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furniture

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1. furniture - Noun

2. furniture - Verb

Meaning

That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.

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.

The masts and rigging of a ship.

The mountings of a gun.

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

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.

A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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No furniture is so charming as books. Sydney Smith

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. Fran Lebowitz

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. Wallace Stevens

A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece of furniture. Chinese Proverb

A beautiful wife without money is like a fine house without furniture. Spanish Proverb

A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece of furniture. English Proverb

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