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equip
verb
(
equip, p, ing
)
(
transitive
) To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops. Dryden.
Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet.
Ludlow.
(
transitive
) To dress up; to array; accouter.
The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode.
Addison.
Etymology:
From
équiper
(meaning
to supply, fit out
), originally said of a ship,
esquiper
(meaning
to embark
); of origin; compare with (
OHG.
)
scif
,
Schiff
, (
Icel.
)
skip
,
scip
. See ship.
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