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nts; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive. As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. Goldsmith.

Adornment. [Obs.]

He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.

By adorning; decoratively.

An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.

Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.

From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground. [Archaic] "Thrice did she sink adown." Spenser.

The science of gliding and soaring flight.

Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.

A genus of perching birds, including the European kingfisher (Alcedo ispida). See Halcyon.

y of various derivatives of this. The same reaction has been applied, under the name of aldol condensation, to the production of many compounds.

Not having scales. -- n.

A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure.

A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.

Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole.

The state, office, or functions of an ambassador.

Ambuscade. [Obs.] Shak.

Posted in ambush; ambuscaded. [Obs.]

Containing, or derived from, amidogen. Amido acid, an acid in which a portion of the nonacid hydrogen has been replaced by the amido group. The amido acids are both basic and acid. -- Amido group, amidogen, NH2.

m the molecule of which one of its hydrogen atoms has been removed; -- called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido.