furrow
furrow is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age. Farrow weed a weed which grows on plowed land. Shak. -- To draw a straight furrow, to live correctly; not to deviate from the right line of duty. Lowell.
- 2.To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea. Shak.
- 3.To mark with channels or with wrinkles. Thou canst help time to furrow me with age. Shak. Fair cheeks were furrowed with hot tears. Byron.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abra
- absence
- abysm
- abyss
- barranca
- between
- bisulcate
- bisulcous
- bite
- breach
- breachy
- break
- caesura
- canaliculated
- canon
- chamfer
- channel
- chap
- chasm
- chink
- cleft
- clove
- corduroy
- costate
- crack
- cradle
- cranny
- creek
- crevasse
- crevice
- cut
- defile
- dike
- ditch
- dyke
- engrave
- etch
- far
- fissure
- flaw
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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