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     #845.  Beauty. —­ N. beauty, the beautiful, gr/to kalon/gr[Grk], le
beau ideal.
     [Science of the perception of beauty] aesthetics, callaesthetics|!.
     [of people] pulchritude, form elegance, grace, beauty unadorned,
natural beauty; symmetry &c. 242; comeliness, fairness &c. adj.; polish, gloss; good effect, good looks; belle tournure[obs3]; trigness[obs3]; bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness, magnificence; sublimity, sublimification|.
     concinnity[obs3], delicacy, refinement; charm, je ne sais quoi[Fr],
style. 
     Venus, Aphrodite[obs3], Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid,
Apollo[obs3], Hyperion, Adonis[obs3], Antionous[obs3], Narcissus.
     peacock, butterfly; garden; flower of, pink of; bijou; jewel &c.
(ornament) 847; work of art.
     flower, flow’ret gay[obs3], wildflower; rose[flowers:  list], lily,
anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane’s bill, daffodil, tulip, tiger lily, day lily, begonia, marigold, geranium, lily of the valley, ranunculus[ISA:herb@flowering], rhododendron, windflower.
     pleasurableness &c 829.
     beautifying; landscaping, landscape gardening; decoration &c. 847;
calisthenics|!.
     [person who is beautiful] beauty; hunk [of men]. 
     V. be beautiful &c. adj.; shine, beam, bloom; become one &c. (accord)
23; set off, grace.
     render beautiful &c. adj.; beautify; polish, burnish; gild &c.
(decorate) 847; set out.
     “snatch a grace beyond the reach of art” [Pope]. 
     Adj. beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely,
graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive &c. (inviting) 615; delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny [Scottish]; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical &c. (regular) 242; harmonious &c. (color) 428; sightly.
     fit to be seen, passable, not amiss.
     goodly, dapper, tight, jimp[obs3]; gimp; janty[obs3], jaunty; trig,
natty, quaint, trim, tidy,neat, spruce, smart, tricksy[obs3].
     bright, bright eyed; rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked; rosy, ruddy;
blooming, in full bloom.
     brilliant, shining; beamy[obs3], beaming; sparkling, splendid,
resplendent, dazzling, glowing; glossy, sleek.
     rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious.
     artistic, artistical[obs3]; aesthetic; picturesque, pictorial; fait a
peindre[Fr]; well-composed, well grouped, well varied; curious.
     enchanting &c. (pleasure-giving) 829; becoming &c. (accordant) 23;
ornamental &c. 847.
     undeformed, undefaced, unspotted; spotless &c. (perfect) 650. 
     Phr. auxilium non leve vultus habet [Lat][Ovid]; “beauty born of
murmuring sound” [Wordsworth]; “flowers preach to us if we will hear” [C.G.  Rossetti]; gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus [Lat][Vergil]; “none but the brave deserve the fair” [Dryden]; “thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty” [Byron].