Spindle-flhell (Fusus 
colus). 
fusty 
Hector shall have a jjivat catrh if In- km.rk out Htli.T 
of your brains; 'a \vriv as ^nml (Turk ;i r'i(*t<i mil with no 
kernel. >'/(-., T. :uiil I'., ii. 1. 
2f. Moping. Dailies. 
At noon home to dinner, where my wife still in a melan- 
choly, Airfy humour, and Drying, and do not tell me plain- 
ly wha't it is. /v//,w, Wary, June 18, 1068. 
Fusulina (fu-su-H'na), . [NL., < *fusulus, an 
assumed dim. of L. fiisus, a spindle (so named 
from the fusiform shape), + -/.] A genus 
of fossil nummulitic foraminifers, typical of 
the subfamily /'.//(. It occurs in the 
Carboniferous, and to some extent in the Per- 
mian. 
Fusulininae (fu"su-li-ni'ue), n. i>l. [NL., < Fu- 
xuliiia + -ime.] A subfamily of perforate fora- 
minifers, of the family Nummulinidie, typified 
by the genus Fusulina. The test is bilaterally sym- 
metrical, finely tubulated, with polar ehamberlets inelos- 
inirone another, single or rarely double septa, no true in- 
UTs.'ptal canals, anil diversiform aperture. 
fusuret (fu'zur), H. [< L. fusura, a founding or 
casting of metals, < fuiidere, 
pp. fusus, pour, melt, found : 
see fuse 1 , fusion, /oi/ 3 .] 
The act of fusing or melting; 
smelting. BaHru. 
FUSUS (fu'sus), n, [NL., < L. 
fusus, a spindle.] A genus of 
gastropodous niollusks hav- 
ing a fusiform shell with a 
eanaliculated base, an elon- 
gated spire, a smooth colu- 
mella, and the lip not slit. 
The species so distinguished are 
very numerous, and the soft parts 
vary so much that they are now dis- 
tributed among many genera belong- 
ing to different families. By recent 
naturalists the genus has been re- 
stricted to such representatives of 
the family Fasciolariidce as Fusus 
colus. Such species as the Futtus an- 
tiquui of old authors belong to the 
genus Chrysodomus of the family 
Buccinidce, while others are now re- 
ferred to the family Uuricida. 
fut. A technical abbreviation 
of future. 
futai (fo'ti'), n. [Chinese, the 
tranquilizer, < fu, tranquilize, 
+ tai, a title of respect given to officers.] In 
China, a governor of a province : sometimes 
called lieutenant-governor by Europeans, to dis- 
tinguish him from a tsung-tuh. 
futchell (fuch'el), . [Origin not ascertained.] 
A longitudinal piece of timber supporting the 
8plinter-bar and pole of a carriage. 
fute (fut), n. The Eskimo curlew or dough-bird, 
Numenius borealis. G. Trumbull. [Long Is- 
land, U. S.] 
futhork (fo'thdrk), n. [So called from the first 
six letters, /, u, th, o, r, c. Cf. a-b-c, alphabet."] 
The Eunic alphabet. 
The Gothic futhorc being manifestly the primitive type 
from which the Anglian and Scandinavian runes were 
developed, the determination of the origin of the runes 
depends on the inscriptions, about 200 in number, which 
are written in this alphabet. 
Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, II. 211. 
futile (fu'til), a. [= F. futile = Sp. futil = Pg. 
futil = It. futile, < L. futilis, more correctly 
futtilis, untrustworthy, futile, lit. that easily 
pours out (hence as nounfuttile, a water-vessel, 
broad above and pointed below, used at sacri- 
fices); orig. "fudtilis, < fundere (/ fud), pour: 
see found?, fusel.] if. Frivolous ; merely lo- 
quacious. 
As for talkers and futile persons, they are commonly 
vain and credulous withal. 
Bacon, Simulation and Dissimulation (ed. 1887). 
2. Of no effect; answering no valuable pur- 
pose; useless; ineffective; trifling: as, futile 
efforts ; futile prattle. 
We knew of how little avail the ordinary futile recom- 
mendations of letters were. We were veteran travellers, 
and knew the style of the East too well, to be duped 
by letters of mere civility. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 276. 
Of its history little is recorded, and that little futile. 
Ruskin. 
Of &\\ futile, speculations, the most futile is the discus- 
sion as to what would have taken place if something had 
happened which did not happen. 
E. Dicey, Victor Emmanuel, p. 167. 
= Syn. 2. Trivial, frivolous, unimportant, useless, bootless, 
unavailing, profitless, vain, idle. 
futilely (fu'til-li), adv. In a futile manner. 
