English words for 'Ornamented with bugles.'
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noun
verb
adj
- adorned with feathers or plumes
- having or covered with feathers
- (poetic) Covered or adorned with something, as if with feathers.
- (poetic) Swift, like the flight of a feathered creature.
- (rowing) Having the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion.
- (engineering, manufacturing) Having a finely bevelled edge.
- Covered with feathers.
- (in combination) Having a specific type or number of feathers.
- (Appalachia) Badly beaten.
verb
adj
noun
noun
adj
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- A silk banner attached to a bugle or trumpet.
- (historical) A sleeveless garment made of coarse cloth formerly worn outdoors by the common people.
- (historical) A similar garment officially worn by a herald and emblazoned with his sovereign's coat of arms.
- A sleeveless jerkin or loose overgarment.
- (historical) A cape or tunic worn by a knight, emblazoned with the coat of arms of his king or queen on the front.
- a short sleeveless outer tunic emblazoned with a coat of arms; worn by a knight over the knight's armor or by a herald
verb
noun
adj
- ornamented with foliage or foils
- (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
- (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves
- Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
- (geology) Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).
- (geometry) Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop.
- Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
- Of or relating to leaves.
- Of a plant: having leaves.
verb
- hammer into thin flat foils
- coat or back with metal foil
- decorate with leaves
- grow leaves
- number the pages of a book or manuscript
- To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate.
- (botany) Of a plant: to produce leaves.
- (architecture) To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”).
- To split into layers or leaves.
- To spread (glass) with a thin coat of mercury and tin, or other substances forming a foil, to create a mirror; to foil, to silver.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (music, historical) A type of ornamentation comprising one or more trills.
- (figurative) A characteristic or quality which accompanies another thing.
- (countable, uncountable, originally US) A condiment or sauce added to food for a spicy or tangy flavour; specifically, one made with chopped, pickled fruit or vegetables.
- (uncountable) Enjoyment of flavour or taste; (countable) an instance of this.
- (carpentry, by extension) In a wooden frame: the projection or shoulder around, or at the side of, a tenon (“projecting member made to insert into a mortise”), used to strengthen a mortise-and-tenon joint.
- (figurative, uncountable) Enjoyment of something pleasant; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A savoury dish or course of dishes, especially one accompanying rather than forming the main part of a meal; an appetizer, a side dish.
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
- spicy or savory condiment
verb
- (transitive, carpentry) To add one or more relishes (noun etymology 2 sense 2) to (a tenon, piece of wood, etc.).
- To give (something) (a pleasant) flavour or taste; to make appetizing.
- (figurative) Followed by in: to take delight or pleasure.
- (also reflexive, figurative, sometimes in the negative) To take delight or pleasure in (someone or oneself, or something).
- derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
noun
- The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
- (nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
- (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
- (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
- (by extension) A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.
- The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
- (zoology) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.
- (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
- The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
- The bottom of a furrow.
- (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
- (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
- (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
- right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European
- lean flesh of any of several flatfish
- the underside of the foot
- the underside of footwear or a golf club
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noun
- An ornamentation.
- A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
- (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.
- (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
- (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
- a display of ornamental speech or language
- an ornamental embellishment in writing
- the act of waving
- a showy gesture
verb
- (intransitive) To be known to have been alive at a particular time or in a particular period, where one's birth and death dates are not known; to have been active during a specified period; floruit.
- (intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
- (intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
- (intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- (intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
- (intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
- (transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
- (intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
- (transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
- (intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
- (transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.
- grow vigorously
- make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
- move or swing back and forth
noun
- (ornithology) A group of common grackles.
- (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
- (figurative) A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.
- A widespread affliction, calamity, or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
- (pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
- a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- a swarm of insects that attack plants
- any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
- an annoyance
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
verb
noun
- a feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament
- anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness
- the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds
- More fully gill plume: a feathery gill of some crustaceans and molluscs.
- (geology) Ellipsis of mantle plume (“an upwelling of abnormally hot molten material from the Earth's mantle which spreads sideways when it reaches the lithosphere”).
- (botany) A large and flexible panicle of an inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
- An upward spray of mist or water.
- (figurative) A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
- The furry tail of certain dog breeds (such as the Samoyed) that curls over their backs or stands erect.
- Ellipsis of plume moth (“a small, slender moth of the family Pterophoridae”).
- (astronomy) An arc of glowing material (chiefly gases) erupting from the surface of a star.
- The vane (“flattened, web-like part”) of a feather, especially when on a quill pen or the fletching of an arrow.
- A cloud formed by a dispersed substance fanning out or spreading.
- Things resembling a feather.
verb
- dress or groom with elaborate care
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- be proud of
- form a plume
- deck with a plume
- clean with one's bill
- (transitive, reflexive) Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence (figurative), to prepare for (something).
- (transitive, also figurative) To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes.
- (intransitive) Of a dispersed substance such as dust or smoke: to fan out or spread in a cloud.
