📖 F — The English dictionary · page 48

furbish — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To polish and clean a weapon until it shines.↗ Example: 'Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the LORD: Say: A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished: (Prophets EZK.21.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Harness the horses, and mount, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.↗ (Prophets JER.46.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And it is given to be furbished, that it may be handled; the sword, it is sharpened, yea, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.↗ (Prophets EZK.21.16, JPS 1917)↗

furcula — Everyday, meaning 1: The furcula is the wishbone of a bird: a forked bone in its chest made of two collarbones joined together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In some tiny insects called springtails, the furcula is a forked tail-like part that flicks down to make them jump.↗ Example: The furcula is also called the wishbone.↗ · After the roast chicken, my brother and I pulled the furcula and made a wish.↗ · A bird's furcula bends like a spring as it flaps.↗ · Some dinosaurs had a furcula, just like birds.↗ · The springtail jumped by snapping its furcula against the ground.↗ · Find the furcula on the diagram of the bird skeleton.↗

furious — Everyday, meaning 1: Very, very angry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very strong, fast or wild: «a furious storm», «at a furious speed».↗ Example: Mum was furious when I broke the window.↗ · The teacher was furious about the mess.↗ · The wind blew with furious strength.↗ · He was furious with his brother for reading his diary.↗ · She pedalled at a furious speed.↗ · When you feel furious, count to ten before you speak.↗ · Meanwhile, the battle waxed more and more furious.↗ · For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.↗ (Writings DAN.2.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay My vengeance upon them.'↗ (Prophets EZK.25.17, JPS 1917)↗

furiously — Everyday, meaning 1: Furiously means in a very angry way, or with great force and wild energy.↗ Example: "Stop!" she shouted furiously.↗ · The waves crashed furiously on the rocks.↗ · The battle raged more furiously than before.↗ · And the watchman told, saying: 'He came even unto them, and cometh not back; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.'↗ (Prophets 2KI.9.20, JPS 1917)↗

furlough — Everyday, meaning 1: A furlough is a time when workers are told not to come to work for a while, often because there is not enough work, and they may get less pay or none.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A furlough is leave from duty for a soldier, or a short permitted absence from prison.↗ Example: Dad was furloughed when the factory closed for a while.↗ · She was on furlough for three months.↗ · The soldier went home on furlough.↗ · Many workers were on furlough and earned 80 per cent of their pay.↗ · The company furloughed half its staff.↗ · He went back to work after his furlough ended.↗ · A certain soldier was allowed to go home on furlough.↗

furloughed — Everyday, meaning 1: (euphemism, work) sent home from work for a time without pay or with reduced pay, because the employer has no work or money; it may lead to losing the job.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (military, old) given a leave of absence: «a soldier on furlough».↗ Example: Dad was furloughed when the factory shut for three months.↗ · Thousands of workers were furloughed during the crisis.↗ · Being furloughed means you don't work for a while but you might go back.↗ · The government paid part of the wages of furloughed staff.↗ · Mum's café furloughed all its waiters.↗ · The soldier came home on furlough.↗ · Some furloughed workers never got their jobs back.↗ · If a worker earns 400 pounds a week and is furloughed on 80 percent pay, he gets 320 pounds.↗

furnace — Everyday, meaning 1: A furnace is a very hot enclosed fire or oven used to melt metal, make glass or burn things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (USA, Canada) The heater in a house that warms the air or water for the whole home.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A very hot place: «The classroom was a furnace today».↗ Example: The iron was melted in a huge furnace.↗ · Our furnace broke, so the house was cold all night.↗ (USA)↗ · Glassblowers heat the glass in a furnace.↗ · The car was like a furnace after sitting in the sun.↗ · In the Bible story, three men walked unharmed in the fiery furnace.↗ · Coal kept the old furnaces burning day and night.↗ · Never go near a furnace without an adult; it can burn you badly.↗ · “Set me a task!” said he, with a voice like the roaring of an iron furnace.↗ · And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and there was thick darkness, behold a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.↗ (Torah GEN.15.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron: 'Take to you handfuls of soot of the furnace, and let Moses throw it heavenward in the sight of Pharaoh.↗ (Torah EXO.9.8, JPS 1917)↗ · But you hath the LORD taken and brought forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto Him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.↗ (Torah DEU.4.20, JPS 1917)↗ · The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts.↗ (Writings PRO.17.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have tried thee in the furnace of affliction.↗ (Prophets ISA.48.10, JPS 1917)↗ · and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.↗ (Writings DAN.3.11, JPS 1917)↗

