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To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.

into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore.

in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement. The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. Woodward. A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. Coleridge.

To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities. Indu'd with robes of various hue she flies. Dryden. Indued with intellectual sense and souls. Shak.

Furnished with an indusium.

To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree.

Not nutritious; not furnishing nourishment.

e give to newspaper sheets printed on one side with general and miscellaneous matter, and furnished wholesale to offices of small newspapers, where the blank pages are filled up with recent and local news.

Arranged; furnished; provided. [Obs.] "He had neither ship instruct with oars, nor men." Chapman.

The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.

Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons. Addison. In various talk the instructive hours they past. Pope. -- In*struct"ive*ly, adv. -- In*struct"ive*ness, n. The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. Boyle.

s replaced by its inverse figure. Propositions that are true for the original figure thus furnish new propositions that are true in the inverse figure. See Inverse figures, under Inverse.

Furnished with involucels.

To furnish or arm with iron; as, to iron a wagon.

ng, originally appearing in certain verbs of French origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish.

To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep. Southey.

A Mexican name for a variety of Agave rigida, which furnishes a strong coarse fiber; also, the fiber itself, which is called also pita, and Tampico fiber. [Written also istle.]

To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket.

Wearing, or furnished with, a jacket.

Furnished with jalousies; as, jalousied porches.