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

A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.

To act as a laundress.[Obs.]

a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.

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

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.

protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg. The hunted red deer's undressed hide Their hairy buskins well supplied. Sir W. Scott.

erally of barren vein material. -- Flat cap, cap See Foolscap. -- Forage cap, the cloth undress head covering of an officer of soldier. -- Legal cap, a kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets which have the fold at the top or "narrow edge." -- To set one's cap, to make a fool…

In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh. "Common crude salt." Boyle. Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials. I. Taylor.

An undress; a careless toilet.

To divest; to undress. Shak.

Confused attire; undress. Spenser.

To unrobe; to undress. Spenser.

To strip; to undress. Shak.

An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille. They breakfast in dishabille. Smollett.

To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure. Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton.

To strip; to divest; to undress. Heaven's King, who doffs himself our flesh to wear. Crashaw.

The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; -- generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.

den hoop dressed flat on both sides. -- Half-round hoop, a wooden hoop left rounding and undressed on the outside. -- Hoop iron, iron in thin narrow strips, used for making hoops. -- Hoop lock, the fastening for uniting the ends of wooden hoops by notching and interlocking them. -- Hoop skirt, a framework of hoops…

An easy, unceremonious attire; undress; also, a kind of easy robe or dressing gown worn by women.