furze
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furze
very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
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Furze
(Bot) A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europæus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.
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furze
The common name for the Ulex Europæus, a low, much-branched, and spiny leguminous shrub, with yellow flowers It is abundant in barren, heathy districts throughout the west of Europe, and sometimes covers large areas. It is used for fuel, and the young shoots for fodder, and is also cultivated for ornament, especially a double-flowered variety and a more slender and less rigid form known as Irish furze. The dwarf or tame furze is a much smaller species, U. nanus. Also called gorse and whin. -
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furze
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furze
To become entangled, as silk fibers during the reeling from the cocoon.
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Furze
furz the whin or gorse, a prickly evergreen bush with beautiful yellow flowers
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. firs, As. fyrs,
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. fyrs.
Furz six point (as we said remix) six point ep. bsrlive.com
We're guessing that few new parents would want to put their baby in UK dad Colin Furze's record-breaking, self-built stroller. pcmag.com
As Furze tells viewers, his super-stroller has 10 horsepower and four gears as well as "every comfort a normal pram 's got". gy.com
The Nettles, Thistles, and Furze were very troublesome. "Forgotten Tales of Long Ago" by
Allan and those in front had fired the dry furze and grasses, and the smoke began to roll heavily against the faces of the soldiers. "Robin Hood" by
The bare, thick stems of the furze held it up like a roof over their heads as they sat. "Harding's luck" by
Luckily, we never tried whins, or furze, as here called. "Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2)" by
At one time, Brock met a young male badger in the furze, attacked him vigorously, and left him more dead than alive. "Creatures of the Night" by
The sloe-thorn, and the furze, and the bramble choked up the rails. "Leading Articles on Various Subjects" by
Their slopes are of turf and furze, often as steep as the pitched roof of a house, with crags projecting here and there. "England, Picturesque and Descriptive" by
The sides of the old moat were overgrown with furze and brambles, and we stole into this cover as they approached. "Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7" by
In vain: the ground was broken and stony, but there grew not there so much as a bush of furze. "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25)" by
They must have missed us and gone round by Furze Heath. "When Ghost Meets Ghost" by
O'er the glimmering sands she speeds;
Wildly now as in the furzes
From the piercing spikes she bleeds.
Through leat and furze brake fast drove he,
Until he saw the homeless sea,
That called with all its waves O!
In the furze,
You that with your sulphur wings
Melt into the gold perfume
Of the broom
Where the linnet sits and sings;
The Thorn's white load it bears on high!
Where the short furze all shrouded lay,
Mounts the dried grass;--Earth's bosom dry.
And changed the dreams of my heart and head;
For joy of mine she left grief of hers,
And garlanded me with a crown of furze.
To bloom the ragged furze with gold,
The lovely south wind's living breath
Is laden with the smell of death:
For fever breeds on Lettermore
To waste the eyes of young and old.