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To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke.

To curl; to adorn with curls.

To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands. Pennant.

To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [Archaic] Milton.

To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.

To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe. Fuller.

To adorn with gems, or as with gems. Begemmed with dewdrops. Sir W. Scott. Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem. Shelley.

To cover or adorn with lace. [Obs.] Beaumont.

To lay on or cover; to adorn. [Obs.] Jacket . . . belayed with silver lace. Spenser.

A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.

Decked or adorned; clad. [Archaic] Chaucer.

To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.

To set or adorn, as with studs or bosses; to set thickly; to stud; as, to bestud with stars. Milton.

To set in order; to adorn; to deck, to embellish; to trim. Shak.

To deck; to embellish; to adorn. She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. Garth.

To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs. The train whereof loose far behind her strayed, Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought. Spenser.

To adorn; to make fine or showy. [Obs.] Thou [a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating] hast braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced or braved. Shak.

To adorn as with a brooch. [R.]

A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.

Adorned with cabling.