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Dressing

noun

1.

Savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type. Synonym: salad dressing.

2.

A mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables. Synonym: stuffing.

3.

Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure. Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization.

4.

A cloth covering for a wound or sore. Synonym: medical dressing.

5.

Processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather.

6.

The activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes. Synonym: grooming.

7.

The act of applying a bandage. Synonyms: bandaging, binding.

Dress

verb

(past & past part. dressed or drest; pres. part. dressing)

1.

Put on clothes. Synonym: get dressed. "Dress the patient" , "Can the child dress by herself?" Antonym: undress.

2.

Provide with clothes or put clothes on. Synonyms: apparel, clothe, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog. Antonym: undress.

3.

Put a finish on.

4.

Dress in a certain manner. Synonym: dress up. "He dressed up in a suit and tie"

5.

Dress or groom with elaborate care. Synonyms: plume, preen, primp.

6.

Kill and prepare for market or consumption. Synonym: dress out.

7.

Arrange in ranks. Synonym: line up.

8.

Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods. Synonyms: garnish, trim.

9.

Provide with decoration. Synonym: decorate.

10.

Put a dressing on.

11.

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of. Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, lop, prune, snip, trim.

12.

Cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width.

13.

Convert into leather.

14.

Apply a bandage or medication to.

15.

Give a neat appearance to. Synonyms: curry, groom. "Dress the horses"

16.

Arrange attractively. Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, set.

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"Dressing" Quotes from Famous Books

... final leap and twist settled abruptly into peace, the streets filled suddenly with people, many in their nightclothes, but more in dressing-gowns, opera cloaks, and overcoats. All were silent and apparently self-possessed. Whence came that long wail ...

— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton

... and the couch and easy-chairs were upholstered in a lovely design of green and white. The rug was green and white, and for the brass bedstead with its white fittings, a down comfortable with a pale green cover was found. The dainty dressing-table was of bird's-eye maple; and for this Mr. Fairfield ordered a bewildering array of fittings, all in ivory, with Patty's ...

— Patty at Home • Carolyn Wells

... would come a deep slumber till three or four o'clock in the afternoon; then the weary rising from a dirty couch; seltzer-water to remove the effect of excessive drinking, coffee. Then came the sauntering through the rooms in dressing-gown, looking through the windows; the languid quarrels; then the perfuming of her body and hair, the trying on of dresses, and the quarrels with the mistress which they occasioned; contemplating herself in the ...

— The Awakening - The Resurrection • Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy

... white, with not the slightest jewel or ornament of any kind. I saw that even the buckle at her waist was covered in white. Her boots and her hair were dark; for Helena knew the real art of dressing. She stood fairly between me and the deck light, so that all her white figure was frank in its gentle curves; erect now, and bravely drawn to all her five feet five, so that she might meet my gaze—albeit through ...

— The Lady and the Pirate - Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive • Emerson Hough

... morning when I came in,- -so much so, that I inquired of my neighbor, the divinity-student,) what had been going on. It appears that the young fellow whom they call John had taken advantage of my being a little late (I having been rather longer than usual dressing that morning) to circulate several questions involving a quibble or play upon words,—in short, containing that indignity to the human understanding, condemned in the passages from the distinguished moralist of the last century and the ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes

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