Part 4651

<h1>Furilic</h1> <Xpage=604>

<hw>Fu*ril"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to, or derived from, furile; <as>as, <ex>furilic</ex> acid</as>.</def>

<h1>Furioso</h1> <Xpage=604>

<hw>Fu"ri*o"so</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.& adv.</tt> <ety>[It.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>With great force or vigor; vehemently.</def>

<h1>Furious</h1> <Xpage=604>

<hw>Fu"ri*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>furiosus</ets>, fr. <ets>furia</ets> rage, fury: cf. F. <ets>furieux</ets>. See <er>Fury</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; <as>as, a furious animal</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; <as>as, a <ex>furious</ex> stream; a <ex>furious</ex> wind or storm.</as></def>

<syn>Syn. -- Impetuous; vehement; boisterous; fierce; turbulent; tumultuous; angry; mad; frantic; frenzied.</syn>

-- <wordforms><wf>Fu"ri*ous*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Fu"ri*ous*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Furl</h1> <Xpage=604>

<hw>Furl</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Furld</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Furling</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Contr. fr. <ets>furdle</ets>, fr. <ets>fardel</ets> bundle: cf. F. <ets>ferler</ets> to furl, OF. <ets>fardeler</ets> to pack. See <er>Furdle</er>, <er>Fardel</er>, and cf. <er>Farl</er>.]</ety> <def>To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.</def>

<h1>Furlong</h1> <Xpage=604>

<hw>Fur"long</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>furlong</ets>, <ets>furlang</ets>, AS. <ets>furlang</ets>, <ets>furlung</ets>, prop., the length of a furrow; <ets>furh</ets> furrow + <ets>lang</ets> long. See <er>Furrow</er>, and <er>Long</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <def>A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.</def>

<h1>Furlough</h1> <Xpage=604>

<hw>Fur"lough</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Prob. fr. D. <ets>verlof</ets>, fr. a prefix akin to E. <ets>for</ets> + the root of E. <ets>lief</ets>, and akin to Dan. <ets>forlov</ets>, Sw. <ets>f\'94rlof</ets>, G. v<ets>erlaub</ets> permission. See <er>Life</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence.</def>

<h1>Furlough</h1> <Xpage=604>

<hw>Fur"lough</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Furloughed</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Furloughing</er>.]</wordforms> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an offcer or soldier.</def>

<h1>Furmonty, Furmity</h1> <Xpage=604>

<hw><hw>Fur"mon*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Fur"mi*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Frumenty</er>.</def>

<h1>Furnace</h1> <Xpage=604>

<hw>Fur"nace</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>fornais</ets>, <ets>forneis</ets>, OF. <ets>fornaise</ets>, F. <ets>fournaise</ets>, from L. <ets>fornax</ets>; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to E. <ets>forceps</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; <as>as, an iron <ex>furnace</ex>; a hot-air <ex>furnace</ex>; a glass <ex>furnace</ex>; a boiler <ex>furnace</ex>, etc.</as></def>

<note>&hand; Furnaces are classified as <i>wind</i> or <i>air</i>. <i>furnaces</i> when the fire is urged only by the natural draught; as <i>blast furnaces</i>, when the fire is urged by the injection artificially of a forcible current of air; and as <i>reverberatory furnaces</i>, when the flame, in passing to the chimney, is thrown down by a low arched roof upon the materials operated upon.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.</def>

<i>Deut. iv. 20.</i>

<cs><col>Bustamente furnace</col>, <cd>a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores.</cd> -- <col>Furnace bridge</col>, <cd>Same as <cref>Bridge wall</cref>.</cd> See <er>Bridge</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 5. -- <mcol><col>Furnace</col> <col>cadmiam &or; cadmia</col><mcol>, <cd>the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores.</cd> <i>Raymond</i>. -- <col>Furnace hoist</col> <fld>(Iron Manuf.)</fld>, <cd>a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace.</cd></cs>

<h1>Furnace</h1> <Xpage=604>

<hw>Fur"nace</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.</def> <mark>[Obs. or R.]</mark>

<blockquote>He <b>furnaces</b> The thick sighe from him. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>