n. [ For divedapper. See Dive, Dap, Dip, and cf. Dabchick. ] (Zool.) See Dabchick. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. diaspre, diapre, diaspe, sort of figured cloth, It. diaspro jasper, diaspo figured cloth, from L. jaspis a green-colored precious stone. See Jasper. ]
Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . .
Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Engarlanded and diapered
With in wrought flowers. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. “If you diaper on folds.” Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Same as Diaper, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. diaspre, diapre, diaspe, sort of figured cloth, It. diaspro jasper, diaspo figured cloth, from L. jaspis a green-colored precious stone. See Jasper. ]
Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . .
Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Engarlanded and diapered
With in wrought flowers. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. “If you diaper on folds.” Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Same as Diaper, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]