Part 4622

<h1>Fuchsia</h1> <Xpage=600>

<hw>Fuch"si*a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. E. <plw>Fuchsias</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>, L. <plw>Fuchsl\'91</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[NL. Named after Leonard <ets>Fuchs</ets>, a German botanist.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.</def>

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<h1>Fuchsine</h1> <Xpage=601>

<hw>Fuch"sine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Named by the French inventor, from <ets>Fuchs</ets> a fox, the German equivalent of his own name, <ets>Renard</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. It consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See <er>Rosaniline</er>.</def>

<h1>Fucivorous</h1> <Xpage=601>

<hw>Fu*civ"o*rous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Fucus</ets> + L. <ets>vorare</ets> to eat.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Eating fucus or other seaweeds.</def>

<h1>Fucoid</h1> <Xpage=601>

<hw>Fu"coid</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Fucus</ets> + <ets>-oid</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (<spn>Fucoide\'91</spn>) which are blackish in color, and produce o\'94spores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (<spn>Sargassum</spn>) are fucoid in character.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of seaweeds.</def>

<h1>Fucoid</h1> <Xpage=601>

<hw>Fu"coid</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See <er>Fucoid</er>, <tt>a.</tt></def>

<h1>Fucoidal</h1> <Xpage=601>

<hw>Fu*coid"al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Fucoid.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; <as>as, fucoidal sandstone</as>.</def>

<h1>Fucus</h1> <Xpage=601>

<hw>Fu"cus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Fuci</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. rock lichen, orchil, used as a red dye, red or purple color, disguise, deceit.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A paint; a dye; also, false show.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.</def>

<note>&hand; Formerly most marine alg? were called <i>fuci</i>.</note>

<h1>Fucusol</h1> <Xpage=601>

<hw>Fu"cu*sol</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Fucus</ets> + L. <ets>oleum</ets> oil.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds.</def>

<h1>Fud</h1> <Xpage=601>

<hw>Fud</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Of uncertain origin.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The tail of a hare, coney, etc.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]</mark>

<i>Burns.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.</def>

<h1>Fudder</h1> <Xpage=601>

<hw>Fud"der</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Fodder</er>, a weight.</def>

<h1>Fuaddle</h1> <Xpage=601>

<hw>Fuad"dle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.,</tt> <er>Fuddled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fuddling</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Perh. formed as a kind of dim. of full. Cf. <er>Fuzzle</er>.]</ety> <def>To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>