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Word Meanings - DASHINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Conspicuously; showily. A dashingly dressed gentleman. Hawthorne.

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  • DRESSINESS
    The state of being dressy.
  • SHOWILY
    In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
  • 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.;
  • GENTLEMANHOOD
    The qualities or condition of a gentleman. Thackeray.
  • DASHINGLY
    Conspicuously; showily. A dashingly dressed gentleman. Hawthorne.
  • DRESSY
    Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.
  • GENTLEMANLIKE; GENTLEMANLY
    Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well- behaved; courteous; polite.
  • 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
    The system of furrows on the face of a millstone. Knight. Dress circle. See under Circle. -- Dress parade , a parade in full uniform for review. (more info) 1. That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit;
  • GENTLEMAN
    One who bears arms, but has no title. 4. The servant of a man of rank. The count's gentleman, one Cesario. Shak. 5. A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc.
  • GENTLEMANLINESS
    The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.
  • GENTLEMANSHIP
    The carriage or quality of a gentleman.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • MURDRESS
    A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.
  • HAIRDRESSER
    One who dresses or cuts hair; a barber.

 

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