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Nature seems

In all her functions weary of herself: My race of glory run, and race of shame; And I shall shortly be with them that rest. Milton. Whatever warms the heart, or fills the head, As the mind opens, and its functions spread, Imagination plíes her dang'rous art, And pours it all upon the peccant part. Pope. Though every human constitution is morbid, yet are their diseases consistent with the common functions of life. Arbuthnot. FUND. n. s. [fond, French; funda, a bag, Latin.]

1. Stock; capital; that by which any expence is supported.

He touches the passions more delicately than Ovid, and performs all this out of his own fund, without diving into the arts and sciences for a supply. Dryden.

Part must be left, a fund when foes invade, And part employ'd to roll the watry tide. Dryd In preaching, no men succeed better than those who trust entirely the stock or fund of their own reason, advanced indeed, but not overlaid - by commerce with books.

2. Stock or bank of money.

Swift.

As my estate has been hitherto either tost upon seas, or fluctuating in funds, it is now fixed in substantial acres. Addison. FUNDAMENT. n. s. [fundamentum, Latin.] The back part of the body. FUNDAMENTAL. adj. [ fundamentalis, Latin, from fundament.] Serving for the foundation; that upon which the rest is built; essential; important; not merely accidental.

Until this can be agreed upon, one main and fundamental cause of the most grievous war is not like to be taken from the earth. Raleigh.

You that will be less fearful than discreet, That love the fundamental part of state, More than you doubt the charge of 't. Shaksp.

Others, when they were brought to allow the throne vacant, thought the succession should go to the next heir, according to the fundamental laws of the kingdom, as if the last king were actually dead. Swift's Examiner. Gain some general and fundamental truths, both in philosophy, in religion, and in human

life.

Watts.

Such we find they are, as can control The servile actions of our wav'ring soul, Can fright, can alter, or can chain the will; Their ills all built on life, that fundamental ill.

Prior.

Yet some there were among the sounder few, Of those who less presum'd, and better knew, Who durst assert the juster ancient cause, And here restor❜d wit's fundamental laws. Pope. FUNDAMENTAL. n. s. Leading proposition; important and essential part which is the groundwork of the rest.

We propose the question, whether those who hold the fundamentals of faith may deny Christ damnable in respect of superstructures and conSouth. sequences that arise from them.

It is a very just reproach, that there should be so much violence and hatred in religious matters among men who agree in all fundamentals, and only differ in some ceremonies, or mere speculative points. Swift. FUNDAMENTALLY. adv. [from fundamental.] Essentially; originally.

As virtue is seated fundamentally in the intellect, so perspectively in the fancy; so that virtue is the force of reason, in the conduct of our actions and passions to a good end. Grew

Religion is not only useful to civil society, but fundamentally necessary to its very birth and constitution. Bentley.

The unlimited power placed fundamentally in the body of a people, the legislators endeavour to deposit in such hands as would preserve the people. Swift. FU ́NERAL. n. s. [funus, Latin; funerailles, French.]

1. The solemnization of a burial; the payment of the last honours to the dead; obsequies.

2.

Here, under leave of Butus, and the rest, Come I to speak in Cæsar's funeral. Shaksp.

All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral. Shaksp. He that had cast out many unburied, had none to mourn for him, nor any solemn funerals, nor sepulchre with his fathers. 2 Mac.

No widow at his funeral shall weep. Sandys. The pomp or procession with which the dead are carried.

The long fun'rals blacken all the way. Pope You are sometimes desirous to see a funeral pass by in the street.

3. Burial; interment.

Swift

May he find his funeral
I' th' sands, when he before his day shall fall.
Denham
FUNERAL. adj. Used at the ceremony
of interring the dead.

Our instruments to melancholy bells,
Our wedding chear to a sad funeral feast. Shak

Let such honours
And funeral rites, as to his birth and virtues
Are due, be first perform'd.
Denham's Sophy.
Thy hand o'er towns the fun'ral torch displays,
And forms a thousand ills ten thousand ways.
Dryden

FUNE REAL. adj. [funerea, Latin.] Suit-
ing a funeral; dark; dismal.

