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—A freeman of London has the privilege of difturblng a 
whole ftreet with tlie twanking of a brafs kettle, or a 
frying pan. Addifon, 
“Oiitof the Fuyingpan into the fire.”—The French 
fay, Tomberdefevreen chaudmaL ; To fall from a common in¬ 
to a burning fever. Or, Tomberde la poc'e dans la braife. 
This proverb is applied to perfons, who, impatient under 
trivial inconveniencies, and rafiily endeavouring to extri¬ 
cate themlelvcs, for want of prudence and caution, often 
intangle thcmlelves in difficulties and perplexities greater 
than they were in before : Incidit in Scyllam enpiens evitare 
Charybdim, lay the Latins ; and Ei; to 'zuig iK y.ciTivs, the 
Greeks. The Italians fay as the French, Cader della pa- 
della nclle bragie. The Germans, Born regin in a bach kom- 
men ; To come out of the rain into the brook. The Spa¬ 
niards, Del Iddo, en el arrbyo. 
FRY'INGPAN, a dangerous fhoal in America, fo call¬ 
ed from its form. It lies at the entrance of Cape Fear 
river in North Carolina ; the fouth part of it is in north 
lat.83. 32. (ix miles from Cape I'ear pitch, and twenty, 
four fouth-eaft by fouth, from the light-houfe on Bald 
Head. 
FRYS'BURGH, or Fryburg, a townfiiip of the Ame¬ 
rican States, pieafanily lituated in York county, in the 
diftrict of Maine, in a bow formed by the north branch of 
Great Offipee river. It was incorporated in 1777, has a 
flourifliing academy, and in 1796 contained 447 inhabi¬ 
tants. This is the ancient Indian village Peckwalket, 
through which the upper part of Saco meanders ; lixty 
miles from the fea, and 120 north by ealt of Boffon. 
Lat.44. 2. N. Ion. 70. 47. 30. W. 
FRYTH, f. A plain between woods. Termes de la Ley 
and Camden’s Remains. 
F'U'AGE, an ancient tax of lad. levied for every fire. 
Edward the black prince, having Acquitain granted him, 
laid an impofition of fuage upon the fubjedts of that duke¬ 
dom. And it is probable, that the hearth money impof. 
ed anno 16 Cur. II. took its original from hence. See 
Fumage. 
To FUB, V, a. To put off; to delay by falfe preten¬ 
ces; to cheat. It is generally writtenyo^. See Fob.— A 
hundred mark is a long loan for a poor lone woman to bear! 
and I have borne, and borne, and borne, and have been 
fubb’d off and fubb’d off from this day to that day, that it 
is a fiiaine to be thought on. Skakefpeare. 
FUB, f. A plump chubby boy. Ainfioorth. 
FU'CA, Straits of Juan de, on the north-wefi coafl of 
North America. The entrance lies between Cape Flat¬ 
tery on the fouth fide, in north lat. 48. 25. weft Ion. i 24. 52. 
to the oppofite coaft of the Quadras ifles, in north lat. 
48- 53- 30- It com.municates with Pintard’s found, and 
thus forms Quadras iljes; in the I'outh-eaftern coaft of 
which lies Nootka I'ound. The Spaniards jealous of their 
right to the American coaft, eftablilhed a fettlement at 
this place. 
TbFU'CATE, v.a. [from the Lat./ace, tocolour.] To 
paint the face, to put on falfe colouring. Bailey. 
FU'CATED, adj. [fucatus, Lat.] Painted; difguifed 
with paint. Difguifed by tali'e (how. 
FUCA'TION, f. Tiie adt of painting the face, the aft 
of dilguifing by a falfe fiievv ; a falfe colouring. 
FUCA'T OR, /. 0;ie that paints the face, one that dif- 
guifes with paint. 
FUCEC'CHIO, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Tuf- 
cany : eighteen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Piftoia. 
FUCHS (Leonard), an eminent German phjfician, 
born in 1,501, at Wembding in Bavaria. He early dif- 
tinguiflied himfelf by his literary attainments; and hav¬ 
ing, in 1519, vifited the univerfity of Ingolftadt, he bej 
came a convert to the opinions of Luther. He devoted 
his ftudies to phyfic, in which he graduated at Ingolftadt 
in 1521. For the pradtice of his art he removed to Mu¬ 
nich, where he married ; but he left that city to undertake 
the medical profeliorfttip at Ingolftadt. Thence, on ac¬ 
count of religion, he removed to Onoltzbach, and was 
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appointed firft phyfician to the margrave of Brandenburg. 
