fur

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An animal pelt used to make, trim or line clothing.

   During the colonial period, Britain used Canada as a major source of furs.

2. 2
   noun

   A garment made of fur.

   November 17, 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter to the Countess of Mar wrapped up in my furs

3. 3
   noun

   A furry, a member of the furry fandom.

   "You want to know what brings furries together?" she asks. "Furs are here because they don't fit in anywhere else. For real furs, this is the only place they feel comfortable."

4. 4
   verb

   To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating.

   The college water supply was practically undrinkable because of its salinity and the pipes furred up so rapidly that they had to be replaced every few years.

5. 5
   prep

   Pronunciation spelling of for.

   A’most the moment as she lighted heer, all so desolate, she found (as she believed) a friend; a decent woman as spoke to her about the needle-work as she had been brought up to do, about finding plenty of it fur her, about a lodging fur the night, and making secret inquiration concerning of me and all at home, to-morrow.

6. 6
   noun

   dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel)

7. 7
   noun

   a garment made of the dressed hairy coat of a mammal

8. 8
   noun

   the dressed hairy coat of a mammal

Etymology

From Middle English furre, forre, from Anglo-Norman forre, fuerre (“a case; sheath”), from Frankish *fōdar, from Proto-West Germanic *fōdr, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“sheath”) (compare Old English fōdor (“sheaf”), Dutch voering (“lining”), German Futter (“lining”), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐍂 (fōdr, “sheath”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-, *poh₂- (“to protect”) (compare Lithuanian piemuō (“protection”), Ancient Greek πῶῠ̈ (pôŭ̈, “flock”), πῶμα (pôma, “lid”), ποιμήν (poimḗn, “shepherd”), Old Armenian հաւրան (hawran, “herd, flock”), Northern Kurdish pawan (“to watch over”), Sanskrit पाति (pāti, “he watche…