vbl. sb. [f. APPAREL v. + -ING1.]
1. The process of making ready or preparing, preparation (obs.); attiring, dressing or adorning.
c. 1315. Shoreham, 53. An apparyllynge, Thet hys in holy cherche y-cleped wel The furste scherynge Of clerke.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Melib., ¶ 376. The longe appareiling biforn the bataille maketh short victorie.
1540. J. Heywood, Four P’s, in Hazl., Dodsl., I. 350. What causeth this: That women after their arising, Be so long in their apparelling?
a. 1649. Drumm. of Hawth., Wks., 161. The apparelling of truth.
2. concr. Dress, attire; rigging, equipment.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 27. The sadde blew coloured flower, as is Calcedonie, hath bene taken of some for black, onely for their most like kinde of apparailing.
1795. Edinb. Advt., 6 Jan., 15/3. For Sale: The Brigantine … with her float boats and appareling.
1858. De Quincey, Autobiog. Sk., Wks. II. 53. Transformation; or, if we prefer a Grecian to a Roman apparelling … metamorphosis.
