3. A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural. [Obs.]

Mr. Giles Lawrence preached his funerals.

South.

Fu"ner*al, a. [LL. funeralis. See Funeral, n.] Per. taining to a

funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors,

or ceremonies. Shak.

Funeral pile, a structure of combustible material, upon which a dead

body is placed to be reduced to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a

pyre.

-- Fu"ner*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Fu"ner*ate (?), v. t. [L. funeratus, p. p. of funerare to funerate, fr.

funus. See Funeral.] To bury with funeral rites. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Fu`ner*a"tion (?), n. [L. funeratio.] The act of burying with funeral

rites. [Obs.] Knatchbull.

Fu*ne"re*al (?), a. [L. funereus, fr. fentus a funeral.] Suiting a

funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful.

Jer. Taylor.

What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant

lamps.

Longfellow.

-- Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv.

Fu*nest" (?), a. [L. funestus, fr. funus a funeral, destruction: cf. F.

funeste.] Lamentable; doleful. [R.] "Funest and direful deaths."

Coleridge.

A forerunner of something very funest.

Evelyn.

Fun"gal (?), a. Of or pertaining to fungi.

Fun"gate (?), n. [Cf. F. fongate.] (Chem.) A salt of fungic acid.

[Formerly written also fungiate.]

Funge (?), n. [L. fungus mushroom, dolt.] A blockhead; a dolt; a fool.

[Obs.] Burton.

Fun"gi (?), n. pl. (Bot.) See Fungus.

||Fun"gi*a (?), n. [NL., fr. L. fungus mushroom: cf. F. fongie.]

||(Zoˆl.) A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they

||are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills

||of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.

Fun"gi*an (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the FungidÊ, a family of

stony corals. -- n. One of the FungidÊ.

Fun"gi*bles (?), n. pl. [LL. (res) fungibiles, probably fr. L. fungi to

discharge. "A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of

the words functionem recipere in the Digeste." Bouvier. "Called

fungibiles, quia una alterius vice fungitur." John Taylor (1755). Cf.

Function.] 1. (Civ. Law) Things which may be furnished or restored in

kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible

things. Burrill.

2. (Scots Law) Movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure,

in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually.

Jamieson.

Fun"gic (?), a. [L. fungus mushroom: cf. F. fungique, fongique.]

(Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, mushrooms; as, fungic acid.

Fun"gi*cide` (?), n. [Fungi + -cide, fr. L. caedere to kill.] Anything

that kills fungi. -- Fun`gi*ci"dal (#), n.

Fun"gi*form (?), a. [Eungus + -form: cf. F. fongiforme.] Shaped like a

fungus or mushroom.

Fungiform papillÊ (Anat.), numerous small, rounded eminences on the

upper surface of the tongue.

Fun*gil"li*form (?), a. Shaped like a small fungus.

Fun"gin (?), n. [L. fungus mushroom: cf. F, fongine, fungine.] (Chem.)

A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and

mushrooms.

Fun"gite (?), n. [L. fungus mushroom: cf. F. pongite.] (Paleon.) A

fossil coral resembling Fungia.

Fun*giv"o*rous (?), a. [L. fungus + vorare to eat greedily: cf. F.

fongivore.] (Zoˆl.) Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and

snails.

Fun"goid (?), a. [Fungus + - oil: cf. F. fongoÔde.] Like a fungus;

fungous; spongy.

Fun*gol"o*gist (?), n. A mycologist.

Fun*gol"o*gy (?), n. [Fungus + -logy.] Mycology.

Fun*gos"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. fungositÈ, fongositÈ.] The quality of that

which is fungous; fungous excrescence. Dunglison.

Fun"gous (?), a. [L. fungosus: cf. F. fungueux.] 1. Of the nature of

fungi; spongy.

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