ˈfurison Obs. exc. Her.
[a. MDu. vuurijzen (Kilian vierijzer), f. vuur fire n. + ijzen, ijzer, iron. (Perh. fleerish is a corruption of this.)]
(See quot. 1889.)
| 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. p. lvii, He that was found in the army but flint and furisine, or but his swerd. 1889 Elvin Dict. Her., Furisons, the steel used for striking fire from a flint. |