FURRED • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Furred

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

verb

Fur v. t. (past & past part. furred; pres. part. furring)

To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes. "You fur your gloves with reason."

To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.

(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

furred adj. Covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs.

Synonyms: furry.

See images of 'Furred'

Etymology of 'Furred'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Furred" Quotes from Famous Books

... Whether it lead been left out of the basket when grandmamma's bell rang, and so got swept away by the nurse and burnt, I cannot say; but, at any rate, when the children went to their play one morning, 'Softy,' their dear little 'Softy,' was gone. He was the fattest-furred and finest-haired of all the Tod family, and the one about whom they invented the prettiest stories; he was, in fact, the model, the out-of-the-way-amiable pattern Tod. They could not believe at first that he really ...

— Aunt Judy's Tales • Mrs Alfred Gatty

... Fidele, I will daily strew thy grave. The pale primrose, that flower most like thy face; the bluebell, like thy clear veins; and the leaf of eglantine, which is not sweeter than was thy breath-all these will I strew over thee. Yea, and the furred moss in winter, when there are no flowers to cover thy ...

— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb

... wind came whispering over the lonely land, and all the furred and winged creatures of the night stole from their dark hiding places into the gloom which is the beginning of their day. A coyote crept stealthily past in the dark and from the mountain side below came the weird, ghostly call of its mate. An owl drifted by on ...

— When A Man's A Man • Harold Bell Wright

... gown should be of goodliness Well ribboned with renown, Purfilled with pleasure in ilk place, Furred ...

— Penny Plain • Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)

... poor and humble in a high argument. Would you not laugh to meet a great councillor of State in a flat cap, with his trunk hose, and a hobbyhorse cloak, his gloves under his girdle, and yond haberdasher in a velvet gown, furred with sables? There is a certain latitude in these things, by which ...

— Discoveries and Some Poems • Ben Jonson

More quotes...