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Talkative; loquacious; tattling. [Obs.] Talkers and futile persons. Bacon.

In a futile manner.

The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The futility of this mode of philosophizing. Whewell.

Futile; trifling. [Obs.]

rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel. Futtock plates (Naut.), plates of iron to which the dead-eyes of the topmast rigging are secured. -- Futtock shrouds, short iron shrouds leading from the upper part of the lower mast or of the main shrouds to the edge of the top,…

Capable of being future; possible to occur. [R.] Not only to things future, but futurable. Fuller.

or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present. Future tense (Gram.), the tense or modification of a verb which expresses a future act or event.

Without prospect of betterment in the future. W. D. Howells.

In time to come. [Obs.] Raleigh.

A movement or phase of post-impressionism (which see, below).

s are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.

Relating to what is to come; pertaining to futurity; future. [R.]

The state of being future; futurity. [R.] Nothing . . . can have this imagined futurition, but as it is decreed. Coleridge.

State of being that is yet to come; future state.

A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n. Chemical fuze, a fuze in which substances separated until required for action are then brought into contact, and uniting chemically, produce explosion. -- Concussion fuze, a fuze ignited by the striking of the projectile. -- Electric fuz…

Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter. Fuzz ball, a kind of fungus or mushroom, which, when pressed, bursts and scatters a fine dust; a puffball.

To make drunk; to intoxicate; to fuddle. [Obs.] Burton.

Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz; as, the fuzzy skin of a peach.

Full of abuse; abusive. [R.] "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.

Given to adventure.