futurity 
And thou, O sacred maid ! inspir'd to see 
Th' event of things in dark J'ntni'it;/. 
Give me what Heaven h:i> pnuiiht-d tn my fate. 
lt>-iid?ii, ,-Eueid, vi. 
3. The world in future times ; that which or 
those who will exist in the future. 
I will contrive some way to make it known 
So when remote futurity is brought 
Before the keen inquiry of her thought, 
A terrible sagacity informs 
The Poet's heart. Cowper, Table-Talk, 1. 492. 
4. A future event ; something yet to come : in 
this sense a plural is used. 
He alone who orders and disposes futurities can fore- 
see them at a distance; but man is a short-sighted and 
blind creature. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, II. xxii. 
futurize (fu'tur-Iz), v. i. ; pret. and pp. futur- 
ized, ppr. futurizing. [< future + -ize.] To 
form the future tense ; express the idea of fu- 
ture action or condition. [Rare.] 
But it is in the Romance languages that this mode of 
futurizing (if we may so call it) has shown itself on the 
largest scale and with the greatest constancy. 
J. lladley, Essays, p. 194. 
fuze, n. See/wse 2 . 
fuzee 1 , n. See fusee 1 . 
fuzee 2 , n. See fusee 2 . 
fuzz 1 (fuz), n. [Appar. from the adj. fuzzy, 
q. v., the same as or mixed withfozy, light and 
spongy (cf . D. voos, spongy) : seefozy,foze, and 
cf. fuzzball.] 1. Fine downy particles, as on 
the surface of some fruits, as the peach ; loose 
fibers, as on the surface of cloth, or separated 
from it by friction ; loose volatile matter. 
We turned in under blue blankets with a/zz on them 
like moss. C. W . Studdard, South Sea Idyls, p. 228. 
2f. A puffball ; a fuzzball. 
All the sorts of mushromes, toadstooles, puffes, f us bals 
or fuzzes. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xix. 3. 
fuzz 1 (fuz), v. i. [<fuzz^, n.] To fly off in mi- 
nute particles. 
fuzz 2 ! (fuz), v. t. [Origin obscure; cf. fuzzte.] 
To intoxicate ; fuddle ; fuzzle. [Old slang.] 
The University troop dined with the E. of Ab. at Ricot, 
and came home weH fuzd. Life of A. Wood, July 14, 16S5. 
fuzzball (fuz'bal), n. [Also fiissball ; < fuzz, 
same Asfuzz 1 (or another form of foist 1 , a var. 
of fisfl), + balll.] A puffball, Lycoperdon. 
Why, you empty fuzz balls, your heads are full of no- 
thing but proclamations. Dryden, Troilus and Cressida. 
fuzzily (fuz'i-li), adv. In a fuzzy or fluffy style ; 
so as to appear curled or frizzed. 
Very, very low down, faultily low, some good judges 
said, they grew on a fairly white brow, and thence went 
olf, crisply, fuzzily, in a most unaffected wave. 
R. Broughton, Not Wisely, but too Well, ii. 
fuzziness (fuz'i-nes), n. The quality of being 
fuzzy, downy, or fluffy. 
Tomentose appearance of stem orfuzziness of stem. 
The Century, XXXI. 477. 
fuzzlet (fuz'l), v. t. [Also written fussle ; cf. 
fuzz% ; origin obscure ; cf. G. fuseln, drink or 
smell of common liquor, < fusel, common liquor: 
see fusel-oil. Ct. also fuddle.] To intoxicate ; 
fuddle. 
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The first nijrht, having lilm-ally taken bis liquor, . . . 
my Hue .selmlliT was m fiixlnl that lie no sooner was laid 
in bfd luit be fell fast asln p. nevrr \\akeil till nun niii-. 
and thru mm -h al>a*lifl. Hoi'ton, Anat. of Mel., p. Ooo. 
fuzzy (fuz'i), a. [Of dial, origin, the same as 
or mixed with/ovy, q. v. Cf. LG. fussig, loose, 
light, fibrous.] 1. Covered with fuzz; liable 
to give off fuzz: as, &fu::y caterpillar. 
A surface on either side made np of fuzzy elevations. 
The Cent ti i-ii, XXX. 808. 
2. Like fuzz or down ; fluffy : as, a J'nzzy nap ; 
& fuzzy fringe. 
The/uzzy, buzzy halos of wind's. 
Harpers Mn,j., LXXVIII. 149. 
(fi), interj. See fiel. 
[< ME. -fyen, -fien, < OF. -fier, F. -fier = 
>p. Pg. -ficar = It. -ficare, < L. -ficare, in trans, 
verbs, signifying ' make . . . ,' from compound 
adjectives in -fie-us, 'making . . . ,' 'doing 
...',' being an adj. form, with weakened vowel, 
of faeere, make, do : see fact. Examples are : 
E. magnify. < ME. magnifyen, magnifien, < OF. 
magnifier, < L. magnificare, < magnifious, < mag- 
nus, great. + -ficus, < faeere, make, do; E. glo- 
rify. < ME. glorifyen, glorijien, < OF. glorifier, 
< LL. glorificare, < glorificus, < L. gloria, glory, 
+ -ficus, < faeere, make, do. The associated 
adj., if any (besides rarely one in -fie, repr. 
the orig. L. adj.), is usually in -ficant (after L. 
