FUS 
Mi Leg ale adele the manufacture of cloth it is 
difficult to fix can ai term for a variety of articles 
which, ‘ower on i ery near analogy to each other, 
only citinguthabe either by a difference in the 
onfilt, or fome {mall v ariation im 
defcribing fuftian merely as a kind o on cloth, which 
although probably very jut, conveys no impr whatever 
to the mind, ee that mits raw flate it is a vegetable 
ee of the tropical ‘climater, and that 
t ferves as a covering for the human 
ee or for co are cee © purpo 
examples, fhort as the article is, el found to con 
tain an n abttratt of moft of the sheet know the various 
roa ckfet, ee, velve- 
tee 
keting, kerfe rmere, plum 
of fatin, &c. in the filk. Of velvet there are aeely only 
two kinds, that with a plain and that with a tweeled, or, as 
it is here called, a Genoa ground or back. When the 
material is filk, it is called velvet, when cotton, velveteen, 
and tWis is the fole difference. Inthe fame way a common 
tweeled cloth, when compoied . filk, is called fatin, when 
of cotton, fultian or jean, of woollen, plaiding, ferge or 
ipaiae Gani ca in the. linen is dapat ed by a variety of 
names according to the quality or finenefs, or the place where 
the article is mainofalared It would tend greatly to fimplify 
ananalyfis of the various manufactures of cloth, were a gene- 
ral nom ase a introduced, as has been fo Luccefsfully done, 
rehenfive and im 
rt fe Y> 
and the ae ufefulnefs of : e art, as embracing a 
variety of articles of neceflity to the poor, and of orna- 
mental luxury to aa rich, would render the pee very 
u 
defireable in every r 
the = continues to be confined to operative mechanics and 
to nufaéturers, little difpofed to ftudy fimplicity or 
qeaee ee claffify ideas, this is rather to be wifhed for than 
expe ected. In all the fanciful branches which form i 
a, Sa a var iety 0 
Of thefe, os 
“7 as it is called. 
cut the pile without = ring the back or fabric. I am not 
vriter of this article) that any attempt has 
ae this either more fafe or {peedy by 
ind of machinery. It is faid,* indeed, that 
in the manufacture of Wilton carpets and hearth rugs, 
(which are merely aoe velvets,) grooved wires are in# 
iproden a cut out in the loom by the weaver, the groove 
in the e ferving as a guide for the knife, to prevent it 
from Piet the fabric of the cloth. 
— of dyeing, which eran weer on th 
widely in the material and equally fo in the texture, are made: 
but the variety is boundlefs. 
Fustran, in ee a word ufed to exprefs bombait. 
See Bompasr and Fri 
FUSTIC, is egies in ‘this eat (the 
bois jaune of the French,) is the wood of a large tree, the 
Monrvs tindoria, a grows. abundant in ce parts of 
ny 
in honour of the faint. The approach ne thi 
FUT 
the Weft Indies and the American continent. It is of 2 
fulphur colour, pregnant with colouring matter, which is 
much more durable than any of the other yellow dyes 
that when applied without a mordart, the dye is confiderably 
durable, but fill more fo when ufed with the fame mordan 
as weld or a. The deco&ion of fattie i in re. 
when itrong, has and fomewhat dull red yellow, 
and by dilution one orange-yellow. Acids produce iw 
it only a flight ee daiy which alkalies rediflolye, render- 
ing the liquor red. icy though valuable on account of 
the durability of its cabot, is {eldom 
n producing, with a mixed mordant 
o m and ironiguo, an ee rea of drab and olive 
- dyes, in ies ca e dullue its colour is of no confe- 
Shicfly ol in pes dyeing, and feldom 
in printing. Tt goes much farther than weld. 
Young fujtic, the fuflet of the French dyers, Rhus Catinitss 
ri 
or Veni ice comes 
an e, but merely 
as an acceilory colour to heighten cochineal ao other dyes, 
and occafion their approach to yelloy 
FUSTICK Woop. See Morus wate 
FUSTIGATION, in the Roman Cuffomss a punifhment 
inflicted by beating with a cudgel. This punifhment was 
peculiar to freemen ; for the ce were {courged or lafhed 
with whips, 
“USTIGATION, Fuffigatio, is alfo a penance en} 
Roman inquifition, 
FUS?T UM, in Aisitiys a Roman punihment, 
the fame with fultigati i0 
FUSTUGC, in ioe a name given by fome of the old 
writers to the tree which produces the piftachia-nuts. The 
word founds fo like the name of a wood uf 
ined by ie 
iff 
origin. he Jews and Arabians have called the pif 
ic an k, and from thence fome have written 
the name “fattnck or futtne, the Greeks have written it farsns 
and the barbarous Latin writers fjficio, which founds very 
hike the name piftachio, 
F in Geography, a town of Hungary, on the 
Danube, oppofite to Peter-Wardin, fituated in a plain, 16 
miles $.S.E. of Bacs. 
TUT-FA, in Mufic. See F and Cir 
FUTTAGUNGE, in Geography, a ae of Hindooftan, 
in i Vs miles S.E. of Fyzabad.. 
ASING, acircar of Bengal, bounded on the N. E. 
ue Raujefhy and Kifhenagur, on the S. by 
Wen, “ane on the N.W. by Raujethy and Birboom ; of a 
trianeular form, and about 60 mies in circumferen 
FUTTEH OR, a town, or rather village, of Hi 
dooftan, 23 miles from Agra. It is enclofed with a hich 
{tone ilgee of great extent, built by ‘the emperor Akber or 
Acba e {pace within does not appear to have ever been 
a filled ee building, and the part now inhabited is _ 
ut an incenfiderable vi flage. This {pace is divided by a — 
hilly ridge | of confiderable elevation, which runs ne arly from 
S J.to iy Lay Ae elas asad a theinclofure, 
our or five miles on 1 exch hide. r the centre of the in-- 
years barren, became pregna 
magnihcenty 
