Chapter 44

Fruc"ted (?), a. [L. fructus fruit. See Fruit.] (Her.) Bearing fruit; -- said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon. Cussans.

Fruc*tes"cence (?), n. [L. fructus fruit.] (Bot.) The maturing or ripening of fruit. [R.] Martyn.

Fruc*tic"u*lose` (?), a. Fruitful; full of fruit.

||Fruc`ti`dor" (?), n. [F., fr. L. fructus fruit.] The twelfth month of ||the French republican calendar; -- commencing August 18, and ending ||September 16. See VendÈmiaire.

||Fruc*tif"er*uos (?), a. [L. fructifer; fructus fruit + ferre to bear; ||cf. F. fructifËre.] Bearing or producing fruit. Boyle.

||Fruc`ti*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [L. fructificatio: cf. F. fructification.] ||1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or ||rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.

The prevalent fructification of plants.

Sir T. Brown.

2. (Bot.) (a) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores. (b) The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.

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Fruc"ti*fy (frk"t*f), v. i. [F. fructifier, L. fructificare; fructus fruit + -ficare (only in comp.), akin to L. facere to make. See Fruit, and Fact.] To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." Beveridge.

Fruc"ti*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fructified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fructifying.] To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.

Fruc*tose" (frk*ts" or frk"ts), n. [L. fructus fruit.] (Chem.) Fruit sugar; levulose. [R.]

Fruc"tu*a*ry (frk"t**r), n.; pl. Fructuaries (- rz). [L. fructuarius.] One who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything.

Kings are not proprietors nor fructuaries.

Prynne.

Fruc"tu*a`tion (-"shn), n. Produce; fruit. [R.]

Fruc"tu*ous (?), a. [L. fructuosus: cf, F. fructueux.] Fruitful; productive; profitable. [Obs.]

Nothing fructuous or profitable.

Chaucer.

-- Fruc"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Fruc"tu*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]

Fruc"ture (?), n. [L. frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy. See Fruit, n.] Use; fruition; enjoyment. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Frue" van"ner (?). [Etymol. uncertain.] (Mining) A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.

Fru"gal (?), a. [L. frugalis, fr. frugi, lit., for fruit; hence, fit for food, useful, proper, temperate, the dative of frux, frugis, fruit, akin to E. fruit: cf. F. frugal. See Fruit, n.] 1. Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time.

I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions.

Milton.

2. Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal fortune. "Frugal fare." Dryden.

Fru*gal"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Frugalities (#). [L. frugalitas: cf. F. frugalitÈ.] 1. The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance.

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.

Burke.

2. A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise.

Syn. -- Economy; parsimony. See Economy.

Fru"gal*ly (?), adv. Thriftily; prudently.

Fru"gal*ness, n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.

Fru*gif"er*ous (?), a. [L. frugifer; frux, frugis, fruit + ferre to bear: cf. F. frugifere.] Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous. Dr. H. More.

||Fru*giv"o*ra (?), n. pl. [NL. See Frugivorous.] (Zoˆl.) The fruit ||bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on ||fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit.

Fru*giv"o*rous (?), a. [L. frux, frugis, fruit + vorare to devour.: cf. F. frugivore.] Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals. Pennant.

Fruit (?), n. [OE. fruit, frut, F. fruit, from L. fructus enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin to E. brook, v. t. See Brook, v. t., and cf. Fructify, Frugal.] 1. Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.

Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof.

Ex. xxiii. 10.

2. (Hort.) The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.

3. (Bot.) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.

Fruits are classified as fleshy, drupaceous, and dry. Fleshy fruits include berries, gourds, and melons, orangelike fruits and pomes; drupaceous fruits are stony within and fleshy without, as peaches, plums, and cherries; and dry fruits are further divided into achenes, follicles, legumes, capsules, nuts, and several other kinds. [1913 Webster]

4. (Bot.) The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.

6. The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.

King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown.

Shak.

6. That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.

The fruit of rashness.

Shak.

What I obtained was the fruit of no bargain.

Burke.

They shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Is. iii 10.

The fruits of this education became visible.

Macaulay.

Fruit is frequently used adjectively, signifying of, for, or pertaining to a fruit or fruits; as, fruit bud; fruit frame; fruit jar; fruit knife; fruit loft; fruit show; fruit stall; fruit tree; etc.

