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ated." Friezes may, according to situation, be wrought in 

 stone, brick, wood or plaster. 



Frieze Panel. The upper panel of a door of six or more panels, 

 or the upper panel in wainscotting. 



Frieze Rail. The rail next below top rail of six or more panels. 



Frith, By Frith and Fell. " By wold and wild, wood and com- 

 mon." Frith is the Welsh frith or friz, and means a woody 

 place. Chaucer used the term to connote a wood, which, in 

 the Saxon tongue, from implying peace, defined a sacred wood 

 or sanctuary, hence " Frithstool " a chair of sanctuary. 



Frowy Stuff. A term applied to brittle or soft timber. 

 Frush. A term used to describe wood that is short in the grain 

 and brittle. 



Fuel. Is matter which serves as aliment to fire. Wood in a 

 crude state or as charcoal plays a large part, especially so 

 where pit-coal does not obtain. Where wood is plentiful it 

 is, on. the score of cleanliness, preferred. ' Wood fuel " the 

 world over is an immense business, and the volume of that 

 material consumed is beyond all count or tally, and from 

 " stick " to " yule-log " boasts an extensive vocabulary. 



Fungi (the plural of fungus). Under this name botanists range 

 the mushroom class of plants, a large number of which are 

 microscopic, growing upon other plants or substances, with 

 the appearance of mouldiness and mildew. Instance, the 

 Merulius lacrymans, or weeping fungus that is mainly 

 answerable for the destruction of timber placed in damp or 

 humid situations, where its action is popularly termed 

 " Dry rot " (which see). The wood in a reduced form has a 

 dry appearance on the face, not unlike burnt or charred 

 wood, and to this extent it is entitled to its popular name. 



Furniture. In architecture, the visible brasswork or ironmongery 

 of doors, windows, shutters, cupboards, etc., in which it is a 

 compound, as " door-furniture," " cupboard-furniture," etc., 

 of a hall, house or building. In a general sense it implies the 

 goods, utensils, etc., of housekeeping, in which ironmongery 

 again finds a place, following in the train of wood, as 

 " drawer," " desk," etc., furniture. Ditto in " coffin furni- 

 ture." 



Furniture Beetle. Practically a microscopic insect whose larva} 

 or grub bores in and feeds upon wood ; it is the Annobium 

 tessalatum of the naturalist, and superstition has endowed it 

 with the fearsome name of " Death-watch." Its mechanical 

 action is truly the cause of " Dry rot," where the wood is 

 bored and ruined, and a dry powder takes its place or is 

 emitted, tiee " Dry Rot." 