- (transitive, reflexive, by extension) To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate; to preen.
noun
- (countable) A piece used to hold a reed to the mouthpiece on woodwind instruments.
- (countable, typography) A character that visually combines multiple letters, such as æ, œ, ß or ij; also logotype. Sometimes called a typographic ligature.
- (uncountable) The act of tying or binding something.
- (countable) A cord or similar thing used to tie something; especially the thread used in surgery to close a vessel or duct.
- (countable, music) A group of notes played as a phrase, or the curved line that indicates such a phrase.
- A thread or wire used to remove tumours, etc.
- A spell or charm that induces sexual impotence.
- The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness.
- (music) A curve or line connecting notes; a slur.
- Any binding, uniting, or restraining principle or agency.
- character consisting of two or more letters combined into one
- a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone
- (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
- thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood)
- something used to tie or bind
- the act of tying or binding things together
verb
noun
- An ornament or knob in the shape of a flower
- (architecture) The small decorative flower at the centre of each side of a Corinthian abacus; a flos.
- (typography) A decorative typographic element, used to separate passages or simply for decoration. Often doubled, e.g. 🙚 🙘 or 🙘🙚, or combined with other fleurons into a short line.
noun
verb
noun
- The sound of something that bugles.
- A horn used by hunters.
- A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
- (fashion) A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
- A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
- (music) A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
- a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares
- any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover
- a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration
verb
noun
verb
noun
- One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
- A sea urchin.
- A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
- (historical) A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
- A mischievous child.
- poor and often mischievous city child
verb
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
noun
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
noun
- a small bagpipe formerly popular in France
- A small oboe without a cap for its reed, which evolved from the chanter or pipe of bagpipes; a piccolo oboe.
- (historical) An organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators, found in organs in France in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- (historical) Any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows, which were popular in France in the 17th and early 18th century.
- (by extension) A pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating such an instrument; also, a dance performed to this music.
- (chiefly US, originally military) In full musette bag: a small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap, formerly used by soldiers, and now (cycling) chiefly by cyclists to hold food and beverages or other items.
noun
- Angel's trumpet (Brugmansia).
- Night-blooming cestrum, a woody evergreen of species Cestrum nocturnum.
- Any night-blooming cereus, especially of species Epiphyllum oxypetalum or Selenicereus grandiflorus.
- tropical American climbing cactus having triangular branches; often cultivated for its large showy night-blooming flowers followed by yellow red-streaked fruits
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verb
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adj
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- A silk banner attached to a bugle or trumpet.
- (historical) A sleeveless garment made of coarse cloth formerly worn outdoors by the common people.
- (historical) A similar garment officially worn by a herald and emblazoned with his sovereign's coat of arms.
- A sleeveless jerkin or loose overgarment.
- (historical) A cape or tunic worn by a knight, emblazoned with the coat of arms of his king or queen on the front.
- a short sleeveless outer tunic emblazoned with a coat of arms; worn by a knight over the knight's armor or by a herald
noun
- (music, historical) A type of ornamentation comprising one or more trills.
- (figurative) A characteristic or quality which accompanies another thing.
- (countable, uncountable, originally US) A condiment or sauce added to food for a spicy or tangy flavour; specifically, one made with chopped, pickled fruit or vegetables.
- (uncountable) Enjoyment of flavour or taste; (countable) an instance of this.
- (carpentry, by extension) In a wooden frame: the projection or shoulder around, or at the side of, a tenon (“projecting member made to insert into a mortise”), used to strengthen a mortise-and-tenon joint.
- (figurative, uncountable) Enjoyment of something pleasant; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A savoury dish or course of dishes, especially one accompanying rather than forming the main part of a meal; an appetizer, a side dish.
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
- spicy or savory condiment
verb
- (transitive, carpentry) To add one or more relishes (noun etymology 2 sense 2) to (a tenon, piece of wood, etc.).
- To give (something) (a pleasant) flavour or taste; to make appetizing.
- (figurative) Followed by in: to take delight or pleasure.
- (also reflexive, figurative, sometimes in the negative) To take delight or pleasure in (someone or oneself, or something).
- derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
noun
- The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
- (nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
- (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
- (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
- (by extension) A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.
- The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
- (zoology) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.
- (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
- The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
- The bottom of a furrow.
- (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
- (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
- (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
- right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European
- lean flesh of any of several flatfish
- the underside of the foot
- the underside of footwear or a golf club
adj
verb
noun
- An ornamentation.
- A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
- (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.
- (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
- (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
- a display of ornamental speech or language
- an ornamental embellishment in writing
- the act of waving
- a showy gesture
verb
- (intransitive) To be known to have been alive at a particular time or in a particular period, where one's birth and death dates are not known; to have been active during a specified period; floruit.
- (intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
- (intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
- (intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- (intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
- (intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
- (transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
- (intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
- (transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
- (intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
- (transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.
