[f. next vb.] † a. A furnishing or providing; concr. a provision or stock of anything (obs.). † b. The state of being furnished or fitted (obs.). c. colloq. A setting off or embellishing.
1500. Will of Treffry (Somerset Ho.). A Furnyssh of bras.
1604. Daniel, Funeral Poem Earl Devonsh. That furnish perfect held. Ibid. (1613–21), Hist. Eng., 169. He sends him a whole Furnish of all Vessels for his Chamber of cleane gold.
1617. Greene’s Groat’s W. Wit, A 3. To lend the world a furnish of witte, she lays her owne to pawne.
1633. J. Done, Hist. Septuagint, 115. Very liberall … chiefly to have in regard the Furnish for these grave and reverent Persons. Ibid., 179. Furniture for the whole furnish of a chamber.
1896. Daily News, 7 March, 6/3. The chin … is often the better for the ‘furnish’ of the strings.
