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To adorn with glittering embellishments. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope.

The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.

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

ily 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.

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

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

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

rs 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.

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

To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish. All within with flowers was garnished. Spenser.

Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton.

That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress. The pomp of groves and garniture of fields. Beattie.

To embellish or adorn, as with gems; as, a foliage gemmed with dewdrops. England is . . . gemmed with castles and palaces. W. Irving.

To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. Shak.

To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line. Pope. We are graced with wreaths of victory. Shak.

To work in, as lace; to embellish with work resembling lace; also, to lace or enlace. P. Fletcher.

A grace or embellishment.

als in millinery; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments.

An embellishment resembling a trill.