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Any merely ornamental adjunct of a woman's dress, as a bunch of ribbon, lace, etc.

The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.

A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer. Cold chisel. See under Cold, a.

A bunch, knot, or rosette of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament in women's dress.

Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter. A proclamation of Henry III., . . . doubtless circular throughout England. Hallam.

The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion. A school in which he learns sly circumvention. Cowper.

it distinct from criminal proceedings. Civil action, an action to enforce the rights or redress the wrongs of an individual, not involving a criminal proceeding. -- Civil architecture, the architecture which is employed in constructing buildings for the purposes of civil life, in distinction from military and naval ar…

end of the metallic head cleft for use in extracting nails, etc. -- Claw hammer coat, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] -- Claw sickness, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.

State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift.

In a clean manner; neatly. He was very cleanly dressed. Dickens.

Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery. [Obs.] Shak.

The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes. I'll ne'er distust my God for cloth and bread. Quarles.

To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress. Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. Shak.

Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort. She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes. Shak. If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. Mark. v. 28.

One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward.

Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing was sackloth. Ps. xxxv. 13

In hair dressing, a loose, low coil at the back of the head, like the knot on the head of the bust of Clytie by G. F. Watts.

A thin worsted fabric for women's dresses.

situated at the base of the tail of birds. They secrete the oil with which the plumage is dressed.

A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.