furzen.

Brit.

/fəːz/, U.S.

/fərz/

Forms: Old English fyrs, Middle English–1500s firse, (Middle English virse), Middle English, 1500s–1600s furs(e, Middle English fyrrys, 1500s fyrs, 1500s–1600s firr(e)s, firze, (1500s fyrze), furres, 1600s–1800s furz, 1600s–1800s dialect fuz, 1700s fuzz, 1500s– furze. Also plural Middle English firsen, fursyn, Middle English fyrsyn, 1500s fursen, 1500s–1600s, 1800s dialect furzen, (1600s furzon), 1800s dialect fuzzen. See also fur n.³

Etymology: Old English fyrs strong masculine; no connections are known; the Greek πράσον , Latin porrum , leek, might be cognate so far as the form is concerned, but the difference of sense is unfavourable to this supposition. The disyllabic forms fyrrys , firres , etc. seem to have been apprehended as plural, and a new singular was formed from them: see fur n.³

a. The popular name of Ulex europæus, a spiny evergreen shrub with yellow flowers, growing abundantly on waste lands throughout Europe. Also named gorse, whin; common furze, great furze or French furze. †Sometimes, a bush or piece of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > gorse or furze

gorsec725

furzec888

whinc1400

fur1440

quice tree1440

whin-bush1483

furzen bush1530

thorn-broom1578

thorny broom1597

fursell1639

dwarf furze1650

French furze1659

ulex1753

c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxiii Swa hwa swa wille sawan westmbære land atio ærest of þa þornas & þa fyrsas.

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 324 Ramnus, fyrs.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Micah vii. 4 A palyure, that is, a sharp bushe, or a thistil, or frijse [c1425 Egerton 617 & 618 firse].

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. v. 195 All þat herde..weschte þat hit weore I-wipet with a wesp of Firsen.

1436 Rolls of Parl. IV. 498 Pasture, Wode, Hetthe, Virses, and Gorste.

1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng vi. f. 6^v All the wode, brome, gorse, fyrs, braken.

1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 49^v With whinnes, or with furzes, thy houell renew.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 180 Tooth'd briars, sharpe firzes, pricking gosse.

a1626 N. Breton in Daffodils & Primroses 23/1 in Wks. (1879) I Forrestes full of furres and brakes.

1647 A. Cowley Discov. in Mistress ii The humble Furzes of the Plain.

1722 tr. Virgil Pastorals vii, in C. Sedley Wks. I. 296 May I to thee more bitter seem than Rue, More course than Fuz.

1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 42 Thick with entangling Grass, or prickly Furze.

1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 192 With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram II. iv. ii. 222 A broad patch of green heath, covered with furze.

1877 R. H. Roberts Harry Holbrooke of Holbrooke Hall i. 8 The hounds are making the furze crack and shake in their eager efforts.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΚΠ

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. H4^v Oh, to haue a husband..with a bush of furs on the ridge of his chinne.

1705 W. Elstob in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 107 From Fuzz and Bramble to the downy beard He whisk'd them off.

2. In popular names of other plants, as dwarf furze n. ( Ulex nanus). ground furze n. the Rest-harrow ( Ononis arvensis). needle furze n. ( Genista anglica).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > rest-harrow

cammockc1000

ironhardOE

restelbowea1400

restharrow?1550

petty whin1551

gammock1578

ground furze1578

ground-furze1578

fin1649

cat whin1684

sitfast1808

thorny rest-harrow1822

land-whina1825

lady-whin1886

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > gorse or furze

gorsec725

furzec888

whinc1400

fur1440

quice tree1440

whin-bush1483

furzen bush1530

thorn-broom1578

thorny broom1597

fursell1639

dwarf furze1650

French furze1659

ulex1753

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. x. 669 This herbe is called..in Englishe Rest Harrow, Cammocke, Whyn, Pety Whyn, or ground Furze.

1650 Phytologia Brit. 45 Genistella..Needle Furze or Petty Whin.

1650 Phytologia Brit. 45 Creeping Dwarfe Furze or Whins.

1738 G. C. Deering Catalogus Stirpium 89 Needle Furze.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. Chiefly attributive.

(a)

furze-bed n.

