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- Dressing - n. - Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
- Dressing - n. - An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound.
- Dressing - n. - Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.
- Dressing - n. - A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.
- Dressing - n. - The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
- Dressing - n. - Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
- Dressing - n. - An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.
- Dressing - n. - Castigation; scolding; -- often with down.
- Dressing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Dress
- Trickery - n. - The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
- Stuffing - n. - A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
- Surfacer - n. - A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.
- Top-dressing - n. - The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied.
- Dressing - n. - A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.
- Sauce - n. - A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc.
- Robe-de-chambre - n. - A dressing gown, or morning gown.
- Apothesis - n. - A dressing room connected with a public bath.
- Farce - v. t. - Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.
- Gravy - n. - The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.
- Pomatum - n. - A perfumed unguent or composition, chiefly used in dressing the hair; pomade.
- Keeve - n. - A large vat used in dressing ores.
- Tassel - n. - A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
- Apodyterium - n. - The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room.
- Skiffling - n. - Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections; knobbing.
- Toilet - n. - A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.
- Milling - n. - The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See Mill.
- Alutation - n. - The tanning or dressing of leather.
- Langate - n. - A linen roller used in dressing wounds.
- 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.
- Iodoform - n. - A yellow, crystalline, volatile substance, CI3H, having an offensive odor and sweetish taste, and analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores.
- 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.
- Frisure - n. - The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling.
- Water dressing - - The treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer.
- 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.