Search the Dictionary

mon upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.

The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck.

An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.

Furzy; gorsy. [Obs.] Holland.

angular branches, mintue leaves, and large yellow flowers. No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom. Wordsworth.

instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand A. Ludovicianum.

bounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze. Gay.

Furze. See Furze. The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse. Cowper. Gorse bird (Zoöl.), the European linnet; -- called also gorse hatcher. [Prov. Eng.] -- Gorse chat (Zoöl.), the winchat. -- Gorse duck, the corncrake; -- called also grass drake, land drake, and corn drake.

he air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in stubble fields and on furze or low bushes, and is formed by small spiders.

lension or conjugation. It is sometimes, but not always, the same as the root. -- Ground furze (Bot.), a low slightly thorny, leguminous shrub (Ononis arvensis) of Europe and Central Asia,; -- called also rest- harrow. -- Ground game, hares, rabbits, etc., as distinguished from winged game. -- Ground hele (Bot.), a…

A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

rests, when a building is shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part. -- Needle furze (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin (Genista Anglica). -- Needle gun, a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needl…

The needle furze. See under Needle.

Gorse; furze. See Furze. Through the whins, and by the cairn. Burns.

The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze. Dr. Prior.

Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze. A fine, large, whinny, . . . unimproved common. Sterne.