Definition of dress

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Dress (v. t.) To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them..

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Slattern :: Slattern (n.) A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.
Madam :: Madam (n.) A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir..
Apodyterium :: Apodyterium (n.) The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room..
Top-dressed :: Top-dressed (imp. & p. p.) of Top-dres.
Mode :: Mode (n.) Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing..
Frlcassee :: Frlcassee (v. t.) To dress like a fricassee.
Canonicals :: Canonicals (n. pl.) The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress..
Address :: Address (v.) Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
Redressless :: Redressless (a.) Not having redress; such as can not be redressed; irremediable.
Cordwain :: Cordwain (n.) A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like..
Chenille :: Chenille (n.) Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs..
Defendress :: Defendress (n.) A female defender.
Patent-hammered :: Patent-hammered (a.) Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.
Surfboat :: Surfacer (n.) A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc..
Prank :: Prank (v. t.) To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink..
Bosom :: Bosom (n.) The part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom..
Adoration :: Adoration (n.) The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
Clinquant :: Clinquant (a.) Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery..
Bias :: Bias (n.) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
Girdle :: Girdle (n.) That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus..
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