a. [f. FIR + -Y1.] a. Abounding in firs. b. Of or pertaining to the fir.

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1833.  Lamb, Elia, Blakesmoor. Stretching still beyond, in old formality, thy firry wilderness, the haunt of the squirrel, and the day-long murmuring wood-pigeon, with that antique image in the centre, God or Goddess I wist not.

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1842.  Hood, Elm Tree, III. xvi.

        Yea, this recumbent rugged trunk,
  That lies so long and prone,
With many a fallen acorn-cup,
  And mast, a firry cone.

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1843.  Tennyson, Miller’s Dau., 6.

        And oft I heard the tender dove
  In firry woodlands making moan;
But ere I saw your eyes, my love,
  I had no motion of my own.

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