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Given to luxury; voluptuous. [Obs.]

A kind of granite from Luxullian, Cornwall, characterized by the presence of radiating groups of minute tourmaline crystals.

The state or quality of being luxuriant; rank, vigorous growth; excessive abundance produced by rank growth. "Tropical luxuriance." B. Taylor.

The state or quality of being luxuriant; luxuriance. Flowers grow up in the garden in the greatest luxuriancy and profusion. Spectator.

Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage. Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine. Pope. Luxuriant flower (Bot.), one in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.

In a luxuriant manner.

To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance. " Corn luxuriates in a better mold." Burton.

The act or process luxuriating.

Luxuriance. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease. " Luxurious cities. " Milton. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ness, n.

One given to luxury. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

thing expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes. Riches expose a man to pride and luxury. Spectator.

A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute. Brande & C.

A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. Fairholt.

To be unlike; to differ. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent. -- n. (Med.)

Blushing; ruddy.

The water used in cleansing. "Cast the ablutions in the main." Pope.

Pertaining to ablution.

That which is washed off. [R.] Dwight.