Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furrowed; full of or abounding in furrows.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Furrowed.
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- adjective Having
furrows .
Etymologies
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furrow + -y
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Examples
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The judge, a man still young, with an astonishingly mobile face that changed at least once a minute from a furrowy scowl with great pouting lips to a smile so broad it startled, sat in state in the middle of three judicial arm-chairs, and the case proceeded.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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Religion the virtue of serving as things of the furrowy ground,
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Our Farmer recommends, for potatoes, a neat horfe-hoe, which turns no furrowy and only cuts the furface of the ground.
The Monthly Review 1772
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