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that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log.…

antithesis in nature. Whewell. Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. -- Fundamental chord (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root. -- Fundamental colors, red, green, and violet-blue. See Primary colors, under Color.…

ng, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural. King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster. Euller.

A salt of fungic acid. [Formerly written also fungiate.]

A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.

The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.

The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.

Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded. [Obs.] Milton.

Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural:

A rebated cross, formerly used as a secret emblem, and a common ornament. It is also called gammadion, and swastika.

A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress. Shak.

A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.

A genus of flying Insectivora, formerly called flying lemurs. See Colugo.

A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers.

A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber. Farrow. Galloper gun, a light gun, supported on a galloper, -- formerly attached to British infantry regiments.

A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.

To coat, as iron, with zinc. See Galvanized iron. Galvanized iron, formerly, iron coated with zink by electrical deposition; now more commonly, iron coated with zink by plunging into a bath of melted zink, after its surface has been cleaned by friction with the aid of dilute acid.

A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted.

Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.

A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.