ise handling a rope.

FUMIGATE, TO. To purify confined or infectious air by means of smoke,
sulphuric acid, vinegar, and other correctives.

FUMIGATION-LAMP. An invention for purifying the air in hospital-ships
and close places.

FUNERAL HONOURS. Obsequies with naval or military ceremonies.

FUNGI. An almost incalculably numerous order of plants growing on dead
vegetable matter, and often produced on a ship's lining by
long-continued damp.

FUNK. Touch-wood. Also nervousness, cowardice, or being frightened.--_To
funk._ To blow the smoke of tobacco.

FUNNEL. An iron tube used where necessary for carrying off smoke. The
cylindrical appendages to the furnaces of a steam-ship: the funnel is
fastened on the top of the steam-chest, where the flues for both boilers
meet. Also, the excavation formed by the explosion of a mine. Also, in
artillery, a cup-shaped funnel of leather, with a copper spout, for
filling powder into shells.

FUNNEL-STAYS. The ropes or chains by which the smoke-funnel is secured
in a steam-ship.

FUNNY. A light, clinker-built, very narrow pleasure-boat for sculling,
_i.e._ rowing a pair of sculls. The stem and stern are much alike, both
curved. The dimensions are variable, from 20 to 30 feet in length,
according to the boat being intended for racing purposes (for which they
are mostly superseded by wager-boats), or for carrying one or more
sitters.

FUR. The indurated sediment sometimes found in neglected ships' boilers.
(_See_ FURRING.)

FURL, TO. To roll up and bind a sail neatly upon its respective yard or
boom.

FURLING. Wrapping or rolling a sail close up to the yard, stay, or mast,
to which it belongs, by hauling on the clue-lines and buntlines, and
winding a gasket or cord about it, to fasten it thereto and secure it
snugly.

FURLING IN A BODY. A method of rolling up a top-sail only practised in
harbour, by gathering all the loose part of the sail into the top, about
the heel of the top-mast, whereby the yard appears much thinner and
lighter than when the sail is furled in the usual manner, which is
sometimes termed, for distinction sake, furling in the _bunt_. It is
often practised to point the yards, the earings and robins let go, and
the whole sail bunted in the top, and covered with tarpaulins.

FURLING-LINE. Denotes a generally flat cord called a _gasket_. In bad
weather, with a weak crew, the top-sail is brought under control by
passing the top-mast studding-sail halliards ro