner. He seldom lives frugally that lives by chance.

Frugiferous

FRUGIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin frugifer; fruges, corn and fero, to bear.]

Producing fruit or corn.

Frugivorous

FRUGIV'OROUS, adjective [Latin fruges, corn and voro, to eat.]

Feeding on fruits, seeds or corn, as birds and other animals.

Fruit

FRUIT, noun [Latin fructus. The Latin word is the participle of fruor, contracted from frugor, or frucor, to use, to take the profit of.]

1. In a general sense, whatever the earth produces for the nourishment of animals, or for clothing or profit. Among the fruits of the earth are included not only corn of all kinds, but grass, cotton, flax, grapes and all cultivated plants. In this comprehensive sense, the word is generally used in the plural.

2. In a more limited sense, the produce of a tree or other plant; the last production for the propagation or multiplication of its kind; the seed of plants, or the part that contains the seeds; as wheat, rye, oats, apples, quinces, pears, cherries, acorns, melons, etc.

3. In botany, the seed of a plant, or the seed with the pericarp.

4. Production; that which is produced.

The fruit of the spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth. Ephesians 5:9.

5. The produce of animals; offspring; young; as the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.

6. Effect or consequence.

They shall eat the fruit of their doings. Isaiah 3:10.

7. Advantage; profit; good derived.

What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? Romans 6:21.

8. Production, effect or consequence; in an ill sense; as the fruits of sin; the fruits of intemperance.

FRUIT, verb intransitive To produce fruit [Not well authorized.]

Fruit-Grove

FRUIT-GROVE, noun A grove or close plantation of fruit trees.

Fruit-Loft

FRUIT-LOFT, noun A place for the preservation of fruit.

Fruit-Time

FRUIT-TIME, noun The time for gathering fruit.

Fruit-Tree

FRUIT-TREE, noun A tree cultivated for its fruit, or a tree whose principal value consists in the fruit it produces, as the cherry tree, apple tree, pear tree. The oak and beech produce valuable fruit, but the fruit is not their principal value.

Fruitage

FRUITAGE, noun Fruit collectively; various fruits.

Fruitbearer

FRUITBEARER, noun That which produces fruit.

Fruitbearing

FRUITBEARING, adjective Producing fruit; having the quality of bearing fruit.

Fruiterer

FRUITERER, noun One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.

Fruitery

FRUITERY, noun

1. Fruit collectively taken.

2. A fruitloft; a repository for fruit.

Fruitful

FRUITFUL, adjective

1. Very productive; producing fruit in abundance; as fruitful soil; a fruitful tree; a fruitful season.

2. Prolific; bearing children; not barren.

Be fruitful and multiply - Genesis 1:22.

3. Plenteous; abounding in any thing.

4. Productive of any thing; fertile; as fruitful in expedients.

5. Producing in abundance; generating; as fruitful in crimes.

Fruitfully

FRUITFULLY, adverb

1. In such a manner as to be prolific.

2. Plenteously; abundantly.

Fruitfulness

FRUITFULNESS, noun

1. The quality of producing fruit in abundance; productiveness; fertility; as the fruitfulness of land.

2. Fecundity; the quality of being prolific, or producing many young; applied to animals.

3. Productiveness of the intellect; as the fruitfulness of the brain.

4. Exuberant abundance.

Fruition

FRUI'TION, noun [from Latin fruor, to use or enjoy.]

Use accompanied with pleasure, corporeal or intellectual; enjoyment; the pleasure derived from use or possession.

If the affliction is on his body, his appetites are weakened, and capacity of fruition destroyed.

Fruitive

FRUITIVE, adjective Enjoying.

Fruitless

FRUITLESS, adjective

1. Not bearing fruit; barren; destitute of fruit; as a fruitless plant.

2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy.

3. Having no offspring.

Fruitlessly

FRUITLESSLY, adjective [from fruitless.] Without any valuable effect; idly; vainly; unprofitably.

Fruitlessness

FRUITLESSNESS, noun The quality of being vain or unprofitable.

