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An invocation of, or address to, the Supreme Being.

uct of chamois leather manufacture, but is now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for hides.

A kind of fabric for women's dresses.

of the course of his policy. Burke. A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties. J. Buchanan.

An undress; a careless toilet.

; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality. A desperate offendress against nature. Shak. The most desperate of reprobates. Macaulay.

To divest; to undress. Shak.

dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language. Earle. [Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect. Prescott.

stions with diffidence. Macaulay. An Englishman's habitual diffidence and awkwardness of adress. W. Irving.

To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn. [Archaic] "She gan the house to dight." Chaucer. Two harmless turtles, dight for sacrifice. Fairfax. The clouds in thousand liveries dight. Milton.

To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.

nce of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter.

A style of dress prevalent at the time of the French Directory, characterized by great extravagance of design and imitating the Greek and Roman costumes.

ing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.

To take off the dress of; to unrobe. So, as she bade, the witch they disarrayed. Spenser.

To unrobe; to undress. Spenser.

To strip; to undress. Shak.

Ungirded; loosely dressed. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up. Or discomposed the headdress of a prude. Pope.

To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive. Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner. Macaulay.