- grow vigorously
- make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
- move or swing back and forth
noun
- (ornithology) A group of common grackles.
- (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
- (figurative) A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.
- A widespread affliction, calamity, or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
- (pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
- a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- a swarm of insects that attack plants
- any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
- an annoyance
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
verb
noun
- a feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament
- anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness
- the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds
- More fully gill plume: a feathery gill of some crustaceans and molluscs.
- (geology) Ellipsis of mantle plume (“an upwelling of abnormally hot molten material from the Earth's mantle which spreads sideways when it reaches the lithosphere”).
- (botany) A large and flexible panicle of an inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
- An upward spray of mist or water.
- (figurative) A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
- The furry tail of certain dog breeds (such as the Samoyed) that curls over their backs or stands erect.
- Ellipsis of plume moth (“a small, slender moth of the family Pterophoridae”).
- (astronomy) An arc of glowing material (chiefly gases) erupting from the surface of a star.
- The vane (“flattened, web-like part”) of a feather, especially when on a quill pen or the fletching of an arrow.
- A cloud formed by a dispersed substance fanning out or spreading.
- Things resembling a feather.
verb
- dress or groom with elaborate care
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- be proud of
- form a plume
- deck with a plume
- clean with one's bill
- (transitive, reflexive) Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence (figurative), to prepare for (something).
- (transitive, also figurative) To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes.
- (intransitive) Of a dispersed substance such as dust or smoke: to fan out or spread in a cloud.
- (transitive, reflexive, by extension) To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate; to preen.
noun
- (countable) A piece used to hold a reed to the mouthpiece on woodwind instruments.
- (countable, typography) A character that visually combines multiple letters, such as æ, œ, ß or ij; also logotype. Sometimes called a typographic ligature.
- (uncountable) The act of tying or binding something.
- (countable) A cord or similar thing used to tie something; especially the thread used in surgery to close a vessel or duct.
- (countable, music) A group of notes played as a phrase, or the curved line that indicates such a phrase.
- A thread or wire used to remove tumours, etc.
- A spell or charm that induces sexual impotence.
- The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness.
- (music) A curve or line connecting notes; a slur.
- Any binding, uniting, or restraining principle or agency.
- character consisting of two or more letters combined into one
- a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone
- (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
- thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood)
- something used to tie or bind
- the act of tying or binding things together
verb
noun
- An ornament or knob in the shape of a flower
- (architecture) The small decorative flower at the centre of each side of a Corinthian abacus; a flos.
- (typography) A decorative typographic element, used to separate passages or simply for decoration. Often doubled, e.g. 🙚 🙘 or 🙘🙚, or combined with other fleurons into a short line.
noun
verb
noun
- The sound of something that bugles.
- A horn used by hunters.
- A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
- (fashion) A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
- A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
- (music) A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
- a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares
- any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover
- a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration
verb
noun
verb
noun
- One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
- A sea urchin.
- A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
- (historical) A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
- A mischievous child.
- poor and often mischievous city child
noun
- a small bagpipe formerly popular in France
- A small oboe without a cap for its reed, which evolved from the chanter or pipe of bagpipes; a piccolo oboe.
- (historical) An organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators, found in organs in France in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- (historical) Any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows, which were popular in France in the 17th and early 18th century.
- (by extension) A pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating such an instrument; also, a dance performed to this music.
- (chiefly US, originally military) In full musette bag: a small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap, formerly used by soldiers, and now (cycling) chiefly by cyclists to hold food and beverages or other items.
noun
- Angel's trumpet (Brugmansia).
- Night-blooming cestrum, a woody evergreen of species Cestrum nocturnum.
- Any night-blooming cereus, especially of species Epiphyllum oxypetalum or Selenicereus grandiflorus.
- tropical American climbing cactus having triangular branches; often cultivated for its large showy night-blooming flowers followed by yellow red-streaked fruits
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
noun
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
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adj
- adorned with feathers or plumes
- having or covered with feathers
- (poetic) Covered or adorned with something, as if with feathers.
- (poetic) Swift, like the flight of a feathered creature.
- (rowing) Having the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion.
- (engineering, manufacturing) Having a finely bevelled edge.
- Covered with feathers.
- (in combination) Having a specific type or number of feathers.
- (Appalachia) Badly beaten.
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noun
adj
- ornamented with foliage or foils
- (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
- (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves
- Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
- (geology) Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).
- (geometry) Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop.
- Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
- Of or relating to leaves.
- Of a plant: having leaves.
verb
- hammer into thin flat foils
- coat or back with metal foil
- decorate with leaves
- grow leaves
- number the pages of a book or manuscript
- To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate.
- (botany) Of a plant: to produce leaves.
- (architecture) To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”).
- To split into layers or leaves.
- To spread (glass) with a thin coat of mercury and tin, or other substances forming a foil, to create a mirror; to foil, to silver.