Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the
thin-spun life.
Milton.
5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a
termagant.
Syn. -- Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence;
violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See Anger.
Furze (?), n. [OE. firs, As. fyrs.] (Bot.) A thorny evergreen shrub
(Ulex EuropÊus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the
plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The
dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.
Furze"chat" (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck.
Furze"ling (?), n. (Zoˆl.) An English warbler (Melizophilus
provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.
Furz"en (?), a. Furzy; gorsy. [Obs.] Holland.
Furz"y (?), a. Abounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by
furze. Gay.
||Fu"sain" (?), n. [F., the spindle tree; also, charcoal made from it.]
||(Fine Arts) (a) Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing
||implement. (b) A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and
||Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal.
Fu"sa*role (?), n. [F. fusarolle, fr. It. fusaruolo, fr. fuso spindle,
shaft of a column. See Fusee a conical wheel.] (Arch.) A molding
generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.
Fus*ca"tion (?), n. [L. fuscare, fuscatum, to make dark, fr. fuscus
dark.] A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation. [R.] Blount.
Fus"cin (?), n. [L. fuscus dark- colored, tawny.] (Physiol. Chem.) A
brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a
variety of melanin.
Fus"cine (?), n. (Chem.) A dark-colored substance obtained from
empyreumatic animal oil. [R.]
Fus"cous (?), a. [L. fuscus.] Brown or grayish black; darkish.
Sad and fuscous colors, as black or brown, or deep purple and the
like.
Burke.
Fuse (fz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fused (fzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Fusing.]
[L. fusus, p. p. of fundere to pour, melt, cast. See Foundo to cast,
and cf. Futile.] 1. To liquefy by heat; to render fluid; to dissolve;
to melt.