Fuchsia 
= E. Fox, from the animal so called : see 
fox 1 .'] 1. A genus of highly ornamental shrubs 
and small trees, of the order Onagraceie. There 
are abuut 50 species, natives of the mountains of Mexico 
and of tile Amies, with 2 species in New Zealand. They 
have opposite leaves, a colored tubular calyx with 4-part- 
i-cl limb, 4 petals oil the throat of the tube, and a pulpy 
baccate frnit. The numerous varieties which are com- 
mon in cultivation, with drooping flowers and a short 
calyx-tube, are believed to have originated for the moat 
part from the Chilian species, F. macrostcinnta. .Some 
other species are occasionally met with in greenhouses. 
2. [I. c.J A plant of the genus Fuchsia. 
Fuchsian (fok'si-an), a. Pertaining to the 
Prussian mathematician Lazarus Fuchs (born 
1833). Fuchsian function [name given by Poincart in 
1881]. See function. Fuchsian group. See group. 
fuchsin, fuchsine (fok'sin), . [< fuchs-ia + 
-in 2 , -ine 2 .] An aniline dye prepared by the ac- 
tion of weak oxidizing agents, such as arsenic 
acid, nitrobenzene, etc., on commercial aniline 
oil, and subsequent treatment of the rosaniline 
so formed with common salt. It is a hydrochlorid 
of rosaniline, crystallizing in tablets of a brilliant-green 
color which are soluble in water, forming in solution a 
deep-red liquid used for dyeing silk and wool, and some- 
times for printing cotton. Wines are sometimes colored 
red with it. It appears in commerce under various names, 
as magenta, roseine, rubine, new red, etc. 
fuchsite (fok'sit), re. [Named after Johann N. 
Fuchs, a distinguished chemist and mineralo- 
gist.] A variety of muscovite, or common mica, 
containing a small amount of chromium. It 
has a green color. Also called chrome-mica. 
fuel, n. Plural of fucus, 3. 
fuciphagous (fu-sif 'a-gus), a. Same as fuciv- 
orous. 
fucivorous (fu-siv'o-rus), a. [< L. fucus, sea- 
weed, + vorare, devour.] Devouring algro; 
feeding on seaweeds : applied to sirenians, as 
the manatee and the dugong, which have this 
habit. 
fucoid (fu'koid), a. and n. [< L. fucus, sea- 
weed, -r -oid.~\ I. a. 1. Pertaining to or re- 
sembling seaweeds, especially those belonging 
to the Fucacew ; also applied to species of 
Phceosporeai, which are sometimes classed as 
Fucoidece. 2. Containing or characterized by 
impressions of fucoids or by markings resem- 
bling those made by fucoids. Thus, the "fu- 
coidal sandstone " of Sweden is characterized by various 
markings of this kind. The cauda galli grit of New York 
exhibits forms curving like the feathers of a cock's tail, 
to which the name of Fitcoides cauda galli was originally 
given, but which are now referred to the genus Taouurus. 
Also fucoidal, fucous. 
II. . An alga belonging to the Fucoidete 
that is, to the Fucaccte or to the Phwosporew. 
fucoidal (fu-koi'dal), a. [< fucoid + -a?.] Same 
&s fucoid. 
Fucoidese (fu-koi'de-e), . pi. [NL., < fucoid 
+ -cai.J In Agardh's botanical classification, 
the same as Melanospermece of Harvey, now re- 
ferred to Plueosporece and Fucacew: used by 
some authors as synonymous with Fucacece. 
Fucoides (fu-koi'dez), n. [NL., (fucus + Gr. 
eldof, form.] A generic name given by Bron- 
gniart, and vaguely and indefinitely applied to 
fossil marine plants of different characters, but 
which were supposed to resemble seaweeds 
belonging to the Fucacece. Many of the plants 
originally described under the name Fucoides have re- 
ceived other generic names, as their characters have been 
more or less satisfactorily made out. See Palaeophyeas 
and Taonurus. 
fucous (fu'kus), a. Same as fucoid. 
fucus (fu'kus), n. [L., rock-lichen, orchil, used 
as a red dye for woolen goods, hence red or 
purple in color, rouge, pretense, disguise, < 
Gr. </>vKof, seaweed, sea-wrack, tangle, rouge.] 
If. A paint; a dye; especially, a paint for the 
face; rouge; hence, a disguise; a pretense; a 
sham. 
Amo. Can you help my complexion, here? 
Per. O yes, sir, I have an excellent mineral fucus for 
the purpose. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. 
Here is the burned powder of a hog's jaw bone, to be 
laid with the oil of white poppy, an excellent fucus to 
kill morphew. Dekker and Webster, Westward Ho, i. 1. 
She must have no fucus but blushings. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 716. 
No fucus, nor vain supplement of art, 
Shall falsify the language of my heart. 
Sandys, Paraphrase of Job, p. 52. 
