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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Furniture \Fur"ni*ture\, noun [F. fourniture. See {Furnish}, v. t.]
1. That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.
The form and all the furniture of the earth. --Tillotson.
The thoughts which make the furniture of their minds. --M. Arnold.
2. Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.
3. The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc. (a) (Naut.) The masts and rigging of a ship. (b) (Mil.) The mountings of a gun. (c) Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings. (d) (Print) Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase.
4. (Mus.) A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
furniture
noun: furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy; "they had too much furniture for the small apartment"; "there was only one piece of furniture in the room" [syn: {piece of furniture}, {article of furniture}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "furniture": Intertype, Linotype, Monotype, accessories, accouterments, apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, armament, belongings, chattels, clobber, cold-type typesetting, composing, composing stick, composition, computerized typesetting, conveniences, devices, duffel, dummy, effects, equipage, equipment, facilities, facility, fittings, fixtures, furnishings, galley chase, gear, home furnishings, hot-metal typesetting, impedimenta, imposition, installations, justification, kit, layout, line of type, machinery, materiel, movables, munition, munitions, outfit, paraphernalia, photocomposition, photosetting, phototypesetter, phototypesetting machine, plant, plumbing, possessions, quoin, rig, rigging, setting, shit, slug, stock-in-trade, stuff, tack, tackle, things, trappings, typesetting, typesetting machine, utensils
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