Verb

(head)

(furnish)

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

(head)

(burnish)

Verb

To make smooth or shiny by rubbing; to polish; to shine.

* Dryden

The frame of burnished steel, that cast a glare / From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air.

* Cunningham

Now the village windows blaze, / Burnished by the setting sun.

To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.

* Dryden

A slender poet must have time to grow, / And spread and burnish as his brothers do.

* Herbert

My thoughts began to burnish , sprout, and swell.