Frumentaceous

FRUMENTA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin frumentaceus.]

1. Made of wheat, or like grain.

2. Resembling wheat, in respect to leaves, ears, fruit, and the like.

Frumentarious

FRUMENTA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin frumentarius, from frumentum, corn.]

Pertaining to wheat or grain.

Frumentation

FRUMENTA'TION, noun [Latin frumentatio.] Among the Romans, a largess of grain bestowed on the people to quiet them when uneasy or turbulent.

Frumenty

FRU'MENTY, noun [Latin frumentum, wheat or grain.] Food made of wheat boiled in milk.

Frump

FRUMP, noun A joke, jeer or flout. [Not used.]

FRUMP, verb transitive To insult. [Not in use.]

Frush

FRUSH, verb transitive To bruise; to crush. obsolete

FRUSH, noun In farriery, a sort of tender horn that grows in the middle of the sole of a horse, at some distance from the toe, dividing into two branches, and running toward the heel in the form of a fork.

Frustrable

FRUS'TRABLE, adjective [See Frustrate.] That may be frustrated or defeated.

Frustraneous

FRUSTRA'NEOUS, adjective [See Frustrate.] Vain; useless; unprofitable. [Little used.]

Frustrate

FRUS'TRATE, verb transitive [Latin frustro.]

1. Literally, to break or interrupt; hence, to defeat; to disappoint; to balk; to bring to nothing; as, to frustrate a plan, design or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.

2. To disappoint; applied to persons.

3. To make null; to nullify; to render of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.

FRUS'TRATE, part. adjective Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; void; of no effect.

Frustrated

FRUS'TRATED, participle passive Defeated; disappointed; rendered vain or null.

Frustrating

FRUS'TRATING, participle present tense Defeating; disappointing; making vain or of no effect.

Frustration

FRUSTRA'TION, noun The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as the frustration of one's attempt or design.

Frustrative

FRUS'TRATIVE, adjective Tending to defeat; fallacious.

Frustratory

FRUS'TRATORY, adjective That makes void; that vacates or renders null; as a frustatory appeal.

Frustum

FRUS'TUM, noun [Latin See Frustrate.] a piece or part of a solid body separated from the rest. The frustum of a cone, is the part that remains after the top is cut off by a plane parallel to the base; called otherwise a truncated cone.

Frutescent

FRUTES'CENT, adjective [Latin frutex, a shrub.] In botany, from herbaceous becoming shrubby; as a frutescent stem.

Frutex

FRU'TEX, noun [Latin] In botany, a shrub; a plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree.

Fruticant

FRU'TICANT, adjective Full of shoots.

Fruticous

FRU'TICOUS, adjective [Latin fruiticosus.] Shrubby; as a fruticous stem.

Fry

FRY, verb transitive [Latin frigo. Gr.]

To dress with fat by heating or roasting in a pan over a fire; to cook and prepare for eating in a fryingpan; as, to fry meat or vegetables.

FRY, verb intransitive

1. To be heated and agitated; to suffer the action of fire or extreme heat.

2. To ferment, as in the stomach.

3. To be agitated; to boil.

FRY, noun

1. A swarm or crowd of little fish; so called from their crowding, tumbling and agitation. [Latin ferveo.]

2. A dish of any thing fried.

3. A kind of sieve. [Not used in America.]

Frying

FRY'ING, participle present tense Dressing in a fryingpan; heating; agitating.

Fryingpan

FRY'INGPAN, noun a pan with a long handle, used for frying meat and vegetables.

Fub

FUB, noun a plump boy; a woman. [Not in use.]

FUB, verb transitive to put off; to delay; to cheat. [See Fob.]

Fucate

FU'CATE,

FU'CATED, adjective [Latin fucatus, from fuco, to stain.]

Painted; disguised with paint; also, disguised with false show.

Fucus

FU'CUS, noun [Latin See Feign.]

1. A paint; a dye; also, false show.

2. plural fucuses. In botany, a genus of Algae, or seaweed; the sea-wrack, etc.

Fudder

FUDDER, of lead. [See Fother.]

