Definition of "furzy" [furz•y]

• Where furze grows. (adjective)

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• "The fog of the last three weeks was gone, neither did any rime remain; but all things had a look of sameness, and a kind of furzy colour."
• "I had skipped from bed to bed and from box to box in a cold agony and every time I touched anything that was furzy I fancied I felt the fangs."
• "Among the few features of agricultural England which retain an appearance but little modified by the lapse of centuries, may be reckoned the high, grassy and furzy downs, coombs, or ewe-leases, as they are indifferently called, that fill a large area of certain counties in the south and south-west."