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Appendages; ornaments; finery; equipments.

To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.

cco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments.

The state of being balanced by equal weight or power; equipoise; balance; equilibrium; rest. Bentley.

To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; - - often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink. In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank. Spenser.

To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill. Governors should be well principled. L'Estrange. Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired. Locke.

orator. (Eng. Universities) See Orator, 3. -- Public stores, military and naval stores, equipments, etc. -- Public works, all fixed works built by civil engineers for public use, as railways, docks, canals, etc.; but strictly, military and civil engineering works constructed at the public cost.

Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the troops are ready to march; ready for the journey. "When she redy was." Chaucer.

pportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with his equipments; as, to give one a remount.

naval force, by a high officer, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of discipline, equipments, etc.

To dress; to equip; to clothe, especially in an odd or fanciful manner; -- commonly followed by out. Jack was rigged out in his gold and silver lace. L'Estrange. To rig a purchase, to adapt apparatus so as to get a purchase for moving a weight, as with a lever, tackle, capstan, etc. -- To rig a ship (Naut.), to fit th…

To put a saddle upon; to equip (a beast) for riding. "saddle my horse." Shak. Abraham rose up early saddled his ass. Gen. xxii. 3.

To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.] The Venetians pretend they could set out, in case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war. Addison.

A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed. [Coloq.] Dickens.

ip, a private ship taken into the service of the government in time of war, and armed and equipped like a ship of war. [Eng.] Brande & C. -- General ship. See under General. -- Ship biscuit, hard biscuit prepared for use on shipboard; -- called also ship bread. See Hardtack. -- Ship boy, a boy who serves in a ship.…

Fig.: Equipped; strengthened. When he sees Ourselves well sinewed to our defense. Shak.

To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.

Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like. "Rejoice in splendor of mine own." Shak.

To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage. [Colloq.] Grose.

Furniture; apparatus; equipment. [Obs.] "The tire of war." Philips.