fūcus ī, m, fu=kos, rock-lichen, orchil (a red dye for woollen goods)

— hence, a dye-stuff, red dye, red color: Lana medicata fuco, H.: potantia vellera fucum, H.: Tyrius, O.

—A reddish juice, bee-glue, V.

—Fig., pretence, disguise, deceit, dissimulation: fucum facere mulieri, T.: venustatis non fuco inlitus color: puerilis: mercem sine fucis gestat, H.: sine fuco ac fallaciis.