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fir

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1. fir - Noun

2. fir - Adjective

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A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin. The species are distinguished as the balsam fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc. The Scotch fir is a Pinus.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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This vast pile of natural beauty, those crags and fir trees and hovering hawks, those echoing ravines and vast tumblings of snow and earth, brought me swiftly to the understanding of my own insignificance and, indeed, the insignificance of all human struggle. Michael Moorcock

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. Hamlin Garland

This is the dream we had, asleep in our chair, thinking of Christmas in the lands of fir tree and pine, Christmas in lands of palm tree and vine, and of how the one great sky does for all places and all people. E. B. White

It's easy tae be philosophical when some other cunt's got shite fir blood. Irvine Welsh

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait and both without impatience they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity. Friedrich Nietzsche

Fir and water are good servants, but bad masters. German Proverb

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