Verb

(lb) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.

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*:Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished , and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

To supply or give.

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* (1800-1859)

*:His writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense.

*1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) , Modern Library Edition (1995), p.119:

*:he took his seat at the bottom of the table, by her ladyship's desire, and looked as if he felt that life could furnish nothing greater.

Verb

(procur)

To acquire or obtain.

* Milton

if we procure not to ourselves more woe

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Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill. How these were to be procured , no one was able to imagine.

To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.

(criminal law) To induce or persuade someone to do something.

(obsolete) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.

* Shakespeare

Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.

(obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.

* Spenser

The famous Briton prince and faery knight, / Of the fair Alma greatly were procured / To make there longer sojourn and abode.

(obsolete) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.

* Shakespeare

What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?