Fuddle

FUD'DLE, verb transitive To make drunk; to intoxicate.

FUD'DLE, verb intransitive To drink to excess.

Fuddled

FUD'DLED, participle passive Drunk; intoxicated.

Fuddling

FUD'DLING, participle present tense Intoxicating; drinking to excess.

Fudge

FUDGE, a word of contempt.

Fuel

FU'EL, noun [Latin focus.]

1. Any matter which serves as aliment to fire; that which feeds fire; combustible matter, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

2. Any thing that serves to feed or increase flame, heat or excitement.

FU'EL, verb transitive

1. To feed with combustible matter.

Never, alas! the dreadful name, that fuels the infernal flame.

2. To store with fuel or firing.

Fueled

FU'ELED, participle passive Fed with combustible matter; stored with firing.

Fueler

FU'ELER, noun He or that which supplies fuel.

Fueling

FU'ELING, participle present tense Feeding with fuel; supplying with fuel.

Fugacious

FUGA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin fugax, from fugo, to chase, or fugio, to flee.] Flying or fleeing away; volatile.

Fugaciousness

FUGA'CIOUSNESS, noun The quality of flying away; volatility.

Fugacity

FUGAC'ITY, noun [Latin fugax, supra.]

1. Volatility; the quality of flying away; as the fugacity of spires.

2. Uncertainty; instability.

Fugh

FUGH, or FOH, an exclamation expressing abhorrence.

Fugitive

FU'GITIVE, adjective [Latin fugitivus, from fugio, to flee. Gr.]

1. Volatile; apt to flee away; readily wafted by the wind.

The more tender and fugitive parts -

2. Not tenable; not to be held or detained; readily escaping; as a fugitive idea.

3. Unstable; unsteady; fleeting; not fixed or durable.

4. Fleeing; running from danger or pursuit.

5. Fleeing from duty; eloping; escaping.

Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself, while her parents are in tears?

6. Wandering; vagabond; as a fugitive physician.

7. In literature, fugitive compositions are such as are short and occasional, written in haste or at intervals, and considered to be fleeting and temporary.

FU'GITIVE, noun

1. One who fees 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.

3. One hard to be caught or detained.

Or catch that airy fugitive called wit.

Fugitiveness

FU'GITIVENESS, noun

1. Volatility; fugacity; an aptness to fly away.

2. Instability; unsteadiness.

Fugue

FUGUE, noun [Latin fuga.]

In music, a chase or succession in the parts; that which expresses the capital thought or sentiment of the piece, in causing it to pass successively and alternately from one part to another.

Fuguist

FU'GUIST, noun A musician who composes fugues, or performs them extemporaneously.

Fulciment

FUL'CIMENT, noun [Latin fulcimentum, from fulcio, to prop.]

A prop; a fulcrum; that on which a balance or lever rests. [Little used.]

Fulcrate

FUL'CRATE, adjective [from Latin fulcrum, a prop.]

1. In botany, a fulcrate stem is one whose branches descend to the earth, as in Ficus.

2. Furnished with fulcres.

Fulcre

FUL'CRE, noun [Latin]

1. A prop or support.

2. In mechanics, that by which a lever is sustained.

3. In botany, the part of a plant which serves to support or defend it, or to facilitate some necessary secretion, as a stipule, a bracte, a tendril, a gland, etc.

Fulcrum

FUL'CRUM,

FULFILL', verb transitive [A tautological compound of full and fill.]

1. To accomplish; to perform; to complete; to answer in execution or event what has been foretold or promised; as, to fulfill a prophecy or prediction; to fulfill a promise.

2. To accomplish what was intended; to answer a design by execution.

Here nature seems fulfilled in all her ends.

3. To accomplish or perform what was desired; to answer any desire by compliance or gratification.

He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him. Psalms 145:1.

4. To perform what is required; to answer a law by obedience.

If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well. James 2:1.

5. To complete in time.

Fulfill her week. Genesis 29:1.

6. In general, to accomplish; to complete; to carry into effect.

Fulfilled

FULFILL'ED, participle passive Accomplished; performed; completed; executed.

