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- English Word Furtive Definition Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look.
- English Word Furtively Definition Stealthily by theft.
- English Word Furuncle Definition A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.
- English Word Fury Definition A thief.
- English Word Fury Definition Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
- English Word Fury Definition Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
- English Word Fury Definition pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
- English Word Fury Definition One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
- English Word Fury Definition A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
- English Word Furze Definition A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europaeus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.
- English Word Furzechat Definition The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck.
- English Word Furzeling Definition An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.
- English Word Furzen Definition Furzy; gorsy.
- English Word Furzy Definition bounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze.
- English Word Fusain Definition Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.
- English Word Fusain Definition A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal.
- English Word Fusarole Definition A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.
- English Word Fuscation Definition A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation.
- English Word Fuscin Definition A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.
- English Word Fuscine Definition A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil.
- English Word Fuscous Definition Brown or grayish black; darkish.
- English Word Fuse Definition To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.
- English Word Fuse Definition To unite or blend, as if melted together.
- English Word Fuse Definition To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.
- English Word Fuse Definition To be blended, as if melted together.
- English Word Fuse Definition A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze.
- English Word Fused Definition of Fuse
- English Word Fusee Definition A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.
- English Word Fusee Definition A fuse. See Fuse, n.
- English Word Fusee Definition A kind of match for lighting a pipe or cigar.