! 4 f) FUR 
Fv'-triey lias in fome fort tlie force of a fuMantive in the 
phrafe no further, for nothing further ; 
Let this- appeafe 
Thy doubt, fiiice human reach noyart/zsr knows. Milton. 
And now what further (ball enfue behold. Milton, 
FURTHER, [irtom forth.'\ To a greater diftance. 
—And the angel of the Lord v/tn\ further, and flood in a 
narrow place. Mumb. xxii. 26. 
Fc FURTHER, v. a. ['from the adverb; ptop.^jiian, 
Sax.] To put onward ; to forward ; to promote; to conn- 
tenance; to aflifl; to help.—Grant not, O Lord, the de- 
fires of tlie wicked: further not his vvicked device. Pf. cxl.8. 
Things thus fet in order, in quiet and reft. 
Shall further thy harveft, and pleafure thee heft. Tuffer. 
FURTHERANCE, y. fromfurther Promotion; ad¬ 
vancement; help.—Ofir diligence rnuft; fearch out all 
lielps and furtherances of diredfion, which fdriptures, coun¬ 
cils, fathers, hiftaries, the laws and praiftices of all 
churches afford. Hooker, 
Cannot niy body, nor blood facrifice, 
Intreat you to your v/ontoA furtherance? SkaJiefpco.re, 
FURTHERFIR, /. from further.'] Promoter ; advan¬ 
cer.—That earneft favourer and furtherer of God’s true 
.religion, that faithful fervitor to his prince and country. 
Afchain. 
FURTHERMORE, adv. Moreover; befides : 
Tills ring T do accept tuoft thankfully, 
And fn, 1 pray you, tell iiitn : furthermore, 
I pray you, titew my youth old Shylock’s lioufe. Shakef. 
FUR'THEST, adv. The fuperlative of forth. —The 
furtheji a prudent man fliould proceed in general is to 
laugh at fomc of his own foibles. Shcnjlone. 
FURTIVE, adj. [furtive, Fr.fiirtivus, Eat.] Stolen; 
gotten by theft: 
Or do they, as your fchemes, I think, have fiiown, 
Dart furtive beams and glory not their own. 
All fervants to that Iburce of light, the fun Prior. ■ 
F'U'RUM, a fmall ifland in the Baltic, near the eaft 
coaft of Sweden. Lat. 57. 17. N. Ion. 16. 32. £. 
Greenwich. 
FU'RUNCLE,/. [furonde, Vr. furunculuSyFrit.] A 
bile ; an angry puftule.—A furuncle is in its beginning' 
round, hard, and inflamed ; and as it increafeth, it rifeth 
up with an acute head, and fometimes a puftule ; and 
then it is more inflamed and painful, when it arrives at 
its ftate, which is about the eighth or ninth, day. Wifeman, 
FURUSU'ND, an ifland of Sweden, in the Baltic. Lat. 
59 46. Ion. 18. 45. E. Greenwich. 
FURY,/, [furor, Lat./uraar, Fr.] Madnefs; 
It is a tale 
Told by an ideot ; full of found and Jury, 
Signifying nothing. ShaJiefpeare. 
Rage; paflion of anger ; tumult of mind approaching to 
madnefs.—He hath given me to know the natures of living 
ereature.s, and the/t/nw of wild bcalts. Wfd. vii. 20. 
I do oppoi'e my patience to his fury ■, and am arm’d 
To fuffer witii a quietuefs of (pirit 
The very tyranny and rage of his. Shakfpeare. 
Enthufiafm; exaltation of fancy: 
Greater than human kind (he feem’d to look, 
And with an accent more titan mortal fpoke ; 
Her ftaring eyes with fparktiiig/<r>i roll. 
When all the god came rulhing on her foul. Dryden. 
pFrom furia, Lat.] One of the deities of vengeance, and 
thence a ftorniy, turbulent, violent, raging woman.—The 
fight of any of llie houfe of York, as -a fury to torment my' 
foul. ShakeJJicare. 
FURZE, f. [[ciyiy. Sax. getiifa fpinofa,~Lt[t.] Gorfe; 
gofs. In botany : IceULEX.—For fewel, tliere grovveth 
F U S 
great ftore of furze, of which the fhiiibby fort is called 
tame,.and the better grown French. Carao, 
We may know. 
