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The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness. Byron.

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  • DANDY
    dandiner to waddle, to play the fool; prob. allied to E. dandle. 1. One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb. A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set. A small sail carried at or near the
  • DRESSINESS
    The state of being dressy.
  • DANDYLING
    A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.
  • DRESS CIRCLE
    A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
  • 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.;
  • DANDYISE; DANDYIZE
    To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify.
  • BYRONIC
    Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. With despair and Byronic misanthropy. Thackeray
  • 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.
  • DANDY-COCK; DANDY-HEN
    A bantam fowl.
  • 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;
  • 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.
  • DRESSER
    A kind of pick for shaping large coal. 3. An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc. 4. Etym: A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use. A cupboard or set of shelves to receive
  • DANDYISH
    Like a dandy.
  • DANDYISM
    The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness. Byron.
  • DRESSMAKER
    A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • HANDY-DANDY
    A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.
  • TENDRESSE
    Tender feeling; fondness.
  • UNDERDRESSED
    Not dresses enough.
  • FOUNDRESS
    A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
  • OVERDRESS
    To dress or adorn to excess; to dress too much. Pope.
  • REDRESSIBLE
    Such as may be redressed.
  • HEADDRESS
    1. A covering or ornament 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. 2. A manner of dressing the hair or
  • WATER DRESSING
    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.

 

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