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The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

Dress; ornament. Shak.

To dress; to decorate; to adorn; to invest; to embellish; as, to trim a hat. trim a Christmas tree. A rotten building newly trimmed over. Milton. I was trimmed in Julia's gown. Shak.

Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively. No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast. Southey.

To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn. To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye. Milton.

A kind of loose dress for women. [Obs.] Goldsmith.

A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.

A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher. [Obs.] Nares. Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore The stains of ancient arms. Drayton.

To make a tuck or tucks in; as, to tuck a dress.

olded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later.

One of a body of native Algerian tirailleurs in the French army, dressed as a Turk. [Written also Turco.]

A kind of black coat for evening dress made without skirts; -- so named after a fashionable country club at Tuxedo Park, New York. [U. S.]

Not dresses enough.

A gown worn under another, or under some other article of dress. An undergown and kirtle of pale sea-green silk. Sir W. Scott.

A petticoat; the foundation skirt of a draped dress.

To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound.

undo or open by loosening or unfastening the hooks of; as, to unhook a fish; to unhook a dress.

or degree; not varying or variable; unchanging; consistent; equable; homogenous; as, the dress of the Asiatics has been uniform from early ages; the temperature is uniform; a stratum of uniform clay. Whewell.

To loose the dress of; to undress; hence, to expose; to disgrace. What's the matter, That you unlace your reputation thus Shak.

Not arrayed in the dress of a morris dancer. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.