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FUSILE marble, a very common but very improper term ufed for the green or greenifh grey marble full of fmall fea fhells, of which the flender pillars of our Gothic buildings are made. The two kinds of marble called by this general name are diftinguifhed by Dr. Hill, by the names of, i. marmor viref- cms conchylUs frequenter afperfum, green marble, thick let with fea fhells; and 2. marmor cinereovirens concbyliis pauc'io- ribus refertum-, greyifh green marble, more thinly interfperf- ed with fea-fhells. The firft is moft frequent in Italy, and is the fufile marble of that part of the world j and the fecond is dug in Derbyshire, Dorfetfhire, SufTex, and many other parts of England, and is what the pillars in our cathedrals are made of, and is consequently the fpecies called fufile marble in England. Bill's Hift. of Foil", p. 470. From the length and flendernefs of thofe columns it has been vulgarly fuppofed, that they were caft in moulds, but rea- fon and a knowledge of nature, fufficiently explode the con- jecture, fince we weir know that marble will burn to lime inftead of melting in the fire, and that the fhells it contains xnuft have been calcined to powder alfo, not have been found as they now are, if it were poilible that the marble could have been run.
We have in England in many places vaft quarries of marble all full of fea-fhells, and thefe pillars have been all cut outof the marble of fuch quarries. The fhells it contains are of diffe- rent kinds, fome turbinated, and others bivalve, and of the tellina and peftunculus kind ; and thefe being filled with a pure and white fpar, give a fine variety to the whole marble when wrought.
F U Z
FUSILUS, in botany, a name given by fome to the fyfamu a more common name for the cuonymus. See Fusanus *
FUSTJGATIO, in the Roman cuitoms, a punifliment inflict- ed by beating with a cudgel. This punifliment was peculiar to freemen ; for the flaves were fcourged or lafhed with whips. Pitifc. Lex Ant. in voc.
Fustigation, Rtftigatw, is alfo a penance enjoined by the Ro- man inquifition. Hofm. Lex.
FUSTUARIUM, in antiquity, a Roman punifliment, the fame with fujligat'w. SeeFusTlGATio.
FUSTUC, in botany, a name given by fome of the old wri- ters to the tree which produces the piftachia nuts. The word founds fo like the name of a wood ufed in dying, and called at this time fujlkk, that it might be fuppofed to ex- prefs fome tree of the fame kind j but it is of a very different origin. The Jews and Arabians, have called the piftachia tree fiftic and fujlack, and from thence fome have written the name fujiuck or fiiftuc. The Greeks have written it fttm, and the barbarous Latin writers fiftkio, which founds very like the name plftachh. See Pistachio.
FUTTOCKS, in a fliip, the timbers raifed over the keel, or the compaifing timbers which make her breadth. Thofe next the keel are called ground futtoeks, and the reft upper futtoeks. "
FUZEE, (Cycl.) in the manege, two dangerous fplents, join- ing from above downwards : commonly a fuzee riles to the knee and lames the horfe. •
Fuzee: differ from fcrews or thorough fplents, in this, that the latter are placed on the two oppofite fides of the leg.
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