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Bible Dictionaries
Fur
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).
(2):
(n.) The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.
(3):
(n.) The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.
(4):
(n.) Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.
(5):
(n.) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.
(6):
(n.) Any coating considered as resembling fur
(7):
(n.) A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
(8):
(n.) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
(9):
(n.) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
(10):
(a.) Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade.
(11):
(v. t.) To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes.
(12):
(v. t.) To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.
(13):
(v. t.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Fur'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/f/fur.html. 1828.
