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Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information. Reading maketh a full man. Bacon.

ather did fume. Sir W. Scott. To tame away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.

A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense. An inexhaustible fund of stories. Macaulay. Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a governme…

A heterogenous group of fungi of which the complete life history is not known. Some undoubtedly represent the conidium stages of various Ascomycetes. The group is divided into the orders Sphæropsidales, Melanconiales, and Moniliales.

Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things. Burrill.

Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.

lent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "Fury of the wind." Shak. I do oppose my patience to his fury. Shak.

Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. Walpole.

A song or story. [Obs.] Toone.

surance. [Slang] Gall bladder (Anat.), the membranous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus. -- Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct. -- Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the Nethe…

To restore to consciousness by galvanic action (as from a state of suspended animation); hence, to stimulate or excite to a factitious animation or activity.

A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.] Dryden.

A constellation of the zodiac, containing the two bright stars Castor and Pollux; also, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about May 20th.

To investigate, or relate the history of, descents.

An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.

ogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an…

ok of the Old Testament; -- so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race.

ned by, the genesis of anything, or its natural mode of production or development. This historical, genetical method of viewing prior systems of philosophy. Hare.

al success in any pursuit; special taste, inclination, or disposition; as, a genius for history, for poetry, or painting.