ΚΠ

1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-Jireh 133 His Furze-bed was the best bed that ever he lay on.

furze-brake n.

ΚΠ

1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 116. ⁋5 I saw a Hare pop out from a small Furze-brake.

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 38 The higher sides of the hills..are advantageously appropriated for furze-brakes.

furze-cover n.

ΚΠ

1795 Gentleman's Mag. June 462 The custom of setting fire to the furze-covers on midsummer~day.

furze-croft n.

ΚΠ

1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. 63 A green down stretches up to bright yellow furze-crofts far aloft.

furze-cutter n.

ΚΠ

1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 45 Here and there a furze cutter.

furze-down n.

ΚΠ

1865 C. Kingsley Hereward v, in Good Words Feb. 98/1 Flat and open furze-downs.

furze-faggot n.

ΚΠ

c1555 in J. Strype Cranmer 392 One load of Furs-Fagots.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 355 Laying at the bottom..a range of furse-faggots.

furze-flower n.

ΚΠ

1796 S. T. Coleridge Songs of Pixies ii, in Poems Var. Subj. 18 We sip the furze-flowrs' fragrant dews.

furze-hill n.

ΚΠ

1800 J. Hurdis Favorite Village iv. 174 How elegant yon furze-hill clothed in gold.

furze-lea n.

ΚΠ

1794 Act Inclosing S. Kelsey 1 Furze Leas, and Waste Grounds.

furze-top n.

ΚΠ

1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 91 The action of which effectually bruises the Furze-tops intended for fodder.

furze-toppings n. (plural)

ΚΠ

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. xx. 347 Who was often glad enough..to rob his own ponies of their furze-toppings, and boil them down for want of kale.

(b)

furze-clad adj.

ΚΠ

1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion viii. 375 Upon the skirts Of furze-clad commons.

b. esp. in furze-bush, also (obsolete and dialect) furzen bush.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > gorse or furze

gorsec725

furzec888

whinc1400

fur1440

quice tree1440

whin-bush1483

furzen bush1530

thorn-broom1578

thorny broom1597

fursell1639

dwarf furze1650

French furze1659

ulex1753

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 220/2 Fyrsbusshe, jovmarin.

1599 T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. D So many men in the Moone, And euerie one a furzen bush in his mouth.

1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-Jireh 133 Many other young Gentlemen..lay all that night..upon Furze-bushes on the ground.

1668 J. White Rich Cabinet (ed. 4) 51 If you will graft a white rose upon a Broom~stalk, or on a furzon bush.

1738 G. C. Deering Catalogus Stirpium 89 Genista spinosa minor..The lesser Furze Bush.

1882 W. Black Shandon Bells xxiii Miss Patience asked me if I had combed it [my hair] with a furze-bush.

C2.

a. Special combinations.

† furze cat n. Obsolete a name given to the hare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare)

harea700

wimountc1280

wood-catc1280

babbart?a1300

ballart?a1300

bigge?a1300

goibert?a1300

grasshopper?a1300

lightfoot?a1300

long-ear?a1300

make-fare?a1300

pintail?a1300

pollart?a1300

purblind?a1300

roulekere?a1300

scot?a1300

scotewine?a1300

side-looker?a1300

sitter?a1300

westlooker?a1300

wort-cropper?a1300

break-forwardc1300

broom-catc1300

swikebertc1300

cawel-herta1325

deuberta1325

deudinga1325

fern-sittera1325

fitelfoota1325

foldsittera1325

furze cata1325

scutardea1325

skikarta1325

stobherta1325

straw deera1325

turpina1325

skulker1387

chavarta1400

soillarta1400

waldeneiea1400

scutc1440

coward1486

wata1500

bawtiec1536

puss1575

watkin1585

malkin1706

pussy1715

bawd1785

lion1825

dew-hopper-

a1325 Names of Hare in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 133 The furse~cat.

furze-huck n. dialect a heap or stack of furze.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > gorse or furze > heap of

gorse-kid1661

furze-huck1869

1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xiii. 154 The furze-hucks of the summer-time, were all out of shape in the twist of it.