And when to reap the grain, and when to fow, 
Or when to fell the furzes. Dryden. 
FUR'ZEBUSH, f. A biifli of furze. 
FUR'ZES, f. plu. Furze-buffies. Dryden, 
FUR'ZIN, y. Furze-bufhes. 
FUR'ZY, adj, [from furze.] Overgrown witli furze ; 
full of gorfe: 
Wide through the furzy field their route they take. 
Their bleeding bofbms force the thorny brake. Gay, 
FUSA'NUS.yi [ fujain, the French name ior eaonymus ' 
or fpindle.tree.] In botany, a genus of tlie clafs polyga- 
mia, order monoecia, natur.ll order of elasagni. The gene¬ 
ric cliarabters are— I. Hermaphrodite. Calyx: perianth 
one-leafed, turbinate ; half-five-cleft (four-cleft, Berg.) 
clefts ovate-acute, from flat fpreading, with the lipsgib- 
bofe-uiicinate, foniewhat concave. Corolla: none. Sta¬ 
mina: filaments four, linear, grooved in the middle, a 
little longer than tlie germ, inferted into the calyx near 
it, and occupying the finus of it. Antherae roundifli, 
comprefl'ed, four-lbbed, erett. Piftillum : germ large, 
turbinate, almoff inferior; wide at top, from flat fome- 
w hat concave, ftriated, quadrangular, with four hollowed 
finufes, each on each fide of the germ folitary. Style 
thick, very lliort, fubquadrangular. Stigmas four, ob- 
tufe cruciform, fmall. Pericarpium: a drupe. II. 
Male. Calyx, &c. as in the hermaphrodite, but the 
fruit abortive.— Fffential CharaBer, Hermaphrodite. Ca¬ 
lyx, five cleft; corolla, none; ftamina, four; germ 
inferior ; ftigmas four. Male. Calyx, &c. of the for¬ 
mer. Fruit abortive. 
Fufanus comprelfus, or flat (talked fufanus, .a fingle 
fpecies.. This is a free, with compreflbd and ancipital 
branches. Leaves oppofite, obovate, blunt with a point, 
flat, quite entire, fmooth, on fliort petioles; racemes from 
the axils of the branches, ereCl, comprefl'ed, fcarcely longer 
tlian the leaves. The number of parts in the flower four or 
five. The fruitful tree has a three-leaved involucre at tlie 
bafe of the germ with five glands. According to JuATieu, it 
is a glaucous flirub, with oppolite branches : the leaves are 
fuboppofite, entire, and fcarcely nerved : the, flowers 
fmall, in terminating panicles, Ibme of them five-cleft, 
and,moftly males. The'younger Linnaeus fees no necel- 
(ity for feparating it from the Thefuims. Juflfeu doubts 
wliether it may not be more nearly allied to the Rliamni. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope ; introduced in 1766, 
by Mr. Francis Maffon. It may be increafed by cuttiug.s, 
planted early in the fumnier in a good loamy earth, in 
pots, fet in a glafs-cafe or hot-bed, (haded and uarered 
gently till they have flrut'k root. 
FU'S.AROLE,/ in architecture, a final! round member 
cut in form of a collar, with oval beads, under the echi¬ 
nus, or quarter-round, in the doric, ionic, and compofite, 
capital.s. 
I'USCA'TION,/. [fufeus, Lat.] The adl of darkening 
or obfeuring. 
To FUSE, v.a. [fundo,fufum, Lat.] To melt; to put 
into fufion ; to liquefy by heat. 
To FUSE, V. n. To be niblted ; to be capable of being 
liquefied by heat. 
FU SEf. of a bomb orgranado (hell, is that wliicli makes 
the whole powder or compofition in the (hell take fire, to 
do tlie deflgiied execution. ’Tis ufually a wooden pipe 
or tap filled with wildfire, or fonie fucli matter ; and is in¬ 
tended to burn no longer than is the time of the motion 
of the bomb from the mouth of the mortar to the place 
where it is to fall, which time Anderfon makes twenty- 
feven feconds. Harris. 
FU'SEEj/i [fufeau, Fr.] The cone round which is 
wound the cord or chain of a clock or watch.—The rca- 
fon of the motion of the balance is by the motion of the 
next wheel, and that by the motion of the next, and that 
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