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A rebated cross, formerly used as a secret emblem, and a common ornament. It is also called gammadion, and swastika.

A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., -- sometimes made ornamental.

f material, as leather, running around a shoe at and above the sole, as for protection or ornament.

A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.

To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish. All within with flowers was garnished. Spenser.

Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton.

That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress. The pomp of groves and garniture of fields. Beattie.

, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.

An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. "An idle gaud." Shak.

Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display. [R.] "Tarnished gaudery." Dryden.

Destitute of ornament. [R.]

uge. Gauged brick, brick molded, rubbed, or cut to an exact size and shape, for arches or ornamental work. -- Gauged mortar. See Gauge stuff, under Gauge, n.

An ornament [Obs.] L'Estrange.

Clothing; garments; ornaments. Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. Spenser.

ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel. Milton.

A kind of ornamental firework. Farrow.

an text (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words,

The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments). [Obs.]

A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc. Gimp nail, an upholsterer's small nail.

ed from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. -- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.