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Word Meanings - BEFRINGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe. Fuller.

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  • FURNISHMENT
    The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
  • ADORNINGLY
    By adorning; decoratively.
  • ADORNATION
    Adornment.
  • FRINGENT
    Encircling like a fringe; bordering. "The fringent air." Emerson.
  • FULLER
    One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
  • ADORNMENT
    An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
  • FRINGE TREE
    A small oleaceous tree , of the southern United States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated.
  • FRINGED
    Furnished with a fringe. Fringed lear , a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs.
  • ADORNER
    He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
  • FURNISH
    Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
  • FURNISHER
    One who supplies or fits out.
  • FULLERY
    The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
  • ADORN
    To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive. As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place.
  • FRINGELESS
    Having no fringe.
  • FRINGE
    One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe. (more info) 1. An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of
  • INFRINGER
    One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
  • UNDERFRINGE
    A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something. Broad-faced, with underfringe of russet beard. Tennyson.
  • DISFURNISH
    To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
  • INFRINGE
    1. To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract. If the first that did the edict infringe, Had answered for his deed. Shak. The peace . . . was infringed by Appius Claudius. Golding. 2. To
  • DISADORN
    To deprive of ornaments. Congreve.
  • BEFRINGE
    To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe. Fuller.
  • REFURNISHMENT
    The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished. The refurnishment was in a style richer than before. L. Wallace.
  • REFRINGENCY
    The power possessed by a substance to refract a ray; as, different substances have different refringencies. Nichol.
  • READORN
    To adorn again or anew.

 

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