Meaning

To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe..

Definitions by Sense

1. To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.
2. To design, make, provide, or select clothes (for someone).
3. To arrange or style (someone's hair).
4. To adorn or ornament (something).
5. To apply a dressing to or otherwise treat (a wound); (obsolete) to give (a wounded person) medical aid.
6. To fit or prepare (something) for use; to render (something) suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
7. To cultivate or tend to (a garden, land, plants, etc.); especially, to add fertilizer or manure to (soil); to fertilize, to manure.
8. To cut up (an animal or its flesh) for food.

Example Sentences

He was dressed in the latest fashions.

My kids are old enough to dress themselves now.

O rich! rich! vvhere ſhould I get clothes to dreſſe her in?

Their face with love and vigour vvas ydreſt, / VVith modeſty and joy, their tongue with juſt beheſt.

Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because "it was wicked to dress us like charity children". We nearly crowned her we were so offended.

The fashion designer was proud to have dressed the queen for the charity event.

[Domitian] after his manner, with a cheerfull countenance and grieved heart, received the newes: being inwardly pricked, to think that his later counterfet triumph of Germany, wherin certain ſlaves bought for mony were attired and their haire dreſſed as captives of that country, was had in deriſion and iuſtly skorned abroad: […]

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