FEE 



SUPPLEMENT. 



GAI 



Tripoli and oil are usel In finishing off when FUMARTC ACTP, an acid found in ftiml- 

 dry. Itory, Fumaria officinnlu. It is also ob- 



KIIKXCH WHITE, talc finely pulverised. ' tainable from malic acid by the action of 



heat. 



i- KM '.TMMIDF, a red powder obtained by 



8;e FUEXCH CHALK. 



r'ltKNf'il I'LTIIAMARINF, an artificial 



ultramarine first manufactured from a sub- the action of heat on bimalate of ammor 

 stance resembling lazulite, found in the f'r.M u, ATION, a mode too frequently 

 ashes of furnaces in France. It is now rezu- adopted with the view of disinfecting, and 

 Urly manufactured by heating to a red heat with the result of only concealing bad or 

 a mixture of kaolin, carbonate of soda, and pernicious smells. The little carbon liberated 

 sulphur, and perhaps a small quantity of by the smoke of fumigation is about the 

 iron; it being found that the colour of ultra- i only real disinfecting principle it contains; 

 marine cannot be produced without the pre- hut that _is too small to be of any great 



sence of iron. 



service. Disinfectants (/. .) ought to be 



FttKx U.M, a ligament or rein. The term invariably substituted for fumigation, 

 is applied to various ligaments anatomically ; FUND, s, the base of ~-\j c ;.e-shaped 

 the ligament of the tongue is called frenum organ, especially the base < i '.: _ uterus, gall 



tingiice. 



FRIABLE, capable of being crumbled into 

 powder. 



FRIAR'S BALSAM, an alcoholic solution 



bladder, and urinary bladucv. 



B'USCi x, a brown colouring body found in 

 empyreumatic oils. 



or FUZF, in artillery, a wooden 



mpyreu 

 FUSE 



of benzoin, tolu balsam, styrax, and aloes ; or metal case used for igniting shells, now 

 the compound tincture of Benzoin of the generally superseded by the system of deto- 

 Pharmacopoeia, applied to stimulate ulcers nating shells communicated to the British 

 and wounds. j Ordnance department before the Crimean 



FRIKSLAXD finKKX, an ammonio-[ War, but the authorship of which has never 

 chloride or oxychloride of copper, called also, been acknowledged. 



JbKUXSWICK. OrRKKX. FUSEL OIL. See FOUSKL. 



F an-T, a term applied in glass mamifac-l FUSIBLE CALCULUS, a variety of 

 ture to the mass previous to fusion, after it urinary calculus capable of fusion under 

 has been heated together to expel water. i tne blow-pipe, and composed of phosphate of 



FROXUOSH-, leaves unusually developed lime > magnesia, and ammonia, 

 either in their size or number. ' I FUSIBLK ALT OF UIUXF, the old 



FROXTLKT, the margin of the head be- uame ^ the ammonio-phosphate of soda de- 



posited on the evaporation of urine. 

 KUMXJ-:, the spindle-shells. 

 F us i ox, aqueous, the liquefaction by 



hind the bill of birds. 



FKI-STULI-.S, fragments; the joints into 

 Which Diatomacece separate. 



FKUTJM, a shrub or perennial plant heat of salts containing water of crystal- 

 \vhose branches proceed from the root direct limlon - 

 without any uniting stem. FCMOY. iGXEOp, liquefaction by heat 



FULOOIIA, a genus of hemipterons insects of ann J' J i'' > ' a s bodies, or bodies without 

 of the family Clcadarice, of which the F. water - 

 lanternaria, or lantern fly, of South 



America, and F. candelarla, or candle fly, 

 of China, are species. 



Ki;i/;.)iuTKsi,or.M they are sometimes 

 called, Kossu. LIGHTXISU, certain tubes 

 formed by the fusing and vitrification of sand 

 by the passage of lightning through the sand. 



G 



G, as used in chronology, is the Seventh 

 Dominical Letter. As a Roman abbrevia- 

 tion, it signifies gaudium, gem, gratis, &c. 



2 (H- 0) Cy 2 ' 3 ; of fulminati^silver; or 

 fulminate of silver, 2 (Ag 0) Cy 2 Og ; an 

 exceedin.-ly dangerous compound to handle. 

 Fulminating powder is a compound of three 

 parts of nitre, two of carbonate of potash 



ijd one of sulphur. 



by mixing fumaric ether with am 



f UMAKIA, a genus of hypogenous exogens, 



consisting of herbs closely allied to the 



Papaveracece. 



KUMARIACR^E, the natural order of 



GABBROXITE. called also fuscite and 

 compact scapolite. A silicate of alumina, 

 soda, and potash, found in the titaniferous 

 iron of Norway. 



GABIAN OIL, a mineral naphtha or petro- 

 leum found at Gabiau in Languedoc. 



8AHKITK, another name of Automolite, 

 powder formed a native aluminate of zinc. 



GAIXAGF, in old English law, horses, 

 draught oxen, and agricultural implements, 

 exempted from seizure by law not to impede 

 agriculture. 



GAIXIXIJ TWIST, in gunnery, a spiral 



i is the grooving of guns which increases as it 

 ladvauces from the breech. 

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