Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, American group that was instrumental in the development of hip-hop music. The members were Grandmaster Flash (original name Joseph Saddler; b. January 1, 1958), Cowboy (original name Keith Wiggins; b. September 20, 1960—d. September 8, 1989), Melle Mel

smoky bat, (family Furipteridae), either of two bat species found in the Central and South American tropics and classified as a family unto themselves. Amorphochilus schnablii is the smoky bat, whereas Furipterus horrens is also commonly called the thumbless bat. Small and delicately built, both

smoky bat: … is also commonly called the thumbless bat. Small and delicately built, both species range in size from about 3.7 to 5.8 cm (1.5 to 2.3 inches), have tails about 2.4 to 3.6 cm (1 to 1.4 inches) in length, and weigh about 3 to 5 grams (0.1 to 0.16 ounce).…

Furka Pass, mountain pass between Uri and Valais cantons of south-central Switzerland. It lies at 7,976 feet (2,431 metres), just south of the Dammastock peak (11,909 feet [3,630 metres]). It is crossed by road (built 1864–66) and railway (1910–27), which connect Andermatt (northeast) with Gletsch

stadium: …Greek unit of measurement, the stade, the distance covered in the original Greek footraces (about 600 feet [180 metres]). The course for the footrace in the ancient Olympic Games at Olympia was exactly a stade in length, and the word for the unit of measurement became transferred first to the…

furlong, old English unit of length, based on the length of an average plowed furrow (hence “furrow-long,” or furlong) in the English open- or common-field system. Each furrow ran the length of a 40 × 4-rod acre, or 660 modern feet. The standardization of such linear units as the yard, foot, and

Furman University, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S. It has a historical affiliation with the South Carolina Baptist Convention, though formal ties with the church were severed in 1992. The university provides undergraduate studies in

Furman University, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S. It has a historical affiliation with the South Carolina Baptist Convention, though formal ties with the church were severed in 1992. The university provides undergraduate studies in

Eighth Amendment: In a 5–4 ruling in Furman v. Georgia (1972), the Supreme Court consolidated three cases, one (Furman) in which a gun accidentally went off while the defendant was burglarizing a home and two (Jackson v. Georgia and Branch v. Texas) in which the death penalty for rape was challenged. The…

furnace, structure in which useful heat is produced by combustion or other means. Historically, the furnace grew out of the fireplace and stove, following the availability of coal for heating. A coal furnace is made up of several elements: a chamber containing a grate on which combustion takes

Death Valley: Physical environment: …the average annual rainfall at Furnace Creek was only 1.66 inches (42.2 mm), the maximum annual rainfall was 4.5 inches (114.3 mm), and two years passed with no measurable rainfall.

fuel oil, fuel consisting mainly of residues from crude-oil distillation. It is used primarily for steam boilers in power plants, aboard ships, and in industrial plants. Commercial fuel oils usually are blended with other petroleum fractions to produce the desired viscosity and flash point. Flash

Geber: …Magistery, 1678), Liber fornacum (Book of Furnaces, 1678), De investigatione perfectionis (The Investigation of Perfection, 1678), and De inventione veritatis (The Invention of Verity, 1678). They are the clearest expression of alchemical theory and the most important set of laboratory directions to appear before the 16th century. Accordingly, they…

Furnariidae, bird family, order Passeriformes, containing about 240 species in nearly 60 genera, limited in distribution to Central and South America. This is one of the most diverse bird groups, with many body plans and popular names. Because of the nesting habits of several well-known species,

Furnariidae, bird family, order Passeriformes, containing about 240 species in nearly 60 genera, limited in distribution to Central and South America. This is one of the most diverse bird groups, with many body plans and popular names. Because of the nesting habits of several well-known species,

ovenbird, any of over 200 species of small birds, named for building a domed nest with a side entrance, especially Seiurus aurocapillus, a wood warbler (family Parulidae, order Passeriformes) of North America east of the Rockies; it winters south to Colombia. Brownish olive above, with a streaked

Joseph Haydn: Early years: …to the music-loving Austrian nobleman Karl Joseph von Fürnberg, in whose home he played chamber music. For the instrumentalists there he wrote his first string quartets.

