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n; -- with as or like. [Colloq. or Lowx] I fear your girl will grow as proud as anything. Richardson.

officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords. The cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of their appointments. Prescott. I'll prove it in my shackles, with these hands Void of appoinment, that thou liest. Beau. & Fl.

To carry or advance near; to cause to approach. To approximate the inequality of riches to the level of nature. Burke.

Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures. Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread. Cowper. Behind the arras I'll convey myself. Shak.

Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel. Dryden.

Tested purity or value. [Obs.] With gold and pearl of rich assay. Spenser.

A rich kind of satin manufactured in India. Brande & C.

hes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing. Earth in her rich attire. Milton. I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire. Shak. Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire Jer. ii. 32.

To adorn with trapping; to array. [Obs.] Shall your horse be attrapped . . . more richly Holland.

The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.

with one's self, to reflect, to deliberate. [Obs.] Chaucer. Now therefore, if thou wilt enriched be, Avise thee well, and change thy willful mood. Spenser.

s, among the men, no more favorable to these studies than the common avocations of women. Richardson. In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. Macaulay. An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a shephe…

o four and twenty inches in diameter and five feet long, imbedded in the ashes. S. G. Goodrich.

A trifle; a thing of no importance. Rich trifles, serious bagatelles. Prior.

A rich brocade; baudekin. [Obs.]

A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt. [Also spelt bawdrick.] A radiant baldric o'er his shoulder tied Sustained the sword that glittered at his side. Pope.

Wearing rich caparisons. Fifteen hundred men . . . barded and richly trapped. Stow.

y-product from the manufacture of steel by the basic process, used as a fertilizer. It is rich in lime and contains 14 to 20 per cent of phosphoric acid. Called also Thomas slag, phosphatic slag, and odorless phosphate.

Rich; fertile. [Obs.] "Batful valleys." Drayton.

To fertilize or enrich, as land.