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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Robe-de-chambre :: Robe-de-chambre (n.) A dressing gown, or morning gown..
Dressing :: Dressing (n.) Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing..
Teasel :: Teasel (n.) Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
Album Graecum :: Album Graecum () Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine..
Strickler :: Strickle (n.) An instrument used in dressing flax.
Pledget :: Pledget (n.) A compress, or small flat tent of lint, laid over a wound, ulcer, or the like, to exclude air, retain dressings, or absorb the matter discharged..
Apothesis :: Apothesis (n.) A dressing room connected with a public bath.
Edging :: Edging (n.) The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal..
Stuffing :: Stuffing (n.) Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing..
Slime :: Slime (n.) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing..
Adoration :: Adoration (n.) The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
Skiffling :: Skiffling (n.) Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections; knobbing.
Moslings :: Moslings (n. pl.) Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins.
Lint :: Lint (n.) Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics..
Top-dressing :: Top-dressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Top-dres.
Cookery :: Cookery (n.) The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat..
Bundle :: Bundle (v. i.) To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping..
Pompadour :: Pompadour (n.) A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut low and square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by drawing it straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so called after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used adjectively..
Surfboat :: Surfacer (n.) A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc..
Bedizenment :: Bedizenment (n.) That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily..
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