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1. amice, n.2 View full entry 1548
...The fur of the marten or grey squirrel with which the amice was lined or bordered. Obs....
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
...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 ?c1225
...General relations, chiefly attrib., as bear-dance, bear-fat, bear-fight, bear-fur, bear-hide, bear-hunt, bear-kin, bear-meat, bearbear-whelp;...
5. bear-fell in bear, n.1 View full entry a1375
...a bear-skin....
6. bearskin, n. View full entry a1375
...The skin of a bear used as a wrap or garment....
7. beaver, n.1 View full entry c1394
...The fur of the beaver....
10. beaver-wool in beaver, n.1 View full entry 1780
...(= fur)....
11. beaver lamb in beaver, n.1 View full entry 1939
...lambskin cut and dyed to resemble beaver fur; also attrib....
12. Beaverette, n. View full entry 1922
...An imitation beaver fur; also, cloth with a beaver finish (see beaver clothbeaver2)....
13. bird-skin in bird, n. View full entry 1778
14. breitschwanz, n. View full entry 1923
...= broadtail...
15. bristle, n. View full entry c1314
...One of the stiff hairs that grow on the back and sides of the hog and wild boar; used extensively by brushmakers, shoemakers, etc....
16. broadtail, n. View full entry 1892
...The skin or pelt of a young Persian lamb, having a lustrous moiré appearance. Also attrib. Cf. breitschwanz...
17. brock-skin in brock, n.1 View full entry 1382
...a badger-skin (in Wyclif app. due to confusion of Latin mēles, mēlis, with mēlōta Greek μηλωτή sheepskin, μῆλον)....
18. brock-wool in brock, n.1 View full entry 1500
...hair of the beaver (see 1b)....
19. budge, n.1 View full entry 1382
...A kind of fur, consisting of lamb's skin with the wool dressed outwards....
20. budge, n.1 View full entry 1466
...attrib. and Comb., as in budge-face, budge-fur, budge-gown, budge-skin; budge-bachelor...
