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To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a field, a farm. No field nolde [would not] tilye. P. Plowman. the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. Gen. iii. 23.

A bag made of thin glazed muslin, used as a wrapper for dress goods. McElrath.

A covering for the head; a headdress. On her head she wore a tire of gold. Spenser.

A dresser in a theater. Simmonds.

The room or place where players dress for the stage.

To dress or smarten up; to spruce. --Tit`i*va"tion, Tit`ti*va"tion (#), n. [Both Humorous]

A stout twilled silk used for dresses.

To put toggery, or togs, on; to dress; -- usually with out, implying care, elaborateness, or the like. [Colloq. or Slang] Harper's Weekly.

Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned. [R.] Sir M. Sandys.

Clothes; garments; dress; as, fishing toggery. [Colloq.] togs

A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.

shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.

To apply a surface dressing of manureto,as land.

The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied.

Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.

To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses. Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering. Chaucer. To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed. Spenser. There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. Tennyson.

That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations. Trappings of life, for ornament, not use. Dryden. These but the trappings and the suits of woe. Shak.

Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things. [Colloq.]

Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition. [R.]

To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out. " Trick her off in air." Pope. People lavish it profusely in tricking up their children in fine clothes, and yet starve their minds. Locke. They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little trick…