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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
- 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.
- Remoulad - n. - A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise.
- Stuffing - n. - A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
- 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.
- 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.
- Knobbing - n. - Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.
- 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.
- Inshave - n. - A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
- 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.
- Headdress - n. - A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.
- 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.
- Preen - n. - A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.
- 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.
- Toilet - n. - A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.
- 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.
- Alutation - n. - The tanning or dressing of leather.
- Gravy - n. - Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.
- Headtire - n. - The manner of dressing the head, as at a particular time and place.
- Pomatum - n. - A perfumed unguent or composition, chiefly used in dressing the hair; pomade.
- Skiffling - n. - Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections; knobbing.
- Teasel - n. - Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
- Top-dress - v. t. - To apply a surface dressing of manureto,as land.
- Moslings - n. pl. - Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins.
- Robe-de-chambre - n. - A dressing gown, or morning gown.
- Graining - n. - A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.