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Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs.

Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel's-hair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.

One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer. Thackeray.

A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel.

The needle furze. See under Needle.

To furnish with pews. [R.] Ash.

er genera of the family Phalangistidæ. They are arboreal, and the species of Petaurus are furnished with lateral parachutes. See Flying phalanger, under Flying.

hness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness. They judge with fury, but they write with phlegm. Pope.

An order of Siphonophora, furnished with an air sac, or float, and a series of nectocalyces. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.

A genus of South American palm trees, the seeds of which furnish the substance called vegetable ivory.

Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene.

and figuratively. And pierced to the skin, but bit no more. Spenser. She would not pierce further into his meaning. Sir P. Sidney.

e under Masked. -- Pig bed (Founding), the bed of sand in which the iron from a smelting furnace is cast into pigs. -- Pig iron, cast iron in pigs, or oblong blocks or bars, as it comes from the smelting furnace. See Pig, 4. -- Pig yoke (Naut.), a nickname for a quadrant or sextant. -- A pig in a poke (that is, bag…

Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments. Dunglison. Pigmentary degeneration (Med.), a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.

Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed. "With their piked targets bearing them down." Milton.

Furnished with pilasters.

A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur. [Obs.]

A covering of hair or fur.

as of a shaft. It is usually bolted to the frame or foundation of a machine, and is often furnished with journal boxes, and a movable cover, or cap, for tightening the bearings by means of bolts; -- called also pillar block, or plumber block. -- Pillow lace, handmade lace wrought with bobbins upon a lace pillow. -- P…

To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles. T. Warton.