- To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to
embroider; to ornament with metallic threads; as, to purfle with blue
and white. - To ornament with a bordure of emines, furs, and the
like; also, with gold studs or mountings. - Alt. of Purflew
- Execute on gibbet - Let droop - Lynch - String up - Suspend - To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without
support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on
a hook; to hang up a sign; to hang out a banner. - To fasten in a manner which will allow of free motion upon
the point or points of suspension; -- said of a pendulum, a swing, a
door, gate, etc.
- Beautify - Decorate - Dress up (story) - 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.
- Napkin material - Rich fabric with a woven pattern - Thick linen - Variety of rose - Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of
flowers and the like. - Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different
directions of the thread, without contrast of color. - A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the
same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and
hangings.