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hich the skin passes. As the skin is bent over one of the rollers, the hairs are displayed and thus laid over a straight edge. The knives are fixed radially to a rotating disk, and shear past the straight-edge, severing the hairs with nearness to the skin determined by the set of the machine. Williams, 1832, has a frame with a series of parallel knife-edges presented upwardly. Over them is a block carrying an oblique knife which makes a shear cut upon the fixed knives in succession. Flint's fur-cutting knife, 1837, has an edge on one jaw and a cushion on the other. See also Harlow's patent for cutting bristles, 1868. 2. A mechanical contrivance for shaving the backs of peltry skins, to loosen the long, deeply rooted hairs, leaving the fine fur undisturbed. Fur-dress′ing. Fur, in its usual trade acceptation, is the short, fine hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin and deprived of the long, coarse, protecting hairs. Furs are dressed by greasing and