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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Furnish

/(fûr"nĭsh)/ · Fur·nish · IPA /ˈfɝnɪʃ/
01 v. t. 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 w…
imp. & p. p. Furnished; p. pr. & vb. n. Furnishing
  1. 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. 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.
02 n. That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply.
  1. 1.
    That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply.[Obs.]