=Fum-Hoam=, the mandarin who restored Malek-al-Salem, king of Georgia, to his throne, and related to the king’s daughter Gulchenraz [Gundogdi] his numerous metamorphoses; he was first Piurash, who murdered Siamek the usurper; then a flea; then a little dog; then an Indian maiden named Massouma; then a bee; then a cricket; then a mouse; then Abzenderoud the imaum´; then the daughter of a rich Indian merchant, the Jezdad of Iolcos, the greatest beauty of Greece; then a foundling found by a dyer in a box; then Dugmê, queen of Persia; then a young woman named Hengu; then an ape; then a midwife’s daughter of Tartary; then the only son of the sultan of Agra; then an Arabian physician; then a wild man named Kolao; then a slave; then the son of a cadi of Erzerûm; then a dervise; then an Indian prince; and lastly Fum-Hoam.—T.S. Gueulette, _Chinese Tales_ (1723). _Fum-Hoam_, first president of the ceremonial academy of Pekin.—Goldsmith, _Citizen of the World_ (1764). =Funk= (_Peter_), auctioneer whose business is to cheat the unwary. Having been branded by a placard placed before his door, “_Beware of Mock Auctions!_” he concerts a scheme for labeling other places of business and general resort, including newspaper offices and churches.—Charles Frederick Briggs, _The Knickerbocker Magazine_ (1846). =Fungo´so=, a character in Ben Jonson’s drama, _Every Man in His Humour_ (1598). Unlucky as Fungoso in the play. Pope, _Essay on Criticism_, 328 (1711). =Furor= (_intemperate anger_), a mad man of great strength, the son of Occasion. Sir Guyon, the “Knight of Temperance,” overcomes both Furor and his mother, and rescues Phaon from their clutches.—Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, ii. 4 (1590). =Fusber´ta=, the sword of Rinaldo.—Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516). =Fus´bos=, minister of state to Artaxam´is, king of Uto´pia. When the king cuts down the boots which Bombastês has hung defiantly on a tree, the general engages the king in single combat, and slays him. Fusbos then coming up, kills Bombastês, “who conquered all but Fusbos, Fusbos him.” At the close of the farce, the slain ones rise one after the other and join the dance, promising “to die again tomorrow,” if the audience desires it.—W.B. Rhodes, _Bombastês Furioso_. _Fusbos_, a _nom de plume_ of Henry Plunkett, one of the first contributors to _Punch_. =Fy´rapel= (_Sir_), the leopard, the nearest kinsman of King Lion, in the beast epic of _Reynard the Fox_ (1498). =Gabble Rechet=, a cry like that of hounds, heard at night, foreboding trouble. Said to be the souls of unbaptized children wandering through the air till the day of judgment.—Charles Reade, _Put Yourself in His Place_. =Gabor=, a Hungarian who aided Ulric in saving Count Stral´enheim from the Oder, and was unjustly suspected of being his murderer.—Bryon, _Werner_ (1822).