furniture

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The movable articles in a room or an establishment that make it fit for living or working.
• noun Archaic Necessary equipment, as for a saddle horse or sailing ship.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun 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.
• noun The act of furnishing.
• noun Collectively and specifically— Those movables required for use or ornament in a dwelling, a place of business or of assembly, etc.
• noun 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.
• noun 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.
• noun In organ-building, one of the varieties of mixture-stops.
• noun In a harness, all of the metallic parts with the exception of the bits and rosettes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy