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ght of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates - or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

See Bastinado, n.

to many tribes, subject to the English. They formerly practiced cannibalism, but have now adopted many European customs.

To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " Tennyson. "The bright sunshine bathing all the world." Longfellow.

To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke.

To curl; to adorn with curls.

To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands. Pennant.

To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [Archaic] Milton.

To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.

To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe. Fuller.

To adorn with gems, or as with gems. Begemmed with dewdrops. Sir W. Scott. Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem. Shelley.

To cover or adorn with lace. [Obs.] Beaumont.

To lay on or cover; to adorn. [Obs.] Jacket . . . belayed with silver lace. Spenser.

A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.

Decked or adorned; clad. [Archaic] Chaucer.

To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.

To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars. Milton.

To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim. Shak.

A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc.

To deck; to embellish; to adorn. She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. Garth.