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A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.

and used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.

gether the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle. Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand. Pope.…

To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace. See Goffer.

A mode of plaiting or fluting. Gauffering iron, a kind of fluting iron for fabrics. -- Gauffering press (Flower Manuf.), a press for crimping the leaves and petals into shape.

To plait, flute, or crimp. See Gauffer. Clarke.

Plaited after the manner of kilting.

A perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one.

A straw plaiting used for bonnets and hats, made from the straw of a particular kind of wheat, grown for the purpose in Tuscany, Italy; -- so called from Leghorn, the place of exportation.

A kind of loose-fitting plaited jacket, having a loose belt.

A fine plaited hat, made in Central America of the young leaves of a plant (Carludovica palmata).

To plait. [Obs.] Full seemly her wimple ipinched was. Chaucer.

To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait. "They had platted a crown of thorns." Matt. xxvii. 29.

Plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like.

See Plait.

Woven; plaited. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

ted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is hence called also Polish plait. Dunglison.

Plaited; folded like a fan; as, a plicate leaf. -- Pli"cate*ly, adv.

A folding or fold; a plait. Richardson.

To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.[Obs.] "To sew and plight." Chaucer. A plighted garment of divers colors. Milton.