FRY. Young fishes.
FUCUS MAXIMUS. An enormous sea-weed, growing abundantly round the coasts of Tristan d'Acunha, and perhaps the most exuberant of the vegetable tribe. Said to rise from a depth of many fathoms, and to spread over a surface of several hundred feet, it being very tenacious.
FUDDLED. Not quite drunk, but unfit for duty.
FUELL. An old nautical word signifying an opening between two headlands, having no bottom in sight.
FU-FU. A well-known sea-dish of barley and treacle, in merchant ships.
FUGITIVES over the Sea. By old statutes, now obsolete, to depart this realm without the king's license incurred forfeiture of goods; and masters of ships carrying such persons beyond seas, forfeited their vessels.
FUGLEMAN, or more properly Flugelman. A corporal, or active adept, who exhibits the time for each motion at the word of command, to enable soldiers, marines, and small-arm men to act simultaneously.
FULCRUM. The prop or support of a lever in lifting or removing a heavy body.
FULL. The state of the sails when the wind fills them so as to carry the vessel ahead.
FULL AND BY. Sailing close-hauled on a wind; when a ship is as close as she will lie to the wind, without suffering the sails to shiver; hence keep her full is the order to the helmsman not to incline too much to windward, and thereby shake the sails, which would retard the ship's velocity.