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A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.

A white garment worn over another dress by the clergy of the Roman Catholic, Episcopal, and certain other churches, in some of their ministrations. Surplice fees (Eccl.), fees paid to the English clergy for occasional duties.

The down, or fine, soft feathers, of the swan, used on various articles of dress.

To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett.

A long dress, trailing on the floor, worn by tragic actors in Greek and Roman theaters.

A scholar on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England, whose original dress was a tabard. Nares.

Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.

use part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails. Pryce.

A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak, forming part of the dress of ladies.

A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses.

A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.

eing in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.

To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

f being tawdry. A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress. Richardson.

legance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors. He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers. Spectator.

One who taws; a dresser of white leather.

Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth. Teasel frame, a frame or set of iron bars in which teasel heads are fixed for raising the nap on woolen cloth.

A kind of fine woolen cloth, used for dresses, cloaks, etc.

in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping things so; as, a tidy lass; their dress is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and tidy. A tidy man, that tened [injured] me never. Piers Plowman.

To deck out; to dress. [Obs.] A. Tucker.