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One of many small loops, as of thread, forming an ornamental border, as on a ribbon.

Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. "Pictorial rhetoric." Ruskin. -- Pic*to"ri*al*ly, adv.

Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language. What is picturesque…

An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto.

A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. [R.]

rseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.

A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavin…

An original settlement in a new country; a colony. While these plantations were forming in Connecticut. B. Trumbull.

or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc.

Forming; shaping; molding. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

The act of forming or molding. [R.] Grafton.

A combining form signifying developing, forming, growing; as, heteroplastic, monoplastic, polyplastic.

The art of forming figures in any plastic material.

A combining form denoting the act or process of forming, development, growth; as, autoplasty, perineoplasty.

An alloy of German silver containing tungsten; -- used for forming electrical resistance coils and standards.

tract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn.

the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib. -- Pleu*rap`o*phys"i*al, a. Owen.

The act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deployment.

Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb.

Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration. [R.] "A political government." Evelyn.