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To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And with the majesty of darkness round Covers his throune. Milton. All that beauty than doth cover thee. Shak.

A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.

To nurse or train in infancy. He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars. Glanvill.

The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as. the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures. Welcome, O flower and cream of knights errant. Shelton. Bavarian cream, a preparation of gelatin, cream, sugar, and eggs, whipped; -- to be eaten cold. -- Cold cream, an ointment ma…

Hurtful; pernicious. [R.] That it be not demageable unto your royal majesty. Hakluit.

th more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish. Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency. Job xl. 10. And deck my body in gay ornaments. Shak. The dew with spangles decked the ground. Dryden.

station. Hallam. If your master Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him, That majesty, to keep decorum, must No less beg than a kingdom. Shak.

Deportment. [Obs.] Stately port and majestical deporture. Speed.

with discontent and unfriendliness. They had attempted to disaffect and discontent his majesty's late army. Clarendon.

nance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash. How would one look from his majestic brow . . . Discountenance her despised! Milton. The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Sir W. Scott.

th. Gen. ix. 2. His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings. Shak.

One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew. Prior.

A jester; a droll. [Obs.] Glanvill.

In a jesting manner.

Seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness. Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest. Sir P. Sidney. And given in earnest what I begged in jest. Shak. In earnest, serious; seriously; not in jest; earnestly.

Manifestation; expression; sign. All the large effects That troop with majesty. Shak.

longing to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is. Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness. Hawthorne.

. . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting. Holland. Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it. Sharp.

To discuss; to examine. [Obs.] To expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is. Shak.

dicative of thought or feeling. "The expression of an eye." Tennyson. It still wore the majesty of expression so conspicuous in his portraits by the inimitable pencil of Titian. Prescott.