To embellish (a narration, etc.) with flowers of speech; to ornament or set off with fine words or phrases; to express in flowery language. Obsolete.

transitive. To embellish (language, an oration, a literary work, etc.) with rhetorical or poetic ornaments.

figurative; now often with sense to ‘dress up’, heighten (a narration) with fictitious additions.

transitive. figurative. To adorn, decorate. Obsolete.

transferred and figurative. To fringe or clothe. Obsolete.

transitive. To apply foil or a foil to. To spread over with a thin sheet of metal or other substance. See foil, n.1 4. In quot. 1611 figurative.

In various figurative uses. To embellish with rhetorical ornament or with fictitious additions or exaggerations.

To furnish with figures of speech.

transitive. To dress, array, attire; to deck, prank; to adorn (usually with the notion of artifice). Const. with, in. Also intransitive with it. Also…