Regnault met his death, futilely, in almost the last en- 
gagement of the war if it is futile to be a hero. 
T. B. Aldrich, Ponkapog to Pesth, p. 262. 
futilitarian (fu-til-i-ta'ri-an), a. and n. [A 
word formed on the type of utilitarian, and m- 
2421 
volving a sneer at the philosophic school so 
called.] I. a. Devoted to worthless or useless 
pursuits, aims, or the like. 
The word international, introduced by the immortal 
Kentham, and Mr. Carlyle's Kigmanity, . . . are signifi- 
cantly characteristic of the utilitarian philanthropist and 
of the futilitarian misanthropist, respectively. 
F. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 19. 
II. n. A person given to useless or worthless 
pursuits. 
As for the whole race of Political Economists, our Mal- 
thusites, Benthamites, Utilitarians, or Fulilitarians, they 
are to the Government of this country such counsellors 
as the magicians were to Pharaoh. 
Southey, The Doctor, xxxv. 
futility (fu-tU'i-ti), n. [= F. futilite = Sp. fu- 
tilidad = Pg. futilidade = It. futilita, < L. futili- 
ta(t-)s, emptiness, vanity, < futilis, futtilis : see 
futile.] The quality or character of being fu- 
tile, (at) The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; 
loquaciousness ; a disposition to tattle. 
The parable [Prov. xxix. 2] especially corrects not the 
futility of vaine persons which easily utter as well what may 
be spoken as what should be secreted ; . . . not garrulity 
whereby they nil others, even to a surfeit ; but . . . the 
government of speech. Bacon, On Learning, viii. 2. 
(6) The quality of producing no valuable effect ; useless- 
ness ; triflingness ; unimportance ; want of weight or re- 
sult : as, the futility of measures or schemes ; to expose 
the futility of arguments. 
We have too much experience of the futility of an easy 
reliance on the momentary good dispositions of the public. 
Emerson, Amer. Civilization. 
= Syn. Nouns formed from adjectives under futile. 
futilize (fu'ti-liz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. futilized, 
ppr. futilizing. [< futile + -ize.~\ To render 
futile or of no effect. [Rare.] 
Her whole soul and essence is futilized and extracted 
into show and superflcials. Brooke, Fool of Quality, i. 218. 
futiloust (fu'ti-lus), a. [Accom. of L,. futilis: 
see/wMfe.] Worthless; trifling. 
It is a most unworthy thing, for men that have bones 
in them, to spend their lives in making ndle-cases for/w- 
tilous womens phansies. N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 28. 
I received your Answer to that/utifotu Pamphlet, with 
your Desire of my Opinion touching it. 
Hoivell, Letters, ii. 48. 
futtock (fut'ok), . [Generally considered as 
a corruption of *foothooK; but footltook is not 
found.] One of the timbers of the frame of a 
ship above the floor-timbers and below the top- 
timbers. 
futtock-band (fut'ok-band), w. Same as fut- 
tock-hoop. 
futtock-hoop (fut'ok-hop), n. Naut., a hoop 
around a mast below the top, serving for the 
attachment of the lower ends of the futtock- 
shrouds. 
futtock-plates (fut 'ok -plats), n. pi. Naut., 
iron plates to the top of which the deadeyes 
of the topmast- and topgallant-rigging are fas- 
tened, and having holes at the lower end into 
which the upper ends of the futtock-shrouds 
are hooked or shackled. 
futtock-shrouds (fut'ok-shroudz), n. pi. Iron 
Futtock-shrouds. 
rods leading from the futtock-plates to an iron 
band round the topmast or lower mast. 
He fell from the starboard futtock-shrouds, and . . . 
probably sank immediately. 
Jt. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 39. 
futtock-staff (fut'okvst&f), . Naut., a short 
bar of wood or iron seized to the shrouds of 
the topmast and lower rigging, abreast of the 
futtock-shrouds, to keep the rigging from chaf- 
ing. 
futtock-stave (fut'ok-stav), n. Same as fut- 
tocb-ftaff. 
futtock-timbers (fut'ok-tim'berz), n. pi. In 
wooden-sliiji luiililini/, the timbers in a ship's 
frame just above the floor-timbers; the fut- 
tocks. 
futurity 
futurablet (fu'tu-ra-bl), a. [< future + -able.] 
Possible or likely to occur in the future. 
What the issue of this conference concluded would have 
been is only known to Him . . . whose prescience extends 
not only to things future, but fuhi,-til>!''. 
