Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FU-TIL'I-TY, n.

1. Talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [In this sense, not now used.] L'Estrange.
2. Triflingness; unimportance; want of weight or effect; as, to expose the futility of arguments.
3. 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.]

1. 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.
2. 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.

1. Future time; time to come.
2. Event to come. All futurities are naked before the all-seeing eye. South.
3. 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.

1. A kind of fungus or mushroom, which when pressed, bursts and scatters a fine dust.
2. 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.