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Producing or bringing forth all things; all-producing. [R.]

Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Onagraceæ or Onagrarieæ), which includes the fuchsia, the willow- herb (Epilobium), and the evening primrose ().

A bay window. See Bay window. The beams that thro' the oriel shine Make prisms in every carven glass. Tennyson.

Brightness or strength of color. [R.] E. Waterhouse.

Rising, as the sun. Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun. Milton.

Of or pertaining to the orient or east; eastern; concerned with the East or Orientalism; -- opposed to occidental; as, Oriental countries. The sun's ascendant and oriental radiations. Sir T. Browne.

Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people.

An inhabitant of the Eastern parts of the world; an Oriental.

The quality or state of being oriental or eastern. Sir T. Browne.

to render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.

ts relation to other bodies, or the relation of its parts among themselves. A crystal is orientated when placed in its proper position so as to exhibit its symmetry. E. S. Dana.

The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.

The quality or state of being orient or bright; splendor. [Obs.] Fuller.

One who cries out or proclaims; a herald or crier.

To cover with a frieze, or as with a frieze. E. Hall.

A case or box containing paper and materials for writing.

The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.

resident within the college walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal Committee. B. H. Hall (1856).

See Parietal, 2.

The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.