tailor

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One that makes, repairs, and alters garments such as suits, coats, and dresses.
2. v. To make (a garment), especially to specific requirements or measurements.
3. v. To fit or provide (a person) with clothes made to that person's measurements.
4. v. To make, alter, or adapt for a particular end or purpose: a speech that was tailored to an audience of business leaders.
5. v. To pursue the trade of a tailor.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A name in New South Wales of the fish Pomatomus saltatrix. It is called skipjack in Melbourne, a name by which it is also known in America, where it is more commonly called bluefish.
2. n. One who makes the outer garments of men, and women's riding-habits and other garments of heavy stuff; especially, one who makes such garments to order, as distinguished from a clothier, who makes garments for sale ready made.
3. n. In zoology: A tailor-bird.
4. n. The mattowacca, fall herring, or tailor-herring, Pomolobus mediocris.
5. To make clothing, especially for men; follow the business of a tailor.
6. To deal with tailors, as for clothing.
7. To make clothes for; fit with or as with clothing.

Wiktionary

1. n. A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
2. n. The fish Pomatomus saltatrix.
3. v. To make, repair, or alter clothes.
4. v. To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.
5. v. To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need, e.g. a narrowly tailored law.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
2. n. The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.
3. n. The silversides.
4. n. The goldfish.
5. v. To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. adjust to a specific need or market
2. n. a person whose occupation is making and altering garments
3. v. style and tailor in a certain fashion
4. v. create (clothes) with cloth