Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: FU-TIL'I-TY – FY
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FU-TIL'I-TY, n.
- Talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [In this sense, not now used.] L'Estrange.
- Triflingness; unimportance; want of weight or effect; as, to expose the futility of arguments.
- The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; as, the futility of measures or schemes.
FU'TIL-OIS, a.
Worthless; trifling. [Not used.] Howell.
FUT'TOCK, n. [Qu. foot-hook. It is more probably corrupted from foot-lock.]
In a ship, the futtocks are the middle timbers, between the floor and the upper timbers, or the timbers raised over the keel, which form the breadth of the ship.
FU'TURE, a. [L. futurus; Fr. futur.]
- That is to be or come hereafter that will exist at any time after the present, indefinitely. The next moment is future to the present.
- The future tense, in grammar, is the modification of a verb which expresses a future act or event.
FU'TURE, n.
Time to come; a time subsequent to the present: as, the future shall be as the present; in future; for the future. In such phrases, time or season is implied.
FU'TURE-LY, adv.
In time to come. [Not used.] Ralegh.
FU-TU-RI'TION, n.
The state of being to come or exist hereafter. South. Stiles.
FU-TU'RI-TY, n.
- Future time; time to come.
- Event to come. All futurities are naked before the all-seeing eye. South.
- The state of being yet to come, or to come hereafter.
FUZZ, n.
Fine, light particles; loose, volatile matter.
FUZZ, v.i.
To fly off in minute particles.
FUZZ'BALL, n.
- A kind of fungus or mushroom, which when pressed, bursts and scatters a fine dust.
- A puff.
FUZ'ZLE, v.t.
To intoxicate. Burton.
FUZ'ZLED, pp.
Intoxicated.
FY, exclam.
A word which expresses blame, dislike, disapprobation, abhorrence or contempt. Fy, my lord, fy! a soldier, and afraid? Shak.