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verb

Trim v. t. (past & past part. trimmed; pres. part. trimming)

1.

To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust. "The hermit trimmed his little fire."

2.

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

3.

To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree. " And trimmed the cheerful lamp."

4.

(Carp.) To dress, as timber; to make smooth.

5.

(Naut.)

(a)

To adjust, as a ship, by arranging the cargo, or disposing the weight of persons or goods, so equally on each side of the center and at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well; as, to trim a ship, or a boat.

(b)

To arrange in due order for sailing; as, to trim the sails.

6.

To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat. (Colloq.)

To trim in (Carp.), to fit, as a piece of timber, into other work.

To trim up, to dress; to put in order. "I found her trimming up the diadem On her dead mistress."

Trim v. i. To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favor each.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Trimmed" Quotes from Famous Books

... Dolly's orders flew sharply. Although the wind was very light, there was enough of it to give fair speed, and the sails had to be trimmed to get the utmost possible out of it while it lasted. Both boats tacked to starboard, sailing along a slanting line that seemed likely to carry them far to one side of the lighthouse that was their destination, and Bessie ...

— A Campfire Girl's Happiness • Jane L. Stewart

... fourteenth rag baby, with a china head, hung by her neck from the rusty knocker in the middle of the door. A sprig of white and one of purple lilac nodded over her, a dress of yellow calico, richly trimmed with red-flannel scallops, shrouded her slender form, a garland of small flowers crowned her glossy curls, and a pair of blue boots touched toes in the friendliest, if not the most graceful, manner. An emotion of grief, as well as of surprise, might well have thrilled any ...

— Under the Lilacs • Louisa May Alcott

... all through this business. You made a thrashing inevitable when you set Yuma on Nellie Hazelton. You'll have plenty of marks to remind you of the one you gave me that night." He pointed to his cheek. "I've got even for that. But I think I wouldn't have trimmed you quite so bad if you hadn't tried to shoot ...

— The Coming of the Law • Charles Alden Seltzer

... I have one for thee from Oxford, pithy and apposite, sound and solid, and trimmed up becomingly, as a collar of brawn with a crown of rosemary, or a boar's head with ...

— Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare • Walter Savage Landor

... which I also wore at the fete at Apsley House; they were only a necklace and earrings, which I wore as a bandeau, stitched on scarlet velvet, and as drops in the middle of scarlet velvet bows in my hair, and my dress being white satin and point lace, trimmed with white Roman pearls, it all looked nice enough. The value of the jewels was only L700, but I am sure they gave me L7000 worth of misery; and if her Majesty had but known the anguish I endured in showing my respect for her by false appearances, ...

— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble

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