Furthersome
(Fur"ther*some) a. Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous. [R.]
You will not find it furthersome.
Carlyle. Furthest
(Fur"thest) a. superl. Most remote; most in advance; farthest. See Further, a.
Furthest
(Fur"thest), adv. At the greatest distance; farthest.
Furtive
(Fur"tive) a. [L. furtivus, fr. furtum theft, fr. fur thief, akin to ferre to bear: cf. F. furtif. See
Fertile.] Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look. Prior.
A hasty and furtive ceremony.
Hallam. Furtively
(Fur"tive*ly), adv. Stealthily by theft. Lover.
Furuncle
(Fu"run*cle) n. [L. furunculus a petty thief, a boil, dim. of fur thief: cf. F. furoncle.] (Med.)
A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.
Furuncular
(Fu*run"cu*lar) a. Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles.
Fury
(Fu"ry) n. [L. fur.] A thief. [Obs.]
Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.
J. Fleteher. Fury
(Fu"ry), n.; pl. Furies [L. furia, fr. furere to rage: cf. F. furie. Cf. Furor.]
1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired.
Sir P. Sidney. 2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; — sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
"Fury of the wind." Shak.
I do oppose my patience to his fury.
Shak. 3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path
would punish him.
Emerson. 4. One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.]
Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.
Milton. 5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
Syn. — Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy.
See Anger.
Furze
(Furze) n. [OE. firs, As. fyrs.] (Bot.) A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europæus), with beautiful
yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; — called also gorse, and whin.
The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.
Furzechat
(Furze"chat") n. (Zoöl.) The whinchat; — called also furzechuck.
Furzeling
(Furze"ling) n. (Zoöl.) An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); — called also furze wren,
and Dartford warbler.
