Definitions of tracery

1. A tracing of lines; a system of lines produced by, or as if by, tracing, esp. when interweaving or branching out in ornamental or graceful figures.

2. Ornamental work with rambled lines.

3. The decorative head of a Gothic window.

4. A similar decoration in some styles of vaulting, the ribs of the vault giving off the minor bars of which the tracery is composed.

5. A fine, delicately executed design, as in carved stone.

6. Ornamentation traced in flowing outline: certain ornamental stonework.

7. Ornament in flowing outline; in arch., openwork ornament in stone.

8. Geometric ornament, as seen in the enrichment of Gothic windows.