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A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.

so to speak of so excellent a poet. Dryden. I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as to convert it, at length, into their proper self, and thus actually to become the dress. Coleridge.

To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.

To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.

That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.

To call; to name; to address. Whom . . . he knew and thus behight. Spenser.

ing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work. In this also [dress] the country are very much behindhand. Addison.

To address by the title of "lord".

A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. Mitford.

To speak to; to address. [Poetic] He thus the queen bespoke. Dryden.

A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.

A black garment or dress; as, she wears black; pl. (Obs.)

To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom is no god, compared with idols, Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and aven…

dignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.

A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses.

A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.

ck, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.

One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc.

ve in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. Goldsmith. Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. Dryden. To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as…