fure

• fur, fuir, four, fwir, fuyr

From Proto-Germanic *fōrijaną. Cognate with Dutch voeren (“to lead”), Low German fören (“to lead”), German führen (“to lead”), Luxembourgish féieren (“to lead”), Icelandic færa (“to move, carry, convey”), Faroese føra (“to lead, carry”), Swedish föra (“to lead, guide, steer, direct”), Danish före (“to lead”), Norwegian Bokmål føre (“to lead”).

• IPA^(key): /fjʊɹ/
• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

fure (third-person singular simple present fures, present participle furing, simple past and past participle fured)

1. (dialectal, rare, obsolete, Northern England, Scotland) To lead.

   So far as his labor and his wisdom fures.

   • 1637, Monro Expeditionː

     To his master, the Kings Majesty or General, that fures or leads the war.

1. (dialectal, rare, Northern England, Scotland) To carry, bear, convey, transport.

   No goods should be fured upon the over-loft of the ships.

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• An historical dictionary

From Latin foras or forīs . Compare Italian fuori.

fure

1. outside

fùrē m (plural furanni, possessed form fùren)

1. (botany) flower, blossom

fūre

1. ablative singular of fūr

From Old Norse for via Danish fure

fure m (definite singular furen, indefinite plural furer, definite plural furene)

1. a furrow
2. a groove
3. a line or wrinkle (in the face)

• furet, furete
• plogfure

• fòr (Nynorsk)

• “fure” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “fure_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• fura (archaic, Høgnorsk)
• furu

From Old Norse fura.

• IPA^(key): /²fʉːrə/

fure f (definite singular fura, indefinite plural furer, definite plural furene)

1. a pine (tree of the genus Pinus)
2. pine (wood from pine trees)

• “fure” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

fure

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of furar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of furar
3. first-person singular imperative of furar
4. third-person singular imperative of furar

fure m

1. key (for a lock)