furniture plush (fern it urp lush)

A plush made entirely of mohair, or with a mohair filling and a cotton warp, used for covering household furniture. Also called Utrecht velvet. furniture-print (fer'ni-tur-print), n. See chintz1. Pepys , Diary, II. 470. [ fourreur , a furrier, a skinner, fourrer , fur: see fur1 , n. and v.] A dealer in or a dre er of furs; one who makes or sells articles of wearing-apparel, etc., made of fur. furriery (fèr'i-er-i), n.; pl. furrieries (-iz). [ 2. The trade of a furrier. furrily (fèr'i-li), adv. In a furry manner; with a covering of fur. Byron. furring (fèr'ing), n. [ Hem faileth no furrynge ne clothes at full. Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 604. A sort of hedgehog with heavy furring and short legs. Sci. Amer., N. S., LV. 129. 2. A deposit resembling fur, as of scale in a steam-boiler or of epithelium on the tongue. With honie it [a gargarism of milke) cureth the roughne & furring of the tongue. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xx. 14. When. water is heated, the carbonic acid is expelled, and the lime salts are deposited in an insoluble form, such as the furring in a tea-kettle or boiler. W. L. Carpenter, Soap and Candles, p. 212. 3. In carp .: ( a ) The nailing on of thin strips of board, as to joists and rafters, in order to bring them to a level to form an even surface, or in other positions for various purposes. (b) pl . The strips thus nailed on. (c) Strips fastened to a solid wall of a house for nailing laths on, and to provide an air-space between the wall and plastering. furrow (fur'ō), n. [Also dial. fur , foor ; fur we , forowe , for we , forgh , furch , etc., furh =OFries. furch =OD. vore , D. voor = MLG. vore , LG. fore = OHG. furuh , MHG. vurch, G. furche , a furrow (Dan. fure =Sw. fåra , a furrow, prob. for , a drain. Cf. L. porca , a ridge between two furrows, a balk.] 1. A trench in the earth, especially that made by a plow. And yf ich zede to the plouh, ich pynchede on hus half That a fot-londe other a for we fecchen ich wolde. acre, Piers Plowman (C), vii. 268. What time the labour'd ox In his loose traces from the furrow came. Milton, Comus, 1. 292. 2. A narrow trench or channel, as in wood or metal, or in a millstone; a groove; a wrinkle. furry extending longitudinally on the animal or part; one of the spaces between costal or longitudinal ridges. Furrow of the cerebrum. Same as fi ure of Kolando (which see, under fi ure ). - Furrow of the corpus callosum, the groove between the gyrus forni cat us and the corpus callosum. - Gouge-furrow, a fur row concave at bottom. Leader-furrow, a furrow extending from the eye to the skirt of a millstone. - Primitive furrow, in embryol., the first trace of the formation of the nervous axis of a vertebrate, being a groove along the back, soon converted into a tube, the future cerebrospinal axis. - Second furrows, furrows extending from the leaders nearest to the eye of a millstone. -Skirt-furrows, furrows branching from the leaders nearer to the skirt of a millstone.