Fur

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  • noun. The thick coat of soft hair covering the skin of a mammal, such as a fox or beaver.
  • noun. The hair-covered, dressed pelt of such a mammal, used in making garments and as trimming or decoration.
  • noun. A garment made of or lined with the dressed pelt of a mammal.
  • noun. A coating similar to the pelt of a mammal.
  • transitive verb. To cover, line, or trim with fur.
  • transitive verb. To provide fur garments for.
  • transitive verb. To cover or coat as if with fur.
  • transitive verb. To line (a wall or floor) with furring.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A furrow; the space between two ridges.
  • 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).
  • A dialectal variant of far.
  • An abbreviation of furlong.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The skin of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry: as, a cargo of furs.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Any natural covering or material regarded as resembling fur.
  • noun. Specifically— The soft down on the skin of a peach and on the leaves of some plants. More commonly called fuzz.
  • noun. A coat of morbid matter formed on the tongue, as in persons affected with fever.
  • noun. A coat or crust formed on the interior of a vessel by matter deposited from a liquid, as wine.
  • noun. Scale formed in a boiler.
  • noun. In sporting, a general term for furred animals, as in the phrase fur, fin, and feather. Compare feather, fin.
  • noun. Kind or class: from the use of particular furs as distinctive insignia.
  • noun. In the following passage the allusion is to the use of fur—miniver or vair—in some of the distinctive university costumes.
  • noun. One of several tinctures used in heraldry.
  • Pertaining to or made of fur; producing fur: as, fur animals; a fur cap.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur
  • adjective. 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.
  • noun. The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.
  • noun. The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry.
  • noun. Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.
  • noun. Articles of clothing made of fur.
  • noun. Any coating considered as resembling fur.
  • noun. A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
  • noun. The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
  • noun. The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
  • noun. One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.
  • transitive verb. To line, face, or cover with fur.
  • transitive verb. To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Hairy coat of various mammal species, especially: when fine, soft and thick.
  • noun. Hairy skin of an animal processed into a suitable wear to cover human nakedness, protect humans from the cold and/or be worn ornamentally.
  • noun. A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel.
  • noun. A coating, lining resembling fur in function and/or appearance.
  • noun. A furry; a member of the furry subculture.
  • verb. To cover with fur.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel)
  • noun. a garment made of the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
  • Word Usage
    "His fur must hide a lot. *makes mental note to grow fluffy fur*"
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    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    garment  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Burr  Fleur  Kerr  Monsieur  Shir  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blanket  carpet  cloth  coat  feather  
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    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    furred  furring  
    verb-form
    furred  furring  furs