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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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FURZELING n.
An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.
FURZEN a.
Furzy; gorsy. [Obs.] Holland.
FURZY a.
bounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze. Gay.
ALMOND FURNACE n.
A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. Chambers.
ASH-FURNACE; ASH-OVEN n.
A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.
BIFURCATE v.
To divide into two branches.
BIFURCATE; BIFURCATED a.
Two-pronged; forked.
BIFURCATION n.
A forking, or division into two branches.
BIFURCOUS a.
See Bifurcate, a. [R.] Coles.
COIFFURE n.
A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair. Addison.
DISFURNISH v.
To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
DISFURNISHMENT n.
The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. Daniel.
DISFURNITURE n. 2 definitions
The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. [Obs.]
INFURCATION n.
A forked exlpansion or divergence; a bifurcation; a branching. Craig.
INFURIATE a. 2 definitions
Enraged; rading; furiously angry; infuriated. Milton. Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath. Thomson.
INFURIATED a.
Enraged; furious.
PERNOT FURNACE n.
A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel.
POSTFURCA n.
One of the internal thoracic processes of the sternum of an insect.
QUADRIFURCATED a.
Having four forks, or branches.
QUOIFFURE n.
See Coiffure.
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