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thing expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes. Riches expose a man to pride and luxury. Spectator.

To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self. Dryden. The pampered monarch lay battening in ease. Garth. Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, -- persecutions, inquisitions. Emerson.

also called buffalo bug. -- Carpet knight. (a) A knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and has not known the hardships of the field; a hero of the drawing room; an effeminate person. Shak. (b) One made a knight, for some other than military distinction or service. -- Carpet moth (Zoöl.), the larva of an ins…

An imaginary country of idleness and luxury.

s to make intricate or difficult. Nor can his complicated sinews fail. Young. Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action. Addison. When the disease is complicated with other diseases. Arbuthnot.

A city of Greece, famed for its luxury and extravagance.

A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. [Obs.] A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.

Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment. And to those dainty limbs which Nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy Milton.

tly, of a more delicious and airy spirit, retire themselves to the enjoyments of ease and luxury. Milton.

Luxury. "To drive away all superfluity and deliciousness." Sir T. North.

m an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury. The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of the cause. Whewell.

Sw. eiderdun, Dan. ederduun.] Down of the eider duck, much sought after as an article of luxury.

sculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox.

Given to luxury; adapted to luxurious tastes; luxurious; pertaining to good eating. Courses of the most refined and epicurean dishes. Prescott. Epicurean philosophy. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic.

Epicurean habits of living; luxury.

Honestly; properly. Such means of comfort or even luxury, as lay fairly within their grasp. Hawthorne.

miracles. The reasons that moved her to remove were, because Rome was a place of riot and luxury, her soul being almost stifled with, the frequencies of ladies' visits. Fuller.

so in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.

of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye. Milton.

An immoral act or practice. Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them. Milton.