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Furred. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Furred ppl. a. [f. FUR sb. and v. + -ED.]

1   1.  Made of fur, lined or trimmed with fur.

2 c. 1325.  Poem Times Edw. II., 148, in Pol. Songs (Camden), 330. But if he have hod and cappe furred, he nis noht i-told.

3 1375.  Barbour, Bruce, XVI. 485. The richmond commonly Wes wount that furrit hat to wer.

4 1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B. XX. 175. A Fisicien with a forred hood.

5 1480.  Caxton, Chron. Eng., cc. 181. He lete hym vnclothe of his furred taberd and of his hode and of his furred cotes.

6 1514.  Barclay, Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.), p. lxi.        Such fulsome pasture made him a double chin: His furred mittens were of a curres skin.

7 1634–5.  Brereton, Trav. (1844), 57. Prince of Orange, in a furred and almost like alderman’s gown.

8 1762–71.  H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint. (1786), I. 216. The original painted by himself with a black cap and furred gown.

9 1856.  Ld. Cockburn, Mem., i. (1874), 43. He [Adam Ferguson] generally wore the furred greatcoat even within doors.

10   2.  Of an animal: Provided with or having fur.

11 1545.  Brinkelow, Compl., 61. Serch the scripture, and thou shalt as easely knowe the enemies therof, as thou maist know a foxe by his furred tayle.

12 1651.  Davenant, Gondibert, II. vi. Man … Whom, when his Furr’d and Horned Subjects knew, Their sport is ended.

13 1816.  Keatinge, Trav. (1817), I. 218. The furred, the provident, and the torpid tribes would thus be encountered in the summit levels.

14 1879.  Jefferies, Wild Life in a Southern County, 179. I think I could make a map of these fields, showing the routes and resorts of furred and feathered creatures.

15   b.  Ent. (See quot.)

16 1826.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. 278. Furred, when shorter decumbent hairs thickly cover any space.

17   3.  Wearing fur; wrapped up or clothed in furs.

18 1593.  Warner, Alb. Eng., VII. xxxvii. (1612), 186. Empson and Dudley, fur’d Esquiers.

19 1642.  Eglishman, Forerunner Revenge, in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793), 276. Buckingham came out muffled and furred in his coach.

20 1798.  S. Rogers, Epist. to Friend. The furred Beauty comes to winter there.

21 1809.  Heber, in Quarterly Review, II. 295. The frozen Neva, and the furred, and muffled nobles, recal[l] to his mind the naked youths, and olive trees of the Olympic Stadium.

22 1891.  Daily News, 7 Jan., 3/4. You … will pass in graceful sweep many a furred damsel.

23   fig.  c. 1596–1603.  in Hargrave, Coll. Tracts Law Eng., I. 314. For heretofore in 5. R. 2. there was a complaint exhibited against them in parliament, that they were over fatt, both in boddie and purse, and over well furred in ther benefices.

24   4.  Covered or coated with morbid matter, incrusted; esp. of the tongue: ‘Covered with a more or less thick substance consisting of epithelial scales, granular matter, food particles, and often fungoid growths’ (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1885).

25 1509.  Hawes, The Pastime of Pleasure, xxxii. (Percy), 159.        Than right anone a lady gan to scrape His furred tonge, that he cryed lyke an ape.

26 1634.  Peacham, Gentl. Exerc., I. xxiii. 72. Take a torch or linke, and hold it under the bottome of a latten basen, and as it groweth to be furd and blacke within strike it with a feather into some shell or other.

27 1707.  J. Stevens, trans. Quevedo’s Com. Wks. (1709), 149. My … Teeth were … all firr’d.

28 1743.  R. Blair, Grave, 16. Musty vaults, Furr’d round with mouldy damps.

29 1803.  Med. Jrnl., IX. 510. Teeth furred, and throat sore.

30 1878.  Habershon, Dis. Abdomen, 16. A furred tongue is generally caused by the excessive formation of the epithelial coat.

31   † b.  transf. of the voice: Husky. Obs.

32 1666.  Pepys, Diary, 12 Oct. Her voice, for want of use, is so furred that it do not at present please me.

33   c.  Of a boiler: Encrusted.

34 1873.  R. Wilson, Steam Boilers, vii. 118. The objection … is their liability to become furred up when the water contains a considerable quantity of lime salts.

35   † 5.  (See quot.) Obs.

36 1697.  Evelyn, Numismata, vi. 213. Monetaries have melted old Coins, and taking a slight Proportion of Silver, cover’d the Copper, and new stamp’d it; these among Medalists are called Plated, or Furr’d Medals.

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