Usually means: Hair covering skin of mammals.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word fur:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fur: Merriam-Webster
  2. Fur, fur, fur: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fur, fur: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fur, fur: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fur: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fur, fur: Wordnik
  7. fur: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Fur, fur: Wiktionary
  9. fur: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fur: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fur: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fur, fur: Dictionary.com
  13. fur: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fur: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. FUR, Fur (Haven), Fur (Jane Wiedlin album), Fur (disambiguation), Fur (film), Fur (heraldry), Fur (island), Fur (surname), Fur: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fur: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fur: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fur: Rhymezone
  19. fur, fr: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fur: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. fur: FreeDictionary.org
  22. fur: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. fur, fur: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. fur: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. fur: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. fur-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fur: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fur: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. fur: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  3. FUR: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. fur: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fur: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Fur: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fur: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

(Note: See furing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.
noun:  (uncountable) The hairy skins of animals used as a material for clothing.
noun:  (countable) An animal pelt used to make, trim or line clothing.
noun:  (countable) A garment made of fur.
noun:  (uncountable) A coating or lining resembling fur in function and/or appearance.
noun:  (uncountable) A thick pile of fabric.
noun:  (uncountable) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
noun:  (uncountable) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
noun:  (uncountable) The layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.
noun:  (heraldry, countable) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures, such as ermine and vair.
noun:  (hunting, uncountable) Rabbits and hares, as opposed to partridges and pheasants (called feathers).
noun:  (countable) A furry, a member of the furry fandom.
noun:  (informal, uncountable) Human body hair, especially when abundant.
noun:  (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Pubic hair.
noun:  (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sexual attractiveness.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with fur or a fur-like coating.
verb:  (intransitive) To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating.
verb:  (transitive, construction) To level a surface by applying furring to it.
noun:  A member of a Nilo-Saharan people of western Sudan.
noun:  The language of this people.

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