Word Finder - dressing

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Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.

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A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.

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Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.

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The activity of getting dressed.

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Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.

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The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.

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Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.

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An ornamental finish, such as a moulding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling.

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Castigation; scolding; dressing down.

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The process of extracting metals or other valuable components from minerals

Carmen was up first, showering and dressing before Alex woke.

She spread some salad dressing on a piece of bread.

But as soon as Pierre turned toward him he wrapped his dressing gown around him with a shamefaced and angry look and hurried away.

The dressing station consisted of three tents with flaps turned back, pitched at the edge of a birch wood.

At the dressing stations the grass and earth were soaked with blood for a space of some three acres around.

I went in out of curiosity, you know, and there is a small chiffonier and a dressing table.

By the time she finished bathing and dressing Destiny, Jonathan was in bed.

By the time Dean located two woolen socks that were at least the same color, Cynthia was finished dressing.

It is used in the dressing of_ foul ulcers.

The noils resulting from the dressing operations are sometimes combed, the comb used being similar to those used in the cotton trade.

Use as a toy box, dressing up box or laundry ba... .

The larger of the two bedrooms contains a double and a single bed, wardrobe, bedside chest of drawers and a dressing table.

Toward the end of the battle of Borodino, Pierre, having run down from Raevski's battery a second time, made his way through a gully to Knyazkovo with a crowd of soldiers, reached the dressing station, and seeing blood and hearing cries and groans hurried on, still entangled in the crowds of soldiers.

On waking up that morning Count Ilya Rostov left his bedroom softly, so as not to wake the countess who had fallen asleep only toward morning, and came out to the porch in his lilac silk dressing gown.

He was lying in a squirrel-fur dressing gown on a divan, surrounded by pillows.

In dressing mica the "books" are split along the cleavage into sheets of the required thickness, and the sheets trimmed into rectangles with a sharp knife, shears or guillotine, stained and damaged portions being rejected.

The mother invented some plea to send the wife to the trysting-place, and then, dressing herself in male clothing, prepared to come suddenly on the scene as the lover, trusting to be able to make her escape before she was recognized.

It has been found by experiment that the nitrogen needed by practically all farm crops except leguminous ones is best supplied in the form of a nitrate; the rapid effect of nitrate of soda when used' as a top dressing to wheat or other plants is well known to farmers..

The Viennese women are justly celebrated for their beauty and elegance; and dressing as a fine art is cultivated here with almost as great success as in Paris.

Dressing himself in the armour of the slain knight, which he has great difficulty in handling and eventually puts on over his peasant's garb, he sets out on a series of adventures which differ greatly in the various versions, but the outcome of which is that he becomes a skilful and valiant knight and regains the heritage of his father.

To steady the young soldiers, the cavalry commander (Carl von Schmidt) halted his men, made them correct their intervals and dressing as in peace, though under a heavy fire from the French infantry, and then withdrew them behind the cover of the nearest hill at a walk.

If artificial manures are used, a usual dressing consists of 2 or 3 cwt.

The pyrethrum grows best in soil of a loamy texture; this should be well manured and deeply trenched up before planting, and should be mulched in the spring by a surface dressing of half-decayed manure.

By these means the silk has been opened, straightened and then cut into a certain length, the fibres now being fairly laid parallel and ready for the next operation, known as silk dressing.

The flat dressing frame is a box or frame holding a certain number of book-boards from the filling engine, which boards when full of silk are screwed tightly together in the frame.

A trellis path should run along the centre, and movable pieces of trellis should be provided to prevent trampling on the soil while dressing and tying in the young wood.

Surface dressing and feeding by liquid manure should also be afforded these plants while the fruit is swelling.

Attend to the dressing of shrubberies; lay turf-edgings, and regulate the surface of gravel walks.

Lawns may be benefited by a good dressing, in addition to the manure, of some reliable commercial fertilizer.

Used for muffs, trimmings, boas, and carriage 1 The measurements given are from nose to root of tail of average large sizes after the dressing process, which has a shrinking tendency.

The dressing is hard and brittle.

The odour, however, even after dressing is rather pungent of musk, which is generally an objection.

Formerly the fur was only used for hatters' felt, but with the rise in prices of furs these skins have been more carefully removed and-with improved dressing, unhairing and silvering processes-the best provides a very effective and suitable fur for ladies' coats, capes, stoles, muffs, hats and gloves, while the lower qualities make very useful, light-weighted and inexpensive linings for men's or women's driving coats.

The improved dressing processes have to a large extent removed the naturally pungent scent.

In addition to this a knowledge is required of what the condition of a pelt should be; a good judge knows by experience whether a skin will turn out soft and strong, after dressing, and whether the hair is in the best condition of strength and beauty.

The dressing of the pelt or skin that is to be preserved for fur is totally different to the making of leather; in the latter tannic acid is used, but never should be with a fur skin, as is so often done by natives of districts where a regular fur trade is not carried on.

With regard to the merits of European dressing, it may be fairly taken that English, German and French dressers have specialities of excellence.

In England, for instance, the dressing of sables, martens, foxes, otters, seals, bears, lions, tigers and leopards is first rate; while with skunk, mink, musquash, chinchillas, beavers, lambs and squirrels, the Germans show better results, particularly in the last.

The pelt after the German dressing is dry, soft and white, which is due to a finishing process where meal is used, thus they compare favourably with the moister and consequently heavier English finish.

In France they do well with cheaper skins, such as musquash, rabbit and hare, which they dye in addition to dressing.

Russian dressing is seldom reliable; not only is there an unpleasant odour, but in damp weather the pelts often become clammy, which is due to the saline matter in the dressing mixture.

American and Canadian dressing is gradually improving, but hitherto their results have been inferior to the older European methods.

In Weissenfels, near Leipzig, the dressing of Russian grey squirrel and the making it into linings is a gigantic industry, and is the principal support of the place.

After the dressing process the backs of the squirrels are made up separately from the under and thinner white and grey parts, the first being known as squirrelback and the other as squirrel-lock linings.

Similar work is done in Russia on almost as extensive a scale, but neither the dressing nor the work is so good as the German.

The city's chief industry is the cutting, sawing and dressing of lumber obtained from the neighbouring forests.

Spherical hard stone hammers (6) were held in the hand for dressing down granite.

The adze (41) was used not only for woodwork but also for dressing limestone.

Flint scrapers were used in dressing down limestone sculpture in the IIIrd Dynasty.

Building Tools.The adze described above was used for dressing blocks of limestone.