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Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking. [Colloq. Eng.]

bstance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like. Funnel box (Mining), an apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water. Knight. -- Funnel stay (Naut.), one of the ropes or rods steadying a steamer's funnel.

Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform.

Droll; comical; amusing; laughable. Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.

Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased. "Defunct organs." Shak. The boar, defunct, lay tripped up, near. Byron.

Death. [Obs.] After defunction of King Pharamond. Shak.

Funereal. [Obs.] "Defunctive music." Shak.

To pour out. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

A poisonous mushroom (Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius), having usually a bright red or yellowish cap covered with irregular white spots. It has a distinct volva at the base, generally an upper ring on the stalk, and white spores. Called also fly agaric, deadly amanita.

Having the form of a funnel; pertaining to an infundibulum. Infundibulate Bryozoa (Zoöl.),a group of marine Bryozoa having a circular arrangement of the tentacles upon the disk.

Having the form of a funnel or cone; funnel-shaped.

A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes.

To inter with funeral rites; to bury. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

In a perfunctory manner; formally; carelessly. Boyle.

The quality or state of being perfunctory.

of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions. Macaulay.

To perform in a perfunctory manner; to do negligently. [R.]

quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc. "The vast profundity obscure." Milton.

To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.

One who refunds.