Crossword clues for dressing
dressing
- Kind of table or room
- Kind of case or sack
- Oil and vinegar is bound to help the wound
- Sauce that should get us into gear
- Sauce for salad
- Salad sauce
- Italian, e.g
- French or Italian, e.g
- Word that can follow the last parts of 17-, 26-, 36- and 50-
- Vinaigrette, for example
- Sterile wound-covering
- Sauce for the goose
- Pre-show room
- French or Italian dripping all over a bed
- Current fashion?
- Urging clothing that's uncomfortable: red pants in bigshot's style
- Where actors change
- Furniture item shown by neat girls’ beds, fancy?
- Bedroom furniture item
- South Africa left dealing with savoury sauce
- It may be French or Italian, but not German
- Order often "on the side"
- Arrange attractively
- Give a neat appearance to
- Arrange in ranks
- Apply a bandage or medication to
- Convert into leather
- Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- Provide with decoration
- Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- Put a finish on
- Provide with clothes or put clothes on
- Put on clothes
- The act of applying a bandage
- Processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather
- A cloth covering for a wound or sore
- A mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
- Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
- Kill and prepare for market or consumption
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dressing \Dress"ing\, n.
Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
--B. Jonson.(Surg.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to cover a sore or wound.
--Wiseman.Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.
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(Cookery)
A preparation, such as a sauce, to flavor food for eating; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.
The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.
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Castigation; scolding; -- often with down. [Colloq.]
Dressing case, a case of toilet utensils.
Dressing forceps, a variety of forceps, shaped like a pair of scissors, used in dressing wounds.
Dressing gown, a light gown, such as is used by a person while dressing; a study gown.
Dressing room, an apartment appropriated for making one's toilet.
Top-dressing, manure or compost spread over land and not worked into the soil.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., verbal noun from dress (v.). Sense in cookery is from c.1500. Meaning "bandage" is first recorded 1713. Dressing gown attested from 1777; dressing room from 1670s.
Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) material applied to a wound for protection or therapy. vb. (present participle of dress English)
WordNet
n. savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type [syn: salad dressing]
a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables [syn: stuffing]
making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure [syn: fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation]
a cloth covering for a wound or sore [syn: medical dressing]
processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather
the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes [syn: grooming]
Wikipedia
A dressing is a sterile pad or compress applied to a wound to promote healing and protect the wound from further harm. A dressing is designed to be in direct contact with the wound, as distinguished from a bandage, which is most often used to hold a dressing in place. Many modern dressings are self-adhesive.
Dressing may refer to:
- Dressing (medical), a medical covering for a wound, usually made of cloth
- Ore dressing (mineral processing)
- The application of a profile onto a grinding wheel
- A covering or enhanced construction method to improve an object's appearance:
- Brickwork dressings, using counter-coloured or complimentary coloured bricks
- Ashlar stone dressing
- Well dressing (decoration)
- Salad dressing, a type of sauce which is generally poured on a salad, or spread on the bread of a sandwich
- Stuffing, a mixture of various ingredients used to fill a cavity in another food item
- Putting on clothing
- The preparation of a game animal for consumption or sale—see butcher
- Dressing (knot), the process of arranging a knot
- "The Dressing", an episode of the Adult Swim animated television series, Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Usage examples of "dressing".
On the dressing table, ably guarded by a dark Regency armchair cushioned in yet another floral, sat an assemblage of antique silver-hair accessories and crystal perfume flacons, the grouping flanked by two small lamps, everything centered around a gold Empire vanity mirror.
The wound was still abscessed, its dressing changed twice a day, but now Harper and Isabella had to wipe the sweat that poured from Sharpe and listen to the ravings that he muttered day and night.
Because of their acidity the leaves make a capital dressing with stewed lamb, veal, or sweetbread.
These varieties of salad dressings are pretty reliably low-carb, but read the labels to find the brand with the lowest carb count.
Crumpling the paper, he complained about the food, itchy dressings, his first physical therapy session.
Rest is the answer, clean dressings, lenitives and peace of mind: there is physical strength in galore.
You need gis, gear, belts, wood floors, mirrors, heavy bags, speed bags, makiwaras, mats, Wing Chun dummies, shinais, bos and sais, dressings rooms with showers.
The luckless shaven-haired monkey or rat, guinea pig or dog bent on renouncing the laboratory world for ever found itself opening its eyes on it once more from the antiseptically scrubbed floor of its cage, its drinking vessel freshly charged, its dressings ingeniously barred from investigation, its recovery a command - even, if necessary, its benefactor would minister long hours overtime to make sure it was carried out.
Either natural, minced or fried, it is an appetizing addition to many sauces, soups, dressings and salads.
It is now known as a scientific fact that the balsamic oils of aromatic plants make most excellent surgical dressings.
Soft tofu is often used for salad dressings and in miso soup and quick-cooking dishes.
He shut off the stitcher, finished the dressings, and flopped down on a bench, knowing that all they could do was wait for the drugs to work on Jorgenson and bring him around.
LPNs can give tube feedings, suction patients, do sterile dressings and colostomy care, monitor IVs, and initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques, although in such an emergency an LPN is expected to call someone else to follow through.
Working quickly, he used a hemostat to clamp off a facial artery---worst site of external hemorrhage---and pressure dressings elsewhere.
It is now known as a scientific fact that the balsamic oils of aromatic plants make most excellent surgical dressings.