furnish — Everyday, meaning 1: To put furniture in a room or house.↗ e.g. They furnished the bedroom.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To supply or give something needed: furnish us with the details.↗ Example: We furnished the playroom with beanbags and shelves.↗ · The holiday house was fully furnished.↗ · Please furnish us with your address.↗ · They furnished the classroom with new desks.↗ · It costs a lot to furnish a whole house.↗ · The library furnished the pupils with books.↗ · If you wish me to remain in your service, furnish me with the necessary funds, else I must withdraw."↗ · thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.↗ (Torah DEU.15.14, JPS 1917)↗ · O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for Noph shall become a desolation, and shall be laid waste, without inhabitant.↗ (Prophets JER.46.19, JPS 1917)↗

furnished — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) Having furniture in it (a furnished flat).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Put furniture in a room or building.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Gave or supplied something that is needed (furnished us with information).↗ Example: They rented a furnished flat with beds and a sofa.↗ · The room was furnished with old wooden chairs.↗ · The cottage is fully furnished.↗ · (formal) The teacher furnished us with a map.↗ · The castle hall was richly furnished.↗ · They furnished the new house slowly.↗ · Then he went on through richly-furnished chambers, over mosaic floors, amid gorgeous pictures.↗ · She hath prepared her meat, she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.↗ (Writings PRO.9.2, JPS 1917)↗ · now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar-trees and cypress-trees, and with gold, according to all his desire — that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.↗ (Prophets 1KI.9.11, JPS 1917)↗

furnishing — Everyday, meaning 1: (usually plural) Furniture, carpets, curtains and other things in a room or house.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Putting furniture into a room or house.↗ Example: The furnishings in the room were old and dusty.↗ · Soft furnishings include cushions and curtains.↗ · They are furnishing their new flat.↗ · The castle's furnishings were grand.↗ · We bought new furnishings for the bedroom.↗ · Fire safety rules cover furnishings too.↗ · This barrel of nails is my whole fortune, which I wish to give as my contribution towards the bride’s house furnishing.”↗

furniture — Everyday, meaning 1: Furniture is the large movable things in a room that make it usable, like tables, chairs, beds, sofas and wardrobes.↗ Example: We bought new furniture for my bedroom.↗ · A chair is a piece of furniture.↗ · Don't climb on the furniture.↗ · The furniture was covered with sheets.↗ · Heavy furniture should be fixed to the wall.↗ · My dolls' house has tiny furniture.↗ · We moved the furniture to make space for dancing.↗ · Garden furniture stays outside.↗ · I saw handsome furniture, many books, and a chaos of newspapers.↗ · the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the ark-cover that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the Tent; (Torah EXO.31.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the Tent, and all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets; (Torah EXO.39.33, JPS 1917)↗ · According to all that I show thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the furniture thereof, even so shall ye make it.↗ (Torah EXO.25.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the holy vessels, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.↗ (Writings 1CH.9.29, JPS 1917)↗ · And Araunah said unto David: 'Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him; behold the oxen for the burnt-offering, and the threshing-instruments and the furniture of the oxen for the wood.'↗ (Prophets 2SA.24.22, JPS 1917)↗

