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Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.

Furnished with branchiæ; as, branchiate segments.

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.

To furnish with breakfast. Milton.

To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.

A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.

lves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.

or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.

To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

eaves, and flowers in dense heads. -- Button tree (Bot.), a genus of trees (Conocarpus), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies. -- To hold by the button, to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; to buttonhole.

The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.

To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.

The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing. Calking iron, a tool like a chisel, used in calking ships, tightening seams in ironwork, etc. Their left hand does the calking iron guide. Dryden.

Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.

Furnished with, or bearing, campanes, or bells.

Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. [R.]

allow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shak.

To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.

Furnished with cannon. [Poetic] "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold.

To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs. Shak. Now I have him under girdle I'll cap verses with him to the end of the chapter. Dryden.