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noun

Furniture n.

That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment. "The form and all the furniture of the earth." "The thoughts which make the furniture of their minds."

Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.

The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc.

(a)

(Naut.) The masts and rigging of a ship.

(b)

(Mil.) The mountings of a gun.

(c)

Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings.

(d)

(Print) Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase.

(Mus.) A mixed or compound stop in an organ; sometimes called mixture.

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"Furniture" Quotes from Famous Books

... consult his associates. This motion of his furnished my woman with an opportunity of making her retreat; and, when he returned at night, the coast was clear, and he found nobody in the house, but a porter, who had been left to take care of the furniture. He was so enraged at this disappointment, that he made a furious noise, which raised the whole neighbourhood, reinforced his crew with the authority of a justice of the peace, tarried in the street till three o'clock in the morning, discharged a lodging he had hired at a barber's ...

— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... comfortably in the living room of their spacious house, as luxurious as anything any of them would have known on distant Earth. The rugs were thick, the furniture was overstuffed, the paintings on the walls were aesthetic and inspiring, the shelves were filled with booktapes ...

— Service with a Smile • Charles Louis Fontenay

... which awakened a responsive chord in my nature. He was a man to take a risk and welcome it for the risk's sake. Moreover, he was a horseman; as I saw by his quick glance over Satan's furniture. He caught the cheek strap of the bridle, and motioned us away as we would have helped him at the horse's head. Then ensued as pretty a fight between man and horse as one could ask to see. The black brute reared and fairly took him from the ground, fairly chased him about ...

— The Way of a Man • Emerson Hough

... that—a wonderful man to the last. Yes, she must have had talent, and miniatures always had a certain back-watered cachet of their own, little subject to the currents of competition on aesthetic Change. Soames opened the drawing-room door. The room was dusted, the furniture uncovered, the curtains drawn back, precisely as if his aunts still dwelt there patiently waiting. And a thought came to him: When Timothy died—why not? Would it not be almost a duty to preserve this house—like Carlyle's—and put up a ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... were empty, it called for our united efforts to move the heavy piece of furniture; but we accomplished the task ultimately, making visible a considerable expanse of panelling. Nearly forty years had elapsed since that case had been removed, and the carvings which it concealed were coated with all the dust which had ...

— Brood of the Witch-Queen • Sax Rohmer

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