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vandyke, v.|vænˈdaɪk|
Also Vandyck.
[f. as prec.]
1. trans. To furnish or provide (some dress material) with vandykes or deep-cut points, after the manner represented in Van Dyck's paintings; to cut or shape with deep angular indentations. Chiefly in pa. pple.
1800[implied in vandyked ppl. a.]. 1828Moir Mansie Wauch vii. 65 Long muslin frockies, Vandyked across the breast. 1869Latest News 5 Sept. 7 The muslin skirt is trimmed with a gathered flounce, vandyked at each edge. 1894S. Weyman Man in Black 55 His dress was in the extreme of the fashion, his falling collar vandyked.
b. In general use.
1839Thackeray Fatal Boots Feb., I made the leaves of the [needle-] book, which I vandyked very nicely, out of a piece of flannel. 1868Fortn. Rev. Nov. 485 A shelf of limestone..not presenting a straight face, but vandyked, as it were, into a bewildering number of zigzags. 1887Grosart in Lismore Papers Ser. ii. I. 4 This document is indented or vandyked along its upper edge.
c. Said of the thing forming, or helping to form, the indentations.
1854Chambers' Jrnl. II. 323 Tongues of sea-sand..vandyking its borders. 1868Lockyer Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 3) 228 It is easy to see numerous irregularities and transverse markings, vandyking and crossing the more visible features in various directions. 1898S. Weyman Castle Inn 221 The peaks of three gables rose above them, vandyking the sky.
2. intr. To go or proceed in an irregular zigzag manner; to take a zigzag course. ? Obs.
1828Moir Mansie Wauch xiii. 195 It behoves me..to beg pardon..for being forced whiles to zig zag and vandyke. 1831Fraser's Mag. III. 27 He discussed two bottles of old Bordeaux, and, staggering to a bye lane, vandyked to Farningham. 1845Alb. Smith Fort. Scattergood Fam. xv, Foreign gentlemen..vandyked with indecision about the quay, as they tried to recollect the name of the hotel. |