UNDRESS

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To divest of clothes; to strip.

2.
v.

To divest of ornaments to disrobe.

3.
v.

To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound.

4.
n.

A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.

5.
n.

An authorized habitual dress of officers and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform. Undress parade (Mil.), a substitute for dress parade, allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.