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DRESS, pret. and pp. dressed or drest. L.

1. To make straight or a straight line to adjust to a right line. We have the primary sense in the military phrase, dress your ranks. Hence the sense, to put in order.

2. To adjust to put in good order as, to dress the beds of a garden. Sometimes, to till or cultivate. Genesis 2 . Deuteronomy 28 .

3. To put in good order, as a wounded limb to cleanse a wound, and to apply medicaments. The surgeon dresses the limb or the wound.

4. To prepare, in a general sense to put in the condition desired to make suitable or fit as, to dress meat to dress leather or cloth to dress a lamp but we, in the latter case, generally use trim. To dress hemp or flax, is to break and clean it.

5. To curry, rub and comb as, to dress a horse or to break or tame and prepare for service, as used by Dryden but this is unusual.

6. To put the body in order, or in a suitable condition to put on clothes as, he dressed himself for breakfast.

7. To put on rich garments to adorn to deck to embellish as, the lady dressed herself for a ball.

To dress up, is to clothe pompously or elegantly as, to dress up with tinsel.

The sense of dress depends on its application. To dress the body, to dress meat, and to dress leather, are very different senses, but all uniting in the sense of preparing or fitting for use.

DRESS,

1. To arrange in a line as, look to the right and dress.

2. To pay particular regard to dress or raiment.

DRESS, n.

1. That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body clothes garments habit as, the dress of a lady is modest and becoming a gaudy dress is evidence of a false taste.

2. A suit of clothes as, the lady has purchased an elegant dress.

3. Splendid clothes habit of ceremony as a full dress.

4. Skill in adjusting dress, or the practice of wearing elegant clothing as men of dress.