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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drest \Drest\, p. p. of Dress.
Dress \Dress\ (dr[e^]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dressed (dr[e^]st) or Drest; p. pr. & vb. n. Dressing.] [OF. drecier to make straight, raise, set up, prepare, arrange, F. dresser, (assumed) LL. directiare, fr. L. dirigere, directum, to direct; dis- + regere to rule. See Right, and cf. Address, Adroit, Direct, Dirge.]
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To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order. [Obs.]
At all times thou shalt bless God and pray Him to dress thy ways.
--Chaucer.Note: Dress is used reflexively in Old English, in sense of ``to direct one's step; to address one's self.''
To Grisild again will I me dresse.
--Chaucer. (Mil.) 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.
(Med.) To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.
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To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it.
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When he dresseth the lamps he shall burn incense.
--Ex. xxx. 7.Three hundred horses . . . smoothly dressed.
--Dryden.Dressing their hair with the white sea flower.
--Tennyson .If he felt obliged to expostulate, he might have dressed his censures in a kinder form.
--Carlyle. (b) To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish. (c) To put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck.Dressed myself in such humility. -- Shak.
Prove that ever Idress myself handsome till thy return.
--Shak. (d) To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.To dress up or To dress out, to dress elaborately, artificially, or pompously. ``You see very often a king of England or France dressed up like a Julius C[ae]sar.''
--Addison.To dress a ship (Naut.), to ornament her by hoisting the national colors at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when dressed full, the signal flags and pennants are added.
--Ham. Nav. Encyc.Syn: To attire; apparel; clothe; accouter; array; robe; rig; trim; deck; adorn; embellish.
Wiktionary
vb. (obsolete form of dressed lang=en nodot=1); (en-past of dress lang=en nocap=1)
Wikipedia
Drest (also Drust and the hypocoristic Drostan) is the name of several Pictish people, including:
- Drest I of the Picts, Drest son of Erp, supposedly contemporary with Saint Patrick
- Drest II of the Picts, Drest Gurthinmoch
- Drest III of the Picts, Drest son of Uudrost
- Drest IV of the Picts, Drest son of Girom
- Drest V of the Picts, Drest son of Munait
- Drest VI of the Picts, Drest son of Dúngal, deposed 672
- Drest VII of the Picts, killed 729
- Drest VIII of the Picts, Drest son of Talorgan, died 787 ?
- Drust IX of the Picts, Drest son of Caustantín, died 836 or 837 ?
- Drest X of the Picts, Drest son of Ferat, fl. 840s
- Saint Drostan, founder of the monastery at Old Deer, fl. early 7th century
Usage examples of "drest".
For thof he was drest out so vine, I question whether he had got a voot of land in the world.
I accordingly went as soon as I was drest, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion.
He mentioned one evening, "I met David coming off the stage, drest in a woman's riding-hood, when he acted in The Wonder.
If Burke should go into a stable to see his horse drest, the ostler would say--"we have had an extraordinary man here.
How contemptible would the brightest Circassian beauty, drest in all the jewels of the Indies, appear to my eyes!
Jones now walked downstairs neatly drest, and perhaps the fair Adonis was not a lovelier figure.
Indeed, it took no long time in preparing, having been all drest three days before, and required nothing more from the cook than to warm it over again.
Jones, who was drest in a suit of fustian, and had by his side the weapon formerly purchased of the serjeant.
Nightingale, who was now ready drest, and full as sober as many of my readers will think a man ought to be who receives a wife in so imprudent a manner.
Neither law nor conscience forbid this project: for the fellow, I promise you, however well drest, is but a vagabond, and as proper as any fellow in the streets to be pressed into the service.
Jones very well drest, and hearing that the accident had happened in a duel, treated his prisoner with great civility, and at his request dispatched a messenger to inquire after the wounded gentleman, who was now at a tavern under the surgeon's hands.
When she was drest, therefore, down she went, resolved to encounter all the horrors of the day, and a most disagreeable one it proved.
Vpon the top of all his loftie crest,A bunch of haires discolourd diuersly,With sprincled pearle, and gold full richly drest,Did shake, and seem'd to daunce for iollity,Like to an Almond tree ymounted hyeOn top of greene Selinis all alone,With blossomes braue bedecked daintily.
It was a chosen plot of fertile land,Emongst wide waues set, like a litle nest,As if it had by Natures cunning hand,Bene choisely picked out from all the rest,And laid forth for ensample of the best:No daintie flowre or herbe, that growes on ground,No arboret with painted blossomes drest,And smelling sweet, but there it might be foundTo bud out faire, and her sweet smels throw all around.
She her beholding with attentiue eye,At length did marke about her purple brestThat precious iuell, which she formerlyHad knowne right well with colourd ribbands drest:Therewith she rose in hast, and her addrestWith ready hand it to haue reft away.