Word Meanings - SPATHAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Furnished with a spathe; as, spathal flowers. Howitt.

FURNISHMENT
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
SPATHAL
Furnished with a spathe; as, spathal flowers. Howitt.
SPATHE
A special involucre formed of one leaf and inclosing a spadix, as in aroid plants and palms. See the Note under Bract, and Illust. of Spadix. Note: The name is also given to the several-leaved involucre of the iris and other similar plants.
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.
SPATHED
Having a spathe or calyx like a sheath.
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.