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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.]

reappears. All parts of the scheme are eternally chasing each other, like the parts of a fugue. Jer. Taylor.

A musician who composes or performs fugues. Busby.

, Foo"lahs` (, n. pl.; sing. Fulah, Foolan (. (Ethnol.) A peculiar African race of uncertain origin, but distinct from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze. They are Mohammedans. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah is also used adjec…

Same as Fulahs.

Capable of being propped up. [Obs.] Cockeram.

A prop; a fulcrum. [Obs.] Bp. Wilkins.

See Fulcrum.

Furnished with fulcrums.

A prop or support.

To fill up; to make full or complete. [Obs.] "Fulfill her week" Gen. xxix. 27. Suffer thou that the children be fulfilled first, for it is not good to take the bread of children and give to hounds. Wyclif (Mark vii. 27).

One who fulfills. South.

The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy.

Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence. Bailey.

Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent. Other Thracians . . . fulgent morions wore. Glower.

Dazzlingly; glitteringly.

Shining; glittering; dazzling. [R.] Pope.

Splendor; resplendence; effulgence. [R.] Bailey.

Dazzling brightness; splendor. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Lightening. [R.] Dr. H. More.