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To cover; to overspread. To deck with clouds the uncolored sky. Milton.

Same as Deckle.

One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker.

e edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper. [Spelt also deckel, and deckle.]

The rough, untrimmed edge of paper left by the deckle; also, a rough edge in imitation of this.

Having a deckle edge; as, deckle-edged paper; a deckle-edged book.

On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.

To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands. Pennant.

A man-of-war having two gun decks.

The fore part of a deck, or of a ship.

See Half deck, under Deck.

Partially decked. The half-decked craft . . . used by the latter Vikings. Elton.

That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one.

A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.

A narrow superstructure running from stem to stern on the upper deck of a steam cargo vessel having a rounded gunwale and sides curved inward convexly.

A vessel of war carrying guns on two decks.

To divest of ornaments. Shak.

Not decked; unadorned. [Eve] undecked, save with herself, more lovely fair. Milton.

A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. Wilhelm.

To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress. [Obs.]