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at part of the Mass in which the priest raises the host above his head for the people to adore.

sawfly (Zoöl.), a large sawfly (Cimbex Americana). The larva, which is white with a black dorsal stripe, feeds on the leaves of the elm.

One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Chætopoda.

To fill or imbue with sweet odor; to perfume. With fresh dews embalmed the earth. Milton.

The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message. He sends the angels on embassies with his decrees. Jer. Taylor.

To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.

The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment. In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. Prescott.

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

To cover or adorn with blossoms. On the white emblossomed spray. J. Cunningham.

To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.

To embroider; to adorn. [Obs.] Embrowded was he, as it were a mead All full of fresshe flowers, white and red. Chaucer.

A perfumed powder sprinkled upon the body to mask the odor of sweat.

Of or pertaining to empyreuma; as, an empyreumatic odor. Empyreumatic oils, oils obtained by distilling various organic substances at high temperatures. Brande & C.

Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed. [Written also enamelled.]

; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn. Enchased with a wanton ivy twine. Spenser. An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. Mickle.

Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation. His encomiums awakened all my ardor. W. Irving.

To put upon the back or outside of anything; -- the older spelling of endorse. [Obs.] Spenser.

To cover or deck with flowers. [Poetic] These odorous and enflowered fields. B. Jonson.

f engineers, ranking from lieutenant to captain, and engineer in chief, ranking with commodore and having charge of the Bureau of Steam Engineering.

To adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript. [R.] Palsgrave.