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Fur   /fər/   Listen
noun
Fur  n.  
1.
The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.
2.
The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.
3.
Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.
4.
pl. Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.). "Wrapped up in my furs."
5.
Any coating considered as resembling fur; as:
(a)
A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
(b)
The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
(c)
The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
6.
(Her.) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.



verb
Fur  v. t.  (past & past part. furred; pres. part. furring)  
1.
To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes. "You fur your gloves with reason."
2.
To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.
3.
(Arch.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp.



adjective
Fur  adj.  Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade.
Fur seal (Zool.) one of several species of seals of the genera Callorhinus and Arclocephalus, inhabiting the North Pacific and the Antarctic oceans. They have a coat of fine and soft fur which is highly prized. The northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) breeds in vast numbers on the Prybilov Islands, off the coast of Alaska; called also sea bear.






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... syllable about His doing anything, only about His suffering; and then when He is dead He begins to work. That is the subject of these last three verses, and it would be proper to take them all for our consideration now, but fur two reasons, one, because of their great fulness and importance, and one because, as you will observe, the two latter verses are a direct address of God's concerning the Servant. The prophetic words, spoken ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

... author of "The Heathen Chinee" was still something of a mythical personage to the average Englishman. Then he still affected the style of dress which Buffalo Bill afterwards made familiar, and with his broad sombrero hat, his flowing locks, and ample fur-lined overcoat, cut a conspicuous figure in the streets. It is no exaggeration to say that everybody turned to look at him, and that more than once he had a small mob at his heels. Greatly interested, like most of his fellow-countrymen, ...
— Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 • Stuart J. Reid, ed.

... of those thick-jawed creatures as they looked down upon us inquisitively to ascertain what we were about. They were considerably larger than any we had seen; indeed, the howler is the largest monkey in the New World. The fur is of a rich bay colour, and as the sun fell upon the coats of some of them above us, they shone with a golden lustre. The thick beard which hung from the chin and neck was of a deeper hue than the body. Our friend told us that those he had caught were ...
— On the Banks of the Amazon • W.H.G. Kingston

... and substitution of a new one, at a cost of nearly ten dollars. In dozens of places the texture of the carpet was eaten entirely through. I was, as my lady readers may naturally suppose, very unhappy at this. But, the evil by no means found a limit here. On opening my fur boxes, I found that the work of destruction had been going on there also. A single shake of the muff, threw little fibres and flakes of fur in no stinted measure upon the air; and, on dashing my hand hard ...
— Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper • T. S. Arthur

... of the neighborhood, who had often commented upon the haughty disdain which Mme. Blanche displayed in her treatment of her relative, would have found abundant food for comment had they known that Aunt Medea was protected from the possibility of cold by a mantle lined with costly fur, exactly like the marquise's own, and that she made the journey, not in the large Berlin, with the servants, but in the post-chaise with the Marquis and Marquise ...
— The Honor of the Name • Emile Gaboriau


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