furniture

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy

   they had too much furniture for the small apartment

2. 2
   noun

   Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.

   The woman does not even have one stick of furniture moved in yet.

3. 3
   noun

   The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.

   We commend a horse because he is strong and nimble,[…]and not for his furniture: a greyhound for his swiftnesse, not for his collar: a hawke for her wing, not for her cranes or bells.

4. 4
   noun

   Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.

   […]a new universal pistol, one to be carried by each man, with a 9-inch barrel of musket-bore and an iron ramrod carried in the holster; the furniture was reduced to just a brass trigger guard (no butt-plate), and some were fitted with Nock's lock.

5. 5
   noun

   An accompanying enhancing feature, or features collectively; embellishment, decoration, trimming.

   A Scythian Shepherd, so imbelliſhed With Natures pride, and richeſt furniture? His looks do menace heauen & dare the Gods, His fiery eies are fixt vpon the earth.

6. 6
   noun

   Any material on the page other than the body text and pictures of articles; for example, headlines, datelines and dinkuses, lines and symbols (though in earlier use, only non-text elements of page design, such as lines and symbols).

   It read: “This article was amended on 3 January 2023. The original furniture said the fireworks display was on Christmas Eve.”

7. 7
   noun

   The stock and forearm of a weapon.

8. 8
   noun

   The pieces of wood or metal put around pages of type to make proper margins and fill the spaces between the pages and the chase.

Etymology

From Middle French fourniture (“a supply, or the act of furnishing”), from fournir (“to furnish”).