furnish

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   provide or equip with furniture

   We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style

2. 2
   noun

   Material used to create an engineered product.

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

3. 3
   verb

   To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   To supply or give (something).

   […] 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.

5. 5
   verb

   To supply (somebody) with something.

   The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment.

6. 6
   verb

   give something useful or necessary to

7. 7
   name

   A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English furnysshen, from Old French furniss-, stem of certain parts of furnir, fornir (Modern French fournir), from Germanic, from Frankish *frumjan (“to complete, execute”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjaną (“to further, promote”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“front, forward”). Cognate with Old High German frumjan (“to perform, provide”), Old High German fruma (“utility, gain”), Old English fremu (“profit, advantage”), Old English fremian (“to promote, perform”). More at frame, frim.