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The wren; -- called also tiddy. [Prov. Eng.] The tidy for her notes as delicate as they. Drayton.

A California composite plant (Layia platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white.

Good against dysentery. -- n.

Unseasonable; untimely. [Obs.] "Untidy tales." Piers Plowman.

Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. W. Irving.

Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. "With head all frowzy." Spenser. The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes. W. D. Howells.

A slatternly, untidy woman. Halliwell.

To mix in an unitidy and offensive way; to make a mess of. [Prov. Eng.; Colloq. U.S.]

Neat; tidy; spruce. [Colloq.] -- Nat"ti*ly, adv. -- Nat"ti*ness, n.

Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy. If you were to see her, you would wonder what poor body it was that was so surprisingly neat and clean. Law.

Neat; tidy; proper. [Obs.] Tusser. Prest money, money formerly paid to men when they enlisted into the British service; -- so called because it bound those that received it to be ready for service when called upon.

To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; -- generally with up; as, to red up a house. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly. Even then she expressed her scorn for the lubbery executioner's mode of tying a knot, and did it herself in a shipshape orthodox manner. De Quincey. Keep everything shipshape, for I must go Tennyson.

An untidy woman; a slattern. Sluts are good enough to make a sloven's porridge. Old Proverb.

Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman. Why is thy lord so slutish, I thee pray. Chaucer. An air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer. Sir W. Scott. -- Slut"tish*ly, adv. -- Slut"tish*ness, n.

In a tidy manner.

The quality or state of being tidy.

Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy. Clad very plain, but clean and tight. Evelyn. I'll spin and card, and keep our children tight. Gay.

A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]

A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.