But if his soul hath wing'd the destin'd flight, Inhabitant of deep disastrous night, Homeward with pious speed repass the main, To the pale shade funereal rites ordain. Popt FUNGO'SITY. 2. 3. [from fungus.] Um

solid excrescence.

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FUNGOUS. adj. [from fungus.] Excrescent; spongy; wanting firmness.

It is often employed to keep down the fungous lips that spread upon the bone; but it is much more painful than the escharotick medicines. Sharp.

FUNGUS. n. 9. [Latin.] Strictly a mushroom: a word used to express such excrescenses of flesh as grow out upon the lips of wounds, or any other excrescence from trees or plants not naturally belonging to them; as the agarick from the larch tree, and auriculæ Judæ from elder. Quincy.

The surgeon ought to vary the diet as the fibres lengthen too much, are too fluid, and produce funguses, or as they harden and produce Arbuthnot on Diet.

callosities.

This eminence is composed of little points, or granula, called fungus, or proud flesh. Sharp. FU'NICLE. n. s. [funiculus, Latin.] A small cord; a small ligature; a fibre. FUNICULAR. adj. [funiculaire, French, from funicle.] Consisting of a small cord or fibre.

FUNK. . . A stink. A low word. FUNNEL. n. s. [ infundibulum, Latin; whence fundible, fundle, funnel.]

1. An inverted hollow cone with a pipe descending from it, through which liquors are poured into vessels with narrow mouths; a tundish.

If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives little of it; but with a funnel, and by degrees, you shall fill many of them. Ben Jonson. Some the long funnel's curious mouth extend, Through which ingested meats with ease descend.

Blackmore.

The outward ear or auricula is made hollow, and contracted by degrees, to draw the sound inward, to take in as much as may be of it, as we use a funnel to pour liquor into any vessel, Ray. 2. A pipe or passage of communication.

Towards the middle are two large funnels, bored through the roof of the grotto, to let in light or fresh air.

FUR. n. s. [fourrure, French.]

Addison.

1. Skin with soft hair with which garments are lined for warmth, or covered for ornament.

December must be expressed with a horrid and fearful countenance; as also at his back a bundle of holly, holding in far mittens the sign of CapriPeacham on Drawing. Tis but dressing up a bird of prey in his cap and furs to make a judge of him. L'Estrange.

corn.

And lordly gout wrapt up in fur, And wheezing asthma, loth to stir. Swift. 2. Soft hair of beasts found in cold countries, where nature provides coats suitable to the weather; hair in general. This night, wherein the cubdrawn bear would couch,

Methinks I am not right in ev'ry part; I feel a kind of trembling at my heart: My pulse unequal, and my breath is strong; Besides a filthy fur upon my tongue. Dryden. To FUR. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To line or cover with skins that have soft hair.

The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonnetted he runs, And bids what will take all. Shaksp. King Lear. Such animals as feed upon flesh qualify it, the one by swallowing the hair or fur of the beasts they prey upon, the other by devouring some part of the feathers of the birds they gorge themselves with. Ray on the Creation. 3. Any moisture exhaled to such a degree as that the remainder sticks on the part.

How mad a sight it was to see Dametas, like Sidney. rich tissue-furred with lambskins! Through tatter'd cloaths small vices do appear;

Shakspeare. You are for dreams and slumbers, brother priest, You fur your gloves with reasons. Shakspeare. 2. To cover with soft matter.

Robes and furr'd gowns hide all.

To make lampblack, take a torch and hold it under the bottom of a latten bason; and, as it groweth to be furred and black within, strike it with a feather into some shell.

Peacham.

Three sisters, mourning for their brother's loss, Their bodies hid in bark, and furr'd with moss. Dryden.

Their frying blood compels to irrigate Their dry furr'd tongues.

Philips

A dungeon wide and horrible; the walls On all sides furr'd with mouldy damps, and hung With clots of ropy gore.

Addison.

FUR. adv. [It is now commonly written far.] At a distance.

The white lovely dove

Doth on her wing her utmost swiftness prove, Finding the gripe of faulcon fierce not fur. Sidney. FUR-WROUGHT. adj. [fur and wrought.] Made of fur.

Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey. Gay's Past FURACIOUS. adj. [furax, Lat.] Thieyish; inclined to steal.

Dict.