Furneaux Group, cluster of islands and rocks in Bass Strait off northeastern Tasmania, southern Australia. The largest are Flinders, Cape Barren, Clarke, and Chappell. The islands are generally mountainous with rugged coastlines. Major occupations are sheep and cattle breeding and the processing

Wilsons Promontory, southernmost point of the Australian mainland. It lies in Victoria, about 110 miles (175 km) southeast of Melbourne. The peninsula, composed of granite, is 22 miles long with a maximum width of 14 miles. It projects into Bass Strait and is almost an island, being linked to the

Tobias Furneaux was a British naval officer and explorer who was the first to circumnavigate the globe in both directions. On Capt. Samuel Wallis’s westerly-directed circumnavigation in the Royal Navy ship Dolphin (1766–68), Furneaux was among the first Europeans to reach Tahiti. As commander of

Veurne, municipality, Flanders region, western Belgium. The municipality lies at the junction of four canals, northeast of Dunkirk, France. It was founded about 870 by Baldwin I Iron-Arm (or Ferreus), first ruler of Flanders. An important town of the Spanish Netherlands, it was often besieged in

Furness, region, administrative county of Cumbria, historic county of Lancashire, England. Except for a narrow coastal plain, Furness is predominantly upland, with such eminences as the Old Man of Coniston and Wetherlam. Principal rivers are the Duddon, Leven (draining Windermere), and Crake

Hugh Jackman: Early life and career: …with his psychologist (played by Deborra-Lee Furness), Jackman won fans as attractive bad boy Kevin Jones. Jackman and Furness continued their relationship offscreen, and the two were married in 1996 (separated 2023). That same year he took to the stage, scoring the lead in the Australian premiere of Andrew Lloyd…

Frank Heyling Furness was a U.S. architect, significant for the forceful originality of his buildings and for his influence on Louis H. Sullivan, who was a draftsman in 1873 for the Philadelphia firm of Furness and Hewitt (later Furness, Evans, & Company). The work of Furness, who was familiar with

Horace Howard Furness: His wife, Helen Kate Furness (1837–83), compiled A Concordance to Shakespeare’s Poems (1874); and his son and namesake (1865–1930) was a partner in and successor to his father’s work and edited his Letters (1922).

Horace Howard Furness was an American compiler, with his son and others, of variorum editions of 20 of Shakespeare’s plays. Furness graduated from Harvard in 1854 and was admitted to the bar in 1859, but he soon devoted himself to the study of Shakespeare. Having accumulated a collection of

virtual reality: Education and training: Since the 1960s, electrical engineer Thomas Furness had been working on visual displays and instrumentation in cockpits for the U.S. Air Force. By the late 1970s, he had begun development of virtual interfaces for flight control, and in 1982 he demonstrated the Visually Coupled Airborne Systems Simulator—better known as the…

Alice Cooper is an American rock musician who pioneered a theatrical form of heavy metal music performance that fused onstage horror dramatics with a raw dynamic sound and that eventually earned him the sobriquet “the godfather of shock rock.” His shows evolved from frenetic displays culminating in

The Furnished Room, short story by O. Henry, published serially in 1904 and then collected in The Four Million (1906). Set in New York City, it is a melodramatic tale about a young man who, after a futile search for his missing girlfriend, commits suicide in his rented room, not knowing that it is

furniture, household equipment, usually made of wood, metal, plastics, marble, glass, fabrics, or related materials and having a variety of different purposes. Furniture ranges widely from the simple pine chest or stick-back country chair to the most elaborate marquetry work cabinet or gilded

Harry Furniss was a British caricaturist and illustrator, best known for his political and social lampoons. Mainly self-taught, he settled in London in 1873 and, before turning wholly to free-lance work in 1894, became very popular as a staff artist for The Illustrated London News (1876–84) and

furniture, household equipment, usually made of wood, metal, plastics, marble, glass, fabrics, or related materials and having a variety of different purposes. Furniture ranges widely from the simple pine chest or stick-back country chair to the most elaborate marquetry work cabinet or gilded

art conservation and restoration: Techniques of building conservation: Wood-boring insects include the furniture and deathwatch beetles. From eggs laid in cracks, the larvae tunnel into timber and damage it before emerging as beetles to lay more eggs. The deathwatch beetle inhabits mostly the outer sapwood of oak, when wet or softened by rot. The furniture beetle lives…

furniture industry, all the companies and activities involved in the design, manufacture, distribution, and sale of functional and decorative objects of household equipment. The modern manufacture of furniture, as distinct from its design, is a major mass-production industry in Europe, the U.S.,

furniture industry: History: …a new profession: that of cabinetmaker. The most important technical factor was the introduction, or reintroduction, of veneering, first in western Europe, then in Britain, North America, and elsewhere.

