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n. A dead person; one deceased. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. defunctio performance, death. ] Death. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

After defunction of King Pharamond. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Funereal. [ Obs. ] “Defunctive music.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. impaired in function; especially of a bodily system or organ. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Psychol.) failing to serve an adjustive purpose; -- of a trait or condition; as, dysfunctional behavior.
Syn. -- nonadaptive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ L. effundere. See Effuse. ] To pour out. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }. (Bot.) A poisonous mushroom (Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius), having usually a bright red or yellowish cap covered with irregular white spots. It has a distinct volva at the base, generally an upper ring on the stalk, and white spores. Called also fly agaric, deadly amanita. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. fonn pleasure. ] Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement. “Oddity, frolic, and fun.” Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make fun of, to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule. --
in fun, jokingly; not seriously; for amusement. --
like fun, definitely not; -- used adverbially, mostly to contradict a prior assertion; A: “He says he won't do it again.” -- B: “Like fun he won't.”. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

adj. [ Compar. funner mark>(colloquial or jocular); superl. funnest mark>(colloquial or jocular). ] Of or pertaining to fun; causing pleasure or amusement; as, a fun thing to do. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Tuvalu. Population (2000) = 3, 839. [ PJC ]

v. i. [ See Funambulo. ] To walk or to dance on a rope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ropedancing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Performing like a ropedancer. Chambers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer. [ 1913 Webster ]

This funambulatory track. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A ropewalker or ropedancer.

{ ‖‖ n. [ Sp. funambulo, or It. funambolo, fr. L. funambulus; funis rope (perh. akin to E. bind) + ambulare to walk. See Amble, and cf. Funambulist. ] A ropewalker or ropedancer. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. functio, fr. fungi to perform, execute, akin to Skr. bhuj to enjoy, have the use of: cf. F. fonction. Cf. Defunct. ] 1. The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; performance. “In the function of his public calling.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

As the mind opens, and its functions spread. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tradesmen . . . going about their functions. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The malady which made him incapable of performing his
regal functions. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Math.) A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Eccl.) A religious ceremony, esp. one particularly impressive and elaborate.

Every solemn ‘function' performed with the requirements of the liturgy. Card. Wiseman. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

7. A public or social ceremony or gathering; a festivity or entertainment, esp. one somewhat formal.

This function, which is our chief social event. W. D. Howells. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Algebraic function, a quantity whose connection with the variable is expressed by an equation that involves only the algebraic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to a given power, and extracting a given root; -- opposed to transcendental function. --
Arbitrary function. See under Arbitrary. --
Calculus of functions. See under Calculus. --
Carnot's function (Thermo-dynamics), a relation between the amount of heat given off by a source of heat, and the work which can be done by it. It is approximately equal to the mechanical equivalent of the thermal unit divided by the number expressing the temperature in degrees of the air thermometer, reckoned from its zero of expansion. --
Circular functions. See Inverse trigonometrical functions (below). -- Continuous function, a quantity that has no interruption in the continuity of its real values, as the variable changes between any specified limits. --
Discontinuous function. See under Discontinuous. --
Elliptic functions, a large and important class of functions, so called because one of the forms expresses the relation of the arc of an ellipse to the straight lines connected therewith. --
Explicit function, a quantity directly expressed in terms of the independently varying quantity; thus, in the equations y = 6x2, y = 10 -x3, the quantity y is an explicit function of x. --
Implicit function, a quantity whose relation to the variable is expressed indirectly by an equation; thus, y in the equation x2 + y2 = 100 is an implicit function of x. --
Inverse trigonometrical functions, or
Circular functions, the lengths of arcs relative to the sines, tangents, etc. Thus, AB is the arc whose sine is BD, and (if the length of BD is x) is written sin -1x, and so of the other lines. See Trigonometrical function (below). Other transcendental functions are the exponential functions, the elliptic functions, the gamma functions, the theta functions, etc. --
One-valued function, a quantity that has one, and only one, value for each value of the variable. --
Transcendental functions, a quantity whose connection with the variable cannot be expressed by algebraic operations; thus, y in the equation y = 10x is a transcendental function of x. See Algebraic function (above). --
Trigonometrical function, a quantity whose relation to the variable is the same as that of a certain straight line drawn in a circle whose radius is unity, to the length of a corresponding are of the circle. Let AB be an arc in a circle, whose radius OA is unity let AC be a quadrant, and let OC, DB, and AF be drawnpependicular to OA, and EB and CG parallel to OA, and let OB be produced to G and F. E Then BD is the sine of the arc AB; OD or EB is the cosine, AF is the tangent, CG is the cotangent, OF is the secant OG is the cosecant, AD is the versed sine, and CE is the coversed sine of the are AB. If the length of AB be represented by x (OA being unity) then the lengths of Functions. these lines (OA being unity) are the trigonometrical functions of x, and are written sin x, cos x, tan x (or tang x), cot x, sec x, cosec x, versin x, coversin x. These quantities are also considered as functions of the angle BOA.

