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Verb
/ˈfərō/,/ˈfə-rō/,
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furrows, plural;
  1. Make a rut, groove, or trail in (the ground or the surface of something)
    • - gorges furrowing the deep-sea floor
  2. (with reference to the forehead or face) Mark or be marked with lines or wrinkles caused by frowning, anxiety, or concentration
    • - a look of concern furrowed his brow
    • - her brow furrowed
    • - he stroked his furrowed brow
  3. (with reference to the eyebrows) Tighten or be tightened and lowered in anxiety, concentration, or disapproval, so wrinkling the forehead
    • - his brows furrowed in concentration
    • - she furrowed her brows, thinking hard
  4. Use a plow to make a long narrow trench in (land or earth)
    • - furrowed fields
Noun
  1. A long narrow trench made in the ground by a plow, esp. for planting seeds or for irrigation

  2. A rut, groove, or trail in the ground or another surface
    • - truck wheels had dug furrows in the sand
  3. A line or wrinkle on a person's face
    • - there were deep furrows in his brow
  1. a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow)
  2. hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil"
  3. make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow"
  4. wrinkle: a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
  5. cut a furrow into a columns
  6. (furrowed) having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile"
  7. The plough (American spelling: plow; both) is a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting. It has been a basic instrument for most of recorded history, and represents one of the major advances in agriculture. ...
  8. The Furrow is an Irish Roman Catholic theological periodical. It was founded in 1950 by Dr J.G. McGarry, Professor of Sacred Eloquence and Pastoral Theology at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. The current editor is the Reverend Professor Ronan Drury, B.A., B.D. ...
  9. (Furrows (film)) Furrows (Surcos) (1951) is a Spanish film directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde, and written by him in collaboration with Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Eugenio Montes, and Natividad Zaro. ...
  10. A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop; A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on someone's forehead; To make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc.); To wrinkle; To frown, to pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to worry, concentration etc
  11. (Furrowed) (FER-rohd) -- Having long grooves.
  12. (Furrowed) Bark that is furrowed has small cracks and valleys along it, usually going vertically, or up and down the tree.
  13. (Furrowed) Deeply grooved; often used to describe tree bark.
  14. (Furrowed) channeled or grooved lengthwise
  15. (Furrowed) surface wrinkled or broken by furrows and thickened ridges or plates.
  16. (Furrowing) The practice of striking a ‘V’ in a bed of mortar with the point of the trowel.
  17. (Furrowing) Small indentation cut into the mortar bed by a trowel to prepare the mortar bed for the brick.
  18. (Furrowing) a site preparation method involving plowing of a trench in preparation for reforestation
  19. (Furrows) Deep narrow grooves or deep wrinkles in the skin, most often caused by repeated frowning, squinting and other facial expressions.
  20. Slight indentation on the median line from stop to occiput (e.g. Bulldog, Hungarian Vizsla).
  21. An indentation or median line down the center of the skull to the top skull
  22. A natural or man-made narrow depression in the earth's surface. A narrow trenchlike plowed depression in the earth surface to keep surface water away from the slopes of cuts.
  23. linear groove, often defining adjacent convex features, such as lobes of the glabella
  24. A groove in the bark of a tree, making the trunk look somewhat "wrinkled." Furrows can be shallow or deep, narrow or wide, depending on the species.
  25. Shallow groove. See foraminifer or trilobite pages.