betrim

verb

1. (dated, transitive)To trim (“decorate”); to adorn, deck, or embellish.

   “Thy bankes with pioned, and twilled brims / Which ſpungie Aprill, at thy heſt betrims; / To make cold Nymphes chaſt crownes; […]”

   “[S]ome folke perhaps according to the forme by your ſelves preſcribed, doe ſometimes betrim you with ſuch ſtrange Titles, but are you ſo ſimple as to conceit that wiſe men do fancy them to belong unto you?”

   “But when in honour'd Robes I ſee it put, / Betrim'd as if ſome thing of Worth it were, / Look big, and on the Stilts of Greatneſs ſtrut; / From ſcorning it I cannot then forbear.”

   “I could not half the Pageant Ills o'ercall, / That garniſh and betrim the gloomy Wall.”

   “Mark! thoſe diſgraceful Piles of Wood and Stone; / Thoſe Parks and Gardens, where, his Haunts be-trimm'd, / And Nature by preſumptuous Art oppreſs'd, / The woodland Genius mourns.”