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Verb
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furs, plural;
  1. Covered with or made from a particular type of fur
    • - silky-furred lemurs
  2. Coat or clog with a deposit
    • - the stuff that furs up coronary arteries
  3. Fix strips of wood to (floor joists, wall studs, etc.) in order to level them or increase their depth

Noun
  1. The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals
    • - a long, lean, muscular cat with sleek fur
  2. The skin of an animal with such hair on it

  3. Skins of this type, or fabrics resembling these, used as material for making, trimming, or lining clothes
    • - jackets made out of yak fur
    • - a fur coat
  4. A garment made of, trimmed, or lined with fur
    • - she pulled the fur around her
  5. Any of several heraldic tinctures representing animal skins in stylized form (e.g., ermine, vair)

  6. A coating formed by hard water on the inside surface of a pipe, kettle, or other container

  7. A coating formed on the tongue as a symptom of sickness


  1. the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
  2. dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel)
  3. Fur is a synonym for hair, used more in reference to non-human animals, usually mammals; particularly those with extensive body hair coverage. The term is sometimes used to refer to the body hair of an animal as a complete coat, also known as the "pelage". ...
  4. Furin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FURIN gene. It was named furin because it was in the upstream region of an oncogene known as FES. The gene was known as FUR (FES Upstream Region) and therefore the protein was named furin. ...
  5. Rúbaň (Für) is a village and municipality in the Nové Zámky District in the Nitra Region of south-west Slovakia.
  6. Fur is the debut full-length album by London-based band Archie Bronson Outfit. It was released on 26 July 2004.
  7. Fur is a village in Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, southeastern Sweden.
  8. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (also known simply as Fur) is a 2006 film starring Nicole Kidman as iconic American photographer Diane Arbus, who was known for her strange, disturbing images.
  9. In heraldry, tinctures are the colours used to emblazon a coat of arms. These can be divided into several categories including light tinctures called metals, dark tinctures called colours, nonstandard colours called stains, furs, and "proper". ...
  10. Fur is a small Danish island in the Limfjord at the northern tip of the Salling peninsula. Fur has under 900 inhabitants. The island covers an area of 22 km². It is located at .
  11. Fur is the second album by Jane Wiedlin, released in 1988. The songs "Rush Hour" and "Inside a Dream" were released as singles and both charted on the Billboard Hot 100. The album has a slick, contemporary production, with mainly programmed music complemented by electric guitar and some horns.
  12. The Fur language (Fur bèle fòòr or fòòraŋ bèle, Arabic فوراوي Fûrâwî; sometimes called Konjara by linguists, after a former ruling clan) is the language of the Fur of Darfur in western Sudan. It belongs to the Fur branch of the Nilo-Saharan phylum. ...
  13. Hairy coat of various mammal species, especially: when fine, soft and thick; Hairy skin of an animal processed into a suitable wear to cover human nakedness, protect humans from the cold and/or be worn ornamentally; A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel; A coating, lining resembling ...
  14. One of a Nilo-Saharan people of western Sudan; The language of this people
  15. (Furs) To dream of dealing in furs, denotes prosperity and an interest in many concerns. To be dressed in fur, signifies your safety from want and poverty. To see fine fur, denotes honor and riches. For a young woman to dream that she is wearing costly furs, denotes that she will marry a wise man.
  16. (FURS) [Heraldry] There are nine allowed furs: ermine, ermines, erminois, erminites, pean, vair, counter vair, potent (meirré), and counter potent
  17. (Furs) Generic term for the stylized representation of animal pelts in heraldry.
  18. (Furs) such as ermine, vair, and their variants, are regular patterns that represent actual fur. Any charge may be of a fur. (In German heraldry, "fur proper" is sometimes used, but this is rare in the extreme.)
  19. Furs are special patterned combinations of tinctures; They are not technically considered either metals or colors, but rather a nuetral sort of in-between tincture. ...
  20. A body hair of any nonhuman mammal, also known as the pelage. It may consist of short ground hair, long guard hair and, in some cases, medium awn hair. Some commercially sold fur, however, is artificial and produced from synthetic materials.
  21. An important, but not a foundational belief, within Islam. A believer can reject such a belief and still remain a Muslim.
  22. Can either refer to the overall coat of an animal or sometimes limited to the woolly underfur only.  From the Old French or German “fuerre” or “fore” meaning sheath or covering (Samet 1950)
  23. what you pay for passage; "Your fur, please", the conductor said.
  24. Animal skin with the hair intact. While not really a fabric, it can in all other respects still be treated as such.
  25. Many natural animal furs are used for the bodies of flies. Exotic and domestic animals and household pets are all used in the search for a particular colour shade.