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The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.

The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment. Thine ancient standard's rich emblazonry. Trench.

Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed. Addison. A mere rhetorical embroidery of phrases. J. A. Symonds.

, used in ornament, to cover a surface, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used itself for inlaying or application in varied colors.

Incorporation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens. Enfranchisement of copyhold (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. Mozley & W.

nes, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper.

rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.

A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.

A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design.

urch festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the East to Bethlehem, to see and worship the child Jesus; or, as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles;…

Capable of being converted into vapor, or dissipated by evaporation.

from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion; to subject to evaporation; as, to evaporate apples.

Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process.

Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration. "The funeral evengreens entwine." Keble.

An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.

The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.

letely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

ten composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration. "The exordium of repentance." Jer. Taylor. "Long prefaces and exordiums. " Addison.

Ornament; decoration; embellishment. [Obs.] Hyperbolical exornations . . . many much affect. Burton.