furred — Everyday, meaning 1: Covered with fur, or with a coat of soft hair: a furred animal.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Lined or trimmed with fur, like a furred hood.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK) Coated with a crusty layer, like a kettle furred with limescale or pipes furred up inside.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (of a tongue) Covered with a whitish coating when you are ill.↗ Example: The fox is a furred animal with a bushy tail.↗ · Her parka has a furred hood for the cold.↗ · Our kettle is furred up with limescale.↗ · Arctic hares are thickly furred to survive the winter.↗ · The old pipes had furred inside and the water ran slowly.↗ · When I had flu, my tongue felt furred.↗ · Polar bears are furred even on the soles of their feet.↗ · Mammals are furred, but birds are feathered.↗ · These were a grey-furred, long-tailed tanuki, his wife the fox, who was one of his own family, and their little son.↗

furrier — Everyday, meaning 1: A furrier is a person who makes or sells clothes and goods made of fur.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use, in fairy tales) Furrier can mean more furry, hairier, as a comparative of furry.↗ Example: The furrier sold coats made of fox fur.↗ · The furrier's daughter lived in a little house by the river.↗ · The cat grew furrier and furrier.↗

furrow — Everyday, meaning 1: A long narrow groove cut into the soil by a plough.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A deep line or wrinkle on the skin, especially the forehead.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To make lines on your forehead by frowning: «He furrowed his brow.».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To plough a field into grooves.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A furrow can also be any long, shallow groove in a surface, such as the groove along an animal's horn.↗ Example: The farmer ploughed long straight furrows across the field.↗ · Seeds were dropped into the furrows.↗ · Gulls followed the plough to eat worms from the furrows.↗ · She furrowed her brow over the hard sum.↗ · Deep furrows lined the old man's face.↗ · The Mole saw the furrows of the brown fields from the bank.↗ · It has one horn about a cubit long which is solid, but has a furrow from the base to the tip.↗ · Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow?↗ (Writings JOB.39.10, JPS 1917)↗ · The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.↗ (Writings PSA.129.3, JPS 1917)↗ · If my land cry out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together; (Writings JOB.31.38, JPS 1917)↗

furrowed — Everyday, meaning 1: Of a field: having long, narrow trenches cut by a plough.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Of a forehead or brow: wrinkled with deep lines, showing worry, anger or hard thinking.↗ Example: The tractor left the field neatly furrowed.↗ · Seeds were dropped into the furrowed soil.↗ · Grandpa's furrowed brow showed he was worried.↗ · She furrowed her brow over the difficult sum.↗ · Badger furrowed his brow and thought about how to save Toad Hall.↗ · The old farmer's face was furrowed with age.↗ · The waves made furrows in the sand.↗

furry — Everyday, meaning 1: Furry means covered with fur, or soft and thick like fur.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Furry can describe a coating that looks like fur, like a furry tongue or mould.↗ Example: Our hamster is small and furry.↗ · She wore furry boots in the snow.↗ · The furry caterpillar crawled up the leaf.↗ · The kitten is the furriest of all.↗ · I hugged my furry teddy bear.↗ · The cheese has gone furry with mould.↗ · Polar bears have thick, furry coats.↗ · "Can you hop on your hind legs?" asked the furry rabbit.↗

further — Everyday, meaning 1: Further means at or to a greater distance; more far.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Further means more, or extra, as in further information.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Further means to a greater degree, or later in time.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To further something means to help it move forward.↗ Example: How much further is it to Grandma's house?↗ · My house is further from school than yours.↗ · Ann threw the ball 2 metres further than Tom.↗ · For further information, ask at the desk.↗ · Don't go any further into the forest.↗ · We need to talk about this further.↗ · The furthest planet from the Sun is Neptune.↗ · And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.↗ (Torah NUM.22.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say: 'What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart melt as his heart.'↗ (Torah DEU.20.8, JPS 1917)↗ · From thence further go and reckon what the mouth cannot express and the ear cannot hear.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · They break up my path, they further my calamity, even men that have no helper.↗ (Writings JOB.30.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Now whatever thy petition, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request further, it shall be done.'↗ (Writings EST.9.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And said: 'Thus far shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed'?↗ (Writings JOB.38.11, JPS 1917)↗