In 1535 he was invited to Tubingen, at which place he 
occupied the chairs of phyfic and anatomy as long as lie 
lived. Fie was ennobled by the emperor Charles V. and 
Cofmo, grand-duke of Florence, was defirous of engaging 
him by a large falary to fettle at Pifa, but he declined the 
offer. He was the iirft German phyfician w hofe name be¬ 
came celebrated in foreign countries. He died in 1565. 
Among his works are tranllaiions of various books of 
Flippocrates and Galen, with commentaries. Flis Medendi 
Methodus, and lri[litutiones Medicte, aie aluioft entirely found¬ 
ed upon the fathers of medicine above-mentioned. His 
Paradoxorunv Medicirite, Lib. III. contain much inveffive 
againft the .Arabians, and correftion of their errors, both 
theoretical and praftical. In his work De Corporis humani 
Fabrica, he copies his anatomical deferiptions from Galen 
and Vefalius. He ranks ani'Ong the earlier botanifts, on 
account oi \\\i Hiforia Plantarum, folio, Bafil, 1542, which 
has been frequently repiinted, and tranflated into feveral 
modern languaoes. 
FUCH'SIA, y. [fo named in honour of Leonard Fuchs, 
mentioned above.] In botany, a genus of the clafs oc- 
tandria, order nionogynia, natural order onagras, jujf. 
The generic characters are—Calyx: perianthiitm one- 
leafed, funnel.form, coloured, fuperior, deciduous; tube 
ovate at the bale, contradted above it, then gradually 
widening, patulous, angular ; border fliort, four-parted; 
parts ovate, acuminate, fpreading. Corolla ; petals 
four, ovate, acuminate, feflile, fpreading, the fame length 
with the parts of the calyx. Stamina: filaments four, 
(or eight) filiform, eredt, inferted into the tube of the 
calyx below the middle, and a little longer than the 
tube; antherae twin. Piftillum ; germ inferior, ovate, 
below the infertion of the calyx conftridted ; ftyle finiple, 
the length of theftamens; ftigma obtufe, (club-fltaped ?) 
Pericarpium : berry ovate, four-grooved, four-celled. 
Seeds : many, ovate, fixed in a double row to a columnar 
receptacle in the middle of the berry.— EJfential CliaraBer. 
Calyx, one-leafed, coloured, bearing the corolla, very 
large; petals, four, final 1 ; berry, inferior, four celled, 
with many feeds. 
Species. 1. I'uchfia triphylla, or three-leaved fuchfia : 
peduncles one.flowered ; leaves by threes. Root w oody, 
branched, reddilh ; ftem herbaceous, upright, quite fim- 
ple, reddifti green, leafy, two feet high at mutt; leaves 
lanceolate, entire, pale green, a little firm or coriaceous, 
fefiile, dilpofed in threes ; peduncles one-flowered, fcat- 
tered, and forming a ftraight terminating raceme; flowers 
large, very fine, of a very bright fcarlet, having tiglit 
ftamens, not projeifling beyond the flower ; and the berry 
is a little larger than an olive, flelliy, loft, reddilh-black, 
fomewhat pubefeent, of a very pleafant tafte; the feeds 
are fmali and brown. Plunder obftrved this plant in 
St. Domingo ; and it was afterwards found by Dr. Houf- 
toun at Carthagena in New Spain, whence he tent ti.e 
feeds into England : it mutt have been cultivated here, 
therefore, by Mr. Miller before 1733, in which year 
Dr. Houftoun died. 
2. Fuchlia coccinea, or fcarlet-flowered fuch-fia : leaves 
oppofite, ovate, toothletted ; petals obovate, obmle. 
This is a ftirub, growing to tlie height of (ix or feven 
feet ; the leaves are commonly oppofite, on (hort pe¬ 
tioles, of a fine green, having the veins tinged with red, 
with a fine down on them ; peduncles axillary, one- 
flow’cred, longer than the leaves; flowers pendulous, 
bright fcarlet, with a four-parted calyx, four petals, and 
eight ftamens. It is a plant of peculiar beauty, produc¬ 
ing its rich pendant bloifoms through moft part of the 
liimmer: the petals in the centre of the flower are parti¬ 
cularly delerving of notice; they fomewhat referable a 
fmall roll of the richelt purple-coloured ribband. Na¬ 
tive of Chili, and flowers from May to July. Mr. Lee, 
of llammerlmith, is (aid tohave had this plant firlt for (ale. 
3. Fuchlia multiflora : peduncles many-flowered, d his 
Wits found in South America, by Mutis. 
4. Fuchlia 
