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by way of embellishment; ornament. The hall was celebrated for . . . the richness of its decoration. Motley.

= Memorial Day. [U. S.]

Disgrace; dishonor. [Obs.] Bailey.

An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.

ral design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration.

A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.

A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe.

The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.

An ornamental bordering or framelike decoration around the sides and top of a door, window, or fireplace. The top piece is called the traverse and the side pieces the ascendants.

Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.

Bot.), an evergreen North American fern (Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for decoration in winter. -- Christmas flower, Christmas rose, the black hellebore, a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers midwinter. -- Christmas tree, a small…

aw; anarchy. Addison. -Club moss (Bot.), an evergreen mosslike plant, much used in winter decoration. The best know species is Lycopodium clavatum, but other Lycopodia are often called by this name. The spores form a highly inflammable powder. -- Club root (Bot.), a disease of cabbages, by which the roots become disto…

The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet, indicating the rank of the weare; hence, also, the helmet. Stooping low his lofty crest. Sir W. Scott. And on his head there stood upright A crest, in token of a knight. Gower.

An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown. Crown of aberration (Astron.), a spurious circle around the true circle of the sun. -- Crown antler (Zoöl.), the topmost branch or tine of an antler; also, an antler having a cuplike top, with tines springing from the rim. -- Crow…

In interior decoration, the lower part of the wall of an apartment when adorned with moldings, or otherwise specially decorated.

One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.

ttern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.

One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.

Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade. Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed. Burke.