Word Meanings - BOWNE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make ready; to prepare; to dress. We will all bowne ourselves for the banquet. Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to BOWNE)

• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• BOWNE
  To make ready; to prepare; to dress. We will all bowne ourselves for the banquet. Sir W. Scott.
• BANQUETTE
  A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
• READY-MADE
  Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
• BANQUET
  banchetto, dim. of banco a bench, counter. See Bank a bench, and cf. 1. A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches. 2. A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat
• DRESS CIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• BANQUETTER; BANQUETER
  One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.
• DRESSING
  An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.;
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• DRESSY
  Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.
• DRESS COAT
  A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.
• DRESSMAKING
  The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• PREPARER
  One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready. Wood.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• OURSELVES
  ; sing. Ourself (we; also, alone in the predicate, in the nominative or the objective case. We ourselves might distinctly number in words a great deal further then we usually do. Locke. Safe in ourselves, while on ourselves we stand. Dryden. Note:
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• DRESS
  To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks. (more info) prepare, arrange, F. dresser. LL. directiare, fr. L. dirigere, directum, to direct;
• READY-WITTED
  Having ready wit.
• DRESS GOODS
  A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• OVERREADY
  Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• TOP-DRESSING
  The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied.
• TENDRESSE
  Tender feeling; fondness.
• UNDERDRESSED
  Not dresses enough.
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• ALREADY
  Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. "Joseph was in Egypt already." Exod. i. 5. I say unto you, that Elias is come already. Matt. xvii. 12. Note: It has reference to past time, but may be used
• OVERDRESS
  To dress or adorn to excess; to dress too much. Pope.
• DISPREPARE
  To render unprepared. Hobbes.