Word Meanings - UNDERFURNISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.

Related words: (words related to UNDERFURNISH)

• COLLIERY
  1. The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it. 2. The coal trade. Johnson.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• SUPPLYANT
  Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. Shak.
• ENOUGH
  Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17. (more info) (akin
• 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.
• COLLIER
  1. One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal. 2. A vessel employed in the coal trade.
• RESUPPLY
  To supply again.
• 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.
• OVERSUPPLY
  To supply in excess.
• UNDERFURNISH
  To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.
• REFURNISH
  To furnish again.
• WATER SUPPLY
  A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.
• DISFURNISHMENT
  The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. Daniel.