2. [cap.~] A genus of Fucaceai, characterized 
by dichotomously branching fronds in which 
there is no distinction of stem and leaves, and 
which are provided with a midrib and often 
with air-bladders. The plants are either hermaphro- 
dite or dioecious. The conceptacles containing the fruit 
are in a terminal part of the frond. Formerly all marine 
algae were included in this genus, but it is now limited as 
above. The species of Fucus are known as rockweeds, 
Fucus vtsiculosus >. 
- a Frond of Rockweed 
Fucus vesiculosus], a, a, air-bladders ; b, 
*, conceptacles. f From Hariow's " Marine 
Alga:.") 
2398 
and form the prin- 
cipal vegetation of 
the rocks exposed 
at low tide in 
northern regions. 
3. PI. fuel (fu'- 
si). Any fuca- 
ceous seaweed, 
fucust (fu'kus), 
v. t. [< fucus, 
TO.] To paint; 
dye. 
The sibyl, ... ut- 
tering sentences al- 
together thought- 
ful and serious, 
neither fucus'd nor 
perfum'd. 
Plutarch's Morals 
[(trans.). (La- 
[tham.) 
fucusol (fu'kus- 
Ol),. [<L./tt- 
cus, seaweed, 
+ -ol.~] An oil, 
similar to the 
furfurol of bran, produced from seaweeds. 
fud 1 (fud), n. [Sc.; prob. of Scand. origin.] The 
scut or tail of the hare, cony, etc. 
Ye maukins, cock your/ud fu' braw, 
Withouten dread. 
Your mortal fae is now awa'. 
Burns, Tain Samson's Elegy. 
fud 2 (fud), n. [Appar.</di,w.] Woolen waste; 
the refuse of new wool taken out in the scrib- 
bling process, which is mixed with mungo for 
use. See mungo, shoddy. 
fudder (fud'er), . A dialectal variant of father^. 
fuddle (fud'l), v. ; pret. and pp. fuddled, ppr. 
fuddling. [Origin obscure; hardly another 
form of fuzzle, q. v.] I. trans. To make fool- 
ish or stupid with drink ; make intoxicated. 
And also comes Mr. Hollier a little fud died, and so did 
talk nothing but Latin, and laugh, that it was very good 
sport to see a sober man iu such a humour, though he was 
not drunk to sandal. Pepys, Diary, III. 414. 
They were half fuddled, but not I ; for I mixed water 
with my wine. Swift, Journal to Stella, vii. 
II. intrans. To drink to excess. 
Every thing fuddles; then that I, 
Is 't any reason shou'd be dry ? 
Poems by Various Writers, 1711. 
fuddlet (fud'l), . [< fuddle, v.] Strong drink. 
And so, said I, we sipp'd our fuddle, 
As women in the straw do caudle, 
'Till every man had drown'd his noddle. 
Hudibras Redivivus, 1705. 
Don't go away ; they have had their dose of fuddle (jam 
perpotarunt). 
N. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, p. 125. 
fuddle-cap (fud'1-kap), . A hard drinker. 
[Eng.] 
Having overnight carry'd my Indian friend to the Tav- 
ern, ... I introduc'd his pagan worship into a Christian 
society of true proiesi&nt fuddle-caps. 
Tom Broien, Works, III. 93. 
fuddler (fud'ler), n. A drunkard. 
fudge (fuj), v. ; pret. and pp. fudged, ppr. fudg- 
ing. [A dial, word, of obscure origin.] I. trans. 
1. To poke with a stick. Halliwell. [Prov.Eng.] 
2. To foist. 
Now let us see your supposes. . . . That last suppose 
is fudged in why, would you cram these upon me for a 
couple? Foote, The Bankrupt, iii. 2. 
3. To make or fix awkwardly or clumsily ; ar- 
range confusedly ; botch ; bungle. 
Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness. 
Fairfax, Bulk and Selvedge of the World, 
[Ded. (1874). (Halliwell.) 
A stout, resolute matron, in heavy boots, a sensible stuff 
gown, with a lot of cotton lace fudged about her neck. 
C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 297. 
To fudge a day's work (naut. ), to compute a ship's change 
of position from one noon to the next by dead-reckoning, 
determining by means of tables the northing, southing, 
easting, and westing made by the different courses and 
distances sailed, and applying the result to the latitude 
and longitude of the previous noon. 
By the time they had arrived at Malta, Jack could fudge 
a day's work. Marryat. 
II. intrans. To work clumsily; labor in a 
clumsy fashion. 
fudge (fuj), TO. [< fudge, .] Nonsense ; stuff ; 
rubbish : most commonly used as a contemptu- 
ous interjection. 
I should have mentioned the very unpolite behaviour 
of Mr. Burchell, who during this discourse sate with his 
face turned to the fire, and at the conclusion of every 
sentence would cry out fudge, an expression which dis- 
pleased us all. Goldsmith, Vicar, xi. 
Quoth Raymond, " Enough ! 
Nonsense ! humbug ! fudge .'stuff ! " 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 255. 
Three fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge. 
Lowell, Fable for Critics. 
fuero 
fudge (fuj), a. [E. dial.: see fudge, .] Fab- 
ulous. HalHweu. 
fudge-wheel (fuj'hwel), . A tool used in or- 
namenting the edges of the soles of shoes. 
