fur|ni|ture

fur|ni|ture «FUR nuh chuhr», noun.

1. movable articles needed in a house or room, such as tables, chairs, beds, or desks.

2. articles needed; equipment: »

God's residence is next to mine, His furniture is love (Emily Dickinson).

3. apparatus, appliances, or instruments for work, now especially the tools, utensils, rigging, stores, and tackle of a ship.

4. the covers and linen of a bed.

5. strips or blocks of wood or metal, lower than type-high, set in and about pages of type to fill out large white areas such as margins.

6. (in the Middle Ages) the harness and ornamental coverings for a horse.

7. Archaic. the condition of being equipped in body or mind; equipment; preparedness.

8. Archaic. the act of furnishing.

╂[< French fourniture < Old French fournir; see etym. under furnish (Cf. ↑furnish)]