Tidy /(?)/

1. The wren; -- called also tiddy. (Zool.) [Prov. Eng.]

   The tidy for her notes as delicate as they.

1. Being in proper time; timely; seasonable; favorable; as, tidy weather. [Obs.]

   If weather be fair and tidy.

2. Arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate; neat; kept in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping things so; as, a tidy lass; their dress is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and tidy.

   A tidy man, that tened [injured] me never.

pl. Tidies

1. A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, or the like.
2. A child's pinafore. [Prov. Eng.]

imp. & p. p. Tidied; p. pr. & vb. n. Tidying

1. To put in proper order; to make neat; as, to tidy a room; to tidy one's dress.

1. To make things tidy. [Colloq.]

   I have tidied and tidied over and over again.