FURA CITY. n. s. [from furax, Latin.] Disposition to theft; thievishness. FU'RBELOW. n. s. A piece of stuff plaited and puckered together, either below or above, on the petticoats or gowns of women. This, like a great many other words, is the child of inere caprice. Trev. Dict.

Nay, oft in dreams invention we bestow
To change a flounce, or add a furbelow. Pope.
To FURBELOW. v. a. [from the noun.]
To adorn with ornamental appendages
of dress.

When arguments too fiercely glare,
You calm them with a milder air!
To break their points, you turn their force,
And furbelow the plain discourse.

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As after Numa's peaceful reign, The martial Ancus did the sceptre wield; Furbish'd the rusty sword again, Resum'd the long-forgotten shield, And led the Latins to the dusty field. Dryden. Inferior ministers, for Mars repair His broken axle-tree, and blunted war; And send him forth again, with furbish'd arms. Dryden. FUR BISHER. n. s. [fourbisseur, French; from furbish.] One who polishes any thing. FURCATION.

n. S. [furca, Latin.] Forkiness; the state of shooting two ways like the blades of a fork.

When stags grow old they grow less branched, and first lose their brow-antlers, or lowest fur

cations next the head.

Brown.

FU'RFUR. n. s. [Lat.] Husk or chaff, scurff or dandruff, that grows upon the skin, with some likeness to bran. Quincy.

FURFURA CEOvs. adj. [furfuraceus, Latin.] Husky; branny; scaly. FURIOUS. adj. [furieux, French; furiosus, Latin.]

1. Mad; phrenetick.

No man did ever think the hurtful actions of furious men and innocents to be punishable.

Hooker.

2. Raging; violent; transported by passion beyond reason.

Who can be wise, amaz'd, temp'rate and furious,

Loyal and neutral in a moment? No man. Shakspeare's Macbeth. To be furious, Is to be frighted out of fear; and in that mood The dove will peck the estridge. Noise, other than the sound of dance or song, Shakspeare. Torment, and loud lament and furious rage. Milton. With clamour thence the rapid currents drive, Towards the retreating sea their furious tide. Milton. FURIOUSLY.adv. [from furious.] Madly; violently; vehemently.

3. Violent; impetuously agitated.

Which when his brother saw, fraught with great grief

And wrath, he to him leapt furiously. Fairy Q They observe countenance to attend the practice; and this carries them on furiously to that which of themselves they are inclined. South. She heard not half, so furiously she flies; Fear gave her wings. Dryden. FURIOUSNESS. n. s. [from furious.] Phrensy; madness; transport of passion. To FURL. v. a. [fresler, French.] To draw up; to contract.

When fortune sends a stormy wind, Then shew a brave and present mind; And when with too indulgent gales She swells too much, then furl thy sails. Creech. FURLONG. n. s. [paplang. Sax n.] A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile.

If a man stand in the middle of a field and speak aloud, he shall be heard a furlong in round, and that in articula e sounds. Bacon.

Coming within a few furlongs of the temple, they passed through a very thick grove. Addis. FU ́RLOUGH. ». s. [verloef, Dutch,] A

temporary dismission from military service; a licence given to a soldier to be absent.

Brutus and Cato might discharge their souls, And give them furlo's for another world; But we, like sentries, are oblig'd to stand In starless nights, and wait th' appointed hour. Drydea. FU ́RMENTY n. s. [More properly fru menty or frumety, of frumentum, Latin.] Food made by boiling wheat in milk. Remember, wife, therefore, though I do it

not,

The seed-cake, the pasties, and furmenty pot.
Tusser.

FURNACE. n. s. [furnus, Latin.] An enclosed fireplace.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it may singe yourself. Shaksp. Henry VIII. The fining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold. Proverbs. We have also furnaces of great diversities, that keep great diversity of heats.

Bacon. The kings of Spain have erected divers furnaces and forges, for the trying and fining of their

gold.

Abbot. Whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

Daniel

A dungeon horrible, on all sides around, As one great furnace, flam'd.

Milton.

To FURNACE, v. a. [from the noun.] To throw out as sparks from a furnace. A bad word.

He furnaces

The thick sighs from him. Shaksp. Cymbeline. To FURNISH. v. a. [fournir, French.] 1. To supply with what is necessary to a certain purpose.

