furnish
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English furnysshen, from Old French furniss-, stem of certain parts of furnir, fornir (Modern French fournir), from Germanic, from Frankish *frumjan (“to complete, execute”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjaną (“to further, promote”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“front, forward”).
Cognate with Old High German frumjan (“to perform, provide”), Old High German fruma (“utility, gain”), Old English fremu (“profit, advantage”), Old English fremian (“to promote, perform”). More at frame, frim.
Inflected forms:
form: furnishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: furnishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: furnishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: furnished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: furnished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Material used to create an engineered product.
pos: noun
examples: The resin-coated furnish is evenly spread inside the form and another metal plate is placed on top.
gloss: To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
gloss: To supply or give (something).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: […] Miniſters are ſo wiſe to leave their Proceedings to be accounted for by Reaſoners at a Diſtance, who often mould them into Syſtems, that do not only go down very well in the Coffee-Houſe, but are Supplies for Pamphlets in the preſent Age, and may probably furniſh Materials for Memoirs and Hiſtories in the next.
[H]e took his seat at the bottom of the table, by her ladyship's desire, and looked as if he felt that life could furnish nothing greater.
But his writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense.
gloss: To supply (somebody) with something.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment.
For, that the ordure, which continually gathers on the skin, would ſoon ſtop the pores of it, if the ſweat were not furniſht with ſome efficacious diſſolvent to open and pierce them.
I was every day furniſhing the Court with ſome ridiculous Story; and Glumdalclitch, although ſhe loved me to Exceſs, yet was arch enough to inform the Queen, whenever I committed any Folly that ſhe thought would be diverting to her Majeſty.
[…] Mrs. Irons rebelled in her bed, and refused peremptorily to get up again, to furnish the musical topers with rum and lemons, […]
Related words: furniture
Derived words: disfurnish
furnishable
furnish and supply
furnisher
furnishment
furnish out
new-furnish
overfurnish
refurnish
underfurnish
unfurnish
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