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A coral of the family Astræidæ; a star coral.

A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.

A red coloring matter derived from phenol; -- called also, in commerce, yellow coralin.

Embroidered or decorated with gold. [R.] Southey.

Decorated with a banner or banners "bannered host." Milton.

A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

er gate, a heavy gate to close the opening through a barrier. -- Barrier reef, a form of coral reef which runs in the general direction of the shore, and incloses a lagoon channel more or less extensive. -- To fight at barriers, to fight with a barrier between, as a martial exercise. [Obs.]

l design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration.

n spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.

A porcelainlike kind of decorative pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland.

To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud. "Bestarred with anemones." W. Black.

A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.

A small decorative object without practical utility.

A species of capsicum (Capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers.

A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.

s), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with brightcolored objects; the satin bird.

projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.

a. [Low] Brain box or case, the bony on cartilaginous case inclosing the brain. -- Brain coral, Brain stone coral (Zoöl), a massive reef-building coral having the surface covered by ridges separated by furrows so as to resemble somewhat the surface of the brain, esp. such corals of the genera Mæandrina and Diploria.…

A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe.