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To furnish or deck out with flags.

To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.

allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.

Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly. Hfledge with wings. Milton.

Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced. Spenser.

Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.

To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.

Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal. Lord Strut was not very flush in ready. Arbuthnot.

To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.;to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.

Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.

Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk. Foliate curve. (Geom.) Same as Folium.

as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, univ…

Furnished with, or guarded by, forts; strengthened or defended, as by forts. [R.] Shak.

To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack. Timidity was fortified by pride. Gibbon. Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution. Sir W. Scott.

To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify. Shak.

To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family. There they shall found Their government, and their great senate choose. Milton.

from an elevated reservoir. -- Fountain pen, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink. -- Fountain pump. (a) A structure for a fountain, having the form of a pump. (b) A portable garden pump which throws a jet, for watering plants, etc. -- Fountain shell (Zoöl.), the large West Indian co…

s, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.

To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.

Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.