Word Meanings - SPINED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Furnished with spines; spiny.

FURNISHMENT
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
SPINY
1. Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree. 2. Like a spine in shape; slender. "Spiny grasshoppers sit chirping." Chapman. 3. Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances. The spiny deserts of scholastic philosophy. Bp. Warburton.
FURNISH
Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
FURNISHER
One who supplies or fits out.
SPINESCENCE
The state or quality of being spinescent or spiny; also, a spiny growth or covering, as of certain animals.
SPINESCENT
Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines. Gray.
DISFURNISH
To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
REFURNISHMENT
The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished. The refurnishment was in a style richer than before. L. Wallace.
UNFURNISH
To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip.
UNDERFURNISH
To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.
REFURNISH
To furnish again.
DISFURNISHMENT
The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. Daniel.