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To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript. T. Wharton.

A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated in mosaic.

A piece of metal, or any other object, so decorated.

Decorated or furnished with olive trees. [R.] T. Warton.

Adorned; decorated; beautiful. "So bedecked, ornate, and gay." Milton.

To decorate all over.

Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. See Paper hangings, below.

upposed to be imitated from the color of the wall panels of houses in Pompeii, which were decorated during the last age of the Republic.

Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.

To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; to ornament with metallic threads; as, to purfle with blue and white. P. Plowman. A goodly lady clad in scarlet red, Purfled with gold and pearl of rich assay. Spenser.

Ornamented; decorated; esp., embroidered on the edges. Purfled work (Arch.), delicate tracery, especially in Gothic architecture.

To decorate with fringe or embroidery. "Nature's cradle more enchased and purled." B. Jonson.

convex molding; a reed (see Illust. (i) of Molding); one of several set close together to decorate a surface; also, decoration by means of reedings; -- the reverse of fluting.

Decorated with roses, or with the color of roses.

rticular purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of an estate. (b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish. They . . . set off the worst faces with the best airs. Addison.

Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery.

pe Sixtus. Sistine chapel, a chapel in the Vatican at Rome, built by Pope Sixtus IV., and decorated with frescoes by Michael Angelo and others.

Ornamental work, mostly carved in olivewood, decorated with inlay, made at or near Sorrento, Italy. Hence, more rarely, jig-saw work and the like done anywhere.

To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay. [Obs.] Spenser.

the breast, worn originally both by men and women. Those worn by women were often richly decorated. A stately lady in a diamond stomacher. Johnson.