Arraying and Dressing

noun

• Savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type.
  • synonyms: salad dressing
• A mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables.
  • synonyms: stuffing
• Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure.
  • synonyms: fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation
• A cloth covering for a wound or sore.
  • synonyms: medical dressing
• Processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather.
• The activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes.
  • synonyms: grooming
• The act of applying a bandage.
  • synonyms: bandaging, binding

verb

• Put on clothes.
  • usage: "we had to dress quickly"; "dress the patient"; "Can the child dress by herself"
  • synonyms: dress, get dressed
• Provide with clothes or put clothes on.
  • usage: "Parents must feed and dress their child"
  • synonyms: dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel
• Put a finish on.
  • usage: "dress the surface smooth"
  • synonyms: dress
• Dress in a certain manner.
  • usage: "She dresses in the latest Paris fashion"; "he dressed up in a suit and tie"
  • synonyms: dress, dress up
• Dress or groom with elaborate care.
  • usage: "She likes to dress when going to the opera"
  • synonyms: preen, primp, plume, dress
• Kill and prepare for market or consumption.
  • usage: "dress a turkey"
  • synonyms: dress, dress out
• Arrange in ranks.
  • usage: "dress troops"
  • synonyms: dress, line up
• Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods.
  • synonyms: trim, garnish, dress
• Provide with decoration.
  • usage: "dress the windows"
  • synonyms: dress, decorate
• Put a dressing on.
  • usage: "dress the salads"
  • synonyms: dress
• Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.
  • usage: "dress the plants in the garden"
  • synonyms: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back
• Cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width.
  • synonyms: dress
• Convert into leather.
  • usage: "dress the tanned skins"
  • synonyms: dress
• Apply a bandage or medication to.
  • usage: "dress the victim's wounds"
  • synonyms: dress
• Give a neat appearance to.
  • usage: "groom the dogs"; "dress the horses"
  • synonyms: dress, groom, curry
• Arrange attractively.
  • usage: "dress my hair for the wedding"
  • synonyms: dress, arrange, set, do, coif, coiffe, coiffure

• (n.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound.
• (n.) Castigation; scolding; -- often with down.
• (n.) A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.
• (n.) Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Dress.
• (n.) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
• (n.) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
• (n.) Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.
• (n.) An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows or on a ceiling, etc.