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To prepare or make ready. [Obs.] His foe was soon addressed. Spenser. Turnus addressed his men to single fight. Dryden. The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming. Jer. Taylor.

One to whom anything is addressed.

The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] Chapman.

t for the head; a headtire. Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume. Addison.

Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one. W. D. Howells.

To address a second time; -- often used reflexively. He readdressed himself to her. Boyle.

Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield.

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

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

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.

ntaining 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.

Moving 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.

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

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

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.

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

h 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.

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