Frederick James Furnivall was an English literary scholar who, partly by his own efforts in textual criticism and partly by founding learned societies, especially the Early English Text Society, was instrumental in initiating a major revival in the study of medieval English literature. Though he

Kinoshita Junji: His first play, Fūrō (“Wind and Waves”), which he began to write that year, was a historical drama of the Meiji Restoration, but it was not published until 1947. As wartime censorship grew in rigidity, he turned from contemporary or historical themes to folklore and created his own…

furo, Japanese-style bath, typically using water heated to 110° F (43.3° C) or hotter. It is claimed that, because the bather may linger in the wooden or metal tub, the furo may have properties for the therapeutic relaxation of tensions. To achieve cleanliness, the bather washes before entering the

hogweed: …parts contain chemicals known as furocoumarins. Contact with the leaves and sap can cause phytophotodermatitis, in which the skin erupts in severe blisters if exposed to sunlight; blindness can occur if the sap enters the eyes.

Cambrian Period: …million years ago), and the Furongian Series (497 million to 485.4 million years ago).

Joseph Furphy was an Australian author whose novels combine an acute sense of local Australian life and colour with the eclectic philosophy and literary ideas of a self-taught workingman. The son of Irish immigrants, Furphy worked as a thresher, teamster, and gold miner before settling down in 1884

Chagatai literature: …most creative were Muqīmī and Furqat. Both were late Chagatai poets who saw Navāʾī, Mehmed bin Süleyman Fuzuli (a 16th-century poet who wrote in Turkish, Persian, and Arabic), and the poets of the court of Muhammad ʿAli Khan as their literary models. Nevertheless, they both expanded the generic boundaries of…

Jonas Furrer was a Swiss statesman, who served as the president of the Swiss Confederation four times. A doctor of jurisprudence and lawyer of national renown, Furrer became, after 1839, leader of the Zürich liberals but only reluctantly aspired to political office. In the cantonal assembly, he

fur: …wraps, and hats is called furriery. Much of the process is done by hand. The cutter matches pelts according to colour and texture and cuts the skins to conform to the designer’s pattern. The skins are then made into sections that are dampened and stretched and nailed to fit a…

agricultural technology: Primary tillage equipment: …it cuts a trench, or furrow, throwing to one side a ribbon of soil that is called the furrow slice. When plowing is started in the middle of a strip of land, a furrow is plowed across the field; on the return trip, a furrow slice is lapped over the…

Saint Fursey ; feast day January 16) was a monk, visionary, and one of the greatest early medieval Irish monastic missioners to the Continent. His celebrated visions had considerable influence on dream literature of the later Middle Ages. First educated under Brendan the Navigator, Fursey later

pottery: Porcelain: …excellent figures were made at Fürstenberg, where hard porcelain was first manufactured in 1753, and at Frankenthal by such notable modellers as J.W. Lanz, the cousins J.F. and K.G. Lücke, and Konrad Linck. Ludwigsburg, started in 1758, produced porcelain that was grayish in colour and more suitable for figure modelling…

Fürstenbund, league founded on July 23, 1785, under the leadership of King Frederick II the Great of Prussia to preserve the status quo among the several German states and curb the ambitions in Germany of the Holy Roman emperor Joseph II. It represented the final phase of the conflict between

Innsbruck: …most famous buildings is the Fürstenburg, with a balcony with a gilded copper roof, supposedly built by Duke Frederick and refashioned by the emperor Maximilian in about 1500. Other notable landmarks include the Hofburg (1754–70, on the site of a 15th-century ducal residence) and the Franciscan, or Court, church (1553–63),…

Liechtenstein, western European principality located between Switzerland and Austria. It is one of the smallest countries of Europe; its capital is Vaduz. The eastern two-thirds of the country is composed of the rugged foothills of the Rhätikon Mountains, part of the central Alps. The highest peak

