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A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses.

A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist.

An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.

fluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay. Thackeray. Taking into consideration how they [laws] are to be pruned and reformed. Bacon. Our delightful task To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers. Milton…

The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous.

A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women's gowns; -- called also bobbinwork. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A hem, border., or trimming, as of embroidered work.

A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.

An implement for cutting, trimming, or ornamenting the rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc.; also, a reamer. Knight.

A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

p of lace, net, ribbon, or other material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets. [Written also rouche.]

ric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.

A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.

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

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.

A tool for trimming hedges.

piece of timber, into other work. -- To trim up, to dress; to put in order. I found her trimming up the diadem On her dead mistress. Shak.

An instrument with which trimming is done.