Furzy

a. Also 7 fursy. [f. FURZE sb. + -Y¹.]

  1.  Of or pertaining to furze; composed of furze; covered or overgrown with furze.

1613–16.  W. Browne, Brit. Past. II. iv.

1686.  Plot, Staffordsh., 344. Their broomy, gorsy or fursy, hot Sandy land, they first clear of those incumbrances.

1781.  P. Beckford, Hunting, 234. Where the cover is thick, you should draw it as exactly as if you were trying for a hare; particularly if it be furzy; for, when there is no drag, a fox, at a late hour, will lie till the hounds come close upon him.

1845.  Talfourd, Vac. Rambles (1847), I. 127. We crossed an angle of furzy common.

1869.  Blackmore, Lorna D., xli. All things had a look of sameness, and a kind of furzy colour.

  2.  Fuzzy, fluffy.

1719.  H. Barham, in Phil. Trans., XXX. 1037. When the loose furzy Substance is taken off.

1880.  Senior, Trav. & Trout in Antip., 127. The old fellow is very furzy in the matter of hair.

  b.  Fuzzy, indistinct, blurred.

1825.  Moore, Sheridan, 664. Those painters, who endeavour to disguise their ignorance of anatomy by an indistinct and furzy outline.