Adjective : ornamental plants. From Dictionary.com.
In this species the suspension may resolve ornamentally, that is, it may have some note or notes interpolated between the suspension and its resolution. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons] Reference
That kale is beautiful both ornamentally and vegetatively!. From Wordnik.com. [I Kale Your Name* « Fairegarden] Reference
Some Quakers refused to use firearms for personal defense, or even to carry arms ornamentally. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » New article on the right to arms in early Pennsylvania] Reference
It's a matter of organizing your edibles as ornamentally as you do shrubs, annuals and perennials. From Wordnik.com. [Valerie Easton: Are Your Vegetables Multi-Tasking??] Reference
Was her sole function to lie ornamentally at Jabba's feet or did he ultimately intend her to be his love slave?. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Edlitz: Fashion by Jabba the Hutt] Reference
Allegory expresses the interplay of little and great worlds, which are ornamentally reflecting surfaces of microcosm and macrocosm. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
But mere discourse and argument belongs to the Logician, and the art of Speaking gracefully and ornamentally is the prerogative of the Orator. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
When the meeting was over we were shown into a high-ceilinged intermediary room, a great banqueting hall, with a fine, thick, ornamentally patterned carpet. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
But his successors unfortunately returned to the German; the initial I, having from the xiii century been ornamentally lengthened and bent leftwards, became a consonant. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
They are either very heavily and ornamentally tiled, or covered with sheet copper ornamented with gold, or thatched to a depth of from one to three feet, with fine shingles or bark. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
The ground surface between the houses has been laid off ornamentally to please the eye and satisfy the sense of order and beauty, but is not itself the object of which we are in search. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
The large forehead, round eyes, round cheeks, and round lips of the baby remain; and, as the present fashion is to dress the hair ornamentally after the fashion of a doll, the picture is complete. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
Its bloom is of no value ornamentally, being much like that of some of our common meadow grasses, and it will be as well to remove it in order that the grass may be all the brighter and more luxuriant. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
Nephrite was also perhaps the first of all stones to be used ornamentally. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
This was ruffled ornamentally by a style of whisker much in vogue at the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West] Reference
As described in the booklet, the hike also includes a visit to the ornamentally carved. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
In addition to being a good food source for birds, the fruit is also ornamentally attractive. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
The next day Narvon was tried before Mephis, and I was there with a detail of the guard -- just ornamentally. From Wordnik.com. [Carson of Venus]
The country round them was open, yet ornamentally wooded, and rocks and trees hung or drooped over the waters. From Wordnik.com. [Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete] Reference
The word Architecture has, I suppose, to most of you the meaning of the art of building nobly and ornamentally. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears for Art] Reference
Just opposite is the Town Hall, a square building of brick with stone frontage, ornamentally decorated with carving. From Wordnik.com. [Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London] Reference
German; the initial I, having from the xiii century been ornamentally lengthened and bent leftwards, became a consonant. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
For instance, a chair with one leg turned, another square, and a third ornamentally carved, would be a disagreeable object. From Wordnik.com. [Chasing the Sun] Reference
Wilbur had been a little disappointed that the cowboy should not have shown up as ornamentally as he had expected, not wearing goatskin. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy With the U. S. Foresters] Reference
The walls of this gloomy apartment were lined with thin bricks, ornamentally disposed in herring-bone work, after the fashion of the time. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
He owed nothing of this to his father, who was plain, or ornamentally, Ser Giovanni di Simone Guidi, of Castello San Giovanni, in the Valdamo. From Wordnik.com. [Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People] Reference
It was in the cottage style, in the form of a cross, with a roof ornamentally thatched, and was flanked at a little distance by the office-houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference
I mean, I should have to have a man to look after the social end of life and arrange parties and receptions and so on, and sit ornamentally at the head of my table. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl on the Boat] Reference
These are cut after the fashion of sailor-trousers, short waist, tight round the hips, and wide at the bottoms, where they are strengthened by black leather stamped and stitched ornamentally. From Wordnik.com. [The Scalp Hunters] Reference
The ground is now neatly enclosed and ornamentally planted and is studded with many monuments, few of which speak the truth when they profess to cover the dust of those whom they commemorate. From Wordnik.com. [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference
The three took up rather ornamentally (with aid from. From Wordnik.com. [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference
Small ornamentally painted yeast bowl. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594] Reference
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