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/fˈəroʊd/ Listen

verb

Furrow v. t. (past & past part. furrowed; pres. part. furrowing)

To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea.

To mark with channels or with wrinkles. "Thou canst help time to furrow me with age." "Fair cheeks were furrowed with hot tears."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Furrowed" Quotes from Famous Books

... the incidents. I can see Mr Abney, furrowed as to the brow and drooping at the jaw, trying to separate Ogden Ford from a half-smoked cigar-stump. I can hear Glossop, feverishly angry, bellowing at an amused class. A dozen other pictures come back to me, but I cannot place them in their order; and perhaps, after all, ...

— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse

... the scene of the present chapter in a very different quarter of the same sea. It is unnecessary to follow the "Rover" in the windings of that devious and apparently often uncertain course, during which his keel furrowed more than a thousand miles of ocean, and during which more than one cruiser of the King was skilfully eluded, and sundry less dangerous encounters avoided, as much from inclination as any other visible cause. ...

— The Red Rover • James Fenimore Cooper

... such intelligence as shall be thrown into it. It is reckoned an excellent piece of workmanship, and was designed by a great hand in imitation of the antique Egyptian lion, the face of it being compounded out of that of a lion and a wizard. The features are strong and well furrowed. The whiskers are admired by all that have seen them. It is planted on the western side of the Coffee-house, holding its paws under the chin, upon a box, which contains everything that he swallows. He is, indeed, a proper emblem of knowledge and action, being all head ...

— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

... were as straight as if they had been cut by line, others were slightly curved through with edges still parallel. Some crossed each other. Some crossed craters. Some furrowed the circular cavities, such as Posidonius or Petavius. Some crossed the seas, notably ...

— The Moon-Voyage • Jules Verne

... said for a while, and presently the team toiled through a belt of sandy ridges, furrowed by the wind, where the summits were crested here and there by small jack-pines. Looking up as they crossed one elevation, Gertrude noticed a wedge of small dark bodies outlined ...

— Prescott of Saskatchewan • Harold Bindloss

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