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To trim, as, a hedge. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction.

ime or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties. They might their grievance inwardly complain, But outwardly they needs must temporize. Daniel.

o yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer. A sort of temporizers, ready to embrace and maintain all that is, or shall be, proposed, in hope of preferment. Burton.

silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used for upholstery and trimmings.

A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H8, analogous to trimethylene, and regarded as the base of well-known series or derivatives.

Of or pertaining to the ornamental cutting and trimming of trees, hedges, etc.; practicing ornamental gardening. [R.] "The topiarian artist." Sir W. Scott. All the pedantries of the topiarian art. C. Kingsley.

Of or pertaining to ornamental gardening; produced by cutting, trimming, etc.; topiarian. Topiary work, arbors, shrubbery, hedges, or the like, cut and trimmed into fanciful forms, as of animals, building, etc.

Neat; trim. [Scot.] Jomieson.

A tool for trimming hedges.

, three things or circumstances of a kind being mentioned together. -- Hindoo triad. See Trimurti.

A tertiary amine analogous to trimethylamine.

Full; also, trim; neat. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] To sit on a horse square and trig. Brit. Quart. Rev.

Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindoo trinity, or Trimurti.

A kind of kettledrum. [Written also trimbal.] A tymbal's sound were better than my voice. Prior.

Not capable of being brought into harmony; irreconcilable. "Unatonable matrimony." [Obs.] Milton.

specially of books, periodicals, and the like, when the leaves have not been separated by trimming in binding.

A trim, pointed beard, such as those often seen in pictures by Vandyke.

To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again. Pope.

A divinity of the modern Hindoo trimurti, or trinity. He is regarded as the preserver, while Brahma is the creator, and Siva the destroyer of the creation.