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

A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. Imperfect cadence. (Mus.) See under Imperfect.

That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament. The hall was celebrated for . . . the richness of its decoration. Motley.

To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle.

res; a defacement; a blot. Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume.

of gold . . . may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. Bacon. Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity. South.

To adorn with glittering embellishments. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope.

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

Ornament; decoration; embellishment. [Obs.] Hyperbolical exornations . . . many much affect. Burton.

ily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination. In the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief. Among these fancy next Her office holds. Milton.

elody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.

Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments. [Colloq. U.S.]

nton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of wordas, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit. He lards with flourishes his long harangue. Dryden.

Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated. So are you, sweet, Even in the lovely garnish of a boy. Shak. Matter and figure they produce; For garnish this, and that for use. Prior.

Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton.

That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress. The pomp of groves and garniture of fields. Beattie.

A grace or embellishment.

als in millinery; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments.

An embellishment resembling a trill.

That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.