Alt. of Diarrhoeal
A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth. 1. To dress with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds. Derham. 2. To trim up, as trees. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.