Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common name for the Ulex Europæus, a low, much-branched, and spiny leguminous shrub, with yellow flowers
- noun A frizz.
- To become entangled, as silk fibers during the reeling from the cocoon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A thorny evergreen shrub (
Ulex Europæus ), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called alsogorse , andwhin . The dwarf furze isUlex nanus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex europaeus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This scrub Ashmead-Bartlett calls furze in his articles, but I have never seen furze in Gallipoli.
The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" George Davidson
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The furze is a member of the family _Leguminosæ_, which includes so many useful plants, such as, for example, the pea, the bean, and the clovers.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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Cork -- the most zealous and successful advocate for the cultivation of this plant -- informed me that he had obtained so much as 14 tons per acre; a fact which proves that the furze is a plant which is well deserving of the attention of the farmer.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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They are popularly supposed to come from the furze, which is also believed to shelter adders.
Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867
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The brake fern is dead and withered; the tip of each frond curled over downwards by the frost, but it forms a brown background to the dull green furze which is alight here and there with scattered blossom, by contrast so brilliantly yellow as to seem like flame.
Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867
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They are lined with a soft silky cotton fibre; and composed, externally, of a woolly kind of furze, bound together with which appears also to be spider's web.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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M. Naudin states, that a certain kind of furze or thistle, of which cattle are very fond, may be made to grow without thorns -- an important consideration, seeing that at present, before it can be used as food, it has to undergo a laborious beating, to crush and break the prickles with which it is covered.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 Various 1836
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Yet here among the ancient family heirlooms and Douglas legends, thick as furze, the sense of patient waiting seemed almost tangible.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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To protect themselves from predation they like rough land such as heathland, and coastal terrain with good cover, such as that provided by furze (gorse) and other dense shrubbery.
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Yet here among the ancient family heirlooms and Douglas legends, thick as furze, the sense of patient waiting seemed almost tangible.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
slumry commented on the word furze
But gorse is not furzey.;-) And yet it is furze. Go figure.
July 13, 2007
bilby commented on the word furze
That'z the way it goez.
August 30, 2008