[Fictionary] fub ballot!

[Ranjit Bhatnagar]

Here are eight fubs!  Please send me your votes in the usual way, and
I will count them on Sunday.

- Ranjit



fub - n. - a strip of cloth used to protect the hands when pulling rope.
"Oh, that I were a fub upon that hand!" -- Romeo and Juliet, act II,
scene 2, Marcer (transcribed) edition




fub - n. - A lacing-cord.
  But as thy blouse the fub so tightly bound
  So 'neath its folds thy bosom lies conceal'd;
  And ne'er to me its pleasures be reveal'd
  Though do I beg, my knees upon the ground.
     Wm. Shakespeare, "Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music", VII.




fub. n. A plump young person or child.
v. t. To put off by trickery; to cheat.
I have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fabbed off, from this day
to that day.
- Shak.




fub, n.  A common name for a cat or dog, similar to Fido or Kitty in
modern times.  "Fub, Fub, quiet Fub.  Hell's bells, in or out?"
Macbeth




fub, n. A brightly-enameled decorative tile.

  "Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
   Is thick inlaid with fubs and orbs of gold,--
   There's not the smallest star which thou behold'st
   But in his motion like an angel sings,
   Still quiring to the wide-eyed cherubims."



fub -- 1 (n.) If F = (f_1, f_2, ...) is a sequence of continuous
functions from R^n into R, then F is said to have a (pointwise)
functional upper bound if the function f_{ub} defined by

    f_{ub} (x) = sup {f_k (x)}, k = 1, 2, ....

exists for all x in R^n.  2 (v.) (See quot.)

MISTRESS BAIRE:
       Know, then, my husband of these seven years,
       Bounded is above, and more below.
       Fubb'd by sin his function wobbleth,
       And nowhere dense he is below the neck.

-- Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act I, Scene 2.




fub - n. - a skinned rabbit.

Toby, Twelfth Night II.iv: (Aside.) I’ll waste and spend that silly
youth till he be but a fub.  (Aloud.)  Money, Andrew!  How wilt thou
win my niece unless thou woo her with thy purse? -- So thy purse will
open her purse, and easy clip her coin, to breed affection.  Money,
Aguecheek! (Aside.) A very fub, more in his body than his soul, if
that be possible.  A fub!




fub - vi - 1. err, be mistaken, make a mistake 2. speak falsely,
prevaricate - n - 1. a mistake, an error 2. a lie, a prevarication
"Yet, in good faith, some say that thee behold / Thy face hath not the
power to make love groan: / To say they fub I dare not be so bold, /
Although I swear it to myself alone." Sonnet 131.