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To knit knots for fringe or trimming.

to be digested; not oppressive to the stomach; as, light food; also, containing little nutriment.

Without heed or care; with levity; gayly; airily. Matrimony . . . is not by any to be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly. Book of Common Prayer [Eng. Ed.].

To clip; to trim. [Obs.] Holland.

Detrimental. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A West Indian leguminous tree (Lysiloma Latisiliqua) the wood of which is used for boat trimming.

One of the ropes by which the mainsail is hauled aft and trimmed.

being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony. Marriage is honorable in all. Heb. xiii. 4.

Being in the state of matrimony; wedded; as, a married man or woman.

To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place. Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself. Gay.

A matrimonial union; a marriage.

dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson, and the corresponding ventral edge the ventrimeson. B. G. Wilder.

Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms.

A person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women. Man milliner, a man who makes or deals in millinery; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments.

Fine; trim; dainty. [Obs.] "Their... minion dancing." Fryth.

ent; of the same or of an essentially similar type of structure; -- opposed to dimorphic, trimorphic, and polymorphic.

ers are racket-shaped at the tip, when mature. The bird itself is said by some writers to trim them into this shape. They feed on insects, reptiles, and fruit, and are found from Mexico to Brazil. The name is derived from its note. [Written also momot.]

crystalline body originally obtained from bile. Chemically, however, choline is oxyethyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide, while neurine is vinyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide. [Written also neurin.]

Harm; injury; detriment. [Obs.]

ith matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment. He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. Is. xliv. 14.