Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dizen"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dizen \Diz"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dizened}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Dizening}.] [Perh. orig., to dress in a foolish manner, and
allied to dizzy: but cf. also OE. dysyn (Palsgrave) to put
tow or flax on a distaff, i. e., to dress it. Cf. {Distaff}.]
1. To dress; to attire. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
2. To dress gaudily; to overdress; to bedizen; to deck out.
Like a tragedy queen, he has dizened her out.
--Goldsmith.
To-morrow when the masks shall fall That dizen
Nature's carnival. --Emerson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dizen
v : dress up garishly and tastelessly [syn: {bedizen}]
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