smelt; barbecue; infumate|; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim[obs3], accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one’s tools, trim one’s foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust &c. (fit) 27; put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.
     train &c. (teach) 537; inure &c. (habituate) 613; breed; prepare &c.
for; rehearse; make provision for; take steps, take measures, take precautions; provide, provide against; beat up for recruits; open the door to &c. (facilitate) 705.
     set one’s house in order, make all snug; clear the decks, clear for
action; close one’s ranks; shuffle the cards.
     prepare oneself; serve an apprenticeship &c. (learn) 539; lay oneself
out for, get into harness, gird up one’s loins, buckle on one’s armor, reculer pour mieux sauter[Fr], prime and load, shoulder arms, get the steam up, put the horses to.
     guard against, make sure against; forearm, make sure, prepare for the
evil day, have a rod in pickle, provide against a rainy day, feather one’s nest; lay in provisions &c. 637; make investments; keep on foot.
     be prepared, be ready &c.  Adj.; hold oneself in readiness, keep one’s
powder dry; lie in wait for &c. (expect) 507; anticipate &c. (foresee) 510; principiis obstare[Lat]; veniente occurrere morbo[Lat].

     Adj. preparing &c. v.; in preparation, in course of preparation, in
agitation, in embryo, in hand, in train; afoot, afloat; on foot, on the stocks, on the anvil; under consideration &c. (plan) 626; brewing, batching, forthcoming, brooding; in store for, in reserve.
     precautionary, provident; preparative, preparatory; provisional,
inchoate, under revision; preliminary &c. (precedent) 62.
     prepared &c. v.; in readiness; ready, ready to one’s band, ready made,
ready cut and dried; made to one’s hand, handy, on the table; in gear; in working order, in working gear; snug; in practice.
     ripe, mature, mellow; pukka[obs3]; practiced &c. (skilled) 698;
labored, elaborate, highly-wrought, smelling of the lamp, worked up.
     in full feather, in best bib and tucker; in harness, at harness; in
the saddle, in arms, in battle array, in war paint; up in arms; armed at all points, armed to the teeth, armed cap a pie; sword in hand; booted and spurred.
     in utrumque paratus[Lat], semper paratus[Lat]; on the alert &c.
(vigilant) 459; at one’s post. 
     Adv. in preparation, in anticipation of; against, for; abroach[obs3]. 
     Phr. a bove majori discit arare minor[Lat]; “looking before and after”
[Hamlet], si vis pacem para bellum[Lat].

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