und and round all, from
the yard-arm to the bunt; then furling is less dangerous.

FURLOUGH. A granted leave of absence.

FURNACE. The fire-place of a marine boiler.

FURNITURE. The rigging, sails, spars, anchors, cables, boats, tackle,
provisions, and every article with which a ship is fitted out. The
insurance risk may continue on them when put on shore, during a repair.

FUROLE. The luminous appearance called the _corpo santo_ (which see).

FURRENS. Fillings: those pieces supplying the deficiency of the timber
in the moulding-way.

FURRING. Doubling planks on a ship. Also, a furring in the ship's
frame.--_Furring the boilers_, in a steamer, cleaning off the
incrustation or sediment which forms on their inner surfaces.

FURROW. The groove or rabbet of a screw; the breech-sight or notch cut
on the base-ring of a gun, and also on the swell of the muzzle, by which
the piece is laid.

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the weapon is obsolete, the title is retained as a distinction.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_.

FUTTOCK-HOLES. Places through the top-rim for the futtock-plates.

FUTTOCK-PLANK. The first plank of the ceiling next the kelson; the
limber-strake.

FUTTOCK-PLATES. Iron plates with dead-eyes, crossing the sides of the
top-rim perpendicularly. The dead-eyes of the top-mast rigging are set
up to their upper ends or dead-eyes, and the futtock-shrouds hook to
their lower ends.

FUTTOCK-RIDERS. When a rider is lengthened by means of pieces batted or
scarphed to it and each other, the first piec