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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dress.

2. (n.) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.

3. (n.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound.

4. (n.) Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.

5. (n.) A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.

6. (n.) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.

7. (n.) Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.

8. (n.) An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.

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

Library

Of Elaborate Dressing of the Hair in Other Ways, and Its Bearing ...
... Book II. Chapter VII."Of Elaborate Dressing of the Hair in Other Ways,
and Its Bearing Upon Salvation. What service, again, does ...
/.../tertullian/on the apparel of women/chapter vii of elaborate dressing of.htm

Christian Women, Further, have not the Same Causes for Appearing ...
... Book II. Chapter XI."Christian Women, Further, Have Not the Same Causes for Appearing
in Public, and Hence for Dressing in Fine Array as Gentiles. ...
/.../tertullian/on the apparel of women/chapter xi christian women further have.htm

Mighty to Save
... By special care in dressing his diseased limb I was able considerably to lessen
his sufferings, and he soon began to manifest grateful appreciation of my ...
//christianbookshelf.org/taylor/a retrospect/chapter vii mighty to save.htm

On the Apparel of Women
... Chapter VI.--Of Dyeing the Hair. Chapter VII.--Of Elaborate Dressing of
the Hair in Other Ways, and Its Bearing Upon Salvation. ...
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Virtues of the Mantle. It Pleads in Its Own Defence.
... [64] Nowhere is there a compulsory waste of time in dressing yourself (in
it), seeing that its whole art consists in loosely covering. ...
/.../tertullian/on the pallium/chapter v virtues of the mantle.htm

The Way of Fellowship
... Sin always involves us in being unreal, pretending, duplicity, window dressing,
excusing ourselves and blaming others"and we can do all that as much by our ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hession/the calvary road/chapter 3 the way of.htm

Money for Postage.
... which my eyes rested. While dressing for the day, I glance at the open page,
or sometimes turning over the leaves. But my old Bible ...
//christianbookshelf.org/various/the wonders of prayer/money for postage.htm

Peter Commits Perjury.
... Caiaphas, in his bed chamber, wearing a dressing gown, surrounded by priests, exulted
over the news which had been brought him of the arrest of Jesus. ...
/.../stead/king of the jews/chapter v peter commits perjury.htm

The Fift Part.
... First, know that zeale knowes no such unmannerly courses, as to slubber over a few
prayers, whiles you are dressing and undressing your selves, as most doe ...
/.../ward/a coal from the altar to kindle the holy fire of zeale/the fift part.htm

Those Days it was Near Twelve O'Clock by the Great Dial of History ...
... Her daughter stood in the midst of a group of maids who were dressing her
hair. "Arria, will you come to me?" said the Lady Lucia. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bacheller/vergilius/chapter 2 those days it.htm

Thesaurus

Dressing (7 Occurrences)
... When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. 5. (n.) A preparation
to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. ...
/d/dressing.htm - 9k

Ornaments (50 Occurrences)
... 1 Peter 3:3 Do not let your ornaments be those of the body such as dressing of the
hair, or putting on of jewels of gold or fair clothing; (BBE). ...
/o/ornaments.htm - 22k

Nails (16 Occurrences)
... In a similar sense it is found in 2 Samuel 19:24, where it is used to express
the dressing of the feet anti the trimming of the beard. ...
/n/nails.htm - 12k

Undress (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (vt) To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. (vt) To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
3. (vt) To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. ...
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Lint (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for
dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short ...
/l/lint.htm - 6k

Luxurious (9 Occurrences)
... (WEY DBY). Luke 23:11 Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing
him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate. (WEB). ...
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Gown (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (n.) A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown. 5. (n.)
Any sort of dress or garb. Multi-Version Concordance Gown (1 Occurrence). ...
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Tassel (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A male hawk. See Tercel. 2. (n.) A kind
of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel. 3. (n.) A pendent ...
/t/tassel.htm - 9k

Tanner (3 Occurrences)
... is blackened on one side by rubbing on a solution made by boiling vinegar with old
nails or pieces of copper, and the skin is finally given a dressing of olive ...
/t/tanner.htm - 11k

Treating (9 Occurrences)
... Luke 23:11 Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him
in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate. (See NAS). ...
/t/treating.htm - 9k

Bible Concordance

Dressing (7 Occurrences)

Luke 23:11 Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
(WEB BBE NIV)

1 Peter 3:3 Do not let your ornaments be those of the body such as dressing of the hair, or putting on of jewels of gold or fair clothing;
(BBE)

2 Kings 9:30 And when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel had news of it; and, painting her eyes and dressing her hair with ornaments, she put her head out of the window.
(BBE)

Esther 6:11 Then Haman took the robes and the horse, and dressing Mordecai in the robes, he made him go on horseback through the streets of the town, crying out before him, So let it be done to the man whom the king has delight in honouring.
(BBE)

Isaiah 22:12 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
(WEB)

Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then is there no dressing applied for the healing of the daughter of my people?
(DBY)

Jeremiah 33:6 Behold, I will apply a healing dressing to it and cure, and I will heal them, and will reveal unto them an abundance of peace and truth.
(DBY)

Subtopics

Dressing

Related Terms

Ornaments (50 Occurrences)

Nails (16 Occurrences)

Undress (1 Occurrence)

Lint (1 Occurrence)

Luxurious (9 Occurrences)

Gown (1 Occurrence)

Tassel (5 Occurrences)

Tanner (3 Occurrences)

Treating (9 Occurrences)