(a) To arrange (hair), braid, bind up; also, adorn (the head) with a headdress; ppl. tressed, of hair: arranged, braided, bound; gold-tressed, ?bound in gold;—used fig.; (b) refl. to dress one's hair in braids; ppl. tressed, with hair dressed in braids; (c) ppl. tressed, furnished with locks or plaits of hair; also in fig. context; gold-tressed, with shining tresses, golden-haired;—used in fig. context of the personified sun, etc.; ivele tressed, as noun: the ugly-haired one.