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1. amice, n.2 View full entry c1430
...An article of costume of the religious orders, made of, or lined with grey fur. It varied at different times in character and mode of wearing, being originally (it is said) a...
2. Angora, n. View full entry 1819
...A town in Asia Minor, giving its name to a species of goat, and to its silk-like wool; also to a long-haired variety of cat. Also applied to a variety of rabbit...
3. astrakhan, n. View full entry 1766
...The skin of still-born or very young lambs from Astrakhan in Russia, the wool of which resembles fur....
4. bear, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A heavily-built, thick-furred plantigrade quadruped, of the genus Ursus; belonging to the Carnivora, but having teeth partly adapted to a vegetable diet. ...
5. bearskin, n. View full entry a1375
...The skin of a bear used as a wrap or garment....
6. beaver, n.1 View full entry c1000
...An amphibious rodent, distinguished by its broad, oval, horizontally-flattened, scaly tail, palmated hind feet, coat of soft fur, and hard incisor teeth with which it cuts down trees; remarkable for its skill...
7. Beaverette, n. View full entry 1922
...An imitation beaver fur; also, cloth with a beaver finish (see beaver clothbeaver2)....
8. bird, n. View full entry a800
...orig. The general name for the young of the feathered tribes; a young bird; a chicken, eaglet, etc.; a nestling. The only sense in Old English; found in literature down to...
9. breitschwanz, n. View full entry 1923
...= broadtail...
10. bristle, n. View full entry a1300
...prop....
11. broadtail, n. View full entry 1892
...The skin or pelt of a young Persian lamb, having a lustrous moiré appearance. Also attrib. Cf. breitschwanz...
12. brock, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A badger: a name, in later times, associated especially with the epithet stinking....
13. budge, n.1 View full entry 1382
...A kind of fur, consisting of lamb's skin with the wool dressed outwards....
14. † ˈbudgy, adj. View full entry 1598
...Of or like budge or lamb's fur....
15. † ˈbuggishank, n. View full entry 1463
...? A kind of budge fur....
16. † ˈbundwork, n. View full entry 1663
17. bunny, n.2 View full entry 1606
...A pet name for a rabbit....
18. burnt | burned, adj. View full entry a1382
...Set on fire, consumed with fire....
19. calaber | calabar, n. View full entry 1362
...A kind of fur, apparently obtained from some foreign species of the squirrel; now, commercially, applied especially to the fur of the grey or Siberian Squirrel: also attrib.calaber pencil:...
20. camel's hair, n. View full entry c1325
...The hair of the camel. (But cf. camel-yarn)...
