fur dressing

The proce of cleaning, cut ting, and dyeing furs. fur-puller, 8. A machine for removing from peltry skins long, straight hairs, before the fine hair is sheared off to furnish the material for felt. *fur-wrought, a. Made of fur. "Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur- wrought fly delude the prey." Gay: Pastorals , c. i. für, v. t. [FUR, 8.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. To cover, line, or trim with fur. "The original painted by himself [Cleeve) with a black cap and furred gown, upon a greenish ground."- Walpole : Anecdotes of Painting , vol. i., ch. vi. 2. To cover or coat with morbid matter, as the tongue, or the interior of ve els. "To make lampblack, take a torch and hold it under the bottom of a latten bason; and, as it groweth to be furred and black within, strike it with a feather into some shell." -Peacham: On Drawing. II. Carp.: To nail pieces of timber to, as joists or rafters, in order to bring them into a level, and range them into a straight surface. *für, a. & adv . [FAR.] *fu-rā-cio us, a. [Lat. furax (gen it. furacis ), from fur a thief.] Given to thieving; inclined to B. As subst.: Jesting, joking. fun-nỹ, *fun-nie, a. [Eng. fun; -y.] 1. Droll, comical, laughable; causing mirth or laughter; full of merriment. "Unco tales and funnie jokes." Burns: Halloween, xxviii. 2. Causing surprise; strange, curious. fun-nỹ, s. [Etym. doubtful.] Naut .: A narrow, clinker-built pleasure-boat, to be rowed by a pair of sculls. "The only attainable craft besides funnies, pair-oars, and randans, were a couple of six-oars." -London Field. *fu-răç-1-ty, s. [Lat. furacitas , from furax (gen it. furacis )=thievish.] A disposition to steal; thievishne . für-bĕ-lōw, s . [ Fr. farbala a flounce; Sp., Ital. & Port. falbala , a word of unknown origin.] 1. Ord. Lang.: A piece of stuff plaited and puck ered together, either below on or above, on petticoats and gowns; a flounce; the plaited border of a petticoat or gown. "A furbelow of precious stones, a hat buttoned with a diamond."- Add is on . Spectator , No. 15. 2. Bot .: A sea-weed, Laminaria bulbosa ; or, according to Mrs. Gatty, L. saccharin a . ( Britten & Holland .) IMG:content-0241.png:[blocks in formation] für'-bish, *for-bysch-yn, *fro-bish, *frubbish, v . t . [Fr. four bis sant , pr. par. of fourbir = to furbish, to polish; O. H. Ger. furpjan ; M. H. Ger. vürben .] 1. Lit .: To rub to brightne ; to polish up; to burnish. "He commanded them to scour and furbish their harne e and weapons before their tents."-P. Holland: Livius , p. 624. 2. Fig .: To prepare for fresh use something which has long lain disused. (Often followed by up.) "Again they furbish up their holy trumpery." Rowe: Lady Jane Grey, iii. für'-bish-a-ble, a. [Eng. furbish; -able.] That may or can be furbished up. für-bish-er, *foor-bysch-owre, *for-bus here, *fro-bych-er, s . [Fr. fourbi eur .] One who furbishes, polishes, or brightens up by rubbing. "Foorbyschowre. Eruginator . " - Prompt . Parv. für-cāte, für-cat-ěd, a. [Latin furc ( a ) = a fork; Eng. suff. -ate , -ated .] Ord. Lang. & Bot .: Forked, dividing into two branches, like a two-pronged fork. ( Balfour .) für-cāte-ly, adv . [Eng. furcate ; -ly.] In a forked manner. furcately-divided, a. Bot .: Divided in a furcate manner. ( Paxton .) für-ca-tion, s . [Lat. furc ( a )=a fork; Eng., ., suff. -ation .] A forking, a branching out like the prongs of a fork. "When stags grow old they grow le branched, and first lose their brow-antlers, or lowest furcations next the head."-Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. iii., ch. ix. *für-çif-er-ous, a . [Lat. furcifer =one bearing the furca or gallows, a jail-bird; furca =(1) a fork, (2) an instrument of punishment placed on the neck of criminals, and fero = to bear.] Scoundrelly, rascally. für-cu-la, für-cu-lum, s . [Lat. furcula =a forked prop to support a wall when undermined.] Ornith.: The bone popularly called the merrythought. It is composed of the two clavicles anchylosed together so as to form one bone, shaped like the letter V. Its outward extremities articulate with the scapula and coracoid.