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An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.

Adornment. [Obs.] Spenser.

Adornment. [Obs.]

Attire; adornment.

Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity. Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners. Hawthorne.

A carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal adornment, or like.

ashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. "The carver's chisel." Dodsley. The carver of his fortunes. Sharp (Richardson's Dict. )

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

of a crown, etc. It is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of France.

The act of honesting; grace; adornment. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.

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.

An adornment; a decoration; -- with off. [Obs.] They come as . . . setters off of thy graces. Whitlock.