Vocabulary : Funambulus to Fund

Funambulus : A ropewalker or ropedancer.
Function : The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance. ;; The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body. ;; The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind. ;; The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession. ;; A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all
Functional : Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official. ;; Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general.
Functionalize : To assign to some function or office.
Functionally : In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.

Functionaries : of Functionary
Functionary : One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
Functionate : To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
Functionless : Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.
Fund : An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence. ;; A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc. ;; The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds. ;; An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object. ;; A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense. ;; To provide and appropriate a fu