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Ornament; decoration; embellishment. [Obs.] Hyperbolical exornations . . . many much affect. Burton.

thin which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows. Did not ye . . . expel me out of my father's house Judg. Xi. 7.

One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.

(Thucyd. ). Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a Queen's speech Lord Campbell.

With joy; gladly; -- with wold. He would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat. Luke xv. 16. Fain Would I woo her, yet I dare not. Shak.

; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.

To hesitate in purpose or action. Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. Shak.

y and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination. In the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief. Among these fancy next Her office holds. Milton.

rryboat. It can pass the ferry backward into light. Milton. To row me o'er the ferry. Campbell.

ody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.

An umbelliferous plant (Foeniculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Italy as a culinary vegetable.

Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments. [Colloq. U.S.]

An umbelliferous Australian flower (Actinotus helianthi), often erroneously thought to be composite. The involucre looks as if cut out of white flannel.

n the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor. Had floated that bell on the Inchcape rock. Southey.

A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.

Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.

orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. [Obs.] Fenton.

To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

nguished from flowerless plants. -- Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.

Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.