furoin

[Eng. Fur ( furol ); o connective, and suff. -in. ( Chem.)] Chem.: C10H8O4, or C4H3O-CO-CH(OH), C4H3O. Obtained by boiling for half an hour a mixture of forty parts furfurol with thirty parts of alcohol, 1. The trade or busine of a furrier. 2. Furs in general. *für-ri-lý, adv . [Eng. furry; -ly.] In a furry manner; with a covering of fur. für-ring, pr. par., a. & 8. [FUR, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act or proce of lining, trimming, or ornamenting with fur. 2. The act of covering or coating with fur. "Providing for furring of their backs and fattening their bellies, and in gorgeously decked chambers and soft sleeping." - Martin : Book of Priests ' Marriages . 3. The act or state of becoming furred or covered with a furry coat or scaly deposit, as a boiler. "With honie it cureth the roughne and furring of the tongue." -P. Holland : Pliny , bk. xx., ch. xiv. II. Technically : 1. Carp.: Thin pieces fixed on the edge of timber to make the surface even. 2. Ship build.: Double planking of a ship's side. 3. Build .: A lining of scantling and plaster-work on a brick wall, to prevent the dampne of the latter reaching the room. für'-rōw, *furch, *furgh, *fur we, *for-ow, *forgh, forghe, *for-owe, s . [A. S. furh ; cogn. with Icel. for a drain; O. H. Ger. furh ; M. H. Ger. vurch; Ger. furche a furrow; Dan. fure ; Swed. far a. Cf. Lat. porca =a ridge between two fur rows.] IMG:content-0248.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Mill .: The grooves in the face of a mill-stone; the plane surface is land. A leader-furrow extends from the eye to the skirt of the stone at such draft as may be determined. The steep edge of the furrow is called the track-edge; the more inclined edge is called the feather-edge. The second furrow is that branching from the leader nearest to the eye. The skirt-furrow departs from the leader nearer to the skirt. A gauge-furrow is concave at bottom. primary ridges in the fruit of an umbelliferous plant. To draw a straight furrow : To do that which is right; to live correctly. *furrow-cow, s. A cow that is not with calf. "Item from him sex furrow-cows, and sex stirks at 131b. 68. 8d. the piece, is 80lb."-Depredations in Argyll, p. 51. furrow-drain, v. t. To drain a land by making a drain acro each furrow or between every two ridges. *furrow-faced, a. Having a wrinkled or furrowed face or surface. IMG:content-0249.png:[blocks in formation] "Why he was met even now As mad as the vext sea, singing aloud, Crowned with rank fumitar and furrow-weeds." Shakesp.: Lear, iv. 4. für-rōw, *for-owe,*fur-rowe, v . t . [FURROW, 8.] *1. To cut or make a furrow in with a plow; to plow. *2. To divide in furrows; to make uneven; to cut a way through. *3. To make by cutting; to cut out. "There go the ships that furrow out their way." IMG:content-0250.png:[blocks in formation] C. As subst.: The act of making furrows in. furrowing-hammer, s . A millstone dre er's hammer. [MILLSTONE-HAMMER.]