Part 4642

<hw>Func"tion*a*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Functionaries</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>fonctionnaire</ets>.]</ety> <def>One charged with the performance of a function or office; <as>as, a public <ex>functionary</ex>; secular <ex>functionaries</ex>.</as></def>

<h1>Functionless</h1> <Xpage=603>

<hw>Func"tion*less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.</def>

<h1>Fund</h1> <Xpage=603>

<hw>Fund</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>font</ets>, <ets>fond</ets>, nom. <ets>fonz</ets>, bottom, ground, F. <ets>fond</ets> bottom, foundation, <ets>fonds</ets> fund, fr. L. <ets>fundus</ets> bottom, ground, foundation, piece of land. See <er>Found</er> to establish.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; <as>as, the <ex>fund</ex> of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also <altname>public funds</altname>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; <as>as, the <ex>fund</ex> of an ecclesiastical society; a <ex>fund</ex> for the maintenance of lectures or poor students</as>; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; <as>as, a <ex>fund</ex> of wisdom or good sense</as>.</def>

<blockquote>An inexhaustible <b>fund</b> of stories. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Sinking fund</col>, <cd>the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a government, or of a corporation, by the accumulation of interest.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fund</h1> <Xpage=603>

<hw>Fund</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Funded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Funding</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; <as>as, to <ex>fund</ex> government notes</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To place in a fund, as money.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; <as>as, to <ex>fund</ex> the floating debt</as>.</def>

<h1>Fundable</h1> <Xpage=603>

<hw>Fund"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.</def>

<h1>Fundament</h1> <Xpage=603>

<hw>Fun"da*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>fundament</ets>, <ets>fundement</ets>, <ets>fondement</ets>, OF. <ets>fundement</ets>, <ets>fondement</ets>, F. <ets>fondement</ets>, fr. L. <ets>fundamentum</ets> foundation, fr. <ets>fundare</ets> to lay the bottom, to found, fr. <ets>fundus</ets> bottom. See <er>Fund</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Foundation.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically <fld>(Anat.)</fld>, the anus.</def>

<i>Hume.</i>

<h1>Fundamental</h1> <Xpage=603>

<hw>Fun`da*men"tal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>fondamental</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; <as>as, a <ex>fundamental</ex> truth; a <ex>fundamental</ex> axiom.</as></def>

<blockquote>The <b>fundamental</b> reasons of this war. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Some <b>fundamental</b> antithesis in nature. <i>Whewell.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Fundamental bass</col> <fld>(Mus.)</fld>, <cd>the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords.</cd> -- <col>Fundamental chord</col> <fld>(Mus.)</fld>, <cd>a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root.</cd> -- <col>Fundamental colors</col>, <cd>red, green, and violet-blue. See <cref>Primary colors</cref>, under <er>Color</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fundamental</h1> <Xpage=603>