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Hallam.

Fur"tive*ly, adv. Stealthily by theft. Lover.

Fu"run*cle (?), n. [L. furunculus a petty thief, a boil, dim. of fur thief: cf. F. furoncle.] (Med.) A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.

Fu*run"cu*lar (?), a. Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles.

Fu"ry (?), n. [L. fur.] A thief. [Obs.]

Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.

J. Fleteher.

Fu"ry, n.; pl. Furies (#). [L. furia, fr. furere to rage: cf. F. furie. Cf. Furor.] 1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.

Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired.

Sir P. Sidney.

2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "Fury of the wind." Shak.

I do oppose my patience to his fury.

Shak.

3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and MegÊra; the Erinyes or Eumenides.

The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him.

Emerson.

4. One of the ParcÊ, or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.]

Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

Milton.

5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

Syn. -- Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See Anger.

Furze (?), n. [OE. firs, As. fyrs.] (Bot.) A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex EuropÊus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.

Furze"chat" (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck.

Furze"ling (?), n. (Zoˆl.) An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.

Furz"en (?), a. Furzy; gorsy. [Obs.] Holland.

Furz"y (?), a. Abounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze. Gay.

||Fu"sain" (?), n. [F., the spindle tree; also, charcoal made from it.] ||(Fine Arts) (a) Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing ||implement. (b) A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and ||Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal.

Fu"sa*role (?), n. [F. fusarolle, fr. It. fusaruolo, fr. fuso spindle, shaft of a column. See Fusee a conical wheel.] (Arch.) A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.