fury 
Oil, tin- Furii'K tluit 
I feel within me ; whipp'd on by their angers 
For my tormentors ! 
Fletrli' f ('iiul rtiuither 1), Prophetess, iv. 1. 
Hence 5. A minister or a concentrated mani- 
festation of vengeance; an avenging or venge- 
ful personality, principle, or action. 
Sad be the sights, and bitter fruites of warre, 
And thousand furies wait on wrathfnll sword. 
Spenser, . Q., II. ii. 30. 
Fear of death, infamy, torments, are those furies and 
vultures that vex and disquiet tyrants. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 564. 
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, 
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. 
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prob. orig. */>', allied toj'iirnix, dark, dusky, 
gloomy, and perhaps ult. to E. brown, q. v. Cf. 
fuscous.] Same as fuscous. [Kare.] 
Expectation was alert on the receipt of your strange- 
shaped present, while yet undisclosed tram its imsc en- 
velope. Lamb, To II. C. BoblniOB. 
Come, sir, you pu 
The glory of &fury. 
fuscationt (fus-ka'shon), . [< L. fnxmn; dark- 
en, < fuscus, dark : see fuar, futons. Cf. ob- 
fiisc(tt<!,vbfuscation.] Adarke'ning; obscurity. 
Bhllllt. 
fuscescent (fu-ses'ent), o. [< L. fuscus, dark, 
dusky (see fuse), -f' -esceut.] In fool, and hot., 
somewhat fuscous; approachingdark brown, or 
Congre*. Mourning Bride, iii. S. t>"ged with that color 
mt me to a woman's madness fUSCin (fus ',),_ [< L fuscus dark, dusky 
<try. BM.ondF(.,PhUaster,ii.4. (see fuse), + -in*.] A brownish matter ob- 
6f. [Found only in the passage quoted, where 
the pL furies, with the sense of "L.fures, thieves 
i jesting 
tained from empyreumatic animal oil. It is 
insoluble in water, but may be dissolved by 
fuse-mallet 
while the combination -fuses combine the principles of the 
other chesses with more or less complexity. See blastiny- 
fu"'. Also spelled /(?. Abel fuse, an electric fuse in- 
\viiti-il by Abel, the explosive material of which is omi- 
jm>ril of snbsulphicl and subphosphid of copper with po- 
tassium chlorate. It is tired by a spark. Percussion- 
fuse, a fuse prepared for action by the shock of the dis- 
ehftige, and put in action on striking the object. Ham- 
"'.". Quantity-fuse, an electric fuse in which the con- 
ductlng circuit is completed by a short piece of some 
substance, usually a metal, of tolerably high resistance, 
which is raised to a high temperature, practically to in- 
candescence, on the passage of a current of sufficient 
strength. Safety-fuse, a Blow-taming ribbon or tape 
for exploding a blast. -Tension-fuse, an electric fuse in 
which the conducting circuit is not complete, the firing 
being accomplished by the passage of a spark. Wooden 
fuse, a hollow plug of wood filled with fuse-composition 
firmly driven in, the open end being protected from moist 
ure^by a water-proof cap, used fur exploding military 
shall burn, and the plug is then driven into the hole in 
i as gabbronite. 
fuscqferruginous (fus'ko-fe-ro'ji-nus), a. [< 
L. fuscus, dark, dusky (see fuse), + ferrugi- 
nus, rusty: see ferruginous.] In entom., rust- 
. [Cf. feute.] The track or trail of a 
buck in the grass. Also/ee. 
There wants a scholar like an hound of a sure nose, that 
would not miss a true scent, nor run upon a false one, to 
trace those old Bishops in their/i/*. 
Il t i. Ilncket, Aim. Williams, i. 14. 
Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. Fletcher. 
= Syn. 1. Vexation, Indignation, etc. See angerl. l 
and 2. Violence, vehemence, tempestuonsness, fierceness, 
frenzy. -. , . - 
fury (fu'ri), v. t. ; pret. and pp.furied, ppr.fury- colored with a brownish tinge. 
ing. [_< fury, n.] To infuriate; agitate vio- fuscotestaceous (fus'ko-tes-ta'shius), a. [< fuseau (fu-zo'), w. [F., a spindle: see fusiP.] 
lently. [Bare.] L. fuscus, dark, dusky (see fuse), + testaceus, The grip of a sword. Compare spindle. 
As I would not neglect a sodain good opportunity, BO I 3r ' cl f-colored : see testaceous .] In wiom., dull fuse-auger (fuz'a/'ger), n. An instrument for 
would not fury myself in the search. reddish-brown; testaceous with a reddish tinge, diminishing the time of burning of a fuse by 
Feltham, Resolves, i. io. fUSCOUS (fus'kus), a. [< L. fuscus, dark, dusky: removing a part of the incendiary composition 
furze (f erz), . [< ME. firs, fyrs, fyrris, firse, 8e f J c - ] Brown ; brown tinged with gray ; of 
< AS. fyrs, furze (translated by L. rhamuus) ; 
connections unknown.] 1 . The common name In buildings, when the highest degree of the sublime is 
for the Ulex Europa-us, a low, much-branched Intended 1 , the materials and ornaments ought neither to 
and spiny leguminous shrub, with yellow flow! %^3SJR'Zp&l TsaTa'nd fu i S 
ers. It is abundant in barren, heathy districts through- ours, as black, or brown, or deep purple, and the like. 
