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so, the chief city of a department; -- often forming the last part of a name; as, Paoting-fu.

Same as Fumage.

Same as Feuar.

To put off by trickery; to cheat. [Obs.] I have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fabbed off, from this day to that day. Shak.

A plump young person or child. [Obs.] Smart.

Cheating; deception. Marston.

Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa. [Eng.] A fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid. Mme. D'Arblay.

Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.

A student of the first year.

A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.

Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. It consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See Rosaniline.

Eating fucus or other seaweeds.

Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideæ) which are blackish in color, and produce oöspores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character.

Fucoid.

A paint; a dye; also, false show. [Obs.]

An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds.

The tail of a hare, coney, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.

See Fodder, a weight.

To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated. [Colloq.] I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders. Steele.

A drunkard. [Colloq.] Baxter.