Part 4663

<i>W. D. Howells.</i>

<h1>Futurely</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Fu"ture*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In time to come.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Raleigh.</i>

<h1>Futurist</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Fu"tur*ist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Theol.)</fld> <def>One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.</def>

<h1>Futuritial</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Fu`tu*ri"tial</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Relating to what is to come; pertaining to futurity; future.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Futurition</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Fu`tu*ri"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>futurition</ets>.]</ety> <def>The state of being future; futurity.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Nothing . . . can have this imagined <b>futurition</b>, but as it is decreed. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Futurity</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Fu*tu"ri*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Futurities</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>State of being that is yet to come; future state.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Future time; time to come; the future.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Event to come; a future event.</def>

<blockquote>All <b>futurities</b> are naked before the All-seeing Eye. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fuze</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Fuze</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See <er>Fuse</er>, <tt>n.</tt></def>

<cs><col>Chemical fuze</col>, <cd>a fuze in which substances separated until required for action are then brought into contact, and uniting chemically, produce explosion.</cd> -- <col>Concussion fuze</col>, <cd>a fuze ignited by the striking of the projectile.</cd> -- <col>Electric fuze</col>, <cd>a fuze which is ignited by heat or a spark produced by an electric current.</cd> -- <col>Friction fuze</col>, <cd>a fuze which is ignited by the heat evolved by friction.</cd> -- <col>Percussion fuze</col>, <cd>a fuze in which the ignition is produced by a blow on some fulminating compound.</cd> -- <col>Time fuze</col>, <cd>a fuze adapted, either by its length or by the character of its composition, to burn a certain time before producing an explosion.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fuzz</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Fuzz</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make drunk.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Wood.</i>

<h1>Fuzz</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Fuzz</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Prov. E. <ets>fuzzy</ets> that ravels (of silk or cotton), D. <ets>voos</ets> spongy, fungous, G. <ets>faser</ets> filament. E. <ets>feaze</ets> to untwist.]</ety> <def>Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter.</def>

<cs><col>Fuzz ball</col>, <cd>a kind of fungus or mushroom, which, when pressed, bursts and scatters a fine dust; a puffball.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fuzz</h1> <Xpage=606>