Word Meanings - ACADEMICALS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.

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• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• DRESS CIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• DRESSING
  An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.;
• DRESSY
  Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.
• PRESCRIBER
  One who prescribes.
• DRESS COAT
  A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.
• DRESSMAKING
  The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
• DRESS
  To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks. (more info) prepare, arrange, F. dresser. LL. directiare, fr. L. dirigere, directum, to direct;
• DRESS GOODS
  A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.
• DRESSER
  A kind of pick for shaping large coal. 3. An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc. 4. Etym: A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use. A cupboard or set of shelves to receive
• PRESCRIBE
  To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine. Syn. -- To appoint; order; command; dictate; ordain; institute; establish. (more info) 1. To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to
• DRESSMAKER
  A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• TOP-DRESSING
  The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied.
• TENDRESSE
  Tender feeling; fondness.
• UNDERDRESSED
  Not dresses enough.
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• OVERDRESS
  To dress or adorn to excess; to dress too much. Pope.
• REDRESSIBLE
  Such as may be redressed.
• HEADDRESS
  1. A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire. Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume. Addison. 2. A manner of dressing the hair or
• MURDRESS
  A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.
• WATER DRESSING
  The treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer.
• HAIRDRESSER
  One who dresses or cuts hair; a barber.
• LAUNDRESS
  A woman whose employment is laundering.