fimbriate

present singular third person fimbriates · participle present fimbriating · participle past fimbriated · past fimbriated

1. transitiveTo fringe; to hem.
2. transitivegovernmentTo apply a thin border (a fimbriation) to some element, often to satisfy the rule of tincture.

   Beſides the divers tricking or dreſſing, as piercing, voiding, fimbriating, ingrailing, couping: And in fanſie and devices there is ſtill a plus ultrá; inſomuch that Croſſes alone as they are variouſly diſguiſed, are enough to diſtinguiſh all the ſeverall families of Gentlemen in England.

   1639, Thomas Fuller, “Of the Honourable Arms in Scutcheons of Nobilitie Occasioned by Their Service in the Holy Warre”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book V (A Supplement of the Historie of the Holy Warre), page 271

1. not comparablebiologyFringed, e.g. where the ends of a petal are split into two or more divisions.

   the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube

   Synonyms: fimbriated