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In a glimmering state. Hawthorne.

A corn on the toe or foot. [Obs.]

To dress; to attire; to adorn. [Obs.] Above all knights ye goodly seem aguised. Spenser.

In a gushing state. Hawthorne.

One of the ornamental tags, cords, or loops on some military and naval uniforms.

A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. Fairholt.

, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.

hite and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.

An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.

linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

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

of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

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

shrubs or small trees. Black alder. (a) A European shrub (Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex verticillata), bearing red berries.

Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten. Amer. Cyc.

The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.

The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.

An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).

The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.

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