furniture

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The movable articles in a room or an establishment that make it fit for living or working.
2. n. Archaic The necessary equipment for a saddle horse.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In general, that with which anything is furnished or supplied to fit it for operation or use; that which fits or equips for use or action; outfit; equipment: as, the furniture of a war-horse, or of a microscope; table furniture.
2. n. The act of furnishing.
3. n. Collectively and specifically— Those movables required for use or ornament in a dwelling, a place of business or of assembly, etc.
4. n. The necessary appendages in various employments or arts, as the brasswork of locks, door-knobs, and window-shutters, the masts and rigging of a ship, the mounting of a musket, etc.
5. n. In printing, the pieces of wood or metal placed between and around pages of type to keep them the requisite distance apart and to aid in securing them in the chase.
6. n. In organ-building, one of the varieties of mixture-stops.
7. n. In a harness, all of the metallic parts with the exception of the bits and rosettes.

Wiktionary

1. n. Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.
2. n. The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
3. n. Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.
2. n. Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.
3. n. The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc.
4. n. (Naut.) The masts and rigging of a ship.
5. n. (Mil.) The mountings of a gun.
6. n. Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings.
7. n. (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.
8. n. (Mus.) A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy