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ˈplenishing, vbl. n. Chiefly Sc.
[f. plenish v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of filling up or furnishing.
1477Charter Jas. III in Maitland Hist. Edin. i. i. (1753) 8 For the Honoure of oure said Burgh and Plennesing of voide Places within the samyn.
2. That with which anything is plenished; equipment, gear, stock, furniture; esp. household furniture.
1561Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 170 The best of the gudis and the plennissing thairof. 1567Ibid. 565 With the haill munitionis, artaillierie, pulder, and uther plenissing being thairin. 1629Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 45 Ye have to rejoice that ye have now some plenishing up in heaven. 1773,1814[see outsight2]. 1814Scott Wav. xviii, Insight plenishing is cumbrous to carry. 1830Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. (1863) 223 He settled him in the Pond Farm, with a decent though scanty plenishing. 1876W. White Holidays in Tyrol xxxviii. 279 A chest or two, and a big stool, complete the plenishing.
b. The outfit of a bride, her contribution to setting up house. plenishing-wain = bridewain.
1876Whitby Gloss., Bride-wain, or Plenishing-wain, a waggon loaded with household goods, to be conveyed from the house of the bride's father, to that of the bridegroom. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. iv, The big cassone..rudely painted, in which..[she] brought home her plenishing when she married. 1888Blackie Burns 115 She came bringing her beautiful self along with cartloads of plenishing. |