Fulfiller

FULFILL'ER, noun One that fulfills or accomplishes.

Fulfilling

FULFILL'ING, participle present tense Accomplishing; performing; completing.

Fulfillment

FULFILL'MENT,

FULFILL'ING, noun

1. Accomplishment; completion; as the fulfillment of prophecy.

2. Execution; performance; as the fulfillment of a promise.

Fulfraught

FUL'FRAUGHT, adjective [full and fraught.] Full-stored.

Fulgency

FUL'GENCY, noun [Latin fulgens, from fulgeo, to shine. See Effulgence.] Brightness; splendor; glitter.

Fulgent

FUL'GENT, adjective Shining; dazzling; exquisitely bright.

Fulgid

FUL'GID, adjective [Latin fulgidus, from fulgeo, to shine.] Shining; glittering; dazzling. [Not in use.]

Fulgor

FUL'GOR, noun [Latin] Splendor; dazzling brightness. [Little used.]

Fulgurant

FUL'GURANT, adjective Lightening. [Not used.]

Fulgurate

FUL'GURATE, verb intransitive To flash as lightning. [Not used.]

Fulguration

FULGURA'TION, noun [Latin fulguratio, from fulgur, lightning.]

Lightning; the act of lightening. [Little used or not at all.]

Fuliginosity

FULIGINOS'ITY, noun [Latin fuligo, soot, probably from the root of foul.]

Sootiness; matter deposited by smoke.

Fuliginous

FULIG'INOUS, adjective [Latin fuligineus, fuliginosus, from fuligo, soot.]

1. Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.

2. Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke; dusky.

Fuliginously

FULIG'INOUSLY, adjective By being sooty.

Fulimart

FU'LIMART, [See Foumart.]

Full

FULL, adjective

1. Replete; having within its limits all that it can contain; as a vessel full of liquor.

2. Abounding with; having a large quantity or abundance; as a house full of furniture; life is full of cares and perplexities.

3. Supplied; not vacant.

Had the throne been full their meeting would not have been regular.

4. Plump; fat; as a full body.

5. Saturated; sated.

I am full of the burnt offerings of rams. Isaiah 1:11.

6. Crowded, with regard to the imagination or memory.

Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.

7. Large; entire; not partial; that fills; as a full meal.

8. Complete; entire; not defective or partial; as the full accomplishment of a prophecy.

9. Complete; entire; without abatement.

It came to pass, at the end of two full years, that Pharoah dreamed - Genesis 41:1.

10. Containing the whole matter; expressing the whole; as a full narration or description.

11. Strong; not faint or attenuated; loud; clear; distinct; as a full voice or sound.

12. Mature; perfect; as a person of full age.

13. Entire; complete; denoting the completion of a sentence; as a full stop or point.

14. Spread to view in all dimensions; as a head drawn with a full face.

15. Exhibiting the whole disk or surface illuminated; as the full moon.

16. Abundant; plenteous; sufficient. We have a full supply of provisions for the year.

17. Adequate; equal; as a full compensation or reward for labor.

18. Well fed.

19. Well supplied or furnished; abounding.

20. Copious; ample. The speaker or the writer was full upon that point.

A full band, in music, is when all the voices and instruments are employed.

A full organ, is when all or most of the stops are out.

FULL, noun

1. Complete measure; utmost extent. this instrument answers to the full

2. The highest state or degree.

The swan's down feather, that stands upon the swell at full of tide -

3. The whole; the total; in the phrase, at full

4. The state of satiety; as fed to the full

The full of the moon, is the time when it presents to the spectator its whole face illuminated, as it always does when in opposition to the sun.

FULL, adverb

1. Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution.

The pawn I proffer shall be full as good.

2. With the whole effect.

The diapason closing full in man.

3. Exactly.

FULL in the center of the sacred wood.

4. Directly; as, he looked him full in the face.

It is placed before adjectives and adverbs to heighten or strengthen their signification; as full sad.

FULL well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. Mark 7:9.

FULL is prefixed to other words, chiefly participles, to express utmost extent or degree.

