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Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire. Barbed wire, a wire, or a strand of twisted wires, armed with barbs or sharp points. It is used for fences.

large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.

Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture. "A bare treasury." Dryden.

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

s, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc.

A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.

Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.

To furnish or fasten with battens. To batten down, to fasten down with battens, as the tarpaulin over the hatches of a ship during a storm.

To furnish with a beacon or beacons.

Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate. Beaked whale (Zoöl.), a cetacean of the genus Hyperoodon; the bottlehead whale.

Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag. Tost his beamed frontlet to the sky. Sir W. Scott.

To furnish with a bed or bedding.

To furnish or deck with a frill.

To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe. Fuller.

Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.

pon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a…

To furnish with benches. 'T was benched with turf. Dryden. Stately theaters benched crescentwise. Tennyson.

Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub.

To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company. Totten.

To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle. [Obs.] Carlyle.