furze-owl n. a cockchafer.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > genus Melolontha > member of (cockchafer)

chaferc1000

kafer1599

cockchafer1668

miller1668

May-bug1688

May-beetle1720

oak-web1720

humbuzz1756

May-chafer1766

dor-beetle1774

locust1790

fern-web1796

melolonthian1841

lamellicorn1842

furze-owl1847

rose beetle1856

melolonthid1928

billywitch1933

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Furze-owl, a cockchafer. Somerset.

furze-pig n. the hedgehog.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > family Erinaceidae (hedgehog)

ilc897

iles pil?c1225

irchepilc1290

irchinc1290

hurcheonc1325

urchina1340

thorn-hog1340

hedgehoga1450

herisson?1590

land-urchin1603

hedge-piga1616

hotchi-witchi1843

porcupine1847

furze-pig1865

gypsies' pig1928

tiggy1938

1865 Cornhill Mag. July 40 As in Gloucestershire, ‘furse~pig’ for hedgehog.

b. In popular names of various birds.

furze-kite n. (also fuz-kite, furze kite) dialect (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Falconidae > genus Falco (falcon) > falco tinnunculus (kestrel)

stanielc825

kestrel14..

stanchel?a1513

mollec1535

windfucker1599

stonegall1602

fleingall1608

fuckwind1611

scamela1616

furze-kite1635

wind-vanner1668

windhover1674

keelie1808

standgale1840

fanner1875

stand hawk1878

the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > kites > other types of

furze-kite1635

1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse 237 Where choughs and fuskites built their nest.

1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall Fuz'-kite, the ring-tailed kite.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Vuz-kite, a kestrel.

furze-chat n. the whinchat ( Pratincola rubetra).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Saxicola > saxicola rubetra (whinchat)

stone-check1668

stone-smatch1668

whinchat1678

stonechat1783

stone-chatter1783

grasschat1805

furze-chat1839

tick1848

stone-chacker1853

furze-hacker1862

fur chuck1885

stone-clink1885

tec-tec1886

1839 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds I. 249 The Whinchat, or Furzechat.

furze-chirper n.

ΚΠ

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Furze-chirper, the mountain finch. It is also called the furze-chucker.

furze-chucker n. the mountain finch or brambling ( Fringilla montifringilla).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Fringillinae > fringilla montifringilla (brambling)

brambling1570

mountain spink1611

bramble1674

mountain finch1678

snow-finch1781

snow-hammer1802

snow-lark1832

cock of the North1834

furze-chucker1847

bramble-finch1865

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Furze-chirper, the mountain finch. It is also called the furze-chucker.

furze-hacker n. = furze-chat n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Saxicola > saxicola rubetra (whinchat)

stone-check1668

stone-smatch1668

whinchat1678

stonechat1783

stone-chatter1783

grasschat1805

furze-chat1839

tick1848

stone-chacker1853

furze-hacker1862

fur chuck1885

stone-clink1885

tec-tec1886

1862 J. R. Wise New Forest (1863) 270 The whinchat, known..from its cry, as the ‘furze hacker’.

furze-lark n. the tit-lark ( Anthus pratensis).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Anthus > anthus pratensis (titlark)

titlingc1550

linget1552

lark1602

chit1610

meadowlark1611

cucknel1655

titlark1666

cheeper1684

moss-cheeper1684

old-field lark1805

ling-bird1814

tit-pipit1817

meadow pipit1825

meadow titling1828

furze-lark1854

peep1859

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 260 I wept to see the hawk severe Murder the furze-lark whistling nigh.

furze-wren n. = furzeling n. at Derivatives.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Sylvia > sylvia undata

Dartford warbler1776

furze-wren1839

furzeling1855

1839 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds I. 313 Dartford Warbler... The Furze Wren.

Derivatives

furzed adj. [-ed suffix²] made or covered with furze.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [adjective] > of or relating to gorse or furze > abounding in or covered with furze

whinny1482

gorsy1523

furzed1873

1873 Daily News 21 May 5/5 There are a ditch, a bank with a drop, a kind of furzed fence, and a low wall of turf and stones.

ˈfurzeling n. [-ling suffix¹] the Dartford Warbler ( Melizophilus undatus).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Sylvia > sylvia undata

Dartford warbler1776

furze-wren1839

furzeling1855

1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Furzeling, Furze-wren, Melizophilus provincialis.

