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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A long, narrow, shallow trench made in the ground by a plow.
  2. n. A rut, groove, or narrow depression: snow drifting in furrows.
  3. n. A deep wrinkle in the skin, as on the forehead.
  4. v. To make long, narrow, shallow trenches in; plow.
  5. v. To form grooves or deep wrinkles in.
  6. v. To become furrowed or wrinkled.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A trench in the earth, especially that made by a plow.
  2. n. A narrow trench or channel, as in wood or metal, or in a millstone; a groove; a wrinkle.
  3. n. Specifically In zoology, a sulcus or wide groove, generally rounded at the bottom, and extending longitudinally on the animal or part; one of the spaces between costal or longitudinal ridges.
  4. To cut a furrow in; make furrows in; plow.
  5. To make narrow channels or grooves in; mark with or as with wrinkles.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
  2. n. A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on someone's forehead.
  3. v. transitive To make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc.).
  4. v. transitive To wrinkle
  5. v. transitive To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to worry, concentration etc.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.
  2. n. Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face.
  3. v. To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow.
  4. v. To mark with channels or with wrinkles.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow)
  2. v. cut a furrow into a columns
  3. n. a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
  4. v. make wrinkled or creased
  5. v. hollow out in the form of furrow or groove

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhō (cf. East Frisian fuurge, Dutch vore, German Furche, Swedish fåra), from Proto-Indo-European *pork̑os (cf. Welsh rhych ‘furrow’, Latin porca ‘lynchet’, Lithuanian prapar̃šas ‘ditch’, Sanskrit párśānas ‘chasm’). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English forwe, from Old English furh. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • ruzuzu *added*
    Thanks. Jul 10, 2012

  • bilby A Wordnet haiku:
    a long shallow trench
    cut a furrow into columns
    make wrinkled or creased
    Jul 9, 2012

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