Ornament: alternatives and connections

To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

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To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

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To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

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To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

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To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice…

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To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice…

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To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

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To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

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The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

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The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

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To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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a man-made object taken as a whole

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a man-made object taken as a whole

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To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To cover; to overspread.

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To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice…

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To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

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The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.

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A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as…

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of Bead

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Ornamental work in beads.

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To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

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An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes cont…

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Alt. of Centrepiece

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An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.

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A badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and generally worn upon the hat; -- used as an indication of military or naval service, or party…

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To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.

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The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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To carve or cut up, as a chub.

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The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itse…

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To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.

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A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely.

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To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.

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A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.

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Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii.

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of Hang

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The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.

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To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental…

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A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.

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Same as Lunule.

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of Mould

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of Mould

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A necklace.

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That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

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To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.

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Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

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A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form

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A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down…

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Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design…

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Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.

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A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.

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A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc.

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A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin met…

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Deceit; fraud.

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A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite…

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Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work.

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A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of pr…

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A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]

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A prayer.

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To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.

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of Bedight

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To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.

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To gild.

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To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle.

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of Beset

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To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering.

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A shield.

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To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait.

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To embroider.

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An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative.

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A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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See Color.

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To cover; to overspread.

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To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.

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To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.

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To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf.

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A variety of glass, used in ornament, to cover a surface, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used itself for inla…

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To incrust. See Incrust.

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To gild; to make splendent.

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A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.

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A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.

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To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.

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Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.

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The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.

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Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.

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See 1st Frith.

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An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but mor…

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The crown of a king.

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To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.

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To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.

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To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sig…

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To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.

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To make clear, bright, or luminous.

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To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetme…

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To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental…

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An ornament of dress usually made of a precious metal, and having enamel or precious stones as a part of its design.

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A varnish, consisting of a solution of shell-lac in alcohol, often colored with gamboge, saffron, or the like; -- used for varnishing metals, papier-…

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A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.

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A sunken compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.

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A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pi…

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To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink.

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Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially…

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A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.

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A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress.

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A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

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Plaster of any kind used as a coating for walls, especially, a fine plaster, composed of lime or gypsum with sand and pounded marble, used for intern…

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A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin met…

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To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

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To form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if formed by the motion of worms.

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To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn.

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To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

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To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

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Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.

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Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.

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The act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being ornamented.

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The act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being ornamented.

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To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

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To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

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To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice…

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The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.

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To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

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The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

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The act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being ornamented.

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