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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. Archaic To deck out in fine clothes and ornaments; bedizen.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To dress with flax for spinning, as a distaff.
  2. To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To dress with flax for spinning.
  2. v. transitive To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen.
  3. v. transitive To dress showily; adorn; dress out.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To dress; to attire.
  2. v. To dress gaudily; to overdress; to bedizen; to deck out.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. dress up garishly and tastelessly

Etymologies

  1. From dialectal dize ("to put tow on a distaff"), from Middle English *disen, from Old English *disan, *disian, from *dise ("bunch of flax on a distaff"), from Proto-Germanic *disanō (“distaff”), of unknown origin, equivalent to dize +‎ -en. Cognate with Middle Low German dise, disene ("distaff"). More at dize. (Wiktionary)
  2. Possibly Middle Dutch disen, to prepare a distaff with flax for spinning, from Middle Low German dise, disene, bunch of flax. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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