I can repair
That detriment, if such it be. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy. [ Eng. ]

Syn. -- Injury; loss; damage; disadvantage; prejudice; hurt; mischief; harm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Other might be determined thereby. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison.

Syn. -- Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous; mischievous; pernicious. [ 1913 Webster ]

If he relied upon that title, he could be but a king at courtesy, and have rather a matrimonial than a regal power. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Connubial; conjugal; sponsal; spousal; nuptial; hymeneal. [ 1913 Webster ]

If either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it. Book of Com. Prayer (Eng. Ed.) [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of game at cards played by several persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

Matrimony vine (Bot.), a climbing thorny vine (Lycium barbarum) of the Potato family. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Marriage; wedlock. See Marriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That which nourishes; a nutrient; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment. [ 1913 Webster ]

The stomach returns what it has received, in strength and nutriment diffused into all parts of the body. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which promotes development or growth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is not virtue in mankind
The nutriment that feeds the mind? Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Formerly, a church estate or endowment. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hermit trimmed his little fire. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dress; to decorate; to adorn; to invest; to embellish; as, to trim a hat. [ 1913 Webster ]

A rotten building newly trimmed over. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was trimmed in Julia's gown. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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.” Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Carp.) To dress, as timber; to make smooth. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To trim in (Carp.), to fit, as a piece of timber, into other work. --
To trim up, to dress; to put in order. [ 1913 Webster ]

I found her trimming up the diadem
On her dead mistress. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seeing him just pass the window in his woodland trim. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Order; disposition; condition; as, to be in good trim. “ The trim of an encounter.” Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, etc., by which she is well prepared for sailing. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Arch) The lighter woodwork in the interior of a building; especially, that used around openings, generally in the form of a molded architrave, to protect the plastering at those points. [ 1913 Webster ]

In ballast trim (Naut.), having only ballast on board. R. H. Dana, Jr. --
Trim of the masts (Naut.), their position in regard to the ship and to each other, as near or distant, far forward or much aft, erect or raking. --
Trim of sails (Naut.), that adjustment, with reference to the wind, witch is best adapted to impel the ship forward. [ 1913 Webster ]

With comely carriage of her countenance trim. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

So deemed I till I viewed their trim array
Of boats last night. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who does not adopt extreme opinions in politics, or the like; one who fluctuates between parties, so as to appear to favor each; a timeserver. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus Halifax was a trimmer on principle. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An instrument with which trimming is done. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Arch.) A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys, and the like. See Illust. of Header. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Coal Storage) An apparatus used for piling the coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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The Whigs are, essentially, an inefficient, trimming, halfway sort of a party. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trimming joist (Arch.), a joist into which timber trimmers are framed; a header. See Header. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which serves to trim, make right or fitting, adjust, ornament, or the like; especially, the necessary or the ornamental appendages, as of a garment; hence, sometimes, the concomitants of a dish; a relish; -- usually in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of reprimanding or chastisting; as, to give a boy a trimming. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) The coexistence among individuals of the same species of three distinct forms, not connected, as a rule, by intermediate gradations; the condition among individuals of the same species of having three different shapes or proportions of corresponding parts; -- contrasted with polymorphism, and dimorphism. [ 1913 Webster ]

Heterogonous trimporphism (Bot.), that condition in which flowers of plants of the same species have three different lengths of stamens, short, medium, and long, the blossoms of one individual plant having short and medium stamens and a long style, those of another having short and long stamens and a style of medium length, and those of a third having medium and long stamens and a short style, the style of each blossom thus being of a length not represented by its stamens. [ 1913 Webster ]