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To adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript. [R.] Palsgrave.

To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.

To invest or adorn with a robe; to attire.

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

very 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.

; 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.

f 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.