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Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs.

A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.

Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare.

That which serves to trim, make right or fitting, adjust, ornament, or the like; especially, the necessary or the ornamental appendages, as of a garment; hence, sometimes, the concomitants of a dish; a relish; -- usually in the pluraltrimmings..

ment worm by ancient or Oriental peoples; also, a common name for various styles of loose-fitting under-garments and over-garments worn in modern times by Europeans and others.

A short, close-fitting vestment worn by bishops under the dalmatic, and by subdeacons.

Unbecoming; not befitting. -- Un`be*seem"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*seem"ing*ness, n.

e of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.

A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening.

The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.

A forked or bifurcated pipe fitting.