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A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.

A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleeping garnment.

A public walk; a promenade. Dress parade, Undress parade. See under Dress, and Undress. -- Parade rest, a position of rest for soldiers, in which, however, they are required to be silent and motionless. Wilhelm.

The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell. Sir T. Browne. Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. Fuller.

To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway. Knight.

ut to a stand, to stop; to arrest by obstacles or difficulties. -- To put to bed. (a) To undress and place in bed, as a child. (b) To deliver in, or to make ready for, childbirth. -- To put to death, to kill. -- To put together, to attach; to aggregate; to unite in one. -- To put this and that (or two and two) toge…

Pieces of undressed timber put under the steps of a wooden stair for their support.

for throwing shells. -- Shell ibis (Zoöl.), the openbill of India. -- Shell jacket, an undress military jacket. -- Shell lime, lime made by burning the shells of shellfish. -- Shell marl (Min.), a kind of marl characterized by an abundance of shells, or fragments of shells. -- Shell meat, food consisting of shell…

A kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe.

To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.

To divest of attire; to undress.

To loose the dress of; to undress; hence, to expose; to disgrace. What's the matter, That you unlace your reputation thus Shak.

Not dressed; undressed. [Obs.]

To disrobe; to undress; to take off the robes.

To loose from a truss, or as from a truss; to untie or unfasten; to let out; to undress. [R.] Dryden.

's wool. (Chem.) See Zinc oxide, under Zinc. -- Pulled wool, wool pulled from a pelt, or undressed hide. -- Slag wool. Same as Mineral wool, under Mineral. -- Wool ball, a ball or mass of wool. -- Wool burler, one who removes little burs, knots, or extraneous matter, from wool, or the surface of woolen cloth. -- W…