Fuegian (fu-e'ji-an), a. andn. [< Sp.fuego, fire, 
= Pg.foyo = It.'fuoco = V.feu, < L. focus, fire- 
place : see focus, fuel.'] I. a. Belonging to 
Fuegia, or Tierra del Fuego ("Land of Fire," 
so named from the numerous fires seen there 
on its discovery by Magellan in 1520), a group 
of islands off the southern extremity of South 
America, including Cape Horn, inhabited by a 
low race of savages. 
II. H. A native or an inhabitant of Fuegia, or 
Tierra del Fuego. 
fuel (fu'el), n. [Early mod. E. tilsofewel, fewell; 
< ME. fuel, fuelle, fewell, also fowayle, < OF. fou- 
ailles (cf . deriv. fouailler, a wood-yard, and the 
ML. reflex foallia, fuel, also OF. fuelles, brush- 
wood), < ML. focale, the right of cutting fuel, 
also fuel, focalium, pi. focalia, brushwood for 
fuel, < L. focus, fireplace, ML. focus, F.feu, etc., 
fire: see focus. Cf. foyer, feuage, etc.] 1. Any 
matter which serves by combustion for the pro- 
duction of fire ; combustible matter, as wood, 
coal, peat, oil, etc. 
Tho grome tor fuelle that schalle brenne 
In halle, chambur, to kechyn. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 311. 
The signification now attached to the word coal is dif- 
ferent from that which formerly obtained when wood was 
the only fuel in general use. Encyc. Brit., VI. 45. 
2. Figuratively, anything that serves to feed 
or increase something conceived as analogous 
to flame, as passion or emotional excitement. 
All great men haue their factors with him to procure 
new titles of honor, the onely fewell of his greatnesse. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 525. 
He's gone, and who knows how he may report 
Thy words, by adding/wrf to the flame? 
Milton, S. A., 1. 1351. 
Pressed fuel, an artificial fuel prepared from coal-dust, 
waste coal, etc., incorporated with other ingredients, as 
tar, and compressed in molds into blocks of a size and 
shape convenient for use. 
(fu'el), v. t. ; pret. and pp. fueled, fuelled, 
ppr. fueling, fuelling. [< fuel, TO.] To feed or 
furnish with fuel or combustible matter. [Ob- 
solete or archaic.] 
Never (alas) that dreadful Name, 
Which fewels the infernal flame. 
Cowley, The Mistress, Despair. 
But first tiiefuel'd chimney blazes wide ; 
The tankards foam ; and the strong table groans 
Beneath the smoking sirloin, stretch'd immense 
From side to side. Thomson, Autumn, 1. 602. 
I would not put a trunk of wood on the fire in the kitch- 
en, but let Annie scold me well, . . . and with her own 
plump hands lift up a little log and fuel it. 
R. D. Bktckmore, Lorna Doone, xvi. 
fuel-economizer (fu'el-e-kon'o-mi-zer), n. In 
an engine, an apparatus for saving fuel by 
using the waste heat of a furnace-flue to heat 
the feed-water. It commonly consists of a se- 
ries of pipes placed in the chimney-flue. 
fuelert, fuellert (fu'el-er), n. [Formerly also 
feweller; < fuel + -er 1 .] One who or that which 
supplies fuel. 
Men of France, changeable chameleons, . . . 
Love's fuellers, and th' rightest company 
Of players which upon the world's stage be. 
Donne, On his Mistress. 
Vain fuellers ! they think (who doth not know it) 
Their light 's above 't, because their walk 's below it. 
Wilson, Life of James I. (\ares.) 
fuel-feeder (fu'el-fe // der), n. A contrivance 
for supplying a furnace with fuel in graduated 
quantities. 
fuel-gas (fu'el-gas), n. Gas made or intended 
for use as fuel, as distinguished from illumi- 
nating gas. 
In case the wells should fail, of which there is no pres- 
ent prospect, it is already settled that some form of fuel- 
gas will be manufactured to take its place. 
Jour. Franklin Inst., CXXI. 811. 
fuelled, fuellert, etc. See fuel, v., etc. 
fuero (fwa'ro), n. [Sp.,< L. forum: see forum."] 
In Spain and Spanish countries, a code of law ; 
a charter of privileges; a custom having the 
force of law ; a declaration by a magistrate ; 
also, the seat or jurisdiction of a tribunal. His- 
torically, the word fueros is chiefly used to signify the sep- 
arate judicial and municipal systems of the originally in- 
dependent divisions of Spain : those of Castile, etc. , were 
early superseded ; those of Aragon were suppressed with 
military force by Philip II. in 1592. The Basque provinces 
and Navarre maintained their fueros, democratic in char- 
acter, from the earliest times till the nineteenth century, 
in the first half of which they were twice suppressed and 
restored ; but in 1876 they were finally replaced by the new 
liberal constitution and general laws of the kingdom. 
Fuero Juzgo, a Spanish code of law, translated from the 
Visigothic Forum Judicum, said to be the most ancient iu 
Europe. 
