furniture
Speech parts
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.
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No furniture is so charming as books.
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece of furniture.
A beautiful wife without money is like a fine house without furniture.
A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece of furniture.