Definition of dressing

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Dressing (n.) Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics..

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Addressing :: Addressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Addres.
Dubbing :: Dubbing (n.) A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.
Gravy :: Gravy (n.) The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up..
Redress :: Redress (n.) The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
Hustings :: Hustings (n. pl.) The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors.
Inshave :: Inshave (n.) A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
Camisole :: Camisole (n.) A short dressing jacket for women.
Tassel :: Tassel (n.) A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
Top-dress :: Top-dress (v. t.) To apply a surface dressing of manureto,as land..
Adoration :: Adoration (n.) The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
Compress :: Compress (n.) A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part..
Toilet :: Toilet (n.) A dressing table.
Apodyterium :: Apodyterium (n.) The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room..
Trickery :: Trickery (n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
Redressment :: Redressment (n.) The act of redressing; redress.
Stonecutting :: Stonecutter (n.) One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone..
Edging :: Edging (n.) The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal..
Dressing :: Dressing (n.) Castigation; scolding; -- often with down.
Dressing :: Dressing (n.) An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc..
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