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That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments. The graces and embellishments of the exterior man. I. Taylor.

To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate. The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair. Prescott.

The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.

The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment. Thine ancient standard's rich emblazonry. Trench.

relief; raised work; jut; protuberance; esp., a combination of raised surfaces having a decorative effect. "The embossment of the figure." Addison.

To decorate; to make showy and fine. [Obs.] And with sad cypress seemly it embraves. Spenser.

Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed. Addison. A mere rhetorical embroidery of phrases. J. A. Symonds.

To form like pearls; to decorate with, or as with, pearls; to impearl.

s, used in ornament, to cover a surface, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used itself for inlaying or application in varied colors.

thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile (Fine Arts), an earthenware tile which has a decorative pattern and is not wholly of one color.

To decorate with a diaper pattern.

ssue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another. -- En`do*the"cal, a.

ines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper.

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

g rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.

Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.

A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design.

nuous and, usually, structureless layer which covers more or less of the exterior of many corals.

A genus of leguminous plants growing in the tropics; coral tree; -- so called from its red flowers.

A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.