1885 W. Allingham Flower Pieces (1887) 14 Harbours the wren, the furzeling, and the coney.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	furze
释义	furzen. Brit. /fəːz/, U.S. /fərz/ Forms: Old English fyrs, Middle English–1500s firse, (Middle English virse), Middle English, 1500s–1600s furs(e, Middle English fyrrys, 1500s fyrs, 1500s–1600s firr(e)s, firze, (1500s fyrze), furres, 1600s–1800s furz, 1600s–1800s dialect fuz, 1700s fuzz, 1500s– furze. Also plural Middle English firsen, fursyn, Middle English fyrsyn, 1500s fursen, 1500s–1600s, 1800s dialect furzen, (1600s furzon), 1800s dialect fuzzen. See also fur n.³ Etymology: Old English fyrs strong masculine; no connections are known; the Greek πράσον , Latin porrum , leek, might be cognate so far as the form is concerned, but the difference of sense is unfavourable to this supposition. The disyllabic forms fyrrys , firres , etc. seem to have been apprehended as plural, and a new singular was formed from them: see fur n.³ 1. a. The popular name of Ulex europæus, a spiny evergreen shrub with yellow flowers, growing abundantly on waste lands throughout Europe. Also named gorse, whin; common furze, great furze or French furze. †Sometimes, a bush or piece of this. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > gorse or furze gorsec725 furzec888 whinc1400 fur1440 quice tree1440 whin-bush1483 furzen bush1530 thorn-broom1578 thorny broom1597 fursell1639 dwarf furze1650 French furze1659 ulex1753 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxiii Swa hwa swa wille sawan westmbære land atio ærest of þa þornas & þa fyrsas. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 324 Ramnus, fyrs. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Micah vii. 4 A palyure, that is, a sharp bushe, or a thistil, or frijse [c1425 Egerton 617 & 618 firse]. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. v. 195 All þat herde..weschte þat hit weore I-wipet with a wesp of Firsen. 1436 Rolls of Parl. IV. 498 Pasture, Wode, Hetthe, Virses, and Gorste. 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng vi. f. 6^v All the wode, brome, gorse, fyrs, braken. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 49^v With whinnes, or with furzes, thy houell renew. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 180 Tooth'd briars, sharpe firzes, pricking gosse. a1626 N. Breton in Daffodils & Primroses 23/1 in Wks. (1879) I Forrestes full of furres and brakes. 1647 A. Cowley Discov. in Mistress ii The humble Furzes of the Plain. 1722 tr. Virgil Pastorals vii, in C. Sedley Wks. I. 296 May I to thee more bitter seem than Rue, More course than Fuz. 1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 42 Thick with entangling Grass, or prickly Furze. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 192 With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram II. iv. ii. 222 A broad patch of green heath, covered with furze. 1877 R. H. Roberts Harry Holbrooke of Holbrooke Hall i. 8 The hounds are making the furze crack and shake in their eager efforts. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. H4^v Oh, to haue a husband..with a bush of furs on the ridge of his chinne. 1705 W. Elstob in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 107 From Fuzz and Bramble to the downy beard He whisk'd them off. 2. In popular names of other plants, as dwarf furze n. ( Ulex nanus). ground furze n. the Rest-harrow ( Ononis arvensis). needle furze n. ( Genista anglica). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > rest-harrow cammockc1000 ironhardOE restelbowea1400 restharrow?1550 petty whin1551 gammock1578 ground furze1578 ground-furze1578 fin1649 cat whin1684 sitfast1808 thorny rest-harrow1822 land-whina1825 lady-whin1886 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > gorse or furze gorsec725 furzec888 whinc1400 fur1440 quice tree1440 whin-bush1483 furzen bush1530 thorn-broom1578 thorny broom1597 fursell1639 dwarf furze1650 French furze1659 ulex1753 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. x. 669 This herbe is called..in Englishe Rest Harrow, Cammocke, Whyn, Pety Whyn, or ground Furze. 1650 Phytologia Brit. 45 Genistella..Needle Furze or Petty Whin. 1650 Phytologia Brit. 45 Creeping Dwarfe Furze or Whins. 1738 G. C. Deering Catalogus Stirpium 89 Needle Furze. