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Fugio

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• Fugitive

  [fyoo-ji-tiv] /ˈfyu dʒɪ tɪv/ noun 1. a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime. adjective 2. having taken flight, or run away: a fugitive slave. 3. fleeting; transitory; elusive: fugitive thoughts that could not be formulated. 4. Fine Arts. changing color […]

• Fugitive slave act

  A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states. The law was highly unpopular in the North and helped to convert many previously indifferent northerners to antislavery.

• Fugitivity

  [fyoo-ji-tiv] /ˈfyu dʒɪ tɪv/ noun 1. a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime. adjective 2. having taken flight, or run away: a fugitive slave. 3. fleeting; transitory; elusive: fugitive thoughts that could not be formulated. 4. Fine Arts. changing color […]

• Fugitometer

  /ˌfjuːdʒɪˈtɒmɪtə/ noun 1. an instrument used for measuring the fastness to light of dyed materials

• Fugle

  [fyoo-guh l] /ˈfyu gəl/ verb (used without object), fugled, fugling. Archaic. 1. to act as a guide or model. 2. to signal, or motion as if signaling.

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