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hich musical notes are written or pointed; the staff. [Obs.] Stave jointer, a machine for dressing the edges of staves.

To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.

One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.

Hewing or dressing stone.

An instrument used in dressing flax. [Prov. Eng.]

d to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing.

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

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

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.

e singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style. Art thou he that should come Matt. xi. 3.

A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.

To apply a surface dressing of manureto,as land.

The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.

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

nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; dec…

Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys.