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Adorned; decorated; beautiful. "So bedecked, ornate, and gay." Milton.

Decoration; ornamentation. [R.] Holinshed.

(b) Suitable for applying upon the glaze; -- said of vitrifiable colors used in ceramic decoration.

To decorate all over.

An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, called also red coralline.

Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.

g the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.

A polystome worm (Palolo viridis) that burrows in the coral reefs of certain of the Pacific Islands. A little before the last quarter of the moon in October and November, they swarm in vast numbers at the surface of the sea for breeding, and are gathered and highly esteemed as food by the natives. An allied species inh…

ht slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.

An ornament, composed of vine leaves and bunches of grapes, used for decorating spiral columns.

Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. See Paper hangings, below.

Ornament; decoration. Beau. & Fl.

Plasterwork; esp.: (a) A kind of decorative plasterwork in raised ornamental figures, formerly used for the internal and external decoration of houses. (b) In modern architecture, the plastering of the inside of flues, intended to give a smooth surface and help the draught.

An ornament or decoration for the person; esp., a decoration consisting of a set of ornaments to be used together; as, a parure of rubies or of embroideries.

Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.

aid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Milton. Pavement teeth (Zoöl.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side,…

he triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.

tant part of the construction. There are imitations in plaster and wood, which are mere decorative features. "[A bridge] with . . . pendants graven fair." Spenser.

A division of alcyonoid corals, including the seapens and related kinds. They are able to move about by means of the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria.

A division of corals including those that have a porous texture, as Porites and Madrepora; -- opposed to Aporosa.