1. Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel,
fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of
troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire.
Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage.
Evelyn.
First strip off all her equipage of Pride.
Pope. 2. Retinue; train; suite. Swift.
3. A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a
showy turn-out.
The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam.
W. Irving. Equipaged
(Eq"ui*paged) a. Furnished with equipage.
Well dressed, well bred.
Well equipaged, is ticket good enough.
Cowper. Equiparable
(E*quip"a*ra*ble) a. [L. aequiparabilis.] Comparable. [Obs. or R.]
Equiparate
(E*quip"a*rate) v. t. [L. aequiparatus, p. p. of aequiparare.] To compare. [R.]
Equipedal
(E*quip"e*dal) a. [Equi- + L. pes, pedis, foot.] (Zoöl.) Equal- footed; having the pairs of feet
equal.
Equipendency
(E`qui*pend"en*cy) n. [Equi- + pendency.] The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not
inclined or determined either way. South.
Equipensate
(E`qui*pen"sate) v. t. [Equi- + pensatus, p. p. of pensare to weigh. Cf. Equipoise.] To
weigh equally; to esteem alike. [Obs.]
Equipment
(E*quip"ment) n. [Cf. F. équipement. See Equip.]
1. The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition. Burke.
The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt.
Hume. 2. Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for
the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying
on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.
Armed and dight,
In the equipments of a knight.
Longfellow. Equipoise
(E"qui*poise) n. [Equi- + poise.]
1. Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are
balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; — said of moral, political, or social interests
or forces.
The means of preserving the equipoise and the tranquillity of the commonwealth.
Burke.
Our little lives are kept in equipoise
By opposite attractions and desires.
Longfellow. 2. Counterpoise.
The equipoise to the clergy being removed.
Buckle.
