transitive. To decorate, trim, finish off (a garment); = perform, v. 8b.

transitive. To display flourishingly; to trick out with ornaments.

To embellish or adorn; to improve, trick out, furbish up.

transitive. spec. To complete by the addition of ornament; to finish off, decorate, or trim. Obsolete.

transitive. To adorn, deck out; to make trim and neat, titivate. rare (now Scottish).

transitive. To bring to a finished or complete state, to perfect; to make fully presentable; to deck out or adorn. Now only with up.

To array, dress (const. in or with something); to make comely, adorn, dress up (also with out).

To embellish, adorn, deck out, trick out. Also reflexive. Obsolete.

transitive. To dress, array, attire; to deck, prank; to adorn (usually with the notion of artifice). Const. with, in. Also intransitive with it. Also…

transitive. figurative and in extended use. To dress up (something) with some addition to make it more appealing; to trim, adorn, deck, furnish. Obs…

To sketch or draw in outline; to delineate or trace the outline of (obsolete); spec. in Heraldry, to draw (a coat of arms) in outline, the…

transitive. To dress or deck in a smart, bright, or ostentatious manner; to decorate. Also reflexive: to dress oneself up; to make oneself look…

Often strengthened with up, off, out.

? To make gay, deck.

With up: To stir up, arouse by tickling, excite to action.

colloquial. transitive. To make tidy, spruce, or smart; to dress up, deck out, adorn. Frequently reflexive. Also figurative.

transitive. To make fine; to adorn, deck, ‘trick up’. to finify it: see quot. 1611.

with out, †up.

To decorate, adorn, embellish.

transitive. To trim (anything) about.

trans. Contemptuously used for: To fashion, fabricate; to trick out. Also, to new fangle: to dress up anew.

to prank out or over.

intransitive. To assume a formal, precise, or demure look or air; to set the lips or face demurely or alluringly; to pout. Also transitive with it…

To fit out with anything that adorns or beautifies; to decorate, ornament, or embellish (with, rarely †of). †Also to garnish out. Now somewhat rheto…

To furnish or deck with ornamental accessories. said of the personal agent.

transitive. U.S. To finish off with decoration or ornament; to array, deck out. Now rare.

transferred and figurative. To deck out, adorn.

transitive. To adorn or decorate; to tidy or fix. Also with up.

transitive (in passive). To be (excessively) decked out with finery. Also with about. Obsolete.