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

Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.

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.

A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.

The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.

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

Fury; dreadfulness. [Obs.] Spenser.

The system of furrows on the face of a millstone. Knight. Dress circle. See under Circle. -- Dress parade (Mil.), a parade in full uniform for review.

To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water.

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

To rush and press with violence; to move furiously. Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails. Dryden. Under cover of the night and a driving tempest. Prescott. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Tennyson.

The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously.

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

Fig. : To mollify; to sweeten; to please. As she . . . was further dulcified by her pipe of tobacco. Hawthorne.

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.

d from one room or story of a house to another; a lift for dishes, etc.; also, a piece of furniture with movable or revolving shelves.

A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.