v (*to-fo-rim-, cf. fo-ruimi) settles on, alights on: tofuirmi (= tosfuirme, Lec. 409a17 ) ind aúne for firu hÉirenn connách bui ní nochaithitis, ZCP viii 313.1 . dofurmi tám forro con-apthatar fir hErend, LL 2394 . dofuirim snechta foraib . . . condabert for merugud snow settled upon them, LL 287b35 . Note also: ba fidbaid uili Cliu an tan sin. . . . Dofuirim Cormac húa Cuind planted it (?), Lec. 269b39 . Mucairbe .i. mac fuirmid, is mac dofuirmed a dāna (.i. no is macdān dufuirim a dāna), Corm. Y 855 (dofuirem, v.l.) (etymol. gloss).

(vn. of fo-rīm-?) composing in metre (?). f.¤ .i. ellach aisti, Corm. Y 665 (fuirimh `cattle of any kind' O'R. may be due to a misunderstanding of this gloss). ? mucairbe ... is mac dofuirmed a dāna no is macdān du [leg. mac dan dú ?] fuirim a dāna, 855 = dofuirem, Bodl. ; perhaps pret. of do-fuirmi, q.v.

n i, m. (= mac fuirmid? the second component may be a gen.; see fuirmed) a poet of the sixth or second lowest grade in the Irish order of `filid'; his special species of composition were the `setrad' and `sainemain (senamain)'. See IT iii 112 , 116 . mucairbe .i. mac fuirmid, is mac dofuirmed a dāna (.i. no is macdan dufuirim a dāna), Corm. Y 855. macfuirmid, O'Mulc. 537. macfuir[m]edh , IT iii 97.1 ( BB 294a31 ). do macfuirmidh , Auraic. 2248. g s. mécnach m̅c̅ fuirmida, IT iii 31.16 . Called mac már, ZCP v 499 § 7. See muc(c)airbe.