These are the meanings of the letters FUSTOC when you unscramble them.
- Focus (n.)
A central point; a point of concentration.
- Focus (n.)
A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.
- Focus (n.)
A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distace between any point of the curve and the focus to the distance of the same point from the directrix is constant.
- Focus (v. t.)
To bring to a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camera.
- Scout (n.)
A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.
- Scout (n.)
A fielder in a game for practice.
- Scout (n.)
A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information of the movements and condition of an enemy.
- Scout (n.)
A projecting rock.
- Scout (n.)
A swift sailing boat.
- Scout (n.)
The act of scouting or reconnoitering.
- Scout (v. i.)
To go on the business of scouting, or watching the motions of an enemy; to act as a scout.
- Scout (v. t.)
To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
- Scout (v. t.)
To pass over or through, as a scout; to reconnoiter; as, to scout a country.
- Scout (v. t.)
To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to treat with ridicule; to flout; as, to scout an idea or an apology.
- Tofus (n.)
Tophus.
- Tofus (n.)
Tufa. See under Tufa, and Toph.