fuchsia, n.m., fuchsia.

fuchsine, n.f., (chem.) fuchsine, an aniline red dye.

fucus (-kus), n.m., (bot.) fucus, wrack, sea-wrack.

fugace, adj., fugitive; flying; fleeting; transient.

fugiti-f, -ve, adj., fugitive, gliding, flitting; transient, fleeting, short-lived. Des plaisirs —s; transient pleasures.

fugiti-f, n.m., -ve, n.f., fugitive, runaway, wanderer.

fugue (fug), n.f., (mus.) fugue; wild prank, lark. Faire une —; to take to one’s heels; to have a lark.

fuie, n.f., small pigeon-house, coop.

fuir (fuyant, fui), v.n., to flee, to fly; to run away; to elude, to shun, to avoid, to eschew; to shift about; to leak; (paint.) to appear at a distance; to recede. Ce tonneau fuit; this cask leaks.

fuir, v.a., to fly, to avoid, to shrink from.