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th, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow.

face. -- Masked pig (Zoöl.), a Japanese domestic hog (Sus pliciceps). Its face is deeply furrowed.

tangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows.

Having many furrows.

Wavy; having the surface marked by waves or slightly depressed furrows; as, ondoyant glass.

The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east. [Morn] came furrowing all the orient into gold. Tennyson.

hese Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy. Addison. Pithy gall (Zoöl.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly (Diastrophus nebulosus).

en, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow. Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow. Dryden.

An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow. Piers Plowman.

e share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow. Plowshare bone (Anat.), the pygostyle.

Having grooves or furrows broader than the intervening ridges; furrowed.

mum moestum), whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly to the bark. When the branches fall each contains a pupa.

To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up in wrinkles." Spectator.

To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge. [Eng.]

A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.

a nudibranch or tectibranch mollusk. They are usually retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are regarded as olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. See Illust. under Pygobranchia, and Opisthobranchia.

n the obscure grave. Shak. To rib land, to leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in plowing.

A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc.

Marked with sinuate and irregular furrows.

To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow. To rout out