She hath directed

How I shall take her from her father's house;
What gold and jewels she is furnish'd with.
Shakspeare.

His training such, That he may furnish and instruct great teachers, And never seek for aid out of himself. Shaksp. Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock. Deuteronomy Come, thou stranger, and furnish a table, and feed me of that thou hast ready. Ecclesiasticus. Auria, having driven the Turks from Corone, both by sea and land, furnished the city with corn, wine, victual, and powder. Knolles' Hist.

I shall not need to heap up instances; every one's reading and conversation will sufficiently furnish him, if he wants to be better stored. Locke. 2. To give; to supply.

These simple ideas, the materials of all our knowledge, are suggested and furnished to the mind only by these two ways, sensation and reflection.

Locke.

It is not the state, but a compact among pri vate persons, that hath furnished out these several remittances. Addison.

3. To fit up, to fit with appendages.
Something deeper,
Whereof perchance these are but furnishings.
Shakspeare.

Plato entertained some of his friends at dinner, and had in the chamber a bed or couch, neatly and costly furnished. Diogenes came in, and got up upon the bed, and trampled it, say ing, I trample upon the pride of Plato. Flato mildly answered, But with greater pride, DioBacon's Apophth

genes.

We were led into another great room, furnished with old inscriptions. Addison on Italy. 4. To equip; to fit out for any undertaking. Will your lordship lend me a thousand pounds to furnish me? Shakspeare's Henry IV.

Ideas, forms, and intellects, Have furnish'd out three diff'rent sects. Prior. Doubtless the man Jesus Christ is furnished with superior powers to all the angels in heaven, because he is employed in superior work. Watts. 3. To decorate; to supply with ornamental household stuff.

The wounded arm would furnish all their

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Then ploughs for seed the fruitful furrotus broke,

And oxen labour'd first beneath the yoke. Dryd. 2. Any long trench or hollow: as a wrinkle.

My lord it is, though time has plow'd that

face

With many furrotus since I saw it first;
Yet I'm too well acquainted with the ground

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quite to forget it. Dryd. Lee's Oedipus. FURROW-WEED.n.s. [furrow and weed.] A weed that grows in furrowed land. Crown'd with rank fumiter, and furrow-weeds. Shakspeare. TO FURROW. v. a. [from the noun; Fynian, Saxon.]

1. To cut in furrows.

While the ploughman near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land.

2. To divide in long hollows.

Milton.

No briny tear has furrow'd her smooth cheek.

Suckling.

1.

Covered with fur; dressed in fur. From Volgar's banks th' imperious Czar Felton. Leads forth his furry troops to war.

2. Consisting of fur.

Stretch out thy lazy limbs, awake, awake, And winter from thy furry mantle shake.

Dryden

Not arm'd with horns of arbitrary might, Or claws to seize their furry spoils in fight. Dryden. FURTHER. adj. [from forth, not from far, as is commonly imagined; forth, further, furthest, corrupted from forther, Forther is forthest, ponder, Saxon.

used by sir Thomas More. See FORTH and FARTHER, of which the examples are to be referred to in this word. 1. At a greater distance. 2. Beyond this.

What further need have we of witnesses.
Matthew.
Satan had journey'd on, pensive and slow:
But further way found none, so thick intwin'd,
As one continu'd brake, the undergrowth
Of shrubs and tangling bushes had perplex'd
All path of man or beast that pass that way.
Milton.

Their earnest eyes they fix'd, imagining
For one forbidden tree a multitude
Now ris'n, to work them further woe or shame.

I may meet

Milton.

Some wand'ring spirit, from him to draw What further would be learn'd.

Milton.

3. Further has in some sort the force of a substantive in the phrase no further, for nothing further.

Let this appease

Thy doubt, since human reach no further

knows.

Milton.

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Could their fond superstition have furthered sa great attempts without the mixture of a true persuasion concerning the irresistible force of divine power. Hooker. Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked; Psalms. further not his wicked device.

This binds thee then to further my design, As I am bound by vow to further thine. Dryd FURTHERANCE. n. s. [from further.] Promotion; advancement; help.

