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A tag of a lace or of the points, braids, or cords formerly used in dress. They were sometimes formed into small images. Hence, "aglet baby" (Shak.), an aglet image.

Dress. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine.

The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.

A speaking to another; an address. [Obs.]

The tanning or dressing of leather. [Obs.] Blount.

Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Prov. xv. 1. I called him, but he gave me no answer. Cant. v. 6.

ich insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room.

Sung or addressed to one departing; valedictory; as, apoplectic songs or hymns.

the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."

To address by apostrophe.

A dressing room connected with a public bath.

External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler.

To direct or address. [R.] Sacred vows . . . applied to grisly Pluto. Pope.

An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.

. The architects of their own happiness. Milton. A French woman is a perfect architect in dress. Coldsmith.

Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays. Arming press (Bookbinding), a press for stamping titles and designs on the covers of books.

other furniture, as mantling, crest, supporters, motto, etc. -- Submarine, a water-tight dress or covering for a diver. See under Submarine.

Formerly, one who had care of the arms and armor of a knight, and who dressed him in armor. Shak.