Christianity: The Middle Ages: …that described the practice of furta sacra (“holy theft”). These accounts, most famously that of St. Nicholas, detail the practice of stealing saints’ relics—removing relics from one shrine and placing them in a new one. The narratives describe the miracles that occurred in the process, including the saint’s unwillingness to…

stagecraft: Early history: …Civilis (1628; “Civil Architecture”), by Joseph Furttenbach (also spelled Furtenbach). He describes the use of oil lamps and candles set in a row along the front edge of the stage but out of sight of the audience, and he also mentions vertical rows of lamps behind each wing at the…

Fürth, city, Bavaria Land (state), south-central Germany. It is situated at the junction of the Pegnitz and Rednitz rivers (which there form the Regnitz), just northwest of Nürnberg. It was originally a Franconian (Franken) settlement dating from the mid-8th century. The royal palace of Furti (the

the Chemical Brothers: Later releases included Further (2010), Don’t Think (2012), and Born in the Echoes (2015). In addition, the Chemical Brothers created the soundtrack for the 2011 thriller movie Hanna and wrote and performed the song “This Is Not a Game” for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014). For…

Selma Lagerlöf: …powerfully told historical tale; and Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige, 2 vol. (1906–07; The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and Further Adventures of Nils), a geography reader for children.

Italo Svevo: …collection of dramatic work; and Further Confessions of Zeno (1969), an English translation of his incomplete novel. Svevo’s correspondence with Montale was published as Lettere (1966). Svevo ultimately has been recognized as one of the most important figures in modern Italian literary history.

Robert Frost: Move to Franconia, teaching career, and Pulitzer Prizes: … (1930) and to the collections A Further Range (1936) and A Witness Tree (1942). His other poetry volumes include West-Running Brook (1928), Steeple Bush (1947), and In the Clearing (1962).

ancient Rome: Roman expansion in the western Mediterranean: …creating two provinces, Nearer and Further Spain. They also exploited the Spanish riches, especially the mines, as the Carthaginians had done. In 197 the legions were withdrawn, but a Spanish revolt against the Roman presence led to the death of one governor and required that the two praetorian governors of…

Armistead Maupin: …Tales of the City (1980), Further Tales of the City (1982), Babycakes (1984), Significant Others (1987), and Sure of You (1989), all but the last of which were initially serialized in San Francisco newspapers. Maupin chronicled the later vicissitudes and triumphs of his characters in Michael Tolliver Lives (2007), Mary…

Howard Hawks: Films of the mid-1930s of Howard Hawks: …an engaging adventure scripted by Jules Furthman about airmail pilots working at a remote station in South America. Grant and Jean Arthur, playing a stranded showgirl, provide the romance, while Rita Hayworth, in one of her first featured roles, injects steamy sensuality into this hazardous, hypermasculine environment. In many of…

stagecraft: Early history: …Civilis (1628; “Civil Architecture”), by Joseph Furttenbach (also spelled Furtenbach). He describes the use of oil lamps and candles set in a row along the front edge of the stage but out of sight of the audience, and he also mentions vertical rows of lamps behind each wing at the…

Adolf Furtwängler was a German archaeologist whose catalogs of ancient Greek sculpture, vase painting, and gems brought thousands of art works into historical order. In 1878–79 Furtwängler took part in the German excavation of Olympia, site of the ancient Greek games. While serving as museum

Wilhelm Furtwängler was a German conductor, one of the great exponents of Romantic music. Known for his passionate, romantic style, he excelled as a conductor of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven and Richard Wagner. The son of archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler, he studied in Munich, where he was

Wilhelm Furtwängler was a German conductor, one of the great exponents of Romantic music. Known for his passionate, romantic style, he excelled as a conductor of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven and Richard Wagner. The son of archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler, he studied in Munich, where he was