Full-Acorned

FULL-ACORNED, adjective Fed to the full with acorns.

Full-Bloomed

FULL-BLOOMED, adjective Having perfect bloom.

Full-Blown

FULL-BLOWN, adjective

1. Fully expanded, as a blossom.

2. Fully distended with wind.

Full-Bottom

FULL-BOTTOM, noun A wig with a large bottom.

Full-Bottomed

FULL-BOTTOMED, adjective Having a large bottom, as a wig.

Full-Butt

FULL-BUTT, adverb Meeting directly and with violence. [Vulgar.]

Full-Charged

FULL-CHARGED, adjective Charged to fullness.

Full-Crammed

FULL-CRAMMED, adjective Crammed to fullness.

Full-Dressed

FULL-DRESSED, adjective Dressed in form or costume.

Full-Drive

FULL-DRIVE, adjective Driving with full speed. FULL-EARED, adjective Having the ears or heads full of grain.

Full-Eyed

FULL-EYED, adjective Having large prominent eyes.

Full-Faced

FULL-FACED, adjective Having a broad face.

Full-Fed

FULL-FED, adjective Fed to fullness; plump with fat.

FULL'-FRAUGHT, adjective Laden or stored to fullness.

Full-Gorged

FULL-GORGED, adjective Over fed; a term of hawking.

Full-Grown

FULL-GROWN, adjective Grown to full size.

Full-Hearted

FULL-HEARTED, adjective Full of courage or confidence.

Full-Hot

FULL-HOT, adjective

1. Heated to the utmost.

2. Quite as hot as it ought to be.

Full-Laden

FULL-LADEN, adjective Laden to the full.

Full-Manned

FULL-MANNED, adjective Completely furnished with men.

Full-Mouthed

FULL-MOUTHED, adjective Having a full or strong voice.

Full-Orbed

FULL-ORBED, adjective Having the orb complete or fully illuminated as the moon; like the full moon.

Full-Spread

FULL-SPREAD, adjective Extended to the utmost.

Full-Stomached

FULL-STOMACHED, adjective Having the stomach crammed.

Full-Stuffed

FULL-STUFFED, adjective Filled to the utmost extent.

Full-Summed

FULL-SUMMED, adjective Complete in all its parts.

Full-Winged

FULL-WINGED, adjective

1. Having complete wings or large strong wings.

2. Ready for flight; eager.

FULL, verb transitive [Latin fullo. Gr. that is, a crowd, a throng. foul and defile are probably of the same family.]

To thicken cloth in a mill. This is the primary sense: but in practice, to full is to mill; to make compact; or to scour, cleanse and thicken in a mill.

Fullage

FULL'AGE, noun Money paid for fulling cloth.

Fulled

FULL'ED, participle passive Cleansed; thickened; made dense and firm in a mill.

Fuller

FULL'ER, noun One whose occupation is to full cloth.

Fullers-Earth

FULL'ER'S-EARTH, noun A variety of clay, compact, but friable, unctuous to the touch, and of various colors, usually with a shade of green. It is useful in scouring and cleansing cloth, as it imbibes the grease and oil used in preparing wool.

Fullers-Thistle

FULL'ER'S-THISTLE,

FULL'ER'S-WEED, noun Teasel, a plant of the genus Dipsacus. The burs are used in dressing cloth.

Fullers-Weed

FULL'ER'S-WEED, n. Teasel, a plant of the genus Dipsacus. The burs are used in dressing cloth.

Fullery

FULL'ERY, noun The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.

Fulling

FULL'ING, participle present tense Thickening cloth in a mill; making compact.

FULL'ING, noun The art or practice of thickening cloth and making it compact and firm in a mill, at the same time the cloth is cleansed of oily matter.

Fullingmill

FULL'INGMILL, noun A mill for fulling cloth by means of pestles or stampers, which beat and press it to a close or compact state and cleanse it.

Fullness

FULL'NESS, noun [from full.]

