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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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. 
  
  

















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