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A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.

Ornamented in the style of arabesques.

The cultivation of trees and shrubs, chiefly for timber or for ornamental purposes.

The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.

More commonly, the molding or other ornaments with which the wall face of the voussoirs of an arch is charged.

The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.

uggle. -- Lords of the articles (Scot. Hist.), a standing committee of the Scottish Parliament to whom was intrusted the drafting and preparation of the acts, or bills for laws. -- The Thirty-nine Articles, statements (thirty-nine in number) of the tenets held by the Church of England.

or come together, as a number of individuals; to convene; to congregate. Dryden. The Parliament assembled in November. W. Massey.

t, in England, the assent of the sovereign to a bill which has passed both houses of Parliament, after which it becomes law.

Temperance; attemperament. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Attemperament.

Dress; clothes; 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.

At bottom; fundamentally; essentially.

rt; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend. "Parliament would be backed by the people." Macaulay. Have still found it necessary to back and fortify their laws with rewards and punishments. South. The mate backed the captain manfully. Blackw. Mag.

etable organism, belonging to the class Algæ, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission…

A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.

A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. [Obs.]

Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. In the preface to his own bald translation. Dryden.

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.

An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.