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. ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 - 9kOrnaments (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). ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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). ...
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Resources
What does the Bible say about cross-dressing / transvestism? | GotQuestions.orgWhat does it mean to dress modestly? | GotQuestions.orgShould a Christian be involved with cosplay? | GotQuestions.orgDressing: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.comBible Concordance •
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