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To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.

To cover or furnish with glass; to glaze. Boyle.

To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon.

he wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. C. Kingsley. To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.

The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively. Storehouses crammed with grain. Shak.

To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars; as, to grate a window.

Furnished with a grate or grating; as, grated windows.

To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. A field or two to graze his cows. Swift.

en. Groom porter, formerly an officer in the English royal household, who attended to the furnishing of the king's lodgings and had certain privileges.

To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly. Being rooted and grounded in love. Eph. iii. 17. So far from warranting any inference to the existence of a God, would, on the contrary, ground even an argument to his negation. Sir W. Hamilton…

To set in, or furnish with, a haft; as, to haft a dagger.

Furnished with a small hook; hook-shaped. Gray.

use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool. South. To give a handle, to furnish an occasion or means.

To cover, decorate, or furnish by hanging pictures trophies, drapery, and the like, or by covering with paper hangings; -- said of a wall, a room, etc. Hung be the heavens with black. Shak. And hung thy holy roofs with savage spoils. Dryden.

on string bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), used as a vegetable. Other species of the same genus furnish different kinds of haricots.

An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds. It is often a monochord furnished with movable bridges.

Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense. Dr. H. More.

A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.

To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail. Spenser.

Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual faculties); -- used in composition; as, clear-headed, long-headed, thick-headed; a many-headed monster.