Furnish

/ˈfɝnɪʃ/ · noun

Meaning

Material used to create an engineered product..

Definitions by Sense

1. Material used to create an engineered product.
2. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give (something).
4. (transitive, figuratively) To supply (somebody) with something.

Example Sentences

The resin-coated furnish is evenly spread inside the form and another metal plate is placed on top.

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.

[…] 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.

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.

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