FURTHER ORDERS. These are often impedimenta to active service.
FURTHER PROOF. In prize matters, a privilege, where the court is not satisfied with that originally produced, by which it is allowed to state circumstances affecting it.
FURUBE. A fish taken in the Japanese seas, and considered to be dangerously poisonous.
FURZE. Brushwood, prepared for breaming.
FUSIL. Formerly a light musket with which sergeants of infantry and some particular regiments were armed.
FUSILIERS. Originally those regiments armed with fusils, by whom, though the weapon is obsolete, the title is retained as a distinction.
FUST. A low but capacious armed vessel, propelled with sails and oars, which formerly attended upon galleys; a scampavia, barge, or pinnace.
FUSTICK. In commerce, a dyewood brought principally from the West Indies and Spanish Main.
FUTTLING. A word meaning [foot-waling] (which see).
FUTTOCK-HEAD. In ship-building, is a name for the 5th, the 7th, and the 9th diagonals, the intervening bevellings being known as sirmarks.