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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Dressing :: Dressing (n.) An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc..
Heartlings :: Heartlings (interj.) An exclamation used in addressing a familiar acquaintance.
Stone-dead :: Stonecutting (n.) Hewing or dressing stone.
Steamboat :: Steam (v. t.) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc..
Knobbing :: Knobbing (n.) Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.
Scotching :: Scotching (n.) Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument.
Dressing :: Dressing (n.) Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics..
Woundwort :: Woundwort (n.) Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys..
Edging :: Edging (n.) The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal..
Tassel :: Tassel (n.) A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
Moslings :: Moslings (n. pl.) Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins.
Prayer :: Prayer (v. i.) The act of addressing supplication to a divinity, especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer; secret prayer..
War :: War (n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities..
Alutation :: Alutation (n.) The tanning or dressing of leather.
Remoulad :: Remoulad (n.) A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise.
Bushhammer :: Bushhammer (n.) A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone..
Apodyterium :: Apodyterium (n.) The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room..
Slime :: Slime (n.) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing..
Loob :: Loob (n.) The clay or slimes washed from tin ore in dressing.
Stonecutting :: Stonecutter (n.) One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone..
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