Fruit bat (Zoˆl.), one of the Frugivora; -- called also fruit-eating bat. -- Fruit bud (Bot.), a bud that produces fruit; -- in most oplants the same as the power bud. Fruit dot (Bot.), a collection of fruit cases, as in ferns. See Sorus. -- Fruit fly (Zoˆl.), a small dipterous insect of the genus Drosophila, which lives in fruit, in the larval state. -- Fruit jar, a jar for holding preserved fruit, usually made of glass or earthenware. -- Fruit pigeon (Zoˆl.), one of numerous species of pigeons of the family CarpophagidÊ, inhabiting India, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. They feed largely upon fruit. and are noted for their beautiful colors. -- Fruit sugar (Chem.), a kind of sugar occurring, naturally formed, in many ripe fruits, and in honey; levulose. The name is also, though rarely, applied to invert sugar, or to the natural mixture or dextrose and levulose resembling it, and found in fruits and honey. -- Fruit tree (Hort.), a tree cultivated for its edible fruit. -- Fruit worm (Zoˆl.), one of numerous species of insect larvÊ: which live in the interior of fruit. They are mostly small species of Lepidoptera and Diptera. -- Small fruits (Hort.), currants, raspberries, strawberries, etc.

Fruit (?), v. i. To bear fruit. Chesterfield.

Fruit"age (?), n. [F. fruitage.] 1. Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.

The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear.

Milton.

2. Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.

Fruit"er (?), a. A ship for carrying fruit.

Fruit"er*er (?), n. [Cf. F. fruitier.] One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.

Fruit"er*ess, n. A woman who sells fruit.

Fruit"er*y (?), n.; pl. Fruiteries (#). [F. fruiterie place where fruit is kept, in OF. also, fruitage.]

1. Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage. J. Philips.

2. A repository for fruit. Johnson.

Fruit"es*tere (?), n. A fruiteress. [Obs.]

Fruit"ful (?), a. Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fruit"ful*ness, n.

Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.

Gen. i. 28.

[Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful.

Milton.

The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy.

Addison.

Syn. -- Fertile; prolific; productive; fecund; plentiful; rich; abundant; plenteous. See Fertile.

Fruit"ing, a. Pertaining to, or producing, fruit.

Fruit"ing, n. The bearing of fruit.

Fru*i"tion (?), n. [OF. fruition, L. fruitio, enjoyment, fr. L. frui, p. p. fruitus, to use or enjoy. See Fruit, n.] Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use. "Capacity of fruition." Rogers. "Godlike fruition." Milton.

Where I may have fruition of her love.

Shak.

Fru"i*tive (?), a. [See Fruition.] Enjoying; possessing. [Obs.] Boyle.

Fruit"less (?), a. 1. Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. Shak.

2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy.

They in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours.

Milton.

Syn. -- Useless; barren; unprofitable; abortive; ineffectual; vain; idle; profitless. See Useless.

-- Fruit"less*ly, adv. -- Fruit"lness*ness, n.

Fruit'y (?), a. Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful. Dickens.

Fru"men*ta"ceous (?), a. [L. frumentaceus, fr. frumentum corn or grain, from the root of frux fruit: cf. F. frumentacÈ. See Frugal.] Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.

Fru`men*ta"ri*ous (?), a. [L. frumentarius.] Of or pertaining to wheat or grain. [R.] Coles.

Fru`men*ta"tion (?), n. [L. frumentatio.] (Rom. Antiq.) A largess of grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy.

Fru"men*ty (?), n. [OF. fromentÈe, fr. L. frumentum. See Frumentaceous.] Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc. [Written also furmenty and furmity.] Halliwell.

Frump (?), v. t. [Cf. Prov. E. frumple to wrinkle, ruffle, D. frommelen.] To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Frump, n. 1. A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

2. A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

Frump"er (?), n. A mocker. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Frump"ish, a. 1. Cross-tempered; scornful. [Obs.]

2. Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress.

Our Bell . . . looked very frumpish.

Foote.

Frush (?), v. t. [F. froisser to bruise. Cf. Froise.] To batter; to break in pieces. [Obs.]

I like thine armor well; I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all.

Shak.

