Fur

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The thick coat of soft hair covering the skin of a mammal, such as a fox or beaver.
  • n. The hair-covered, dressed pelt of such a mammal, used in the making of garments and as trimming or decoration.
  • n. A garment made of or lined with the dressed pelt of a mammal.
  • n. A coating similar to the pelt of a mammal.
  • v. To cover, line, or trim with fur.
  • v. To provide fur garments for.
  • v. To cover or coat as if with fur.
  • v. To line (a wall or floor) with furring.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Hairy coat of various mammal species, especially: when fine, soft and thick.
  • n. Hairy skin of an animal processed into a suitable wear to cover human nakedness, protect humans from the cold and/or be worn ornamentally.
  • n. A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel.
  • n. A coating, lining resembling fur in function and/or appearance.
  • n. A furry; a member of the furry subculture.
  • v. To cover with fur.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.
  • n. The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry.
  • n. Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.
  • n. Articles of clothing made of fur.
  • n. Any coating considered as resembling fur.
  • n. A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
  • n. The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
  • n. The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
  • n. One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur
  • v. To line, face, or cover with fur.
  • v. To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.
  • v. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The short, fine, soft coat or pelage of certain animals, distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser, and more or less of which is generally present with it.
  • n. The skin of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry: as, a cargo of furs.
  • n. Strips of skins bearing the natural fur, made in various forms, as capes, muffs, etc., and worn for warmth or ornament: used in the singular collectively, or in the plural.
  • n. Any natural covering or material regarded as resembling fur.
  • n. Specifically— The soft down on the skin of a peach and on the leaves of some plants. More commonly called fuzz.
  • n. A coat of morbid matter formed on the tongue, as in persons affected with fever.
  • n. A coat or crust formed on the interior of a vessel by matter deposited from a liquid, as wine.
  • n. Scale formed in a boiler.
  • n. In sporting, a general term for furred animals, as in the phrase fur, fin, and feather. Compare feather, fin.
  • n. Kind or class: from the use of particular furs as distinctive insignia.
  • n. In the following passage the allusion is to the use of fur—miniver or vair—in some of the distinctive university costumes.
  • n. One of several tinctures used in heraldry.
  • Pertaining to or made of fur; producing fur: as, fur animals; a fur cap.
  • To line, face, or cover with fur: as, a furred robe.
  • To cover with morbid or foul matter; coat.
  • In carpentry, to nail strips of board nr timber to, as joists or rafters, in order to bring them to a level and range them into a straight surface, or as a wall or partition, for lathing or for forming an air-space between it and the plastering.
  • To clean off scale from the interior of (a boiler).
  • n. A furrow; the space between two ridges.
  • A dialectal variant of far.
  • An abbreviation of furlong.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel)
  • n. a garment made of the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
  • n. the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
  • Verb Form
    furred    furring    furs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    garment   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    furred    furring   
    Form
    furred    furring    furless    furry    fur coat    fur seal   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    peltry    skin    coat    flix    flick    calaber    ermine    ermines    erminites    erminois   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Burr    Fleur    Kerr    Monsieur    Shir    Sir    Spur    Thur    Ur    birr   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    silk    wool    cloth    skin    hair    feather    coat    hide    blanket    robe