[back-formation from FUGLEMAN.]

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  1.  intr. To do the duty of a fugleman; to act as guide or director; to make signals. lit. and fig.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. V. vii. (1871), 207. Wooden arms with elbow-joints are jerking and fugling in the air, in the most rapid mysterious manner!

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1863.  De Morgan, in From Matter to Spirit, Pref. 35. The case … fugles admirably for a very large class of the philosophical principles.

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  b.  trans. To give an example of (something) to.

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1868.  Pall Mall G., 29 June, 12/2. The cost of keeping a few thousand good men to fugle all the public and domestic virtues to the benighted millions of Roman Catholics.

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  2.  Comb.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. V. iv. (1871), 191. The French nation is of gregarious imitative nature; it needed but a fugle-motion in this matter.

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1842.  Miall, in Nonconf., II. 377. The fugle-word [Martyrdom] of our present article, is a venerable expression.

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  Hence Fugling vbl. sb.

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1858.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., II. ii. (1868), I. 81. No Czech blows into his pipe in the woodlands, without certain precautions, and preliminary fuglings of a devotional nature. Ibid., IV. viii. 468. A certain handy and correct young fellow … who already knew his fugling to a hair’s-breadth, was Drill-master.

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1863.  Reader, 5 Dec., 656. What the author calls, metaphorically, ‘Fugling,’ or the representation of a corporate process of mind by some single exaggerated instance of the same process stationed in front of it.

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