Fuller, Ch. Hist., XI. iii. 51. 
future (fu'tur), a. and n. [< ME. future, < OF. 
flour, F. fitter = Pr. futitr Sp. Pg. It. fu- 
turo, < L. futurm, about to be, future part, asso- 
ciated with esse, be, sum, I am, < / *fu, be, found 
also in perf . fui, I was, fuisse, have been, etc., 
= E. be: see be 1 .] I. a. 1. That is to be or 
come hereafter; that will exist at any time 
after the present ; pertaining to time subse- 
quent to the present : as, the next moment is 
future to the present. 
We have this hour a constant will to publish 
Our daughters' several dowers, tha.t future strife 
Maybe prevented now. S/utk., Lear, 1. 1. 
The gratitude of place expectants is a lively sense of fu- 
ture favours. 
Sir . \Yalpole, quoted in Hazlitt's Wit and Humour. 
2. Relating to later time, or to that which is 
to come; referring to or expressing futurity: 
as, one's future prospects ; the future tense in 
grammar. In technical use often abbreviated 
fut. 
Losing his verdure even in the prime, 
And all the fair effects of future hopes. 
Shak., T. G. of V., i. 1. 
Future contingent, estate, probation, etc. See the 
nouns. Future perfect, or future-perfect tense (also 
futurum exactum), in yram., a tense expressing action 
viewed as past in reference to an assumed future time : 
as, amavero (Latin) = / shall have loved. Future tense, 
in riram., that tense of a verb which expresses future time. 
II. n. 1. Time to come ; time subsequent to 
the present, or that which will or may happen 
after the present time. 
Him God beholding from his prospect high, 
Wherein past, present, future, he beholds, 
Thus to his only Son foreseeing spake 
Milton, P. L., iii. 78. 
Oh, blindness to the future .' kindly given 
That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven. 
Pope, Essay on Man, i. 85. 
2. A speculative purchase or sale of stock or 
other commodities for future receipt or deliv- 
ery. See to deal in futures, below. 
On futures the Committee are, on the whole, inclined to 
look with a lenient eye, and do not see their way to com- 
pelling merchants by law to deliver everything they sell, 
and to acquire possession of it before they sell it. 
The Nation, April 26, 1883, p. 356. 
A suit was decided ... on Saturday ... by the Su- 
preme Court, giving judgment for damages against the 
Western Union Telegraph Company, for failure to deliver 
a dispatch sent ... to cover &00 bales of cotton futures. 
New York Tribune, Feb. 8, 1887. 
3. In gram., the future tense. See tense" 2 . 
ParagOglC future, in gram. See cohortative.To deal 
in futures, among brokers and speculators, to buy and 
sell stocks or commodities of any kind for future receipt 
or delivery, on the chance of a favorable change in price 
before the time specified. The settlement of such trans- 
actions is most commonly effected by payment of the dif- 
ference in the prices, called margins, instead of the actual 
transfer of the subjects of them. See option, margin. 
futurelyt (fii'tur-li), adv. [< future + -fy 2 .] In 
time to come ; in the future. 
This is a service, whereto I am going, 
Greater than any war ; it more imports me 
Than all the actions that I have foregone, 
Orfuturely can cope. 
Fletcher (ami another), Two Noble Kinsmen, i. 1. 
When Jesus, from the mount of Olives, beheld Jerusa- 
lem, he "wept over it," and foretold great sadnesses and 
Infelicities futurely contingent to it. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 288. 
futurist (fu'tur-ist), n. [< future + -ist.] 1. 
One who has regard to the future ; one whose 
main interest lies in the future ; an expectant. 
2. In theol., one who holds that nearly the 
whole of the Book of Revelation refers princi- 
pally to events yet to come. [Rare in both 
uses.] 
futuritial (fu-tu-rish'al), o. [< future + -itial.~\ 
Relating or pertaining to futurity; future. 
Hamilton. [Rare.] 
futurition (fu-tu-rish'pn), . [= F. futnrition 
= Sp. futuricion ; us future + -iUon.'] Future 
existence or reality; prospective occurrence 
or realization. [Rare.] 
Is it imaginable that the great means of the world's re- 
demption should rest only in the number of possibilities, 
and hang so loose in respect to its futurition as to leave 
the event in an equal poise, whether ever there should be 
such a thing or no? South, Works, I. viii. 
Nothing . . . can have this imagined futurition, but as 
it is decreed. Coleridge. 
futurity (fu-tu'ri-ti), n. ; pi. futurities (-tiz). 
[< future +'-((/] "1. The state of being future, 
or not yet existent. [Rare.] 2. Future time ; 
time to come. 
