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Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.

To put a furbelow on; to ornament.

punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. Deut. iv. 20. Bustamente furnace, a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores. -- Furnace bridge, Same as Bridge wall. See Bridge, n., 5. -- Furnace cadmiam or cadmia, the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zin…

A rebated cross, formerly used as a secret emblem, and a common ornament. It is also called gammadion, and swastika.

A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., -- sometimes made ornamental.

aterial, as leather, running around a shoe at and above the sole, as for protection or ornament.

A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.

To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish. All within with flowers was garnished. Spenser.

Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton.

That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress. The pomp of groves and garniture of fields. Beattie.

Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm; as, the gastrophrenic ligament.

Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.

rch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.

An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. "An idle gaud." Shak.

Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display. [R.] "Tarnished gaudery." Dryden.

Destitute of ornament. [R.]

. Gauged brick, brick molded, rubbed, or cut to an exact size and shape, for arches or ornamental work. -- Gauged mortar. See Gauge stuff, under Gauge, n.

An ornament [Obs.] L'Estrange.

Clothing; garments; ornaments. Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. Spenser.

, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell. The pleasant valley of Hinnom. Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell. Milton.