1. The state of being filled, so as to leave no part vacant.

2. The state of abounding or being in great plenty; abundance.

3. Completeness; the state of a thing in which nothing is wanted; perfection.

In thy presence is fullness of joy. Psalms 16:1.

4. Repletion; satiety; as from intemperance.

5. Repletion of vessels; as fullness of blood.

6. Plenty; wealth; affluence.

7. Struggling perturbation; swelling; as the fullness of the heart.

8. Largeness; extent.

There wanted the fullness of a plot, and variety of characters to form it as it ought.

9. Loudness; force of sound, such as fills the ear.

Fullsome

FULL'SOME, adjective Gross; disgusting by plainness, grossness or excess; as fullsome flattery or praise.

Fullsomely

FULL'SOMELY, adverb Grossly; with disgusting plainness or excess.

Fullsomeness

FULL'SOMENESS, noun Offensive grossness, as of praise.

[These are the senses of this word and the only senses used in New England, as far as my knowledge extends.]

Fully

FUL'LY, adverb

1. Completely; entirely; without lack or defect; in a manner to give satisfaction; to the extent desired; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition.

2. Completely; perfectly. Things partially known in this life will be hereafter fully disclosed.

Fulmar

FUL'MAR, noun

1. A fowl of the genus Procellaria, or petrel kind, larger than a gull, possessing the singular faculty of spouting from its bill a quantity of pure oil against its adversary. It is an inhabitant of the Hebrides; it feeds on the fat of whales, and when one of them is taken, will perch on it even when alive and pick out pieces of flesh.

2. The foulemart or fulimart. [See Foumart.]

Fulminant

FUL'MINANT, adjective [Latin fulminans.] Thundering.

Fulminate

FUL'MINATE, verb intransitive [Latin fulmino, from fulmen, thunder, from a root in Bl, which signifies to throw or to burst forth.]

1. To thunder.

2. To make a loud sudden noise, or a sudden sharp crack; to detonate; as fulminating gold.

3. To hurl papal thunder; to issue forth ecclesiastical censures, as the pope.

FUL'MINATE, verb transitive

1. To utter or send out, as a denunciation or censure; to send out, as a menace or censure by ecclesiastical authority.

2. To cause to explode.

Fulmination

FULMINA'TION, noun

1. A thundering.

2. Denunciation of censure or threats, as by papal authority.

The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule.

3. The explosion of certain chimical preparations; detonation.

Fulminatory

FUL'MINATORY, adjective Thundering; striking terror.

Fulmine

FUL'MINE, verb transitive To thunder. [Not in use.]

Fulminic

FULMIN'IC, adjective fulminic acid, in chimistry, is a peculiar acid contained in fulminating silver.

Fulsome

FUL'SOME, adjective

1. Nauseous; offensive.

He that brings fulsome objects to my view, with nauseous images my fancy fills.

2. Rank; offensive to the smell; as a rank and fulsome smell.

3. Lustful; as fulsome ewes.

4. Tending to obscenity; as a fulsome epigram.

These are the English definitions of fulsome but I have never witnessed such applications of the word in the United States. It seems then that full and foul are radically the same word, the primary sense of which is stuffed, crowded, from the sense of putting on or in. In the United States, the compound fullsome takes its signification from full, in the sense of cloying or satiating, and in England, fulsome takes its predominant sense from foulness.

Fulsomely

FUL'SOMELY, adverb Rankly; nauseously; obscenely.

Fulsomeness

FUL'SOMENESS, noun Nauseousness; rank smell; obscenity.

Fulvid

FUL'VID, adjective [See Fulvous, which is generally used.]

Fulvous

FUL'VOUS, adjective [Latin fulvus.] Yellow; tawny; saffron-colored.

Fumado

FUMA'DO, noun [Latin fumus, smoke.] A smoked fish.

Fumatory

FU'MATORY, noun [Latin fumaria herba.]

A plant or genus of plants, called Fumaria, of several species.

Fumble

FUM'BLE, verb intransitive

1. To feel or grope about; to attempt awkwardly.

2. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse.

3. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.

I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers.

FUM'BLE, verb transitive To manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.

