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To entertain; to furnish with accommodations. [Obs.] Chaucer. To ease off, To ease away (Naut.), to slacken a rope gradually. -- To ease a ship (Naut.), to put the helm hard, or regulate the sail, to prevent pitching when closehauled. -- To ease the helm (Naut.), to put the helm more nearly amidships, to lessen the e…

Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.

To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. To edge her champion's sword. Dryden.

To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements. [Archaic] To embattail and to wall about thy cause With iron-worded proof. Tennyson.

To furnish with battlements. "Embattled house." Wordsworth.

To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.

To furnish with money; to imburse. [Obs.]

To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow. Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. Addison.

To furnish or surround with a collar. [R.]

Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring. -- En*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.

To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution. Endowing hospitals and almshouses. Bp. Stillingfleet.

e clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding. The conscience enlightened by the Word and Spirit of God. Trench.

to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command.

Stored or furnished with wine. [Obs.] Chaucer.

qual and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed, furnished, etc.

To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops. Dryden. Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.…

Furnished with equipage. Well dressed, well bred. Well equipaged, is ticket good enough. Cowper.

To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap. Carleton.

Having an escutcheon; furnished with a coat of arms or ensign. Young.

A kind of small, portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp. There should certainly be an etna for getting a hot cup of coffee in a hurry. V. Baker.