Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See furze.

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  • noun Plural form of fir.

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Examples

  • This is more temperate country than the Clearwater region: The St. Joe is heavily forested in firs, spruces, hemlocks and cedars, and there's less open space in the woods.

    100 Best Public-Land Hunts: Idaho 2007

  • Slide 4: I title the firs t of the following photog raphs "Lunc h atop a Skys c rape r" or "Lunc h at the top of a s kys c rape r" The author is Charle s C. Ebbe ts.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • Slide 4: I title the firs t of the following photog raphs "Lunc h atop a Skys c rape r" or "Lunc h at the top of a s kys c rape r" The author is Charle s C. Ebbe ts.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • He stepped down on to the platform and looked around, listening for the familiar call of 'firs'-years over' ere ... firs'-years ... '

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

  • But the spicy scent of the firs was the motive that recurred most persistently: it clung even to the stairways of the houses.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • Above the firs are the half-bare and twisted branches of the maples, partly cloaked in faded leaves.

    The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994

  • Behind the firs were the usual mix of Westron trees, most of the leafy ones well toward losing their summer foliage and having but scraggly winter leaves.

    Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992

  • This left bank of the Meurthe is separated from the valley of the Moselle by a bristling slope of firs, which is traversed by a series of passages, the defiles of Chipotte, of the Croix Idoux, of the Haut Jacques d'Anozel, of

    The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902

  • Between the wild cherry and the firs was a patch of deep blue distance.

    Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II Humphry Ward 1885

  • Against one of the firs was a rough bench turned to the west, and seated upon it they saw Ian, smoking a formless mass of much defiled sea-foam, otherwise meer-schaum.

    What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1 George MacDonald 1864

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