Fumbler

FUM'BLER, noun One who gropes or manages awkwardly.

Fumbling

FUM'BLING, participle present tense Groping; managing awkwardly.

Fumblingly

FUM'BLINGLY, adverb In an awkward manner.

Fume

FUME, noun [Latin fumus.]

1. Smoke; vapor from combustion, as from burning wood or tobacco.

2. Vapor; volatile matter ascending in a dense body.

3. Exhalation from the stomach; as the fumes of wine.

4. Rage; heat; as the fumes of passion.

5. Any thing unsubstantial or fleeting.

6. Idle conceit; vain imagination.

FUME, verb intransitive [Latin fumo.]

1. To smoke; to throw off vapor, as in combustion.

Where the golden altar fumed.

2. To yield vapor or visible exhalations.

Silenus lay, whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain.

3. To pass off in vapors.

Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity.

4. To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.

He fret, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.

FUME, verb transitive

1. To smoke; to dry in smoke.

2. To perfume,

She fumed the temples with an od'rous flame.

3. To disperse or drive away in vapors.

The heat will fume away most of the scent.

Fumet

FU'MET, noun The dung of deer.

Fumid

FU'MID, adjective [Latin fumidus.] Smoky; vaporous.

Fumigate

FU'MIGATE, verb transitive [Latin fumigo.]

1. To smoke; to perfume.

2. To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke; as in chimistry, or in medicine by inhaling it, or in cleansing infected apartments.

Fumigated

FU'MIGATED, participle passive Smoked; exposed to smoke.

Fumigating

FU'MIGATING, participle present tense Smoking; applying smoke to.

Fumigation

FUMIGA'TION, noun [Latin fumigatio.]

1. The act of smoking or applying smoke, as in chimistry for softening a metal, or in the healing art by inhaling the smoke of certain substances. Expectoration is often assisted and sometimes ulcers of the lungs healed by fumigation fumigation is also used in cleansing infected rooms.

2. Vapors; scent raised by fire.

Fuming

FU'MING, participle present tense Smoking; emitting vapors; raging; fretting.

Fumingly

FU'MINGLY, adverb Angrily; in a rage.

Fumish

FU'MISH, adjective Smoky; hot; choleric. [Little used.]

Fumiter

FU'MITER, noun A plant.

Fumous

FU'MOUS,

FU'MY, adjective Producing fume; full of vapor.

From dice and wine the youth retir'd to rest, and puffed the funny god from out his breast.

Fumy

FU'MY, a. Producing fume; full of vapor. From dice and wine the youth retir'd to rest, and puffed the funny god from out his breast.

Fun

FUN, noun Sport; vulgar merriment. A low word.

Fun-Gin

FUN-GIN, noun The fleshy part of mushrooms, now considered as a peculiar vegetable principle.

Funambulatory

FUNAM'BULATORY, adjective Performing like a rope dancer; narrow like the walk of a rope dancer.

Funambulist

FUNAM'BULIST, noun [Latin funis, rope, and ambulo, to walk.] A rope walker or dancer.

Function

FUNC'TION, noun [Latin functio, from fungor, to perform.]

1. In a general sense, the doing, executing or performing of any thing; discharge; performance; as the function of a calling or office. More generally,

2. Office or employment, or any duty or business belonging to a particular station or character, or required of a person in the station or character. Thus we speak of the functions of a chancellor, judge or bishop; the functions of a parent or guardian.

3. Trade; occupation. [Less proper.]

4. The office of any particular part of animal bodies; the peculiar or appropriate action of a member or part of the body, by which the animal economy is carried on. Thus we speak of the functions of the brain and nerves, of the heart, of the liver, of the muscles, etc.

5. Power; faculty, animal or intellectual.

As the mind opens, and its functions spread.

6. In mathematics, the function of a variable quantity, is any algebraic expression into which that quantity enters, mixed with other quantities that have invariable values.

Functionally

FUNC'TIONALLY, adverb By means of the functions.

Functionary

FUNC'TIONARY, noun One who holds an office or trust; as a public functionary; secular functionaries.