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The act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being ornamented.

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.

dale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on. In the more elaborate pieces three types are recognized: French Chippendale, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Lou…

Something added for ornamentation; an accessory. [Obs.] Without vain art or curious complements. Spenser.

Ornamentation with crockets. Ruskin.

The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.

lish; adorning. -- Dec"o*ra*tive*ness, n. Decorative art, fine art which has for its end ornamentation, rather than the representation of objects or events.

-- Engine tool, a machine tool. J. Whitworth. -- Engine turning (Fine Arts), a method of ornamentation by means of a rose engine.

The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing.

s of metal are flatted by steel rolls, and reduced to metallic dust, used for purposes of ornamentation.

Ornamentation by means of flower forms, whether closely imitated or conventionalized.

id melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.

ed from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. -- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.

Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.

To resemble (another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object) in form, color, ornamentation, or instinctive habits, so as to derive an advantage thereby; sa, when a harmless snake imitates a venomous one in color and manner, or when an odorless insect imitates, in color, one having secretion offensive to bir…

Ornamentation by means of lacquer painted or carved, or simply colored, sprinkled with gold or the like; -- said especially of Oriental work of this kind.

the art of cutting stones, or engraving on stones, either gems or monuments; as, lapidary ornamentation.

later Middle Ages, esp. in Spain, in which the arch had the form of a horseshoe, and the ornamentation admitted no representation of animal life. It has many points of resemblance to the Arabian and Persian styles, but should be distinguished from them. See Illust. under Moresque.

One who practices the style of ornamentation called niello.