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A neck ornament consisting of a chain and single pendant, or drop.

A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar.

Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.

A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress. Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costlylaces. Bacon.

shes made of other ingredients, esp. the tough, solid varnish of the Japanese, with which ornamental objects are made.

Ornamentation by means of lacquer painted or carved, or simply colored, sprinkled with gold or the like; -- said especially of Oriental work of this kind.

A piece of ornament drapery or short decorative hanging, pendent from a shelf or from the casing above a window, hiding the curtain fixtures, or the like.

A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral.

the art of cutting stones, or engraving on stones, either gems or monuments; as, lapidary ornamentation.

ide, is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone.

Tape or braid; an ornament. Halliwell. Leere side, the left side, as that on which a leere or ornament was worn. B. Jonson.

That end of a compass needle which should point to the north; -- so called as often ornamented with the figure of a lily or fleur-de- lis. But sailing further, it veers its lily to the west. Sir T. Browne. African lily (Bot.), the blue-flowered Agapanthus umbellatus. -- Atamasco lily (Bot.), a plant of the genus Zephy…

To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.

he threads in a given space in linen fabrics. -- Linen scroll, Linen pattern (Arch.), an ornament for filling panels, copied from the folds of a piece of stuff symmetrically disposed.

stone (Min.), a kind of serpentine from near Lizard Point, Cornwall, England, -- used for ornamental purposes.

A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.

ge slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia.

An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily.

A large ornamental drinking vessel having two or more handles, intended to pass from hand to hand, as at a banquet.

(Arch.), a kind of molding, used in Norman architecture, characterized by lozenge-shaped ornaments.