Burke, Sublime and Beautiful, 16. 
removing a part of the incendiary composition 
from the exterior end of it. 
fusee 1 , fuzee ' (fu-ze'), . [Formerly also fusie; 
< F.JusU (pron. 'fu-ze'), fusil: see fusil 1 .] If. 
out the west of Europe, and sometimes covers large areas. 
It is used for fuel, and the young shoots for fodder, and _ i /*.- \ 
is also cultivated for ornament, especially a double-flow- fuse 1 (fuz), V. ; pret. and pp. fused, ppr. fusing. 
'' L. fusus, pp. of fundere, pour out, shed ; of 
. 
Same as fusifl-. 2. Sameas/Hc?2. 3. A kind 
of match for lighting a pipe, cigar, and the like. 
It is made of cardboard impregnated with niter and 
tipped with a composition which ignites by friction. E. 
a. Kni 
ered variety and a more slender and less rigid form known 
as Irish furze. The dwarf or tame furze is a much smaller 
species, U. nanus. Also called gorse and whin. 
With a wispe otjirses. Piers Plowman (B), v. 361. 
Fyrris, or qwyce tre or gorstys tre, ruscus. 
Prompt. Parti., p. 162. 
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre 
of barren ground ; long heath, brown furze, anything. 
Shak., Tempest, i. 1. 
2. A frizz. [Bare or obsolete.] 
One ask'd, If that high Furze of Hair 
Was, bona fide, all your own. 
Prior, Pontius and Pontia. 
Needle furze, a species (Genista Angliea) allied and some- 
what similar to Ulex Eitropteus. It has slender, finely 
pointed spines. 
furze-busht, n. [Early mod. E. fyrsbusshe; < 
furze + bush 1 .] Furze. Palsgrave. 
furzechat (ferz'chat), n. The whinchat, Saxi- 
cola rubetra: so called from its frequenting 
furze or gorse. 
furze-chirper (ferz'cher-'per), n. The bram- 
bling or mountain-finch, Fringilla montifringil- 
la. Also furze-chucker. 
furze-chitter (ferz'chit'er), n. Same as furze- 
chat. [Local, Eng.] 
furze-hacker (ferz'hak'er), . Same as furze- 
chat. [Local, Eng.] 
furzeling (ferz'ling), . [< furze + -ling 1 .] 
Same as furze-wren. 
furzent (fer'zn), a. and . [< ME. firzen, n. ; < 
furze + -en?.] I. a. Of furze ; furzy. Holland. 
II. n. Furze. Tusser. 
furze-wren (ferz'ren), n. The Dartford war- 
bler, Melizophilus dartfordiensis or M. unda- 
tus. 
furzy (fer'zi), a. {_< furze + -y 1 .] Overgrown 
with furze ; full of furze. 
Their route was laid 
Across the/urzj/ hills of Braid. 
Scott, Marmiou, iv. 23. 
fusa (fo'sa), . ; pi. fuse (-ze). [It.] In medie- 
val music, a quaver or eighth-note, N 
Fusagasuga bark. See bark?. 
Fusanus (tu'sa-nus), n. [NL.] A santalaceous 
genus of trees and shrubs, natives of Australia. 
F. spicatus furnishes the fragrant sandalwood of western 
Australia. The hard, close-grained wood of F. acuntina- 
tus is also known as sandalwood, but has no perfume. 
The quandang-nut is the fruit of the same tree ; it is sweet 
and edible. 
fusarole t fusarol (fu'sa-rol), n. [< F. fusa- 
niffht. 
Wax matches and/i were unknown luxuries. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVI., notes. 
To 
fuse, suffuse, transfuse, etc.] I. trans. 
melt; liquefy by heat ; render fluid. 
I know the quarry whence he had the stone ; 
The forest, too, where all the timber grow'd ; 
The forge wherein his/wd metals flow'd. 
Byrom, Verses Intended to have been Spoken. 
2. To blend or unite as if by melting toge- 
ther. 
That delirious man 
Whose fancy fuses old and new, 
And flashes into false and true, 
And mingles all without a plan. 
Tennyion, In Memoriam, xvi. 
The dramas of Jonson are formed of solid materials, 
bound and welded rather than/wwd together. 
Whipple, Old Eng. Dram. 
A girl whose ardent nature turned all her small allow- 
ance of knowledge into principles, fusing her actions into 
their mould. George Eliot, Middleman*, I. 213. 
An island of the size of Britain, an island forming a 
world of its own, could not be fused into the mass of the 
Empire in the same way as the lands which are geograph- 
ically continuous. E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lecta., p. 125. 
= Syn, 1. Dissolve, Thaw, etc. See melt. 2. Toamalga- 
""n. intrans. 1. To melt; be reduced from a $eet, ". /~ff 
solid to a fluid state by heat fusee-engine (fu-ze en"jm), n. A machine for 
making fusees for watches and clocks. 
