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Furnished with spines; spiny.

To furnish with spokes, as a wheel.

To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table. Boiled the flesh, and spread the board. Tennyson. To sprad cloth, to unfurl sail. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.

Furnished or covered with little scales; squamulose.

A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, -- used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc.

The male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament.

Furnished with stamens.

Furnished with stamens; producing stamens.

To furnish with staves or rundles. Knolles.

Furnished with, or having the form of, a steeple; adorned with steeples. Fairfax.

light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer.

of an open boat which is between the stern and the aftmost seat of the rowers, -- usually furnished with seats for passengers. -- Stern wheel, a paddle wheel attached to the stern of the steamboat which it propels.stern wheeler.

A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse. [Obs.] As burning Ætna from his boiling stew Doth belch out flames. Spenser. The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to use any armor, and give themselves to baths and stews. Abp. Abbot.

Of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules; furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them; occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular tendrils.

Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.

, item, or condition, in a mutual agreement; as, the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops.

Furnished with stipules, or leafy appendages.

To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time. Her mind with thousand virtues stored. Prior. Wise Plato said the world with men was stored. Denham. Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish. Sir M. Hale.

To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin. Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet With firmest nerves, designed to walk the street Gay.