Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FUL'MAR
FUL'MAR, n.
- A fowl of the genus Procellaria, or petrel kind, larger than a gull, possessing the singular faculty of spouting from its bill a quantity of pure oil against its adversary. It is an inhabitant of the Hebrides; it feeds on the fat of whales, and when one of them is taken, will perch on it even when alive and pick out pieces of flesh. Dict, of Nat. Hist.
- The foulemart or fulimart. [See Foumart.]
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