To embellish.
To add saffron to (a food), for taste, colour etc.
To dye (a fabric, garment, etc.) with a saffron-based dye.
To give a saffron colour to (something).
To colour (a metal or wooden surface) with a gilding product containing saffron.
An orange-yellow colour, the colour of a lion's pelt.
A spice (seasoning) and colouring agent made from the stigma and part of the style of the plant, sometimes or formerly also used as a dye and insect repellent.
The plant Crocus sativus, a crocus.
Having an orange-yellow colour.
To take in the slack of (a rope).
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
To become shorter.
To make shorter; to abbreviate.
To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).