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‖ fucus|ˈfjuːkəs|
Pl. ‖ fuci |ˈfjuːsaɪ|; also 7–8 fucus(s)es, 7 fucus's, fucos, fucu's; also anglicized β. fukes.
[a. L. fūcus rock-lichen, red dye, rouge, false colour: cf. Gr. ϕῦκος (neut.).]
†1. Paint or cosmetic for beautifying the skin; a wash or colouring for the face. Frequent in 17th c. writers. Obs.
α1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. ii, What are the ingredients to your fucus? 1607Dekker Westw. Hoe Wks. 1873 II. 285 Heere is..an excellent Fucus to..weede out Freckles. 1672Cave Prim. Chr. ii. iii. (1673) 66 Leaving fucus's and paintings..to those that belong to Plays and Theatres. 1675Cocker Morals 59 Virtue hates Fucos, Patches and perfumes. a1711Ken Urania Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 496 The loathsome Fucus..Which fill'd and glaz'd her furrow'd Skin. 1757Phil. Trans. L. 76 Bella-donna..came into credit as a fucus among the Italian ladies.
β1600Surflet Countrie Farme iii. lxix. 592 These compound waters are..for fukes and painting, as ornaments to the body. 1601Hollard Pliny (1634) Words of Art, Fukes, paintings to beautify the face in outward appearance.
†b. fig. Obs.
1640J. Hollis in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 168 Whatsoever Fucus or Artifice they be slighted over with, I do not like their Countenance. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life iii. (1696) 390 God..sees through all the Dawbings and Fucu's of Hypocrisie. 1701Collier M. Anton. (1726) 155 Pull off its mask and fucus, and view it in its naked essence. 1742Young Nt. Th. viii. 462 Of fortune's fucus strip them, yet alive.
β1657Reeve God's Plea 108 If not a Penitent, what will all his Church tinctures do him good? No, Jerusalem had all these fukes to Admiration.
†c. gen. Any dye or colouring. Obs.
1676R. Dixon Nat. two Test. 2 To give Poyson a gusto of Honey, and colour over a Leaden Cause with a Fucus of Gold. 1698J. Fryer Acc. E. Ind. & P. 332 We..have hardly given the Potter his handful of White Marle to form into Vessels without Fucus.
2. A genus of seaweeds with flat leathery fronds. Formerly applied more widely.
1716Derham Physico-Theol. 415 note, The first that discovered the Seeds in Fuci, was the before commended Dr. Tancred Robinson. 1756Gentl. Mag. XXVI. 63 The whole rock..was covered with that curious kind of fucus. 1778Lightfoot Flora Scot. (1789) 996 In basons of water left by the tides, and often adhering to Fucuses. 1813Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. (1814) 282 The common fucus, which is the sea⁓weed usually most abundant on the coast. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 945 Laminaria digitata. This fucus is olive-coloured. 1857Wood Com. Obj. Sea Shore 30 The slimy and slippery fuci make the rock-walking exceedingly dangerous.
Hence ˈfucused ppl. a., beautified with paint, painted (also fig.); ˈfucusing vbl. n.
a1680Earl of Rochester in D'Urfey's Pills (1719) III. 343 With butter'd Hair, and fucus'd Breast. 1681Glanvill Sadducismus ii. (ed. 2) 34 How did the Jugglers do this with Painting and Fucussing. 1684Phillips tr. Plutarch's Mor. (1691) III. vii. 199 The Sibyl..uttering Sentences altogether thoughtful and serious, neither fucus'd nor perfum'd. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! (1861) 180 A painted, patched, fucused, perriwigged, bolstered, Charybdis. |