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Fragmentary.

In a fragmentary manner; piecemeal.

The quality or property of being in fragnebts, or broken pieces, incompleteness; want of continuity. G. Eliot.

Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire. Donne.

Broken into fragments.

A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenbüttel. [R.]

Release; deliverance; freedom. Spenser.

Refreshment. [Obs.]

Fear; terror. [Obs.]

Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.

Of or pertaining to wheat or grain. [R.] Coles.

A largess of grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy.

Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc. [Written also furmenty and furmity.] Halliwell.

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

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

Foundation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

aining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root n…

; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke.

Furniture. [Obs.] Spenser.

The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. [Obs.] Daniel.