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to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. -- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.

Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences. M. C. Cooke.

Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral.

To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line. Pope. We are graced with wreaths of victory. Shak.

Production of decorative designs by scratching them through a surface of layer plaster, glazing, etc., revealing a different- colored ground; also, pottery or ware so decorated; -- chiefly used attributively.

One who collects illustrations from various books for the decoration of one book.

To collect (illustrations from books) for decoration of other books. G. A. Sala.

Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass.

r (Arch.), an architectural member made by treating the outside face of the gutter in a decorative fashion, or by crowning it with ornaments, regularly spaced, like a diminutive battlement. -- Gutter plane, a carpenter's plane with a rounded bottom for planing out gutters. -- Gutter snipe, a neglected boy running at…

oluted ridge between grooves; a convolution; as, the gyri of the brain; the gyri of brain coral. See Brain.

A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain.

To cover, decorate, or furnish by hanging pictures trophies, drapery, and the like, or by covering with paper hangings; -- said of a wall, a room, etc. Hung be the heavens with black. Shak. And hung thy holy roofs with savage spoils. Dryden.

A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks.

An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral.

A chief or great heresy. [R.] The book itself [the Alcoran] consists of heresiarchies against our blessed Savior. Sir T. Herbert.

and cutting ice. ice sculpture = a sculpture carved from a block of ice, often used for decorating restaurants. ice show an entertainment consisting of ice skaters performing figure-skating on a sheet of ice, usually in an arena, often accompanied by music. -- Ice sludge, bay ice broken small by the wind or waves; slu…

To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect.

Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.

A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.

Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse. I wish there may be in this poem any instance of good imagery. Dryden.