fur

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The thick coat of soft hair covering the skin of a mammal, such as a fox or beaver.
2. n. The hair-covered, dressed pelt of such a mammal, used in the making of garments and as trimming or decoration.
3. n. A garment made of or lined with the dressed pelt of a mammal.
4. n. A coating similar to the pelt of a mammal.
5. v. To cover, line, or trim with fur.
6. v. To provide fur garments for.
7. v. To cover or coat as if with fur.
8. v. To line (a wall or floor) with furring.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The short, fine, soft coat or pelage of certain animals, distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser, and more or less of which is generally present with it. Fur is one of the most perfect nonconductors of heat, and therefore a warm covering for animals in cold climates. It has always been largely used for human clothing, either on the skin or separated from it. The finest kinds, as those of the sable, ermine, furseal, beaver, otter, etc., are among the costliest of clothing materials, both from their rarity and from the amount of labor involved in their preparation.
2. n. The skin of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry: as, a cargo of furs.
3. n. Strips of skins bearing the natural fur, made in various forms, as capes, muffs, etc., and worn for warmth or ornament: used in the singular collectively, or in the plural. Fur—miniver or vair—was also formerly a mark of certain university degrees, and its use in certain cases was prescribed by statute, as in the statutes of the University of Paris, and in Laud's statutes of Oxford.
4. n. Any natural covering or material regarded as resembling fur.
5. n. Specifically— The soft down on the skin of a peach and on the leaves of some plants. More commonly called fuzz.
6. n. A coat of morbid matter formed on the tongue, as in persons affected with fever.
7. n. A coat or crust formed on the interior of a vessel by matter deposited from a liquid, as wine.
8. n. Scale formed in a boiler.
9. n. In sporting, a general term for furred animals, as in the phrase fur, fin, and feather. Compare feather, fin.
10. n. Kind or class: from the use of particular furs as distinctive insignia.
11. n. In the following passage the allusion is to the use of fur—miniver or vair—in some of the distinctive university costumes.
12. n. One of several tinctures used in heraldry. Each fur represents an artificial surface composed of patches of different colors, supposed to be sewn together, or of tufts sewn upon a plain ground. The eight furs most usually depicted and blazoned are ermine, ermines, erminois, pean, vair, counter-vair, potent, and counter-potent; there are also erminites, vair-en-point vairé. Vairy cup pa and vairy tassa are names given to counter-vair. See meire.
13. Pertaining to or made of fur; producing fur: as, fur animals; a fur cap.
14. To line, face, or cover with fur: as, a furred robe.
15. To cover with morbid or foul matter; coat.
16. In carpentry, to nail strips of board nr timber to, as joists or rafters, in order to bring them to a level and range them into a straight surface, or as a wall or partition, for lathing or for forming an air-space between it and the plastering.
17. To clean off scale from the interior of (a boiler).
18. n. A furrow; the space between two ridges.
19. A dialectal variant of far.
20. An abbreviation of furlong.

Wiktionary

1. n. Hairy coat of various mammal species, especially: when fine, soft and thick.
2. n. Hairy skin of an animal processed into a suitable wear to cover human nakedness, protect humans from the cold and/or be worn ornamentally.
3. n. A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel.
4. n. A coating, lining resembling fur in function and/or appearance.
5. n. A furry; a member of the furry subculture.
6. v. transitive To cover with fur.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.
2. n. The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry.
3. n. Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.
4. n. Articles of clothing made of fur.
5. n. Any coating considered as resembling fur.
6. n. A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
7. n. The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
8. n. The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
9. n. (Her.) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.
10. adj. Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur
11. v. To line, face, or cover with fur.
12. v. To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.
13. v. (Arch.) 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.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel)
2. n. a garment made of the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
3. n. the dressed hairy coat of a mammal