Definition of dressing

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Dressing (n.) Castigation; scolding; -- often with down.

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Apodyterium :: Apodyterium (n.) The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room..
Redress :: Redress (n.) The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
Toilet :: Toilet (n.) A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room..
Top-dressing :: Top-dressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Top-dres.
Rebate :: Rebate (n.) An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood..
Graining :: Graining (n.) A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised..
Bedizenment :: Bedizenment (n.) That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily..
Adoration :: Adoration (n.) The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
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..
Gravy :: Gravy (n.) The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up..
Scotching :: Scotching (n.) Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument.
Robe-de-chambre :: Robe-de-chambre (n.) A dressing gown, or morning gown..
Top-dressing :: Top-dressing (n.) The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied..
Cookery :: Cookery (n.) The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat..
Trowel :: Trowel (n.) A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them..
Apothesis :: Apothesis (n.) A dressing room connected with a public bath.
Pledget :: Pledget (n.) A compress, or small flat tent of lint, laid over a wound, ulcer, or the like, to exclude air, retain dressings, or absorb the matter discharged..
Harl :: Harl (n.) A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies..
Stuffing :: Stuffing (n.) Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing..
Stonecutting :: Stonecutter (n.) One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone..
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