Definition of dressing

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Dressing (n.) An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc..

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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..
Moslings :: Moslings (n. pl.) Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins.
Stuffy :: Stuffing (n.) A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
Hackle :: Hackle (n.) A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel..
Loob :: Loob (n.) The clay or slimes washed from tin ore in dressing.
Mayonnaise :: Mayonnaise (n.) A sauce compounded of raw yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency of a sirup, and seasoned with vinegar, pepper, salt, etc.; -- used in dressing salads, fish, etc. Also, a dish dressed with this sauce..
Thou :: Thou (obj.) The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style..
Chipping :: Chipping (n.) The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape..
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..
Trickery :: Trickery (n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
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..
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..
Preen :: Preen (n.) A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.
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..
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.
Allocution :: Allocution (n.) The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words..
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..
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