FURRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does furred mean? 

• FURRED (adjective)
  The adjective FURRED has 1 sense:

1. covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs

  Familiarity information: FURRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FURRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs

Synonyms:

furred; furry

Context example:

a furry teddy bear

Similar:

haired; hairy; hirsute (having or covered with hair)

 Context examples 

It was furred outside by a thick layer of dust, and damp and worms had eaten through the wood, so that a crop of livid fungi was growing on the inside of it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Several hundred men, furred and mittened, banked around the sled within easy distance.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Where did you leave your furred cloak?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He knew only that the velvet- furred kitten was meat, and he ate and waxed happier with every mouthful.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He was very richly dressed, with furred robes, a scarlet hood, and wide hanging sleeves lined with flame-colored silk.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They gazed awhile in admiration at my strange uncouth dress; my coat made of skins, my wooden-soled shoes, and my furred stockings; whence, however, they concluded, I was not a native of the place, who all go naked.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

How, as that somebody slowly settled down into myself, did I begin to parch, and feel as if my outer covering of skin were a hard board; my tongue the bottom of an empty kettle, furred with long service, and burning up over a slow fire; the palms of my hands, hot plates of metal which no ice could cool!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He sat by John Thornton’s fire, a broad-breasted dog, white-fanged and long-furred; but behind him were the shades of all manner of dogs, half-wolves and wild wolves, urgent and prompting, tasting the savor of the meat he ate, thirsting for the water he drank, scenting the wind with him, listening with him and telling him the sounds made by the wild life in the forest, dictating his moods, directing his actions, lying down to sleep with him when he lay down, and dreaming with him and beyond him and becoming themselves the stuff of his dreams.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)