Definition of dress

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Dress (v. t.) To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them..

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Unready :: Unready (a.) Not dressed; undressed.
Call :: Call (v. i.) To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to.
Pricking :: Pricking (n.) Dressing one's self for show; prinking.
Speak :: Speak (v. t.) To address; to accost; to speak to.
Trap :: Trap (v. t.) To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.
Speaker :: Speaker (n.) One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives..
Greet :: Greet (v. t.) To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token..
Drest :: Drest (p. p.) of Dress.
Dressing :: Dressing (n.) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat..
Habited :: Habited (p. p. & a.) Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd..
Curried :: Curried (n.) Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared.
Encomiastical :: Encomiastical (a.) Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse..
Adamite :: Adamite (n.) One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies..
Low-necked :: Low-necked (a.) Cut low in the neck; decollete; -- said of a woman's dress.
Spokesmen :: Spokeshave (n.) A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work..
Habit :: Habit (n.) To dress; to clothe; to array.
Redressment :: Redressment (n.) The act of redressing; redress.
Disattire :: Disattire (v. t.) To unrobe; to undress.
Blaspheme :: Blaspheme (v.) To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit..
Fanciful :: Fanciful (a.) Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress..
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