Equip

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To dress up; to Array; accouter.

II. Equip ·vt 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.