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To maneuver; to move hither and thither. [Colloq.] Wooden arms with elbow joints jerking and fugling in the air. Carlyle.

orrupt nature to . . . the full swing and freedom of its own extravagant actings." South (Colloq.) -- In full, at length; uncontracted; unabridged; written out in words, and not indicated by figures. -- In full blast. See under Blast.

With direct and violentop position; with sudden collision. [Colloq.] L'Estrange.

With full speed. [Colloq.]

iety; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.

formerly used in the plural. King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster. Euller.

To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley. To funk out, to back out in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.] To funk right out o' political strife. Lowell (Biglow Papers).

A shrinking back through fear. [Colloq.] "The horrid panic, or funk (as the men of Eton call it)." De Quincey.

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

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.

Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.). Wrapped up in my furs. Lady M. W. Montagu.

Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come. "Lay the future open." Shak.

The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness. [Colloq.] Gift of gab, facility of expression. [Colloq.]

A collector of gabels or taxes.

A simpleton; a dunce; a lout. [Colloq.]

A gadder [Colloq.]

A law or ruling prohibiting proper or free debate, as in closure. [Colloq. or Cant]

A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divine service. Also, frequently applied to the porch of a churc…

Gallant persons, collectively. [R.] Helenus, Antenor, and all the gallantry of Troy. Shak.

the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.