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- English Word Decorating Definition of Decorate
- English Word Decoration Definition The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
- English Word Decoration Definition That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
- English Word Decoration Definition Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
- English Word Decorative Definition Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning.
- English Word Decorator Definition One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.
- English Word Decore Definition To decorate; to beautify.
- English Word Decorement Definition Ornament.
- English Word Decorous Definition Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge.
- English Word Decorticate Definition To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.
- English Word Decorticated Definition of Decorticate
- English Word Decorticating Definition of Decorticate
- English Word Decortication Definition The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.
- English Word Decorticator Definition A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.
- English Word Decorum Definition Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.
- English Word Decoy Definition To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.
- English Word Decoy Definition Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.
- English Word Decoy Definition A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.
- English Word Decoy Definition A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.
- English Word Decoy Definition A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.