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. Chiefly attributive. (a) furze-bed n. ΚΠ 1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-Jireh 133 His Furze-bed was the best bed that ever he lay on. furze-brake n. ΚΠ 1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 116. ⁋5 I saw a Hare pop out from a small Furze-brake. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 38 The higher sides of the hills..are advantageously appropriated for furze-brakes. furze-cover n. ΚΠ 1795 Gentleman's Mag. June 462 The custom of setting fire to the furze-covers on midsummer~day. furze-croft n. ΚΠ 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. 63 A green down stretches up to bright yellow furze-crofts far aloft. furze-cutter n. ΚΠ 1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 45 Here and there a furze cutter. furze-down n. ΚΠ 1865 C. Kingsley Hereward v, in Good Words Feb. 98/1 Flat and open furze-downs. furze-faggot n. ΚΠ c1555 in J. Strype Cranmer 392 One load of Furs-Fagots. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 355 Laying at the bottom..a range of furse-faggots. furze-flower n. ΚΠ 1796 S. T. Coleridge Songs of Pixies ii, in Poems Var. Subj. 18 We sip the furze-flowrs' fragrant dews. furze-hill n. ΚΠ 1800 J. Hurdis Favorite Village iv. 174 How elegant yon furze-hill clothed in gold. furze-lea n. ΚΠ 1794 Act Inclosing S. Kelsey 1 Furze Leas, and Waste Grounds. furze-top n. ΚΠ 1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 91 The action of which effectually bruises the Furze-tops intended for fodder. furze-toppings n. (plural) ΚΠ 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. xx. 347 Who was often glad enough..to rob his own ponies of their furze-toppings, and boil them down for want of kale. (b) furze-clad adj. ΚΠ 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion viii. 375 Upon the skirts Of furze-clad commons. b. esp. in furze-bush, also (obsolete and dialect) furzen bush. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > gorse or furze gorsec725 furzec888 whinc1400 fur1440 quice tree1440 whin-bush1483 furzen bush1530 thorn-broom1578 thorny broom1597 fursell1639 dwarf furze1650 French furze1659 ulex1753 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 220/2 Fyrsbusshe, jovmarin. 1599 T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. D So many men in the Moone, And euerie one a furzen bush in his mouth. 1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-Jireh 133 Many other young Gentlemen..lay all that night..upon Furze-bushes on the ground. 1668 J. White Rich Cabinet (ed. 4) 51 If you will graft a white rose upon a Broom~stalk, or on a furzon bush. 1738 G. C. Deering Catalogus Stirpium 89 Genista spinosa minor..The lesser Furze Bush. 1882 W. Black Shandon Bells xxiii Miss Patience asked me if I had combed it [my hair] with a furze-bush. C2. a. Special combinations. † furze cat n. Obsolete a name given to the hare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare) harea700 wimountc1280 wood-catc1280 babbart?a1300 ballart?a1300 bigge?a1300 goibert?a1300 grasshopper?a1300 lightfoot?a1300 long-ear?a1300 make-fare?a1300 pintail?a1300 pollart?a1300 purblind?a1300 roulekere?a1300 scot?a1300 scotewine?a1300 side-looker?a1300 sitter?a1300 westlooker?a1300 wort-cropper?a1300 break-forwardc1300 broom-catc1300 swikebertc1300 cawel-herta1325 deuberta1325 deudinga1325 fern-sittera1325 fitelfoota1325 foldsittera1325 furze cata1325 scutardea1325 skikarta1325 stobherta1325 straw deera1325 turpina1325 skulker1387 chavarta1400 soillarta1400 waldeneiea1400 scutc1440 coward1486 wata1500 bawtiec1536 puss1575 watkin1585 malkin1706 pussy1715 bawd1785 lion1825 dew-hopper- a1325 Names of Hare in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 133 The furse~cat. furze-huck n. dialect a heap or stack of furze. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > gorse or furze > heap of gorse-kid1661 furze-huck1869 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xiii. 154 The furze-hucks of the summer-time, were all out of shape in the twist of it. furze-owl n. a cockchafer. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > genus Melolontha > member of (cockchafer) chaferc1000 kafer1599 cockchafer1668 miller1668 May-bug1688 May-beetle1720 oak-web1720 humbuzz1756 May-chafer1766 dor-beetle1774 locust1790 fern-web1796 melolonthian1841 lamellicorn1842 furze-owl1847 rose beetle1856 melolonthid1928 billywitch1933 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Furze-owl, a cockchafer. Somerset. furze-pig n. the hedgehog. