2. A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things
in general.
The fry of children young.
Spenser.
To sever . . . the good fish from the other fry.
Milton.
We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry.
Walpole.
Fry"ing, n. The process denoted by the verb fry.
Frying pan, an iron pan with a long handle, used for frying meat,
vegetables, etc.
Fu"age (?), n. Same as Fumage.
Fu"ar (?), n. Same as Feuar.
Fub (?), Fubs (&?;), n. [Cf. Fob a pocket.] A plump young person or
child. [Obs.] Smart.
Fub, v. t. [The same word as fob to cheat.] To put off by trickery; to
cheat. [Obs.]
I have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fabbed off, from this
day to that day.
Shak.
Fub"ber*y (?), n. Cheating; deception. Marston.
{ Fub"by (?), Fub"sy (?) } a. Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a
fubsy sofa. [Eng.]
A fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid.
Mme. D'Arblay.
{ Fu"cate (?), Fu"ca*ted (?) } a. [L. fucatus, p. p. of fucare to
color, paint, fr. fucus.] Painted; disguised with paint, or with false
show.
||Fuchs (?), n. [G., prop., a fox.] (German Univ.) A student of the
||first year.
Fuch"si*a (?), n.; pl. E. Fuchsias (#), L. FuchsiÊ (#). [NL. Named
after Leonard Fuchs, a German botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of flowering
plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals,
eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and
South America. Double- flowered varieties are now common in
cultivation.
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Fuch"sine (?), n. [Named by the French inventor, from Fuchs a fox, the
German equivalent of his own name, Renard.] (Chem.) Aniline red; an
artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially,
resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark
red. It consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See
Rosaniline.
Fu*civ"o*rous (?), a. [Fucus + L. vorare to eat.] (Zoˆl.) Eating fucus
or other seaweeds.
Fu"coid (?), a. [Fucus + - oid.] (Bot.) (a) Properly, belonging to an
order of alga: (FucoideÊ) which are blackish in color, and produce
oˆspores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the
conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are
fucoid in character. (b) In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of
the nature of seaweeds.
Fu"coid, n. (Bot.) A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a
seaweed. See Fucoid, a.
Fu*coid"al (?), a. 1. (Bot.) Fucoid.
2. (Geol.) Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as,
fucoidal sandstone.
Fu"cus (?), n.; pl. Fuci (#). [L. rock lichen, orchil, used as a red
dye, red or purple color, disguise, deceit.] 1. A paint; a dye; also,
false show. [Obs.]
2. (Bot.) A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull
brownish green color; rockweed.
Formerly most marine algÊ were called fuci.
Fu"cu*sol (?), n. [Fucus + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.) An oily liquid,
resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from
fucus, and other seaweeds.
Fud (?), n. [Of uncertain origin.] 1. The tail of a hare, coney, etc.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.