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re, and is girded by a cord. Frock coat, a body coat for men, usually doublebreasted, the skirts not being in one piece with the body, but sewed on so as to be somewhat full. -- Smock frock. See in the Vocabulary.

To border; to edge All the skirt about Was hemmed with golden fringe. Spenser. To hem about, around, or in, to inclose and confine; to surround; to environ. "With valiant squadrons round about to hem." Fairfax. "Hemmed in to be a spoil to tyranny." Daniel. -- To hem out, to shut out. "You can not hem me out of London.…

The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.

n of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural. Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale. Pope.

te of being interwoven; that which is interwoven. "Knit in nice intertexture." Coleridge. Skirted thick with intertexture firm Of thorny boughs. Cowper.

A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.

The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron. Chaucer.

rt about the neck or shoulder, or from the armpits, to the bottom of the weist, or to the skirt; -- said of garments; as, a long-waisted coat.

A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard.

An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.

A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.

A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.

A peplos. Hence: An overskirt hanging like an ancient peplos; also, a short fitted skirt attached to a waist or coat.

A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.

The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting it on; -- called also placket hole.

An article of dress for women, consisting of a body and an outer skirt in one piece.

A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one.

Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any outer bed cover. The beds were covered with magnificent quilts. Arbuthnot.

gh. We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries. Milton.

ed by begging. [Obs.] Worm-eaten gentlemen of the round, such as have vowed to sit on the skirts of the city, let your provost and his half dozen of halberdiers do what they can. B. Jonson. -- Round of beef, the part of the thigh below the aitchbone, or between the rump and the leg. See Illust. of beef. -- Round steak…