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One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, an English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired. Eadie.

Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful. Jer. Tailor.

One who presses clothes; as, a tailor's pressman.

A tailor; -- so called in contempt. [Old slang] L'Estrange.

An adjustable pattern used by tailors. Knight.

Confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract. [Obs.] Jer. Tailor.

see a sort of traitors here. Shak. -- Salt-water sailor, an ocean mariner. -- Salt-water tailor. (Zoöl.) See Bluefish.

Of or pertaining to a tailor or his work. Our legs skulked under the table as free from sartorial impertinences as those of the noblest savages. Lowell.

A muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting.

. -- Seam presser. (Agric.) (a) A heavy roller to press down newly plowed furrows. (b) A tailor's sadiron for pressing seams. Knight. -- Seam set, a set for flattering the seams of metal sheets, leather work, etc.

the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc. It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him. South.

as material for clothing for both sexes. Silk serge, a twilled silk fabric used mostly by tailors for lining parts of gentlemen's coats.

A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop. A tailor called me in his shop. Shak.

rican coast (Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker. Brook silversides (Zoöl.), a small fresh-water North American fish (Labadesthes sicculus) related to the marine silversides.

A slovenly farmer; a jobbing tailor. [Prov. Eng.]

A tailor. [Slang] Nares. C. Kingsley.

Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.

A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware. "Tailors and tinkers." Piers Plowman.

can travestied, not appareled in his Roman toga, but under the cruel shears of an English tailor. Bentley.

A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like.