See Also: rosehead(medicine)

furor (iou) and rosehead (medicine)


furor (iou)



furor noun. LME.
[Latin, from furere to rage: see -OR.]
Fury, rage; madness. Now rare or obsolete. LME.
T. Wyatt What rage is this? What furor?
The inspired frenzy of artists and prophets; an excited mood. L16.
With defining adjective in Latin, as furor academicus, furor poeticus, furor scribendi, etc. George Eliot They were written in a furor. S. Foote I am afraid the poetic Furor may have betray'd me into some Indecency.
= FURORE. Now chiefly N. Amer. E18.
R. May What a furor is made over kissing a girl.

rosehead (medicine)


rosehead


1. See Rose.

2. A many-sided pyramidal head upon a nail; also a nail with such a head.

Source: Websters Dictionary