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Furnished with a dewlap.

Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.

of parallel lines, with other lines crossing them obliquely, so that their intersections furnish smaller subdivisions of the unit of measure than could be conveniently marked on a plain scale. -- Diagonal stratification. (Geol.) Same as Cross bedding, under Cross, a.

Furnishing or giving two colors; -- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three. Sir J. Herschel.

To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men. A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. Sir W. Scott.

The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. [Obs.]

To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle. Bp. Hall.

To furnish with a dispart sight.

To disfurnish; to strip. [Obs.] Heywood.

"Public diversions." V. Knox. Such productions of wit and humor as expose vice and folly, furnish useful diversion to readers. Addison.

To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables. R. H. Dana.

Furnished with a dome; shaped like a dome.

To furnish with a dower; to endow. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.

Furnished with, or as with, dower or a marriage portion. Shak.

To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.

A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.

floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat.

Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day. Along life's dullest, dreariest walk. Keble.