Furniture \Fur"ni*ture\, n. [F. fourniture. See Furnish, v.
   t.]
   1. That with which anything is furnished or supplied;
      supplies; outfit; equipment.
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            The form and all the furniture of the earth.
                                                  --Tillotson.
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            The thoughts which make the furniture of their
            minds.                                --M. Arnold.
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   2. Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or
      apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets,
      curtains, pictures, vases, etc.
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   3. The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a
      carriage, a ship, etc.
      (a) (Naut.) The masts and rigging of a ship.
      (b) (Mil.) The mountings of a gun.
      (c) Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window
          trimmings.
      (d) (Print) Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height
          than the type, placed around the pages or other matter
          in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the
          form in its place in the chase.
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   4. (Mus.) A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes
      called mixture.
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	furniture
     n : furnishings that make a room or other area ready for
         occupancy; "they had too much furniture for the small
         apartment"; "there was only one piece of furniture in the
         room" [syn: piece of furniture, article of furniture]

	

	70 Moby Thesaurus words for "furniture":
   Intertype, Linotype, Monotype, accessories, accouterments,
   apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, armament,
   belongings, chattels, clobber, cold-type typesetting, composing,
   composing stick, composition, computerized typesetting,
   conveniences, devices, duffel, dummy, effects, equipage, equipment,
   facilities, facility, fittings, fixtures, furnishings,
   galley chase, gear, home furnishings, hot-metal typesetting,
   impedimenta, imposition, installations, justification, kit, layout,
   line of type, machinery, materiel, movables, munition, munitions,
   outfit, paraphernalia, photocomposition, photosetting,
   phototypesetter, phototypesetting machine, plant, plumbing,
   possessions, quoin, rig, rigging, setting, shit, slug,
   stock-in-trade, stuff, tack, tackle, things, trappings,
   typesetting, typesetting machine, utensils

	

	FURNITURE. Personal chattels in the use of a family. By the term household 
furniture in a will, all personal chattels will pass which may contribute to 
the use or convenience of the householder, or the ornament of the house; as, 
plate, linen, china, both useful and ornamental, and pictures. Amb. 610; 1 
John. Ch. R. 329, 388; 1 Sim. & Stu. 189; S. C. 3 Russ. Ch. Cas. 301; 2 
Williams on Ex. 752; 1 Rop. on Leg. 203-4; 3 Ves. 312, 313.