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sideration. He might have seemed some secretary or clerk . . . only that his low, flat, unadorned cap . . . indicated that he belonged to the city. Sir W. Scott.

ty, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism. They have something venerable and oracular in that unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression. Pope. -- O*rac"u*lar*ly, adv. -- O*rac"u*lar*ness, n.

To ornament; to adorn. [Obs.] Joye.

That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment. The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. 1 Pet. iii. 4. Like that long-buried body of the king Found lying with his urns and ornaments. Tennyson.

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

Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks. [Poetic] Collins.

To dress or adorn to excess; to dress too much. Pope.

Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors. Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. Shak. Cuckoo buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight. Shak.

Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Coleridge.

The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.

Covered or adorned with pansies. "The pansied grounds." Darwin.

To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches. Ladies who patched both sides of their faces. Spectator.

To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.

To adorn with pictures.

A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.

To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.

To adorn with feathers or plumes. "Farewell the plumed troop." Shak.

Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery. "His plumy crest." Addison. "The plumy trees." J. S. Blackie.

To adorn with pictures. [R.] Spear and helmets thronged, and shields Various with boastful arguments potrayed. Milton.

To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; - - often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink. In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank. Spenser.