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Definition of Dressing

1. Noun. Savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type.

2. Noun. A mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables.

3. Noun. Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure.

4. Noun. A cloth covering for a wound or sore.

5. Noun. Processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather.

6. Noun. The activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes.

7. Noun. The act of applying a bandage.

Definition of Dressing

1. n. Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.

Definition of Dressing

1. Noun. (medicine) Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy. ¹

2. Noun. A sauce, especially a cold one for salads. ¹

3. Noun. Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc. ¹

4. Noun. The activity of getting dressed. ¹

5. Verb. (present participle of dress) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dressing

1. material applied to cover a wound [n -S]

Medical Definition of Dressing

1. 1. Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire. 2. An application (a remedy, bandage, etc) to a sore or wound. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. 4. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat. 5. Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics. 6. An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc. 7. Castigation; scolding; often with down. Dressing case, a case of toilet utensils. Dressing forceps, a variety of forceps, shaped like a pair of scissors, used in dressing wounds. Dressing gown, a light gown, such as is used by a person while dressing; a study gown. Dressing room, an apartment appropriated for making one's toilet. Dressing table, a table at which a person may dress, and on which articles for the toilet stand. Top-dressing, manure or compost spread over land and not worked into the soil. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dressing

dressed up dresser dresserite dresserlike dressers dresses dresses down dresses up dressest dresseth

dressier dressiest dressily dressiness dressinesses dressing (current term) dressing-bell dressing-down dressing case dressing cases

dressing down dressing forceps dressing gown dressing gowns dressing room dressing rooms dressing sack dressing sacque dressing station dressing stick

Literary usage of Dressing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1896)
"The method of treatment consists in so applying the plaster dressing that a ... The dressing had been applied to twelve patients in the last six or eight ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1875)
"He has injected it into the centres of abscesses and sinuses connected with bone, and has also used it in dressing simple wounds, whether accidental or ..."

3. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1921)
"Japanned dressing-Table, 1700-25 85 81. High Chest of Drawers, 1710-20 86 82. ... dressing-Table, 1710-20 92 90. Japanned Scroll-Top High Chest of Drawers ..."

4. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1909)
"See also Gold Milling, and Tube Mills, under ORE dressing AND CONCENTRATION. ... See also North Carolina, under COPPER; and Ore dressing, under ORE dressing ..."

5. The History of Medicine in the United States: A Collection of Facts and by Francis Randolph Packard (1901)
"Each succeeding dressing o. 2. 6. Amputation of the fingers, or toes, each o. 15. o. ... Each dressing do o. 2. o. Extirpation of small encysted and small ..."

6. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1898)
"Faulty application of first dressing. 3. Unnecessary change of dressing. The medical officers with the regiments and in the field hospitals were hampered in ..."

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