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Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement. "Oddity, frolic, and fun." Goldsmith. To make fan of, to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.

To walk or to dance on a rope.

Ropedancing.

Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer. This funambulatory track. Sir T. Browne.

A ropewalker or ropedancer.

A ropewalker or ropedancer. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance. "In the function of his public calling." Swift.

To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.

Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.

To assign to some function or office. [R.]

In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity. The organ is said to be functionally disordered. Lawrence.

One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.

Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.

view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.

Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.

Foundation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ence: 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 note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones…

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

Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt.

One who has money invested in the public funds. J. S. Mill.