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The stony corals; the Madreporaria.

A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially M. alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. See Illust. under Millepore.

Any bryozoan of the genus Flustra or allied genera which form frondlike corals.

Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, etc.

A gorgonian coral with long flexible branches.

To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations. A sable mantle seeded with waking eyes. B. Jonson. To seed down, to sow with grass seed.

Of or pertaining to a septum or septa, as of a coral or a shell.

One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.

icular purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of an estate. (b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish. They . . . set off the worst faces with the best airs. Addison.

That which is used to improve the appearance of anything; a decoration; an ornament.

An adornment; a decoration; -- with off. [Obs.] They come as . . . setters off of thy graces. Whitlock.

Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.

A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird.

The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus);- so called from its cry. [Prov. Eng.]

Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery.

Sixtus. Sistine chapel, a chapel in the Vatican at Rome, built by Pope Sixtus IV., and decorated with frescoes by Michael Angelo and others.

Potter's clay in a very liquid state, used for the decoration of ceramic ware, and also as a cement for handless and other applied parts.

A delicate trailing plant (Myrsiphyllum asparagoides) much used for decoration. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Ornamental work, mostly carved in olivewood, decorated with inlay, made at or near Sorrento, Italy. Hence, more rarely, jig-saw work and the like done anywhere.

To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay. [Obs.] Spenser.