[UN-2 3.]
1. trans. To deprive of trimness or elegance; to strip of ornament.
c. 1600. Shaks., Sonn., xviii. Euery faire from faire some-time declines, By chance, or natures changing course vntrim’d.
1611. J. Davies (Heref.), Sco. Folly, cxcvii. Their hairlesse scalpes … Barely affirme they were vntrimm’d by trulls.
1832. Hood, Ode to J. Hume, 40. Don’t trim though, but untrim their [sc. soldiers’] jackets.
2. To unbalance.
1884. Harrop, Bolingbroke, i. 21. The success of the French King’s intrigues at Madrid had threatened … to untrim the balance of power.
