a. [ Base, n.+ L. fugere to flee. ] (Bot.) Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. centrum center + fugere to flee. ] 1. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) (a) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster. (b) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos. [ 1913 Webster ]

Centrifugal force (Mech.), a force whose direction is from a center. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When a body moves in a circle with uniform velocity, a force must act on the body to keep it in the circle without change of velocity. The direction of this force is towards the center of the circle. If this force is applied by means of a string to the body, the string will be in a state of tension. To a person holding the other end of the string, this tension will appear to be directed toward the body as if the body had a tendency to move away from the center of the circle which it is describing. Hence this latter force is often called centrifugal force. The force which really acts on the body being directed towards the center of the circle is called centripetal force, and in some popular treatises the centripetal and centrifugal forces are described as opposing and balancing each other. But they are merely the different aspects of the same stress. Clerk Maxwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Centrifugal impression (Physiol.), an impression (motor) sent from a nerve center outwards to a muscle or muscles by which motion is produced. --
Centrifugal machine, A machine for expelling water or other fluids from moist substances, or for separating liquids of different densities by centrifugal action; a whirling table. --
Centrifugal pump, a machine in which water or other fluid is lifted and discharged through a pipe by the energy imparted by a wheel or blades revolving in a fixed case. Some of the largest and most powerful pumps are of this kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A centrifugal machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A filter, as for sugar, in which a cylinder with a porous or foraminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid by centrifugal action. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. to drive out; to subject to the action of a centrifuge.
Syn. -- centrifuge. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the process of separating substances by the use of a centrifuge. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an apparatus having containers for liquids arrayed around a central pivot and rotated at a high speed, thus generating centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device. The containers for holding the liquid in a centrifuge are held in a metal frame called the head or trunnion. The solid material collected at teh bottom of the liquid container is called the pellet. A centrifuge designed to run at very high speeds and thus generate very high centrifugal force is called an ultracentrifuge.
Syn. -- extractor, separator. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. t. 1 to drive out; to subject to the action of a centrifuge.
Syn. -- centrifugate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The property or quality of being centrifugal. R. W. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to separate (particles in a suspension) from a liquid by centrifugation.
Syn. -- centrifugate. [ PJC ]

a. [ Cerebrum + L. fugere to flee. ] (Physiol.) Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small genus of perennial herbs of N temperate regions: bugbane.
Syn. -- genus Cimicifuga. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as corticoefferent; as, corticofugal discharges.
Syn. -- corticoefferent, corticifugal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ See Febrifuge. ] Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. febris fever + fugare to put to flight, from fugere to flee: cf. F. fébrifuge. see Febrile, Feverfew. ] (Med.) A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever. -- a. Antifebrile. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] (Mus.) A fugue. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fugax, fugacis, from fugere: cf. F. fugace. See Fugitive. ] 1. Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile. [ 1913 Webster ]

Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fugacity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L fugacitas: cf. F. fugacité. ] 1. The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Uncertainty; instability. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Banishment. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. (Mus.) in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue. -- n. A composition resembling a fugue. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] (Mus.) a short, condensed fugue. Grove. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. fugitif, F. fugitif, fr. L. fugitivus, fr. fugere to flee. See Bow to bend, and cf. Feverfew. ] 1. Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fugitive Parthians follow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself while her parents are in tear? Richardson [ 1913 Webster ]

A libellous pamphlet of a fugitive physician. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea. [ 1913 Webster ]

The me more tender and fugitive parts, the leaves . . . of vegatables. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fugitive compositions, Such as are short and occasional, and so published that they quickly escape notice.

Syn. -- Fleeting; unstable; wandering; uncertain; volatile; fugacious; fleeing; evanescent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something hard to be caught or detained. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or Catch that airy fugitive called wit. Harte. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fugitive from justice (Law), one who, having committed a crime in one jurisdiction, flees or escapes into another to avoid punishment. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a fugitive manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To maneuver; to move hither and thither. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Wooden arms with elbow joints jerking and fugling in the
air. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Fuglemen [ G. flügelmann file leader; flügel wing (akin to E. fly) + mann man. Cf. Flugrelman. ] 1. (Mil.) A soldier especially expert and well drilled, who takes his place in front of a military company, as a guide for the others in their exercises; a file leader. He originally stood in front of the right wing. [ Written also flugelman. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, one who leads the way. [ Jocose ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. It. fuga, fr. L. fuga a fleeing, flight, akin to fugere to fiee. See Fugitive. ] (Mus.) A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears. [ 1913 Webster ]

All parts of the scheme are eternally chasing each other, like the parts of a fugue. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mus.) A musician who composes or performs fugues. Busby. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. fumus smoke + fugare to put to flight, fugere to flee. ] One who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. lac, lactis, milk + fugare to expel. ] (Med.) A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. réfuge, L. refugium, fr. refugere to flee back; pref. re- + figere. SEe Fugitive. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Shelter or protection from danger or distress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these
Find place or refuge. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

We might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. Heb. vi. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which shelters or protects from danger, or from distress or calamity; a stronghold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; a place inaccessible to an enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The high hills are a refuger the wild goats. Ps. civ. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed. Ps. ix. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their latest refuge
Was to send him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Light must be supplied, among gracefulrefuges, by terracing &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; story in danger of darkness. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cities of refuge (Jewish Antiq.), certain cities appointed as places of safe refuge for persons who had committed homicide without design. Of these there were three on each side of Jordan. Josh. xx. --
House of refuge, a charitable institution for giving shelter and protection to the homeless, destitute, or tempted. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Shelter; asylum; retreat; covert. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To shelter; to protect. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. réfugié, fr. se réfugier to take refuge. See Refuge, n. ] 1. One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from L. solifuga (better solipuga), a kind of venomous ant, or spider. ] (Zool.) A division of arachnids having large, powerful fangs and a segmented abdomen; -- called also Solpugidea, and Solpugides. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. somnus sleep + fugare to put to flight. ] Driving away sleep. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., from LL. subterfugium, fr. L. subterfugere to flee secretly, to escape; subter under + fugere to flee. See Fugitive. ] That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the force of an argument. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

By a miserable subterfuge, they hope to render this position safe by rendering it nugatory. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. Also }. [ Taenia + L. fugare to drive away. ] (Med.) A remedy to expel tapeworms. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; heat + L. fugere to flee. ] (Chem.) An artificial alkaloid of complex composition, resembling thalline and used as an antipyretic, -- whence its name. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. transfuga; trans across, over + fugere to flee. ] One who flees from one side to another; hence, a deserter; a turncoat; an apostate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. vermis a worm + fugare to drive away, fr. fugere to flee. See Worm, and Fugitive. ] (Med.) Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. vermifuge. See Vermifugal. ] (Med.) A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic. [ 1913 Webster ]