Frush, a. Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

Frush, n. Noise; clatter; crash. [R.] Southey.

Frush, n. [Cf. OE. frosch, frosk, a frog (the animal), G. frosch frog (the animal), also carney or lampass of horses. See Frog, n., 2.] 1. (Far.) The frog of a horse's foot.

2. A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; -- also caled thrush.

Frus"tra*ble (?), a. [L. frustrabilis: cf. F. frustable.] Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated.

Frus*tra"ne*ous (?), a. [See Frustrate, a.] Vain; useless; unprofitable. [Obs.] South.

Frus"trate (?), a. [L. frustratus, p. p. of frustrare, frustrari, to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr, prob. for frudtra and akin to fraus, E. fraud.] Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak.

Frus"trate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frustrated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frustrating.] 1. To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.

Shall the adversary thus obtain His end and frustrate thine ?

Milton.

2. To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.

Syn. -- To balk; thwart; foil; baffle; defeat.

Frus"trate*ly (?), adv. In vain. [Obs.] Vicars.

Frus*tra"tion (?), n. [L. frustratio: cf. OF. frustration.] The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs

Frus"tra*tive (?), a. Tending to defeat; fallacious. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

Frus"tra*to*ry (?), a. [L. frustratorius: cf. F. frustratoire.] Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

Frus"tule (?), n. [L. frustulum, dim. fr. frustum a piece: cf. F. frustule.] (Bot.) The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover.

Frus"tu*lent (?), a. [L. frustulentus. See Frustule.] Abounding in fragments. [R.]

||Frus"tum (?), n.; pl. L. Frusta (#), E. Frustums (#). [L. fruslum ||piece, bit.]

1. (Geom.) The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other.

2. (Arch.) One of the drums of the shaft of a column.

Frut"age (?), n. [Cf. Fruitage.] 1. A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit.

The cornices consist of frutages and festoons.

Evelyn.

2. A confection of fruit. [Obs.] Nares.

Fru*tes"cent (?), a. [L. frutex, fruticis, shrub, bush: cf. F. frutescent, L. fruticescens, p. pr.] (Bot.) Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wistaria.

||Fru"tex (?), n. [L.] (Bot.) A plant having a woody, durable stem, but ||less than a tree; a shrub.

Fru"ti*cant (?), a. [L. fruticans, p. pr. of fruticare, to become bushy, fr. frutex, fruticis, shrub.] Full of shoots. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Fru"ti*cose` (?), a. [L. fruticosus, from frutex, fruticis, shrub] (Bot.) Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem. Gray.

Fru"ti*cous (?), a. (Bot.) Fruticose. [R.]

Fru*tic"u*lose` (?), a. [Dim. fr. L. fruticosus bushy: cf. F. fruticuleux.] (Bot.) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub. Gray.

Fry (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fried (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frying.] [OE. frien, F. frire, fr. L. frigere to roast, parch, fry, cf. Gr. &?;, Skr. bhrajj. Cf. Fritter.] To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.

Fry, v. i. 1. To undergo the process of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat.

2. To simmer; to boil. [Obs.]

With crackling flames a caldron fries.

Dryden

The frothy billows fry.

Spenser.

3. To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.

To keep the oil from frying in the stomach.

Bacon.

4. To be agitated; to be greatly moved. [Obs.]

What kindling motions in their breasts do fry.

Fairfax.

Fry, n. 1. A dish of anything fried.

2. A state of excitement; as, to be in a fry. [Colloq.]

Fry, n. [OE. fri, fry, seed, descendants, cf. OF. froye spawning, spawn of. fishes, little fishes, fr. L. fricare tosub (see Friction), but cf. also Icel. frÊ, frj, seed, Sw. & Dan. frˆ, Goth. fraiw seed, descendants.]

1. (Zoˆl.) The young of any fish.

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.

2. Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.

Fud"der (?), n. See Fodder, a weight.

Fud"dle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p., Fuddled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fuddling (?).] [Perh. formed as a kind of dim. of full. Cf. Fuzzle.] To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated. [Colloq.]

I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders.

Steele.

Fud"dle, v. i. To drink to excess. [Colloq.]

Fud"dler (?), n. A drunkard. [Colloq.] Baxter.

