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furbish, v.|ˈfɜːbɪʃ|
Forms: 4–6 furbusshe, 4–7 furbush, (4 forbisch, fourbosh, 5 forbesh, foorbush, 6 furbisshe, 7 forbush), 5 forbysch(yn, 5–7 f(o)urbyssh(e, 4– furbish.
[ad. OF. forbiss- lengthened stem of forbir (= Pr. forbir, It. forbire), ad. OHG. furban in the same sense.]
1. trans. To remove rust from (a weapon, armour, etc.); to brighten by rubbing, polish, burnish. Also with up.
1382Wyclif Ezek. xxi. 9 The swerd is whettid and furbishid. c1483Caxton Vocab. 16 A swerde, Whiche me ought to furbysshe. c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 327 Varlettes were furbusshynge..of theyr maysters harneys. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 70 In heaven..your swords are furbushed and sharpened, by him that made their metall. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. xii, I..furbished up one of the..cutlasses. 1791Cowper Iliad xiii. 415 Corslets furbish'd bright. 1852Hawthorne Tanglewood T., Golden Fleece (1879) 215 As soon as they could furbish up their helmets. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola ii. xxi, Old arms duly furbished.
absol.1624Quarles Div. Poems, Job iii. li, Or if, by forbushing, he [the potter] take more paine To make it fairer, shall the Pot complaine?
fig.c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 224 Men shulden not holde al gold þat shyneþ as gold, for many þingis ben fourboshid ful falseli. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 134 b, He hath somewhat furbushed the old rusty Argumentes of other raynebeaten souldiours. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. iii. 76 With thy blessings steele my Lances point, That it may enter Mowbrayes waxen Coate, And furbish new the name of John a Gaunt. 1654Trapp Comm. Job xxix. 25 He had so fourbished the sword of Justice with the Oyle of Mercy.
2. To brush or clean up (anything faded or soiled); to give a new look to (an object either material or immaterial); to do or get up afresh, renovate, revive. Chiefly with up, occas. over.
1587Golding De Mornay xvii. (1617) 304 The soule, which must be fain to be, as it were, new furbished. 1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 65 Thei'le flowt a man behind his backe, if he Be not trim furbish'd and in decencie. 1629N. Carpenter Achitophel iii. (1640) 131 He shewed himselfe ambitious to file and furbish over the staine of his shamefull life. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. v. iv. 397 This infection [Pelagianisme] was to come to this Iland in after-ages, furbished up under a new name. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 582 Their ancient houses, running to decay, Are furbish'd up. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 28 The University Statutes..were afterwards corrected, methodized, and furbisht over with excellent Latine. 1715Rowe Lady Jane Gray iii. i, They furbish up their Holy Trumpery. 1774J. Q. Adams in Fam. Lett. (1876) 5, I might be furbishing up my old reading in Law and History. 1837Southey Doctor IV. cxxiii. 228 Some part of the furniture was to be furbished, some to be renewed. 1844Disraeli Coningsby viii. iii, What we want..is not to..furbish up old baronies, but to establish great principles.
†b. intr. for refl. Obs. rare—1.
1697Dennis Plot & no Plot i. 12 Go, get you gone and furbish, you little young Dog.
Hence ˈfurbished ppl. a.; ˈfurbishing vbl. n.; also attrib. and used gerundially with the omission of in. Also ˈfurbish n., the action of the vb.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. iii. (1869) 2 A foorbushed swerd wel grownden. 1463Mann. & Househ. Exp. 226 My mastyre payd to Robyn the armerere..ffor xij. dayis werke in fforbeshynge, iij. s. 1605Shakes. Macb. i. ii. 32 The Norweyan Lord..With furbusht Armes, and new supplyes of men, Began a fresh assault. a1640Ball Answ. J. Can i. (1642) 90 A new furbishing over of the same broken staffe. 1713Steele Englishm. No. 40. 264 These..are lately furbishing up to shine out at some favourable Conjuncture. 1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. II. 159 For all the furbish'd up stuff it contains. 1839P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 171 Had a general furbish of all the gear and stores. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 438 To this the arts of fulling and..furbishing attend in a number of minute particulars. 1862Lond. Rev. 30 Aug. 188 The tarnished lace having been subjected to a furbishing process. |