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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FUR'NITURE, n.
1. Goods, vessels, utensils and other appendages necessary or convenient for housekeeping; whatever is added to the interior of a house or apartment, for use or convenience.
2. Appendages; that which is added for use or ornament; as the earth with all its furniture.
3. Equipage; ornaments; decorations; in a very general sense.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy; "they had too much furniture for the small apartment"; "there was only one piece of furniture in the room" [syn: furniture, piece of furniture, article of furniture]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle French fourniture, from fournir Date: 1542 equipment that is necessary, useful, or desirable: as a. archaic the trappings of a horse b. movable articles used in readying an area (as a room or patio) for occupancy or use

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the movable equipment of a house, room, etc., e.g. tables, chairs, and beds. 2 Naut. a ship's equipment, esp. tackle etc. 3 accessories, e.g. the handles and lock of a door. 4 Printing pieces of wood or metal placed round or between type to make blank spaces and fasten the matter in the chase. Phrases and idioms: furniture beetle a beetle, Anobium punctatum, the larvae of which bore into wood (see WOODWORM). furniture van a large van used to move furniture from one house to another. part of the furniture colloq. a person or thing taken for granted. Etymology: F fourniture f. fournir (as FURNISH)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Furniture Fur"ni*ture, n. [F. fourniture. See Furnish, v. t.] 1. That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment. The form and all the furniture of the earth. --Tillotson. The thoughts which make the furniture of their minds. --M. Arnold. 2. Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc. 3. 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. 4. (Mus.) A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. Furniture consists of large objects such as tables, chairs, or beds that are used in a room for sitting or lying on or for putting things on or in. Each piece of furniture in their home suited the style of the house.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

fur'ni-tur (kar, kelim; skeue): In Ge 31:34 kar is translated "furniture" in the King James Version, but "saddle" in the American Standard Revised Version. The latter is decidedly preferable. It was the "camel-basket," or the basket-saddle of the camel, which was a sort of palanquin bound upon the saddle. Upon this saddle-basket Rachel sat with the teraphim hidden beneath, and her wily father did not suspect the presence of his gods in such a place. In other places the word kelim is used, and is generally rendered "vessels," though sometimes "furniture." It may have many other renderings also (see BDB). Ex 31:7; 39:33 mention the furniture of the Tent, which is specified in other places. Moses is instructed (25:9) to make a sanctuary or tabernacle and the furniture thereof according to the pattern showed him in the Mount. The furniture of the Court consisted of the brazen altar and laver (40:29,30); that of the Holy Place, of the table of showbread, the golden lampstand and altar of incense (39:36; 40:22-26; Heb 9:2); that of the Holy of Holies, of the ark and mercy-seat overshadowed by the cherubim. The tribe of Levi was set apart by Yahweh to "keep all the furniture of the tent of meeting" (Nu 3:8). When David organized the tabernacle-worship in Jerusalem and assigned the Levites their separate duties, certain men "were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary" (1Ch 9:29). In Na 2:9 the singular form of the word keli is used, and is rendered "furniture." The prophet refers to the abundant, costly, luxurious furniture and raiment, largely the results of their conquests and plunder in many countries.

In Ac 27:19 the word skeue is translated in the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) "tackling," with "furniture" in the Revised Version, margin.

By way of information regarding the general furniture of the house little is said directly in the Scriptures. The chamber built for Elisha upon the wall contained a bed, a table, a seat, and lampstand. This was doubtless the furnishing of most bedrooms when it could be afforded. The prophet Amos had a supreme contempt for the luxurious furniture of the grandees of Samaria (3:12; 6:4). For full particulars see HOUSE; TABERNACLE; TEMPLE.

J. J. Reeve

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Movables, house-fittings, household goods. 2. Appendages, apparatus, appliances, fittings. 3. Equipage, ornaments, decorations, embellishments.

Moby Thesaurus

Intertype, Linotype, Monotype, accessories, accouterments, apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, armament, belongings, chattels, clobber, cold-type typesetting, composing, composing stick, composition, computerized typesetting, conveniences, devices, duffel, dummy, effects, equipage, equipment, facilities, facility, fittings, fixtures, furnishings, galley chase, gear, home furnishings, hot-metal typesetting, impedimenta, imposition, installations, justification, kit, layout, line of type, machinery, materiel, movables, munition, munitions, outfit, paraphernalia, photocomposition, photosetting, phototypesetter, phototypesetting machine, plant, plumbing, possessions, quoin, rig, rigging, setting, shit, slug, stock-in-trade, stuff, tack, tackle, things, trappings, typesetting, typesetting machine, utensils