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Originally, a kind of ruffle worn by men on the bosom of the shirt.

Decorated with the fabric lace. A shirt with laced ruffles. Fielding. Laced mutton, a prostitute. [Old slang] -- Laced stocking, a strong stocking which can be tightly laced; -- used in cases of weak legs, varicose veins, etc. Dunglison.

othes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.

or cloth made of flax or (rarely) of hemp; -- used in a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc. "In linen white as milk." Robert of Brunne.

hite, dyed, or printed. The name is also applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and sheeting muslins. Muslin cambric. See Cambric. -- Muslin delaine, a light woolen fabric for women's dresses. See Delaine. [Written also mousseline de laine.]

cloth to sell again. -- Piece goods, goods usually sold by pieces or fixed portions, as shirtings, calicoes, sheetings, and the like.

s, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc. [They] rammed me in with foul shirts, and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins. Shak.

To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.

A shirt. [Scot.]

A seamstress. Two hundred sepstress were employed to make me shirts. Swift.

Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged. Wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts. Macaulay.

; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes. I would advise you to shift a shirt. Shak.

A coarse frock, or shirt, worn over the other dress, as by farm laborers. Macaulay.

in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches; as, to stitch a shirt bosom.

An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable.

An undershirt.

Outer. "Thine utter eyen." Chaucer. [Obs.] "By him a shirt and utter mantle laid." Chapman. As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch. Spenser.

ly to resist the collection of tithes, the members of which were so called from the white shirts they wore in their nocturnal raids.

The band of the sleeve of a shirt, or other garment, which covers the wrist.