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ssary or annoying ado about trifles. Byron. Zealously, assiduously, and with a minimum of fuss or noise Carlyle.

In a fussy manner. Byron.

The quality of being fussy.

Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety. Not at all fussy about his personal appearance. R. G. White.

The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. Gwilt.

Moldy; ill-smelling. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The coloring matter of fustet. Ure.

The wood of the Rhus Cptinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant. Ure.

oughts or subject; bombast. Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian. Addison.

A writer of fustian. [R.] Milton.

a tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; -- called also old fustic. [Written also fustoc.]

To cudgel. [R.] Bailey.

A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling. This satire, composed of actual fustigation. Motley.

A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel. [Obs.] Shak.

A gross, fat, unwieldy person. [Obs.] F. Junius.

A fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.

Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. "A fusty plebeians." Shak.

Act of fusing; fusion. [R.]

The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted. Knight.

The Runic alphabet; -- so called from the six letters f, u, þ (th), o (or a), r, c (=k).