Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FU-NE'BRI-AL, or FUNE'BRI-OUS, a. [L. funebris.]

Pertaining to funerals. Brown.

FU'NER-AL, a.

Pertaining to burial; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors or ceremonies; a funeral torch; funeral feast or games; funeral oration. Encyc. Dryden.

FU'NER-AL, n. [It. funerale; Fr. funerailles; from L. funus, from funale, a cord, a torch, from funis, a rope or cord, as torches were made of cords, and were used in burials among the Romans.]

1. Burial; the ceremony of burying a dead human body; the solemnization of interment; obsequies.
2. The procession of persons attending the burial of the dead. Pope.
3. Burial; interment Denham.

FU-NER-A'TION, n.

Solemnization of a funeral. [Not used.]

FU-NE'RE-AL, a.

1. Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial. Shak.
2. Dark; dismal; mournful. Taylor.

FU-NE'RE-AL-LY, adv.

Dismally; mournfully.

FU-NEST', a.

Lamentable. [Not used.]

FUN'GATE, n. [from fungus.]

A compound of fungic acid and a base. Coxe.

FUN'GI-A, n.

A genus of corals. Mantell.

FUN'GIC, a.

Pertaining to or obtained from mushrooms; as, fungic acid.

FUN'GI-FORM, a. [fungus and form.]

In mineralogy, having a termination similar to the head of a fungus. Philips.

FUN'GIN, n.

The fleshy part of mushrooms, now considered as a peculiar vegetable principle. Coxe.

FUN'GITE, n. [from fungus.]

A kind of fossil coral.

FUN-GIV'OR-OUS, a. [L. fungus and voro.]

Feeding on mushrooms. Kirby.

FUN'GOID, n.

Having the appearance of a mushroom.

FUN-GOS'I-TY, n.

Soft excrescence.

FUN'GOUS, a. [See Fungus.]

1. Like fungus or a mushroom; excrescent; spongy; soft.
2. Growing suddenly, but not substantial or durable. Harris.

FUN'GUS, n. [L.]

1. A mushroom, vulgarly called a toad-stool. The Fungi constitute an order of plants of a peculiar organization and manner of growth. The word is also applied to excrescences on plants. Encyc.
2. A spongy excrescence in animal bodies, as proud flesh formed in wounds. Coxe. The term is particularly applied to any morbid excrescence, whether in wounds or arising spontaneously. Cyc. Cooper.

FU'NI-CLE, n. [L. funiculus, dim. of funis, a cord.]

A small cord; a small ligature; a fiber. Johnson.

FU-NIC'U-LAR, a.

Consisting of a small cord or fiber.

FUNK, n. [Qu. Arm. fancq, Fr. fange, mud, mire, matter.]

An offensive smell. [Vulgar.]

FUN'NEL, n. [W. fynel, an air-hole, funnel or chimney, from fwn, breath, source, connected with fount, – which see.]

1. A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance, particularly the shaft or hollow channel of a chimney through which smoke ascends.
2. A vessel for conveying fluids into close vessels; a kind of hollow cone with a pipe; a tunnel. Ray.

FUN'NEL-FORM, or FUN'NEL-SHAPED, a.

Having the form of a funnel or inverted hollow cone. Fam. of Plants.

FUN'NY, a. [from fun.]

Droll; comical.

FUN'NY, n.

A light boat.