Kawatake Mokuami was a versatile and prolific Japanese dramatist, the last great Kabuki playwright of the Tokugawa period (1603–1867). Growing up in Edo, Kawatake became a pupil of the Kabuki playwright Tsuruya Namboku V and wrote many kinds of plays during a long apprenticeship. He became the

typology: Arne Furumark, a Swedish archaeologist, regards typologies as applicable to archaeology because of the inertia of the human mind, which usually views the undisturbed development of material culture as taking place gradually. This view has been contrasted with the “Swedish typology” of B.E. Hildebrand and…

boil, a staphylococcus skin infection characterized by an inflamed nodular swelling filled with pus, located at the site of a hair follicle. The lesion is painful and feels hard to the touch; healing begins after the pus is discharged. Boils are usually located in hairy body areas exposed to

boil, a staphylococcus skin infection characterized by an inflamed nodular swelling filled with pus, located at the site of a hair follicle. The lesion is painful and feels hard to the touch; healing begins after the pus is discharged. Boils are usually located in hairy body areas exposed to

Furuta Oribe was a distinguished figure in the history of the Japanese tea ceremony. After serving as a soldier Oribe was made a daimyo (feudal lord) and placed in charge of the Fushimi Castle in Kyōto. There he became the favourite pupil of the famous tea master Sen Rikyū and, after Rikyū’s death

Furuta Oribe was a distinguished figure in the history of the Japanese tea ceremony. After serving as a soldier Oribe was made a daimyo (feudal lord) and placed in charge of the Fushimi Castle in Kyōto. There he became the favourite pupil of the famous tea master Sen Rikyū and, after Rikyū’s death

Brad Pitt: Inglourious Basterds and Moneyball: In Fury (2014) he played an American army sergeant commanding the remnants of a decimated battalion during the last days of World War II. The following year Pitt reteamed with Jolie, this time in By the Sea, a marital drama she also wrote and directed. He…

Salman Rushdie: Post-fatwa writings: …Beneath Her Feet (1999) and Fury (2001). Step Across This Line, a collection of essays he wrote between 1992 and 2002 on subjects ranging from the September 11 attacks to The Wizard of Oz, was issued in 2002.

Fury, American crime film, released in 1936, that highlights the terror of mob rule and societal injustice. Spencer Tracy portrayed Joe Wilson, a hardworking man who is mistaken for a kidnapper and is arrested. As the news spreads through town, an angry lynch mob sets fire to the jail, presumably

John Flaxman: …ambitious academic groups such as The Fury of Athamas (1790–94) and Cephalus and Aurora (1790), but his book illustrations had far greater importance. His Iliad and Odyssey (1793), Aeschylus (1795), and Dante’s Divine Comedy (1802) soon became widely known and, with their clean linear rhythms, contributed much to the spread…

Brian De Palma: The 1970s: De Palma’s success continued with The Fury (1978), another thriller about telekinesis, though set in a world of political intrigue. It starred John Cassavetes as a shadowy figure who hopes to use the psychic gifts of two high schoolers (Irving and Andrew Stevens) for his own sinister purposes; Kirk Douglas…

Tyson Fury is an English-born professional boxer of Irish extraction who became the world heavyweight champion in 2015. As a fighter, he is known for his well-rounded boxing skills and his towering height: 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 meters). Additionally, he has become a celebrity outside the ring for

Tyson Fury is an English-born professional boxer of Irish extraction who became the world heavyweight champion in 2015. As a fighter, he is known for his well-rounded boxing skills and his towering height: 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 meters). Additionally, he has become a celebrity outside the ring for

Jim Furyk is an American professional golfer who is noted for his unorthodox swing but remarkable consistency spanning two decades and resulting in numerous Top 10 finishes in the four Major championships. He won his only Major, the U.S. Open, in 2003 and reached the rank of No. 2 golfer in the

Jim Furyk is an American professional golfer who is noted for his unorthodox swing but remarkable consistency spanning two decades and resulting in numerous Top 10 finishes in the four Major championships. He won his only Major, the U.S. Open, in 2003 and reached the rank of No. 2 golfer in the

Japanese performing arts: Tokugawa period: …that came to be called fūryū (“drifting on the wind”) dances. They were enormously popular.

