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Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.

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

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.

Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

A dressing room connected with a public bath.

A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.

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

boring. Boring bar, a revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes. -- Boring tool (Metal Working), a cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes. Knight.

To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping. Bartlett. Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses. W. Irving.

n rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.

A short dressing jacket for women.

To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz. Morgan saw that his master was chaffing him. Thackeray. A dozen honest fellows . . . chaffed each other about their sweethearts. C. Kingsley.

A distinctive mark; a character; a letter or sign. [Obs.] See Character. In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms. Shak.