The Gauls learned them first, and used them only for the furtherance of their trade and private Spenser. Our diligence must search out all heips and furtherances of direction, which scriptures, coun

business.

cils, fathers, histories, the laws and practices of all churches afford.

Hooker. For gain and work, and success in his affairs, he seeketh furtherance of him that hath no manner of power. Hooker.

Cannot my body, nor blood sacrifice, Intreat you to your wonted furtherance? Shaks.

If men were minded to live righteously, to believe a God would be no hindrance or prejudice to any such design, but very much for the advancement and furtherance of it. Tillotson. FURTHERER. n. s. [from further.] Promoter; advancer.

That earnest favourer and furtherer of God's true religion, that faithful servitor to his prince

Ascham.

adv. [further and

and country. FURTHERMORE. more.] Moreover; besides.

This ring I do accept most thankfully, And so, I pray you, tell him: furthermore, I pray you, shew my youth old Shylock's house. Shakspeare. FURTIVE. adj. [furtive, French; furtivus, Latin.] Stolen; gotten by theft. Or do they, as your schemes, I think, have shown,

Dart furtive beams and glory not their own, All servants to that source of light, the sun? Prior.

FU ́RUNCLE. n. s. [furoncle, French; furunculus, Latin.] A bile; an angry pustule.

A furuncle is in its beginning round, hard, and inflamed; and as it increaseth, it riseth up with an acute head, and sometimes a pustule; and then it is more inflamed and painful, when it arrives at its state, which is about the eighth or ninth day. Wiseman.

FURY. n. s. [furor, Latin; fureur, Fr.] 1. Madness.

2. Rage; passion of anger; tumult of mind approaching to madness.

I do oppose my patience to his fury; and am

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The whole plant is very thorny: the flowers, which are of the pea-bloom kind, are disposed in short thick spikes, which are succeeded by short compressed pods, in each of which are con tained three or four kidney-shaped seeds. Miller. Carry out gravel to fill up a hole,

Both timber and furzin, the turf and the cole.
Tusser.

For fewel, there groweth great store of furze, of which the shrubby scrt is called tame, and the better grown French. Carew.

We may know, And when to reap the grain, and when to sow, Or when to fell the furzes. Dryden's Virgil. FURZY, adj. [from furze.] Overgrown with furze; full of gorse.

Wide through the furzy field their route they take,

Their bleeding bosoms force the thorny brake. Gay.

FUSCA'TION. n. s. [fuscus, Latin.] The

act of darkening or obscuring.

Dict.

To FUSE. v. a. [fundo, fusum, Latin.] To melt; to put into fusion; to liquify by beat.

To FUSE. V. n. To be melted; to be capable of being liquified by heat. FU SEE. n. s. [fuseau, French.] 1. The cone round which is wound the cord or chain of a clock or watch.

Hale.

The reason of the motion of the balance is by the motion of the next wheel, and that by the motion of the next, and that by the motion of the fusce, and that by the motion of the spring: the whole frame of the watch carries a reasonable ness in it, the passive impression of the intellectual idea that was in the artist. 2. A firelock [from fusil, French]; a small neat musket. This is more properly written fusil. 3. FUSEE of a bomb or granado shell, is that which makes the whole powder or composition in the shell take fire, to do the designed execution. 'Tis usually a wooden pipe or tap filled with wildfire, or some such matter; and is intended to burn no longer than is the time of the motion of the bomb from the mouth of the mortar to the place where it is to fall, which time Anderson makes Harris. twenty-seven seconds. 4. Track of a buck. Ainsworth. FUSIBLE. adj. [from fuse.] Capable of being melted; capable of being made liquid by heat.

Colours afforded by metalline bodies, either colliquate with, or otherwise penetrate into other Beyle bodies, especially fusible ones. FUSIBILITY. 2. s. [from fusible.] Capacity of being melted; quality of grow. ing liquid by heat.

The ancients observing in that material a kind of metallical nature, or at least a fusibility, seem Westen.

to have resolved it into a nobler use.

The bodies of most use, that are sought for out of the depths of the earth, are the metals which are distinguished from other bodies by their weight, fusibility, and malleableness. Lecké. FUSIL. adj. [fusile, French; fusilis, Latin] 1. Capable of being melted; liquifiable by heat.

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