Definition of Fur

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Definition of Fur

Fur

The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.

The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.

Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.

Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).

Any coating considered as resembling fur

A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.

The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.

The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.

One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.

Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade.

To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes.

To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.

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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Fur Quotations

People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
Pamela Anderson

I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life.
Gisele Bundchen

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.
Christy Turlington

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
Jean Paul

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.
Ellsworth Huntington

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
William Ralph Inge

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.
Esther Dyson

The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film.
Chester Brown

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
Bryan Ferry

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.
Joseph Epstein

Fur Translations

fur in Danish is skind, pels
fur in Dutch is aanzetten
fur in Finnish is turkis, talja
fur in French is peau, fourrure
fur in German is Pelz
fur in Italian is pelle, pelliccia
fur in Norwegian is tungebelegg, pels
fur in Portuguese is pele

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