v. Obs. Sc. [f. *fure, Sc. form of FORE a journey.]
1. trans. To bear, carry.
c. 1470. Henry the Minstrel, Wallace, III. 222. With flour and wyne als mekill as thai mycht fur.
1487. Sc. Acts Jas. III. (1814), II. 178/2. That na gudis be furit be þe master apoun his ouerloft.
c. 1560. A. Scott, Poems (S. T. S.), xvi. 1. How suld my febill body fure The dowble dolour I indure?
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., 141. Na gudes sould be fured vpon the over-loft of the shippes.
2. To lead, conduct. Also absol.
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), I. Proheme, p. vi. So far as laboure and his wisdome furis.
1637. Monro, Exped., I. 45. To his Master the Kings Majesty or Generall, that fuers or leades the warre.
Hence Furing vbl. sb., freight.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 246. For birth and wecht hir furing wes so hie, With thame ilkane scho sank into the se.
