FUR 
as paftor of the diffenting congregation in that village. 
Here he continued his minifterial duties for more than 23 
his education. the 1777 he was attacked by a 
malady, ch terminated m derangement, from 
which he never completely os till his death, which 
happened in the year 1783, when he had attained : his fifty- 
eighth year. cel a writer of great force and energy, Dr. 
urneaux is known by a few gas ried but to general 
ery more eae ularly by hi o the honour- 
eens of 
& of Toleration, and fome 
gious liberty, in his celebrated © mar on the Laws 
ef England.” e judge never condefcended to notice 
this able attack upon his work, but he did more 5 he felt he 
had taken his ftan . 
im the ene 
verfions of Dr. Furneaux o the f 
ork, publi in 1771, an appendix was fubjoined, con- 
tainng “ A arguinent of the | 
1 f 
on and the Diffenters, in the year 
1767 3” this latter he wrote entirely from memory, but with 
fuch correctnefs, that it received the full approbation of the 
T-arned lord, with whofe notes, taken on the occafion, it 
cg 
n 
in whic articular view to an 
application which had then been lately a. by the 
_ fenting minifters to parliament. Gen. Bio 
Furneaux Ifland, in Geography, an ifland i in the Pacific 
ocean, lying in S. lat. 17’ 5 _ W. frag ° 16), dif- 
rahi by B 
t Hamre sl hi nd voyage. This ifland, to- 
gether with Refolution ifland, S. lat. 197° 24. W. ong. 
141° 39'3 Doubtful ifland, S. lat. 17° 20'.. W. long. 141 
38"5 and Adventure ifland, t. 17) 4'. ng. 144° 
W. lon 
30', and feveral others, conftitute a clufter of low, and half-- 
g a ae ee by fe fac bas 
and breakers. Thefe iflets are clothed with wood, among 
ich -nut are diftinouithable. aptain 
One or two miles fro inft the fea 
“broke.in a tremendqus furf. In the riddle isa large lake 
er inland fea, in which was a canoe under fail. 
FURNES, or Vurrne, a town ef France, and chicf 
‘place of a diftri€t in the department of the Lys, feated on 
the canal hae leads from Bruges to Dunkirk, about three 
good building, 
adorned with figures of kings ‘and. princes ; it has a hand-. 
fom > | ime 
miles from the The town-houfle is a 
chimes ;” 
oO. 
15 miles S. * 
e contains 322C, and the eaioa 13,088, 
‘habitants, on a aoe of 1925 kiliometres, in 19 com-. 
- at Paris in 
e in the church. 
s in verfe and pete and 
_ coverings, were afterwards: reprefe ented in ‘the 
FUR 
munes, The whole extent of the diffrid comprehends 71 5 
cantons, gi communes, and 49,808 inhabitants. N. lat. 51 
2 29, 
‘FURNITURE, in Dialling, certain aaa points 
and lines drawn on a dial, by way of ornam 
Such are the figns of the Y odisc, length Of days, parallels 
of declination, azimuths, meridians of the principal cities, 
c and Italian fous points of the compafs, &e. 
iAL. 
dr rawing furniture on dials, the aes or trigom 
For 
~ of figns, is an inftrument of- eters 
FURO, in Zoohgy, a name given by ne authors to the 
Ferret, a eae of the Mustrza, a h fee 
FUROR Urerinus, in Medicine, a term employed bys 
ie ida and others, to denote a fpecies of Pts in 
females, which is principally ey aaa by an ungovern- .. 
able defire for the fexual intercourfe. It is called by the 
nofologilts Mympbomania, which fee 
EFURR, in Commerce. See co 
FURRETIERRE, Anrtnony, in Biography, was born 
1620. He was int tended for the SS on of 
the law, and obtained an office in that department, but at 
length entered the ecclefialtieal flate, and rofe to mt iat 
He was diftinguifhed by fome compofitions 
became a member of the French 
S empalled, 
aia ‘ih his ee ina lat of expalion, 
Was eir velen ee while 
the obi cee of it was alive, bet Scored that the ufual funeral 
fervice performed on the deceafe of a oat fhould not b 
per rformed for Furretierre. This w 
m u orks, 
*¢ Five Satir, ips, a Ve Hes Gopal Pareles, in 
Verle ; and * L an Bourgeci.” Mor _ 
-FURRS, ee. ‘See T 
n aldry, a tae of the fins of certain. 
wildbente. feen both in: ‘the. sores of the mantles of ecat- 
armour, an 
‘The metals five colours, and two furrs,, 
or hairy fkins ; viz, ermine 
he origin of thefe re ac cken nzy afcribes to the 
fhield’s being anciently. covered with fkins; which fins, or 
fhields ; a 
more probable derivation, in our opinion, than to fay they 
were placed, on peta . becaufe ~] had been worn in. 
. mantles and garmen 
of, bet 
cannot be fed in arms tingly, or more than one 5 ae thefe, 
either two, or more n two. 
two apetnie are either ermine, being white, with, 
lack fpots; ermines,, black with white. {pots ican 
whote ground i is, yellow; and the powdering blac r pean 
which is bla ck, .powdered with yellow. “When ie play 
is, white,’ powdered with black fpots, each fpot having one; 
red.) i in the middle, it is called erminites. 
rrs of more than two .colours are called vair, and, 
wary’ 3 which fee. 
FURRIER, 