! readily aTw F ge fuse-extractor (fuz-eks-trak'tor), . A power- 
Ure, Diet. , I. 346. f"l instrument used for extracting wooden fuses 
from loaded shells. 
use-gage (fuz'gaj), w. An adjustable fuse-cut- 
ter for cutting time-fuses, as those of projec- 
tiles. It c'c insists of a block of wood with a graduated 
metal gage on one side and a hinged knife to cut off the 
fuse. The gage is marked to seconds and fractions, so 
that the fuse can be cut so as to burn just the length of 
time required. 
fuse 2 (fuz), n. [Abbr. of fusee 1 .] A tube, cas- fuse-hole (fuz'hol), n. The hole in a shell pre- 
ing, ribbon, etc., of various materials, filled or pared for the reception of the fuse, 
saturated with a combustible compound, and fuself, w. Same as fusil 1 . 
used as an exploder for firing a blast or for fusella(f6-zel'la),.; pl.fuselle(-le). [It., dim. 
igniting any exploding charge, as of a military of fusa.] In medieral music, a sixteenth-note, 
thread, yarn, etc., orig. pp. fern, of ', 
sare, use a spindle, < L. fusus, a spindle. Cf.'fu- 
*i/ 2 .] If. A spindle-shaped figure. 
The Triangle is an halfe square, Lozange, or Fuzie, part- 
ed vpon the crosse angles. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 78. 
2. A cone or solid conical piece in a watch or a 
spring-clock on which is wound a chain or cord, 
attached at one end to its widest part and at the 
other to the barrel containing the mainspring, 
the action of which unwinds it, transferring it 
to the barrel. The object of the fusee is to equalize the 
effect of the mainspring, as its force is relaxed through 
regular diminution of tension, by gradually diminishing 
the resistance of the chain or cord through its increasing 
distance from the axis of the fusee. This axis is the arbor 
of the main wheel, which is attached to the fusee and 
imparts the motion derived from the spring to the other 
wheels. In many watches the fusee is now dispensed with, 
its object being attained by other contrivances. The term 
is also applied to similar mechanical contrivances used for 
other purposes. Also called fuse-wheel. 
3. In farriery, a kind of splint applied to the 
leg of a horse. 
fusee 3 !, n. See fuse 3 . 
2. To become intermingled and blended as if 
melted together. 
With such a heart the mind fuses naturally a holy and 
heated fusion. D. G. Mitchell, Rev. of a Bachelor, U. 
Both coasts are irregular, both coasts are mountainous, 
and the mountains on both sides fuse into one general 
mass. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 338. 
Shell. A common fuse consists of a rope-like tube filled 
with some slow-burning composition, as niter, sulphur, fvTaol nil CfiiVpl nill 
and mealed powder, its commonest use being to allow the " '' - 
one who ignites it time to get to a place of safety before the 
explosion. An electric fuse consists of the explosive sub- 
stance so arranged as to be flred either by a spark of high- 
potential electricity formed ata break in an electric circuit 
(the so-called tension-fuse), or by the incandescence of 
UDO.I.VIG, luoaiui \iu o-ivi,j, . L \ r.juvu- n n e (for example, platinum) wire which forms part of the 
roue, < It. fusajuola, an astragal, < fusajuolo, circuit through which the current is passed (the so-called 
fusajolo, a whirl to put on a spindle, < fuso, a 
spindle, < L. fusus, a spindle, the shaft of a 
column.] In arch., an astragal, 
fusate (fu'sat), a. [< NL. "fusatus, < L. fusus, 
a spindle.] Same &s fusiform. 
fuse (fusk), a. [= Sp. Pg. fusco = It. fosco, 
fuseo, < L. fuscus, dark, swarthy, dusky, tawny, 
guantity-fuse). By extension, devices performing the same 
function as the common fuse, as mechanical and chemi- 
cal exploders of all kinds, are termed fuses. The fuses 
used for exploding projectiles are of four kinds : time, per- 
cussion, concussion, and combination. In the first class 
the time of burning is regulated by cutting the ribbon, 
composition-fllled tube, etc., to the required length; the 
second is ignited by the impact of the projectile against 
an object ; the third is operated by the shock of discharge ; 
" 
"usel-pil (fu'zel-oil), . [< G. fusel, spirits of 
inferior quality, as bad brandy or gin (perhaps 
< L. fusilis, fluid, liquid, molten: see fusil s , 
fusile), + E. oil.] A mixture of homologues 
of ethyl alcohol (chiefly amyl alcohol), fatty 
acids, and ether salts formed" in small propor- 
tion during alcoholic fermentation. It has a high- 
er boiling-point than ordinary alcohol, and gives to it or 
any spirituous liquor which contains it a strong and some- 
times unpleasant nauseous odor. It has irritant, poison- 
ous properties. Fusel-oil is separated from alcohol by 
fractional distillation. Also called yraiH-oil. 
use-mallet (fuz'mal'et), . A mallet of hard 
wood, used in connection with a fuse-setter, 
for driving a wooden fuse into a shell. 
