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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Furnish \Fur"nish\ (f[^u]r"n[i^]sh), verb (used with an object) [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}, verb (used with an object), 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.
That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. --2 Tim. iii. 17,
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.
Ye are they . . . that furnish the drink offering unto that number. --Is. lxv. 11.
His writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. --Macaulay.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "furnishing": accouterment, adaptation, adjustment, armament, catering, chandlery, conditioning, enablement, endowment, equipment, finding, fit, fitting, fitting out, furnishment, investment, logistics, outfitting, preparation, procurement, providing, provision, provisioning, purveyance, qualification, reinforcement, replenishment, resupply, retailing, selling, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, supply, supplying, tuning, victualing
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