noun.
The common name for the Ulex Europæus, a low, much-branched, and spiny leguminous shrub, with yellow flowers
noun.
A frizz.
To become entangled, as silk fibers during the reeling from the cocoon.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europæus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.