Fudge (?), n. [Cf. Prov. F. fuche, feuche, an interj. of contempt.] A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.

Fudge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fudged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fudging.] 1. To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate; as, he never did the experiment, and merely fudged the data.

Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness.

N. Fairfax.

2. To foist; to interpolate.

That last "suppose" is fudged in.

Foote.

Fudge" wheel" (?). (Shoemaking) A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.

Fu*e"gi*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Terra del Fuego. -- n. A native of Terra del Fuego.

Fu"el (?), n. [OF. fouail, fuail, or fouaille, fuaille, LL. focalium, focale, fr. L. focus hearth, fireplace, in LL., fire. See Focus.] [Formerly written also fewel.] 1. Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

2. Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement.

Artificial fuel, fuel consisting of small particles, as coal dust, sawdust, etc., consolidated into lumps or blocks.

Fu"el, v. t. 1. To feed with fuel. [Obs.]

Never, alas I the dreadful name, That fuels the infernal flame.

Cowley.

2. To store or furnish with fuel or firing. [Obs.]

Well watered and well fueled.

Sir H. Wotton.

Fu"el*er (?), n. One who, or that which, supplies fuel. [R.] [Written also fueller.] Donne.

||Fu*e"ro (?), n. [Sp., fr. L. forum.] (Sp. Law) (a) A code; a charter; ||a grant of privileges. (b) A custom having the force of law. (c) A ||declaration by a magistrate. (d) A place where justice is ||administered. (e) The jurisdiction of a tribunal. Burrill.

Fuff (?), v. t. & i. [Of imitative origin. Cf. Puff.] To puff. [Prov. Eng. A Local, U. S.] Halliwel.

Fuff"y, a. Light; puffy. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.]

||Fu"ga (?), n. [It.] (Mus.) A fugue.

Fu*ga"cious (?), a. [L. fugax, fugacis, from fugere: cf. F. fugace. See Fugitive.] 1. Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile.

Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase.

Jer. Taylor.

2. (Biol.) Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual.

Fu*ga"cious*ness, n. Fugacity. [Obs.]

Fu*gac"i*ty (?), a. [L fugacitas: cf. F. fugacitÈ.] 1. The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits. Boyle.

2. Uncertainty; instability. Johnson.

Fu"ga*cy (?), n. Banishment. [Obs.] Milton.

||Fu*ga"to (?), a. (Mus.) in the gugue style, but not strictly like a ||fugue. -- n. A composition resembling a fugue.

Fugh (?), interj. An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh. Dryden.

||Fu*ghet"ta (?), n. [It.] (Mus.) a short, condensed fugue. Grove.

Fu"gi*tive (?), a. [OE. fugitif, F. fugitif, fr. L. fugitivus, fr. fugere to flee. See Bow to bend, and cf. Feverfew.] 1. Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.

The fugitive Parthians follow.

Shak.

Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself while her parents are in tear?

Richardson

A libellous pamphlet of a fugitive physician.

Sir H. Wotton.

2. Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea.

The me more tender and fugitive parts, the leaves . . . of vegatables.

Woodward.

Fugitive compositions, Such as are short and occasional, and so published that they quickly escape notice.

Syn. -- Fleeting; unstable; wandering; uncertain; volatile; fugacious; fleeing; evanescent.

Fu"gi*tive (?), n. 1. One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.

2. Something hard to be caught or detained.

Or Catch that airy fugitive called wit.

Harte.

Fugitive from justice (Law), one who, having committed a crime in one jurisdiction, flees or escapes into another to avoid punishment.

Fu"gi*tive*ly, adv. In a fugitive manner.

Fu"gi*tive*ness, n. The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.

Fu"gle (?), v. i. To maneuver; to move hither and thither. [Colloq.]

Wooden arms with elbow joints jerking and fugling in the air.

Carlyle.

Fu"gle*man (?), n.; pl. Fuglemen (#). [G. fl¸gelmann file leader; fl¸gel wing (akin to E. fly) + mann man. Cf. Flugrelman.] 1. (Mil.) A soldier especially expert and well drilled, who takes his place in front of a military company, as a guide for the others in their exercises; a file leader. He originally stood in front of the right wing. [Written also flugelman.]

2. Hence, one who leads the way. [Jocose]