FUR 
FUR'ROW-WRED, yi A weed thatgrows jnfiirrowed 
land,—Crown'd with rank f'liniiter, and furrow-weeds. 
Shakefpeare. 
To FUR'ROW, V. a. [from pypian, Sax.] To cut in 
furrows : 
While the ploughman near at hand, 
Whiflles o’er the furrow'd land. Milton. 
To divide in long liollows.—No briny tear \\0iS.furrow'd 
her fmooth check. Suckling. 
The billows fall, while Neptune lays his mace 
On the rough fea, and fmooths furrow'd Iocs. Drydcn. 
To make by cutting : 
Tliere go the Ihips that furrow out their way ; 
Yea, there of whales enornrous fights we fee. JVotton, 
FUR'RY, adj. Covered with fur; dreffed in fur : 
From Volga’s banks th’ imperious czar 
Leads forth his furry troops to war. F'dton. 
Confiding of fur : 
Stretch out thy lazy limbs, awake, awake. 
And winter from thy furry mantle fhake. Dryden, 
FURRYS-TOWN, a town of the ifland of Jamaica, in 
St. James county: twenty miles north-eaft of Savanna la 
Mar. 
FUR'SEY, a fmall ifland of England, at the entrance 
into Poole harbour. 
FUR'STENAU, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Wedphalia, and bidiopric of Ofnabruck : fifteen miles 
north.north-wed of Ofnabruck, and eight fouth-eaft of 
Lingen. 
F'UR'STENAU, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and marggraviate of Meiden : three miles 
Ibuth of Lauendein. 
F'UR'STEN BERG, a principality of Germany, in the 
circle of Sw:abia, founded in the thirteenth century, and 
divided into feveral branches, all which are extimff ex¬ 
cept that of Stuhlingen : the chief of the houfe and his 
elded foil have the title of princes, the brothers and other 
children are called land-graves. The edates give fix 
voices in the ademblies of the circle, and a (eat on the 
bench of princes at the diet of tlie empire. The title is 
taken from an ancient cadle, (ituated near the town of 
Furdenberg. The pretenfions of cardinal Furdenberg, 
to the archbifhopric of Cologne, fupported by the king of 
France, in oppofition to the emperor and the pope, gave 
occafion to the breaking out of the war that began to 
didurb Europe in 1689. The Roman month amounts 
to 372 florins; and the tax to the chamber of Wetzlar is 
391 rixdollars. 
FUR'STENBERG, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Swabia, and principality of Furdenberg, vi ith an an¬ 
cient cadle, which gives name to an illudrious family, 
princes of the empire : fourteen miles north-north-wed of 
Schaff haufen, and thirteen wed-fouth-wed ofDurlingen. 
FUR'STENBERG, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine, and county of Waldeck ; ten miles 
wed of Waldeck, and twenty-feven wed of Caflel. 
FUR'STENBERG, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Wedphalia, and bidiopric of Paberborn: tw o miles 
north-ead of Wunnenburg. 
FUR'STENBERG, a town of Lufatia, on the Oder, 
taken by the Prudians, in the year 1745, to open a way to 
Silefia. Its tolls bring in about 5000 crowns yearly to 
the king of Pruflla: thirteen miles fouth Frankfort on 
the Oder. 
FUR'STENBERG, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and duchy of Mecklenburg, on the 
Havel : ten miles fouth-ead of Strelitz. 
FUR'STENBERG (Ferdinand de), an eminent pre¬ 
late, defeended from the free barons of that name in 
Wedphalia, and born at Bildein in 1626. He dudied at 
VoL. VIII. No. 491. 
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Cologne, where he contrafted an intimate frienddiip with 
the nuncio Chigi, who, upon his return to Rome, and 
elevation to the cardinalate, invited Furdenberg to refide 
with him. When I'eated in the papal chair by the name 
of Alexander VII. he conferred (everal benefices on him, 
and by his rcci mmendation procured his eledtion to the 
bidiopric of Paderborn in 1661. The high reputation 
F'urdenbcrg dctjuired in this datioii caufed him to be 
appointed by the famous bidiop of Muiider, Van Galen, 
his coadjutor; and upon the death of that prelate, in 
1678, he fucceeded to the fee, and was declared by the 
pope apodoheal vicar of all lire north of Europe. He 
diewed hinilelf worthy of this trud by extraordinary zeal 
in making converts, v\ hich he carried fo far as to fupport 
confiderable foundations for the propagation of tlie ca¬ 
tholic religion in China and Japan. At the fame time 
he did not negledb the cultivation of the belles-lettt'es, 
either by his own eftbrts, or thofe of many learned men 
whom he patroiiifed. He colledted a number of matm- 
fcri[)ts and monuments ofantiqtiity,and gave to the world 
a valuable work relative to ihefe objeids, entitled Momt- 
menta Padeibornenfia, Amf. 1672, 4to. He alfo printed 
at Rotiie it colleelion of Latin poems, under the title 
oi Seplem Virorum illufrium Poemata, which contained le- 
veral t.f his own, written with mitch purity. He died 
in 1683. Soon after his death a magnificent edition of 
his Latin poems was written at the Louvre, at the expeiite 
of the king of France. ’ 
h'UR'STFlNF.CK, a town and cadle of Germany, in 
the circle of the Upper Rhine, and bidiopric of Fulda ; 
thirteen miles north of Fulda. 
FUR'STENI'ELD, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Stiria, (ituated on the confines of Hungary, near ti e 
conflux of the rivers Feirtritz and Laufnitz : thirty miles 
ead of Gratz, and fixty-eight fouth of Vienna. Lat. 47. 
6. N. Ion. 34. 6. E. Ferro. 
FUR'STENFEI.D, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and New Mark of Brandenhcrg: tea 
miles north of Codrin, 
F'UR'STEN W ALDE, a town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle of Upper Saxony, and Middle-Mark of Brandcnberg ; 
twenty-fix miles ealt of Berlin, and twenty wed of Frank¬ 
fort on the Oder. 
FUR'STEN WALDE, a town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle of Upper Saxony, and marggraviate of Meilfen : two 
miles fouth of Lauendein. 
F'UR'STENWERDER, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Upper Saxony, between the Damfee and Wah- 
reiifee, in the Ucker Mark of Brandenburg : ten miles 
Vved-north-wed of Prenzlow. 
FURT, a town of Germany, in the circle of Lower 
Bavaria, on the Cliampl : fifty-fix miles north-iiorth-we.d; 
of Padau, and eighty-fix north-north-ead of Munich. 
Lat. .49. 13. N. Ion. 30. 32. FL F'erro. 
FURTH, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Lower Rhine, and electorate of Mentz: fix miles fouth- 
ead of Fleppenheim. 
F'URTH, a town of Germany, in the circle of Fran¬ 
conia, and principality of Anfpach, on the Rednitz ; large 
:md well peopled, with a great number ofartifans. Tiie 
Jews have a fynagogue and a printing-odice : four miles 
wed of Nuremberg. 
FUR'THFIR, ad. [from forth, not from far, as is com¬ 
monly \VL\0iffntA-, forth, further, furthejl, corrupted from 
foriher, forthejl, poja^ep, Sax. Farther is ufed by Sir 
Thomas More. See F'oRXHand Farther, of which the 
examples are to be referred to this word.] At a greater 
didance. Beyond this.—What further need have w e of 
witnelfes ? Matth. xxvi. 65. 
Satan had journey’d on, penfive and (low : 
But further way found none, fo thick intwin’d. 
As one continu’d brake, the undergrowth 
Of dirubsand tangling bufhes had perplex’d 
All path of man or bead that pafs’d tliat way. Milton. 
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