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Causes of ALS: …occurring in genes known as FUS/TLS, TDP43, and SOD1.

decoy: The so-called First U.S. Army Group (FUSAG) consisted of thousands of cardboard and rubber dummy tanks and airplanes, fake troop barracks and supply dumps, and enough humans to give the appearance of great activity. Even after the actual invasion had begun, the Germans were convinced that FUSAG…

fusain, macroscopically distinguishable component, or lithotype, of coal that is commonly found in silvery-black layers only a few millimetres thick and occasionally in thicker lenses. It is extremely soft and crumbles readily into a fine, sootlike powder. Fusain is composed mainly of fusinite

basal rot: Species of the genera Botrytis, Fusarium, and Penicillium are common fungal agents, while bacterial basal rots are frequently caused by Pectobacterium carotovorum and Pseudomonas viridiflava, among others.

snow mold: …fusarium patch, is caused by Microdocium nivale (formerly Fusarium nivale). The disease appears as irregularly circular tan to reddish brown patches up to 30 cm (1 foot) in diameter that may merge to cover large areas. When wet, leaves are covered with dense whitish to pink threads (mycelium) of the…

fusarium wilt: …forms of the soil-inhabiting fungus Fusarium oxysporum. Several hundred plant species are susceptible, including economically important food crops such as sweet potatoes, tomatoes, legumes, melons, and bananas (in which the infection is known as Panama disease).

snow mold: Pink snow mold, sometimes called fusarium patch, is caused by Microdocium nivale (formerly Fusarium nivale). The disease appears as irregularly circular tan to reddish brown patches up to 30 cm (1 foot) in diameter that may merge to cover large areas. When wet, leaves are…

fusarium wilt, widespread plant disease caused by many forms of the soil-inhabiting fungus Fusarium oxysporum. Several hundred plant species are susceptible, including economically important food crops such as sweet potatoes, tomatoes, legumes, melons, and bananas (in which the infection is known

Lake of Fusaro, coastal lagoon in Napoli provincia, Campania regione, southern Italy, west of Naples. The lagoon is separated from the sea on the west by sand dunes. As the ancient Palus Acherusia (“Acherusian Swamp”), it may have been the harbour of nearby Cumae in antiquity. In the first century

Keith Urban: …it with Get Closer (2010), Fuse (2013), Ripcord (2016), Graffiti U (2018), and The Speed of Now Part 1 (2020). Urban’s cross-genre appeal was further solidified when he joined the cast (2013–16) of the reality singing-competition show American Idol as one of its judges.

fuse, in electrical engineering, a safety device that protects electrical circuits from the effects of excessive currents. A fuse commonly consists of a current-conducting strip or wire of easily fusible metal that melts, and thus interrupts the circuit of which it is a part, whenever that circuit

Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE), U.S. satellite observatory that observed the universe in far-ultraviolet light (wavelengths between 90.5 and 119.5 nanometres). FUSE was launched on June 24, 1999. One of its main aims was the study of hydrogen-deuterium (H-D) ratios in intergalactic

fuse, in explosives technology, device for firing explosives in blasting operations, in fireworks, and in military projectiles. The blasting safety fuse, employed to fire an explosive from a distance or after a delay, is a hollow cord filled with a mixture resembling black powder and designed to

corundum: Artificial corundum may be produced as a specialty product, as for gem use, by slow accretion and controlled growth on a boule in an oxyhydrogen flame. This procedure is known as the Verneuil process (q.v.).

corundum: Artificial corundum may be produced as a specialty product, as for gem use, by slow accretion and controlled growth on a boule in an oxyhydrogen flame. This procedure is known as the Verneuil process (q.v.).

Thomas Boulsover: …was an English inventor of fused plating, or “old Sheffield plate.”

industrial glass: Silica-based: (It is also called fused quartz if derived from the melting of quartz crystals.) Silica glass is used where high service temperature, very high thermal shock resistance, high chemical durability, very low electrical conductivity, and good ultraviolet transparency are desired. However, for most glass products, such as containers, windows,…

muscle: Twitch and tetanus responses: …of contraction is called a fused tetanus, and the rate of stimulation that produces it is called the fusion frequency. The exact rate depends upon the particular muscle and the temperature.

watch: Mechanical watches: …by the application of the fusee, a cone-shaped, grooved pulley used together with a barrel containing the mainspring. With this arrangement, the mainspring was made to rotate a barrel in which it was housed; a length of catgut, later replaced by a chain, was wound on it, the other end…

fusel oil, a mixture of volatile, oily liquids produced in small amounts during alcoholic fermentation. A typical fusel oil contains 60–70 percent of amyl alcohol (q.v.), smaller amounts of n-propyl and isobutyl alcohols, and traces of other components. Before industrial production of synthetic