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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

E-quip'ment, n.

noun

n. [Fr. équipement. See EQUIP.]

  1. The act of equipping, or state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
  2. Any thing that is used in equipping; furniture; habiliments; warlike apparatus; necessaries for an expedition or for a voyage; equipage; as, the equipments of a ship or an army.
  3. (Civil Engin.) The necessary adjuncts of a railway, as cars, locomotives.