Fucus, fuci, m. g. Virg.A dorre or bce without sting. Fucus marinus, Herba quæ & alga marina dicitur. Pli. An hearbe of the sea, good to die cloth with. Fucus. Plau. Painting or false coloring: counterfait colcur. Fucus.Plaut.Deceit: falsehoode: colourable deceit.Per impluuium fucus factus mulieri. Teren. Facere fucum.Cicer.Colourably to deceiue: vnder a colour to beguile.Sine fuco.Cic.Without colour or deceit.Sententiæ veræ, sine pigmentis fucóque puerili.Cic.Fucus & cincini poeræ.Cic.Fucus roseus. Catull. A colour to paint the face redde.Mercem sine fucis gestat. Hor. Illitus fuco color. Cicero. A colour laide on with counterfet painting.Lana mendicata fuco. Hor. Wool died.Mentiri colorem faco.Quintil.To paint with a counterfait colour.Splendente fuco ornare comas. Tibull. Perfusa gloria fuco.Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fūcus, i, m., a drone, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 19; Verg. G. 4, 244; 168; id. A. 1, 435; Col. 9, 15, 5.