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > family Erinaceidae (hedgehog) ilc897 iles pil?c1225 irchepilc1290 irchinc1290 hurcheonc1325 urchina1340 thorn-hog1340 hedgehoga1450 herisson?1590 land-urchin1603 hedge-piga1616 hotchi-witchi1843 porcupine1847 furze-pig1865 gypsies' pig1928 tiggy1938 1865 Cornhill Mag. July 40 As in Gloucestershire, ‘furse~pig’ for hedgehog. b. In popular names of various birds. furze-kite n. (also fuz-kite, furze kite) dialect (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Falconidae > genus Falco (falcon) > falco tinnunculus (kestrel) stanielc825 kestrel14.. stanchel?a1513 mollec1535 windfucker1599 stonegall1602 fleingall1608 fuckwind1611 scamela1616 furze-kite1635 wind-vanner1668 windhover1674 keelie1808 standgale1840 fanner1875 stand hawk1878 the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > kites > other types of furze-kite1635 1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse 237 Where choughs and fuskites built their nest. 1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall Fuz'-kite, the ring-tailed kite. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Vuz-kite, a kestrel. furze-chat n. the whinchat ( Pratincola rubetra). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Saxicola > saxicola rubetra (whinchat) stone-check1668 stone-smatch1668 whinchat1678 stonechat1783 stone-chatter1783 grasschat1805 furze-chat1839 tick1848 stone-chacker1853 furze-hacker1862 fur chuck1885 stone-clink1885 tec-tec1886 1839 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds I. 249 The Whinchat, or Furzechat. furze-chirper n. ΚΠ 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Furze-chirper, the mountain finch. It is also called the furze-chucker. furze-chucker n. the mountain finch or brambling ( Fringilla montifringilla). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Fringillinae > fringilla montifringilla (brambling) brambling1570 mountain spink1611 bramble1674 mountain finch1678 snow-finch1781 snow-hammer1802 snow-lark1832 cock of the North1834 furze-chucker1847 bramble-finch1865 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Furze-chirper, the mountain finch. It is also called the furze-chucker. furze-hacker n. = furze-chat n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Saxicola > saxicola rubetra (whinchat) stone-check1668 stone-smatch1668 whinchat1678 stonechat1783 stone-chatter1783 grasschat1805 furze-chat1839 tick1848 stone-chacker1853 furze-hacker1862 fur chuck1885 stone-clink1885 tec-tec1886 1862 J. R. Wise New Forest (1863) 270 The whinchat, known..from its cry, as the ‘furze hacker’. furze-lark n. the tit-lark ( Anthus pratensis). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Anthus > anthus pratensis (titlark) titlingc1550 linget1552 lark1602 chit1610 meadowlark1611 cucknel1655 titlark1666 cheeper1684 moss-cheeper1684 old-field lark1805 ling-bird1814 tit-pipit1817 meadow pipit1825 meadow titling1828 furze-lark1854 peep1859 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 260 I wept to see the hawk severe Murder the furze-lark whistling nigh. furze-wren n. = furzeling n. at Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Sylvia > sylvia undata Dartford warbler1776 furze-wren1839 furzeling1855 1839 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds I. 313 Dartford Warbler... The Furze Wren. Derivatives furzed adj. [-ed suffix²] made or covered with furze. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [adjective] > of or relating to gorse or furze > abounding in or covered with furze whinny1482 gorsy1523 furzed1873 1873 Daily News 21 May 5/5 There are a ditch, a bank with a drop, a kind of furzed fence, and a low wall of turf and stones. ˈfurzeling n. [-ling suffix¹] the Dartford Warbler ( Melizophilus undatus). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Sylvia > sylvia undata Dartford warbler1776 furze-wren1839 furzeling1855 1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Furzeling, Furze-wren, Melizophilus provincialis. 1885 W. Allingham Flower Pieces (1887) 14 Harbours the wren, the furzeling, and the coney. 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