Word Meanings - OLIVED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Decorated or furnished with olive trees. T. Warton.

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• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• OLIVERIAN
  An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.
• OLIVED
  Decorated or furnished with olive trees. T. Warton.
• OLIVEWOOD
  The wood of the olive. An Australian name given to the hard white wood of certain trees of the genus Elæodendron, and also to the trees themselves.
• OLIVENITE
  An olive-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of copper; olive ore.
• DECORATIVE
  Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning. -- Dec"o*ra*tive*ness, n. Decorative art, fine art which has for its end ornamentation, rather than the representation of objects or events.
• OLIVER
  An olive grove. Chaucer. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• 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
• DECORATOR
  One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.
• FURNISHER
  One who supplies or fits out.
• DECORATION
  1. The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation. 2. That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament. The hall was celebrated for . . . the richness of its decoration. Motley.
• OLIVE
  An olivary body. See under Olivary. (more info) A tree with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are
• DECORATION DAY
  = Memorial Day.
• DEDECORATION
  Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey.
• 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.
• DEDECORATE
  To bring to shame; to disgrace. Bailey.
• REFURNISHMENT
  The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished. The refurnishment was in a style richer than before. L. Wallace.
• QUEEN OLIVE
  Properly, a kind of superior olive grown in the region of Seville, Spain. It is large size and oblong shape with a small but long pit; it is cured when green, keeps well, and has a delicate flavor. Loosely, any olive of similar character.
• UNFURNISH
  To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip.
• POLIVE
  A pulley. Chaucer.
• CROSSTREES
  Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."
• UNDERFURNISH
  To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.