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To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.

One who embellishes.

state of being adorned; adornment. In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. Prescott.

One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.

Bellying or swelling out on the under side; as, a fish-bellied rail. Knight.

A fan. [Obs.] Huloet.

Flabelliform.

The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance. Dunglison.

Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.

Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base; -- said of a leaf.

A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers. Shipley.

A region of the ocean where fogs are of marked frequency, as near the coast of Newfoundland.

Pertaining to, or derived from, Friedrich Froebel, or the kindergarten system of education, which he organized. -- n.

To put a furbelow on; to ornament.

bute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise. Burrill. He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish. Jer. Taylor.

A collector of gabels or taxes.

A tax, especially on salt. [France] Brande & C.

A gabeler. Carlyle.

Same as Garboard.

One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses. Brande & C.