Definition of dress

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Dress (v. i.) To arrange one's self in due position in a line of soldiers; -- the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as, Right, dress!.

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Inaugural :: Inaugural (n.) An inaugural address.
Arming :: Arming (n.) Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.
Top-dress :: Top-dress (v. t.) To apply a surface dressing of manureto,as land..
Sprue :: Spruce (v. i.) To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up..
Scoff :: Scoff (v. t.) To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at.
Face :: Face (v. t.) To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface..
Call :: Call (v. t.) To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name..
Stitch :: Stitch (v. i.) Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes..
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..
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..
Stonecutting :: Stonecutter (n.) One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone..
Bombazine :: Bombazine (n.) A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments..
Pyjama :: Pyjama (n.) In India and Persia, thin loose trowsers or drawers; in Europe and America, drawers worn at night, or a kind of nightdress with legs..
Parquet :: Parquet (n.) A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit..
Curry :: Curry (v. t.) To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean..
Remoulad :: Remoulad (n.) A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise.
Pelt :: Pelt (n.) The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.
Busk :: Busk (v. t. & i.) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
Marceline :: Marceline (n.) A thin silk fabric used for linings, etc., in ladies' dresses..
Ma''am :: Ma'am (n.) Madam; my lady; -- a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation..
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