find in
verb1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see find, in.
2
Historical To supply (someone) with (something).
- ‘But only think how good it is in her to take care of Miss Wynne, for she is a very distant relation, and so poor that, as Miss Halifax told me, her Mother was obliged to find her in Cloathes.’c. 1792–3, Jane Austen, ‘Catharine, or The Bower’, Juvenilia
- Refused! refused by a teacher, picked up by advertisement, at an annual salary of five pounds payable at indefinite periods, and ‘found’ in food and lodging like the very boys themselves […].1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC: