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The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied.

Not dresses enough.

To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound.

, grapevines; a laborer in a vineyard. The sons of the shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. Isa. lxi. 5.

The treatment of wounds or ulcers by the application of water; also, a dressing saturated with water only, for application to a wound or an ulcer.

y a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield.

The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.

To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.

To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. Bot accoutered like young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.

Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. How gay with all the accouterments of war!

a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.

` phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man.

a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.

To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress. [Obs.]

The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive. As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. Goldsmith.

aining excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay.

oving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight. The most affecting music is generally the most simple.