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.