Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AP-PAR'EL
AP-PAR'EL, v.t.
- To dress or clothe. They who are gorgeously appareled are in kings' courts. Luke vii.
- To adorn with dress. She did apparel her apparel. – Shak.
- To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to cover, as with garments; as, trees appareled with flowers; or a garden with verdure.
- To furnish with external apparatus; as, ships appareled for sea.
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