Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: FRUS'TRA-TO-RY – FU'EL
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FRUS'TRA-TO-RY, a.
That makes void; that vacates or renders null; as, a frustratory appeal. Ayliffe.
FRUS'TUM, n. [L. 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. Encyc.
FRU-TES'CENT, a. [L. frutex, a shrub.]
In botany, from herbaceous becoming shrubby; as, a frutescent stem. Martyn.
FRU'TEX, n. [L.]
In botany, a shrub; a plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree. Milne.
FRU'TI-CANT, a.
Full of shoots. Evelyn.
FRU'TI-COUS, a. [L. fruticosus.]
Shrubby; as, a fruticous stem.
FRY, n. [Fr. frai, from the verb.]
- A swarm or crowd of little fish; so called from their crowding, tumbling and agitation. [So Sp. hervir, to swarm or be crowded, from L. ferveo, and vulgarly boiling is used for a crowd.] Milton.
- A dish of any thing fried.
- A kind of sieve. [Not used in America.] Mortimer.
FRY, v.i.
- To be heated and agitated; to suffer the action of fire or extreme heat.
- To ferment, as in the stomach. Bacon.
- To be agitated; to boil. Dryden.
FRY, v.t. [L. frigo; Gr. φρυγω; Sp. freir; It. friggere; Port. frigir; Fr. frire; Ir. friochtalaim. The sense is nearly the same as in boil, or broil, to agitate, to fret.]
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'ING, ppr.
Dressing in a fryingpan; heating; agitating.
FRY'ING-PAN, n.
A pan with a long handle, used for frying meat and vegetables.
FUB, n.
A plump boy; a woman. [Not in use.] Todd.
FUB, v.t.
To put off; to delay; to cheat. [See Fob.] Shak.
FU'CATE, or FU'CA-TED, a. [L. fucatus, from fuco, to stain.]
Painted; disguised with paint; also disguised with false show. Johnson.
FU'COID, n. [See Fucus.]
Fossil sea-weed. Hitchcock.
FU'CUS, n. [L. See Feign.]
- A paint; a dye; also false show. B. Jonson. Sandys.
- plur. fucuses, in botany, a genus of Algae, or sea-weeds; the sea-wrack, &c. Encyc.
FUD'DER, n. [of lead. See FOTHER.]
FUD'DLE, v.i.
To drink to excess. L'Estrange.
FUD'DLE, v.t.
To make drunk; to intoxicate. Thomson.
FUD'DLED, pp.
Drunk; intoxicated.
FUD'DLER, n.
A drunkard. Baxter.
FUD'DLING, ppr.
Intoxicating; drinking to excess.
FUDGE, n.
a word of contempt.
FUEIL-MORT, n. [Fr. a dead leaf.]
The color of a withered leaf.
FU'EL, n. [from Fr. feu, fire, contracted from Sp. fuego, It. fuoco, L. focus.]
- Any matter which serves as aliment to fire; that which feeds fire; combustible matter, as wood, coal, peat, &c.
- Any thing that serves to feed or increase flame, heat or excitement.