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To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich. [Obs.]

Rich; elegant; as, superb furniture or decorations.

Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating. The rich grow suppliant, and the poor grow proud. Dryden.

Swanlike; as, a swanny glossiness of the neck. Richardson.

To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently. C. Richardson (Dict.). All suddenly she swapt adown to ground. Chaucer.

d by circumstances. He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin. Macaulay. A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much as the tact of her sex surpassed the tact of ours. Macaulay.

by the Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan, in memory of his favorite wife. In beauty of design and rich decorative detail it is one of the best examples of Saracenic architecture.

A famous horse market in London, established in 1766 by Richard Tattersall, also used as the headquarters of credit betting on English horse races; hence, a large horse market elsewhere.

tawdry. A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress. Richardson.

s, a farmer thrives by good husbandry. Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold. I. Watts.

Having the power to tinge. [R.] As for the white part, it appears much less enriched with the tingent property. Boyle.

nd more gay than valuable. O happy peasant! O unhappy bard! His the mere tinsel, hers the rich reward. Cowper.

Attire; apparel. [Archaic] "Having rich tire about you." Shak.

one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families Paridæ and Leiotrichidæ; a titmouse.

A rich Hungarian wine made from Tokay grapes.

The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.

t held over the back by means of the caudal spines. The golden tortoise beetle (Cassida aurichalcea) is found on the morning-glory vine and allied plants. -- Tortoise plant. (Bot.) See Elephant's foot, under Elephant. -- Tortoise shell, the substance of the shell or horny plates of several species of sea turtles, esp…

An insane desire for intoxicating or poisonous drugs, as alcohol or opium. B. W. Richardson.

Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.

That which affords entertainment; a gratification; a satisfaction; as, the concert was a rich treat.