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furred, ppl. a.|fɜːd|
[f. fur n. and v. + -ed.]
1. Made of fur, lined or trimmed with fur.
c1325Poem Times Edw. II, 148 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 330 But if he have hod and cappe furred, he nis noht i-told. 1375Barbour Bruce xvi. 485 The richmond commonly Wes wount that furrit hat to wer. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 175 A Fisicien with a forred hood. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. cc. 181 He lete hym vnclothe of his furred taberd and of his hode and of his furred cotes. 1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy) p. lxi, His furred mittens were of a curres skin. 1634–5Brereton Trav. (1844) 57 Prince of Orange, in a furred and almost like alderman's gown. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) I. 216 The original painted by himself with a black cap and furred gown. 1856Ld. Cockburn Mem. i. (1874) 43 He generally wore the furred greatcoat even within doors.
2. Of an animal: Provided with or having fur.
1545Brinklow Compl. 61 As thou maist know a foxe by his furred tayle. 1651Davenant Gondibert ii. vi, Man..Whom, when his Furr'd and Horned Subjects knew, Their sport is ended. 1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) I. 218 The furred, the provident, and the torpid tribes. 1879Jefferies Wild Life in S. Co. 179 A map..showing the routes and resorts of furred and feathered creatures.
b. Ent. (See quot.)
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 278 Furred, when shorter decumbent hairs thickly cover any space.
3. Wearing fur; wrapped up or clothed in furs.
1593Warner Alb. Eng. vii. xxxvii. (1612) 186 Empson and Dudley, fur'd Esquiers. 1642G. Eglisham Forerunner Revenge in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793) 276 Buckingham came out muffled and furred in his coach. 1798S. Rogers Epist. to Friend, The furred Beauty comes to winter there. 1809Heber in Q. Rev. II. 295 The furred and muffled nobles. 1891Daily News 7 Jan. 3/4 You..will pass in graceful sweep many a furred damsel.
fig.c1596–1603in Hargrave Coll. Tracts Law Eng. I. 314 For heretofore in 5. R. 2. there was a complaint exhibited against them in parliament, that they were over fatt, both in boddie and purse, and over well furred in ther benefices.
4. Covered or coated with morbid matter, incrusted; esp. of the tongue: ‘Covered with a more or less thick substance consisting of epithelial scales, granular matter, food particles, and often fungoid growths’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1885).
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxii. (Percy) 159 Right anone a lady gan to scrape His furred tonge. 1634Peacham Gentl. Exerc. i. xxiii. 72 Take a torch or linke, and hold it under the bottome of a latten basen, and as it groweth to be furd and blacke within strike it with a feather into some shell or other. 1707J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 149 My..Teeth were..all firr'd. 1743R. Blair Grave 16 Musty vaults, Furr'd round with mouldy damps. 1803Med. Jrnl. IX. 510 Teeth furred, and throat sore. 1878Habershon Dis. Abdomen 16 A furred tongue is generally caused by the excessive formation of the epithelial coat.
†b. transf. of the voice: Husky. Obs.
1666Pepys Diary 12 Oct., Her voice, for want of use, is so furred that it do not at present please me.
c. Of a boiler: Encrusted.
1873R. Wilson Steam Boilers vii. 118 The objection..is their liability to become furred up when the water contains a considerable quantity of lime salts.
†5. (See quot.) Obs.
1697Evelyn Numism. vi. 213 Monetaries have melted old Coins, and taking a slight Proportion of Silver, cover'd the Copper, and new stamp'd it; these among Medalists are called Plated, or Furr'd Medals. |