a. 1. Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pathology, Physiol.) Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general; involving or affecting function rather than physiology; as, functional deafness; a functional disease. See functional disease, below. [ wns=2 ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Designed for or capable of a particular function or use; as, a style of writing in which every word is functional; functional architecture. [ wns=1 ] [ WordNet 1.6 ]

4. Fit or ready for use or service; useable; in working order; as, the toaster was still functional even after being dropped; the lawnmower is a bit rusty but still functional. Antonym of out of order and nonfunctional. [ wns=4 & 6 ]
Syn. -- usable, useable, in working order(predicate), operable, operational, running(prenominal), operative. [ WordNet 1.6 ]

5. Designed to emphasize practical utility rather than artistic or aesthetic purposes; as, functional education selects knowledge that is concrete and usable rather than abstract and theoretical; functional architecture; an amateurish device, crude but functional. [ WordNet 1.6 ]

Functional disease (Med.), a disease of which the symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; the derangement of an organ arising from a cause, often unknown, external to itself opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. any doctrine that stresses utility or purpose. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an adherent of functionalism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To assign to some function or office. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The organ is said to be functionally disordered. Lawrence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Functionaries [ Cf. F. fonctionnaire. ] One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. i. To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. font, fond, nom. fonz, bottom, ground, F. fond bottom, foundation, fonds fund, fr. L. fundus bottom, ground, foundation, piece of land. See Found to establish. ] 1. An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

An inexhaustible fund of stories. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a government, or of a corporation, by the accumulation of interest. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Funded; p. pr. & vb. n. Funding. ] 1. To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To place in a fund, as money. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. fundament, fundement, fondement, OF. fundement, fondement, F. fondement, fr. L. fundamentum foundation, fr. fundare to lay the bottom, to found, fr. fundus bottom. See Fund. ] 1. Foundation. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.), the anus. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. fondamental. ] Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. --
Fundamental chord (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root. --
Fundamental colors, red, green, and violet-blue. See Primary colors, under Color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A system of beliefs based on the interpretation of every word in the Bible, both old and new testaments, as literal truth. It is primarily held by a branch of American Protestants. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The beliefs or practises based on a rigid adherence to some traditional doctrine; extreme conservatism; as, Moslem fundamentalism; the political fundamentalism of the Christian right. [ PJC ]

n. a supporter of fundamentalism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to fundamentalists or fundamentalism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. characteristic of a fundamentalist; -- especially, resembling the behavior of a fundamentalist; as, a fundamentalist dislike of new ideas. [ PJC ]

adv. Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. “Fundamentally defective.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Invested in public funds; as, funded money. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. One who has money invested in the public funds. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Investing in the public funds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Funding system, a system or scheme of finance or revenue by which provision is made for paying the interest or principal of a public debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of funds. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., bottom. ] (Anat.) The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye; the fundus of the uterus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. funebris belonging to a funeral, fr. funus funeral. ] Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal. [ Obs. ] [ Written also funebral. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Funebrial. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. funeralia, prop. neut. pl. of funeralis of a funeral, fr. L. funus, funeris, funeral: cf. F. funérailles. ] 1. The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster. Euller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment. “The long funerals.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Mr. Giles Lawrence preached his funerals. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. funeralis. See Funeral, n. ] Pertaining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Funeral pile or
Funeral pyre, a structure of combustible material, upon which a dead body is placed to be reduced to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a pyre.

-- Fu"ner*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]

n. An establishment, usually commercial, where the bodies of dead persons are prepared for viewing before burial or cremation; called also funeral parlor, mortuary, funeral chapel and informally, undertaker's. The body may or may not be preserved by embalming before viewing or burial, and in some cases the body is not exposed for viewing, though present in a casket. Often, some form of memorial service is held for the deceased at the funeral home, where friends and relatives may come to pay their respects to the dead, and express condolence to the family. The work of preparation of the body and many other arrangements related to the funeral and burial are carried out by an undertaker or mortician who manages the funeral home. [ PJC ]

n. Same as funeral home. [ PJC ]

adj. of or pertaining to a funeral or to burial of human remains; as, funerary urn. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ L. funeratus, p. p. of funerare to funerate, fr. funus. See Funeral. ] To bury with funeral rites. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. funeratio. ] The act of burying with funeral rites. [ Obs. ] Knatchbull. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. funereus, fr. fentus a funeral. ] Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn; as, at a funereal pace. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow.

-- Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]