Chapter Frothal to Fyrapel of F by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Fulmer, a man with many shifts, none of which succeeded. He says—

“I have beat through every quarter of the compass … I have blustered for prerogative; I have bellowed for freedom; I have offered to serve my country; I have engaged to betray it … I have talked treason, writ treason … And here I set up as a bookseller, but men leave off reading; and if I were to turn butcher, I believe … they’d leave off eating.”—Cumberland: The West Indian, act ii. sc. 1 (1771).

Patty Fulmer, an unprincipled, flashy woman, living with Fulmer, with the brevet rank of wife. She is a swindler, a scandal-monger, anything, in short, to turn a penny by; but her villainy brings her to grief.—Cumberland: ditto.

Fum, George IV. The Chinese fum is a mixture of goose, stag, and snake, with the beak of a cock; a combination of folly, cowardice, malice, and conceit,

And where is Fum the Fourth, our royal bird?
   —Byron: Don Fuan, xi. 78 (1824).

Fum-Hoam, the mandarin who restored Malek-al-Salem king of Georgia to his throne, and related to the king’s daughter Gulchenraz [Gundogdi] his numerous metamorpho ses: He was first Piurash, who murdered Siamek the usurper; then a flea; then a little dog; then an India n maiden named Massouma; then a bee; then a cricket; then a mouse; then Abzenderoud the imaum; then the daughter of a rich Indian merchant, the jezdad of Iolcos, the greatest beauty of Greece; then a foundling found by a dyer in a box; then Dugmê queen of Persia; then a young woman named Hengu; then an ape; then a midwife’s daughter of Tartary; then the only son of the sultan of Agra; then an Arabian physician; then a wild man named Kolao; then a slave; then the son of a cadi of Erzerûm; then a dervise; then an Indian prince; and lastly Fum-Hoam.—T. S. Gueulette: Chinese Tales (1723).

Fum-Houm, first president of the ceremonial academy of Pekin.—Goldsmith: Citizen of the World (1764)

Fumitory (“earth-smoke”), once thought to be beneficial for dimness of sight.

[The hermit] fumitory gets and eye-bright for the eye
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, xiii. (1613).

Fungoso, a character in Ben Jonson’s drama, Every Man in His Humour (1598).

Unlucky as Fungoso in the play.
   —Pope: Essay on Criticism, 328 (1711).

Furini (Francis), a Florentine painter (1600), who at the age of 40 became a priest.—Browning: Parleyings with Certain People.

Furor [intemperate anger], a mad man of great strength, the son of Occasion. Sir Guyon, the “Knight of Temperance,” overcomes both Furor and his mother, and rescues Phaon from their clutches.—Spenser: Faërie Queene, ii. 4 (1590).

Fusberta, the sword of Rinaldo.—Ariosto: Orlando Furiso (1516).

Fusbos, minister of state to Artaxaminous king of Utopia. When the king cuts down the boots which Bombastês has hung defiantly on a tree, the general engages the king in single combat, and slays him. Fusbos, then coming up, kills Bombastês, “who conquered all but Fusbos, Fusbos him.” At the close of the farce, the slain ones rise one after the other and join the dance, promising “to die again to-morrow,” if the audience desires it.—Rhodes: Bombastês Furioso.

Fusbos, a name assumed by Henry Plunkett, an early contributor to Punch.

Fyrapel (Sir), the leopard, the nearest kinsman of king Lion, in the beast-epic of Reynard the Fox, by Heinrich von Alkmann (1498).