furnituren.

a. The action of fitting out or equipping, of accomplishing (a design), or of providing with (supplies); occasionally furniture forth. Obsolete.

b. The action of decorating or embellishing; a means of doing this. Hence concrete a decoration, an embellishment; also collective. Obsolete.

c. The action of supplying, affording, or yielding. Obsolete.

a. The condition of being equipped whether in body or mind; equipment in dress or armour; preparedness for action; mental cultivation, culture. Obsolete exc. archaic. †furniture of (arts): the being equipped with or accomplished in. Cf. 5.

†b. The condition of being occupied (by persons); complement of occupants. Obsolete.

†a. That with which one is provided; a provision, stock, or supply of anything (whether material or immaterial); stores in general, provisions; necessaries. Obsolete.

b. That with which something is or may be stocked; something to fill or occupy (a receptacle, etc.), contents. Now rare.

†a. Apparel, dress, outfit, personal belongings. Also plural in the same sense. Obsolete.

†b. Armour, accoutrements, weapons, munitions of war. Also, a suit of armour. Obsolete.

c. The harness, housings, trappings, etc. of a horse or other draught animal; rarely in plural a single article of this kind. Similarly, the hood, bells, etc. of a hawk.

d. Hangings and ornamental drapery; also, the coverlets and linen for a bed.

a. material: Implements, tools, utensils; rigging, stores, and tackle of a ship; military engines and defensive works. Now chiefly Nautical.

b. immaterial; esp. Of intellectual faculties, or aptitudes; now only with mental or some equivalent defining expression.In the quots. the sense borders closely on 2.

a. Accessories, appendages. (Formerly also plural in the same sense.) Now only technical in specific applications; used, e.g., for the finger-plates, handles, locks, etc. of a door; the plates and handles, etc. of a coffin; and the like; spec. the mountings of a rifle.

†b. plural. Adjuncts or condiments of a salad. Cf. French fourniture. Obsolete.

c. Printing. (See quot. 1874.)

d. (See quot. 1704.)

a. (The prevailing sense.) Movable articles, whether useful or ornamental, in a dwelling-house, place of business, or public building. Formerly including also the fittings. (†Occasionally construed as plural.)

b. Applied in the book trade to well-bound volumes and ‘standard’ sets which serve to fill and adorn the shelves of a private library. (Cf. furniture-picture n. at Compounds 2.)

c. part of the furniture, something familiar enough to be regarded as a permanent feature (and therefore taken for granted). colloquial.

furniture-broker n.

furniture-polish n.

furniture-remover n.

furniture-shop n.

furniture-van n.

furniture-plush n.