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atterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.

Mosaic (in either sense). "A mosaical floor." Sir P. Sidney.

In the manner of a mosaic.

Being before the time of Moses.

Relating to the time before Moses; as, premosaic history.

according to Moses; unlike Moses or his works. By this reckoning Moses should be most un Mosaic. Milton.

ass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. Fairholt.

A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.

Gold. Aurum fulminans (See Fulminate. -- Aurum mosaicum (See Mosaic.

the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.

A compendium; an epitome; a summary. A compend and recapitulation of the Mosaical law. Bp. Burnet.

other metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure.

les, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations. Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man. Rogers.

Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface. [Obs.] Milton.

Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or white marble.

On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.

. [Obs.] -- Jeweler's gold, an alloy containing three parts of gold to one of copper. -- Mosaic gold. See under Mosaic.

ing of silica, borax, and soda, fused with oxide of copper and iron, and used in enamels, mosaics, etc.

To pave. [Poetic] Impaved with rude fidelity Of art mosaic. Wordsworth.

A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.