furnish

Verb

WordNet 3.0

Verb (2)

give something useful or necessary to“We provided the room with an electrical heater”Synonyms: supply provide render
provide or equip with furniture“We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style”

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Furnish \Fur"nish\ (f[^u]r"n[i^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Furnished; p. pr. & vb. n. Furnishing.] [OF. furnir, fornir, to furnish, finish, F. fournir; akin to Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and -ish.]

1.To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house. [1913 Webster]

That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.— 2 Tim. iii. 17,[1913 Webster]

2.To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense. [1913 Webster]

Ye are they . . . that furnish the drink offering unto that number.— Is. lxv. 11.[1913 Webster]

His writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]

Furnish \Fur"nish\, n. That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply. [Obs.] --Greene. [1913 Webster]