Equip

Verb

 * 1)  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 especially of ships and of troops. Dryden.
 * Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  To prepare (someone) with a skill

Related terms

 * equipment
 * equipage

Thesaurus
accouter, adapt, adjust, appoint, arm, array, attire, attune, capacitate, caparison, clothe, condition, costume, deck out, disguise, dress, enable, fit, fit out, fit up, furnish, gear, habit, heel, man, masquerade, munition, outfit, prepare, provide, put in trim, put in tune, qualify, rig, rig out, rig up, staff, stock, suit, supply, tune, turn, turn out, uniform

Etymology
From équiper:, originally said of a ship,  esquiper:; of  origin; akin to Goth skip "ship". Compare with Old High German scif:, German Schiff:, Icelandic skip:, Old English scip:. See ship.