-fican(t-)s, ppr. ), whence the noun in -ficance, or, 
more commonly, in -fication (after it. ficatio(n-); 
the two noun forms may coexist, with usually 
a distinction of use), as signify, significant, xi,/- 
nificance, or signifies tion ; magnify (magnific), 
niiiijnification, with other forms (having deflect- 
ed sense, as in L.); magnificent, magnificence, 
etc. In other cases the adj. and noun forms rest 
not on L. -ficare, but directly on -faeere, e. g., 
liquefy, liquefacient, liquefaction ; calefy (which 
appears also, disguised, in chafe, q. v.), calc- 
facient, calefaction.] A suffix meaning 'make 
. . . ,' appearing in verbs of Latin origin or 
of modern formation on the Latin model: as, 
dignify, make worthy ; glorify, make glorious ; 
magnify, make great; stultify, make foolish, 
etc. The verbs in -/# formed on English or other non- 
Latin elements are often colloquial, having a humorous 
or contemptuous tone : as, Frenchify, jollify, sptechtfy, 
etc. These verbs are usually accompanied by nouns in 
-fication. 
fyancet, " and v. Same as fiance. 
fyke 1 , v. and . See #e 2 . 
fyke 2 (fik), n. [Perhaps < D. fuik, a weel, a 
bow-net.] A kind of fish-trap, consisting of a 
bag-net distended by hoops ; a bow-net. The 
trap is set in water about 10 feet deep at high tide. The 
fish coming from either direction are led to the trap by 
a leader running from the shore. The outer openings are 
formed on a hoop from 3 to 6 feet in diameter ; they have 
two or three funnels, similar to those of an eel- or lobster- 
pot, and gradually decrease in size. The whole trap is 
about 10 feet long. It is largely used in New York and 
Connecticut waters. 
fyke-fisherman (fik'fish"er-man), . One who 
fishes with a fyke. 
fyke-net (fik'net), n. A fyke. 
fyleH, and v. See file 1 . 
fyle 2 t, r. t. See file?. 
fyle a t, . and v. See files. 
Fylfots. 
. From embroidery on miter of Thomas h 
m a brass in Lewknor Church. 
fz. 
fylfol (fil'fol), n. Same us fylfot. 
fylfot, filfot (fil'fot), n. [Also filfat, filfod; 
origin obscure; no early instances have been 
found. It is 
supposed to 
be ult. < AS. 
so fytherfete, 
and feower- 
fete, four- 
footed, <fe6- 
ieer, in cornp. i 2 
sometimes 
fyther-, fith- 
er- ( = Goth. Oxfordshire, England. 
fidiror),toia, 
+ fot, foot: see four-footed.] A peculiarly 
formed cross, each arm of which has a continu- 
ation at right angles, all in the same direction, 
used as a symbol or as an ornament since pre- 
historic times from China to western Africa. It 
is of frequent occurrence on Greek antiquities of the My- 
cenican epoch, and later, down to the fifth century B. c., 
and is common on the prehistoric monuments of western 
Europe; and it was often introduced in decoration and 
embroidery in the European middle ages. It was adopted 
into heraldry as the cross cramponee. Also called gam- 
madion. 
Bells were often marked with the fylfot, or cross of 
Thorr, especially where the Norse settled. 
S. Baring-Gould, in N. and Q., 6th ser., XI. 156. 
fyllokt, n. Seefillock. 
fyord, i. See fiord. 
fyrH, An obsolete form otfire. 
fyr'-t, ndr. An obsolete form of farl (positive 
and comparative). 
Sif thou be stad in strange contre, 
Enserche no/j/r then falles to the. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 306. 
fyrd (fird), . [AS. fyrd, fierd, ferd, the army, 
an expedition : see/erd 2 .] li\ Anglo-Saxon nist., 
the military array or land force of the whole 
nation, comprising all males able to bear arms : 
a force resembling the German landwehr. 
The one national army (in the time of jElfred] was the 
fyrd, a force which had already received in the Karolingian 
legislation the name of "landwehr," by which the Ger- 
man knows it still. The fyrd was, in fact, composed of 
the whole mass of free land-owners who formed the folk : 
and to the last it could only be summoned by the voice of 
the folk-moot. J. R. Green, Conquest of Eng., p. 127. 
When the King summoned his fyrd to his standard, by 
sea or by land, Exeter supplied the same number of men 
as were supplied by five hides of land. 
E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, IV. 98. 
fyrdung (fir'dung), n. [AS., <fyrd, q. v.] In 
Anglo-Saxon hist., the army prepared for war; 
a military expedition ; a camp. 
fyrdwitet, n. [AS. fyrdwite : see ferdwit.] In 
Anglo-Saxon law, same &s ferdwit. 
What to the English might be a mere payment of fyrd- 
wite, or composition for a recognised offense, might to 
the Normans seem equivalent to forfeiture and restora- 
tion. Stubbs, Const. Hist., 95. 
fyst (fist), n. Seefisft. 
fytH, fytteH, a. See .^2. 
fyt 2 t, fytte 2 t, . See fits. 
fz. In musical notation, an abbreviation otfor- 
zando, forzato. 
