Defn: Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
3. A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc. Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . . Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper. Shak.
4. An infant's breechcloth.
DIAPER
Di"a*per, v. t.
1. To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving. "Diapered light." H. Van Laun. Engarlanded and diapered With in wrought flowers. Tennyson.
2. To put a diaper on (a child).
DIAPER
Di"a*per, v. i.
Defn: To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. "If you diaper on folds." Peacham.
DIAPERING
Di"a*per*ing, n.
Defn: Same as Diaper, n.,