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A thin cotton fabric, between and muslin, used for dresses, neckcloths, etc. [Written also jacconet.]

as open in war and closed in peace. Dr. W. Smith. Janus cloth, a fabric having both sides dressed, the sides being of different colors, -- used for reversible garments.

To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at. And if we can not jeer them, we jeer ourselves. B. Jonson.

on; a merry-andrew; a court fool. This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. Shak. Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear. Longfellow.

An ornament of dress usually made of a precious metal, and having enamel or precious stones as a part of its design. Plate of rare device, and jewels Of rich and exquisite form. Shak.

y moves, bearing the load. -- Jib door (Arch.), a door made flush with the wall, without dressings or moldings; a disguised door. -- Jib header (Naut.), a gaff-topsail, shaped like a jib; a jib- headed topsail. -- Jib topsail (Naut.), a small jib set above and outside of all the other jibs. -- The cut of one's jib,…

A sort of blouse worn by workmen over their ordinary dress to protect it.

A delicate fiber, produced in the Philippine Islands from an unidentified plant, of which dresses, etc., are made.

care of; to tend. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. Gen. ii. 15. In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.

A large vat used in dressing ores.

Dressed; hooded; covered; wearing a kerchief. Milton.

An address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Mohammedan mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed and his descendants, and the ruling princes.

A similar gown worn as a dressing gown by women of Western nations.

th a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. Acts vii. 60. As soon as you are dressed, kneel and say the Lord's Prayer. Jer. Taylor.

linsey-woolsey fabric having a rough knotted surface on the right side; used for women's dresses.

dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John. [Eng.] Hence:

Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.

Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore.

etached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry. Shak.

, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil. Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden. Milton.