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To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.

a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games. Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket. Bancroft.

To furnish with rafters, as a house.

la Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.

Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay for lack of being prepared or furnished. "Dinner was ready." Fielding. My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. Matt. xxii. 4.

The act of investing again with a body; the state of being furnished anew with a body. [R.] Boyle.

ds, as the harmonium, melodeon, concertina, etc. -- Reed pipe (Mus.), a pipe of an organ furnished with a reed. -- Reed sparrow. (Zoöl.) See Reed bunting, above. -- Reed stop (Mus.), a set of pipes in an organ furnished with reeds. -- Reed warbler. (Zoöl.) (a) A small European warbler (Acrocephalus streperus); -- c…

Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty. Sir W. Hamilton.

To furnish with a new mast or set of masts.

Hence, to furnish; to contribute. Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue. I. Watts.

The act of repeopling; act of furnishing with a population anew.

To furnish in writing an account of a speech, the proceedings at a meeting, the particulars of an occurrence, etc., for publication.

Furnishing or serving as a retreat. [R.] "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.

To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions.

To refurnish with a voice; to refit, as an organ pipe, so as to restore its tone.

To furnish with ribs; to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth.

levated staging on wheels, and armed in front with pikes. It was (after the 14th century) furnished with small cannon.

Furnished or formed with ribs; as, a ribbed cylinder; ribbed cloth.

To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges. Bristles ranged like those that ridge the back Of chafed wild boars. Milton.

To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling.