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A soft ornamental terra-cotta pottery, sold in the biscuit state for decorating.

A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Cowper.

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family.

A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.

An ornament, gem, or scroll, or a package containing a relic, etc., worn as a charm or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters.

Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.

Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.

An ornament or a fetter for the ankle; an ankle ring.

An ornament fixed upon a frieze.

A floral ornament. See Palmette.

An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.

A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, appliqué lace; appliqué work.

A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.

Ornamented in the style of arabesques.

The cultivation of trees and shrubs, chiefly for timber or for ornamental purposes.

More commonly, the molding or other ornaments with which the wall face of the voussoirs of an arch is charged.

Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing. Earth in her rich attire. Milton. I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire. Shak. Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire Jer. ii. 32.

A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.