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To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate. Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness. N. Fairfax.

A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.

Of or pertaining to Terra del Fuego. -- n.

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.

One who, or that which, supplies fuel. [R.] [Written also fueller.] Donne.

A code; a charter; a grant of privileges.

To puff. [Prov. Eng. A Local, U. S.] Halliwel.

Light; puffy. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.]

A fugue.

; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile. Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase. Jer. Taylor.

Fugacity. [Obs.]

The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits. Boyle.

Banishment. [Obs.] Milton.

in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue. -- n.

An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh. Dryden.

a short, condensed fugue. Grove.

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.…

In a fugitive manner.

The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.

maneuver; to move hither and thither. [Colloq.] Wooden arms with elbow joints jerking and fugling in the air. Carlyle.