Word Meanings - ORNAMENTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
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- THINKING
Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv. - SERVING
a & n. from Serve. Serving board , a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. -- Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet , a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant, - SERVO-MOTOR
A relay apparatus; specif.: An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve - SERVILELY
In a servile manner; slavishly. - ORNAMENTAL
Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne. - SERVILENESS
Quality of being servile; servility. - SERVABLE
Capable of being preserved. (more info) 1. Capable of being served. 2. Etym: - SERVITORSHIP
The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Boswell. - SERVER
1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph. - BEAUTIFY
To become beautiful; to advance in beauty. Addison. - EMBELLISH
To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors. Syn. -- To adorn; beautify; deck; - SERVIAN
Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe. -- n. - SERVALINE
Related to, or resembling, the serval. - SERVICE
The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment. (more info) 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for - SERVAGE
Serfage; slavery; servitude. Chaucer. - SERVICEABLE
1. Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous. "Serviceable to religion and learning". Atterbury. "Serviceable tools." Macaulay. I know thee well, - SERVICE; SERVICE
A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, - THINK
1. To conceive; to imagine. Charity . . . thinketh no evil. 1 Cor. xiii. 4,5. 2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass. So little womanhood And natural goodness, as to think the death Of her own son. Beau. & Fl. 3. To believe; to consider; to - ABOUT
On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info) - CHARACTERIZE
1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the - DISSERVE
To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym: - RESERVE
1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen. - DESERVEDNESS
Meritoriousness. - CONSERVATIONAL
Tending to conserve; preservative. - MISTHINK
To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton. - ROUNDABOUTNESS
The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness. - MISOBSERVE
To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke. - SUBSERVIENCE; SUBSERVIENCY
The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley. - INSERVE
To be of use to an end; to serve. - PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety. - OBSERVANCY
Observance. - MANSERVANT
A male servant. - BOND SERVICE
The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21. - DESERVE
1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John