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To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn. [Obs.] His diadem was dropped down Dubbed with stones. Morte d'Arthure.

The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

e portion of time during which anything exists. It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. Macaulay. Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster.

a kind of brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; -- called also Dutch mineral, Dutch metal, brass foil, and bronze leaf. -- Dutch liquid (Chem.), a thin, colorless, volatile liquid, C2H4Cl2, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal odor, produced by the…

An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant.

Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.

inity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament.

One of the canonical books of the Old Testament.

per. Ecclesiastical commissioners for England, a permanent commission established by Parliament in 1836, to consider and report upon the affairs of the Established Church. -- Ecclesiastical courts, courts for maintaining the discipline of the Established Church; -- called also Christian courts. [Eng.] -- Ecclesiastica…

A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin.

plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette.

A wailing; lamentation. [Obs.] "Ejulation in the pangs of death." Philips.

An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.

A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder. Presiding elder (Meth. Ch.), an elder commissioned by a bishop to have the oversight of the churches and preachers in a certain district. -- Ruling elder, a lay presbyter or member of a Presbyterian church session. Schaff.…

A branching frame, often of ornamental design, to support electric illuminating lamps.

Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. Elegiac griefs, and songs of love. Mrs. Browning.

To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail. Carlyle.

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation. Shak.

ial parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist. S. Davidson.