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Clothed or adorned with the fur of the ermine. Pope.

Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5. Every door and window was adorned with wreaths of flowers. Macaulay.

to aggravate. But fortune there extenuates the crime. Dryden. Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality. I. Taylor.

g; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface.

To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe. A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines. Sir W. Scott.

A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints. Mollett.

To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.

To embellish with design; to adorn with figures. The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. Shak.

Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.

Adorned with filigree. Tatler.

To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.

To furnish or adorn with any soft covering. Your master, whose chin is not yet fledged. Shak.

of a crown, etc. It is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of France.

Having the head adorned with flowers. [R.]

To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. [Obs.] Fenton.

To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

The act of adorning with flowers.

Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage. As she a black silk cap on him began To set, for foil of his milk- white to serve. Sir P. Sidney. Hector has a foil to set him off. Broome.

To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves. [R.] Drummond.

assical designs, or at obilique angles, as often in Oriental art. His lady's cabinet is a adorned on the fret, ceiling, and chimney- piece with . . . carving. Evelyn.