| Furnish 1. (v. t.) To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house. 2. (v. t.) To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense. 3. (n.) That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply. Thesaurus Entries accommodate, accommodate with, accouter, adapt, adjust, afford, apparel, appoint, arm, array, attune, bear, bear fruit, bring forth, capacitate, clothe, condition, contribute, decorate, deliver, dispense, donate, dower, dress, enable, endow, endue, equip, favor with, feed, fill, fill up, find, fit, fit out, fit up, fructify, fruit, fund, gear, give, hand, hand over, heap upon, heel, indulge with, invest, keep, lavish upon, maintain, make available, make provision for, man, mount, munition, outfit, pour on, prepare, present, produce, provide, provide for, provision, put in trim, put in tune, qualify, recruit, replenish, rig, rig out, rig up, shower down upon, staff, stock, stock up, store, subsidize, suit, supply, support, transfer, tune, turn out, turn over, yield |