fourm

Updated: June 12, 2025

'Dull streams Flow flagging in the undescribed deep fourms Of creatures born the first of all, long dead'. #Fourm#, explained as a 'hare's lurking place', commonly called form, widely used and understood because the lair has the shape or form of the animal that lay in it. But perhaps it was originally only the animal's seat or form, as we use the word in schools.

Society for Pure English - Society for Pure English, Tract 05: The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems