To put or make straight; adjust to a right line: as (in military use), to dress ranks.To regulate; direct; set right; keep in the right course.To adjust; fasten; fix.To address; direct: as, to dress words to a person; hence, with reflexive pronoun, to direct or turn one's course, efforts, or attention; prepare or apply one's self to do something; repair; betake one's self: as, they dressed themselves to the dance.To prepare or make ready; treat in some particular way, and thus fit for some special use or purposeTo prepare for use as food, by cooking or by the addition of suitable condiments, etc.: as, to dress meat; to dress a salad.To make fit for the purpose intended, by some suitable process: as, to dress beef for the market; to dress skins; to dress flax or hemp.To cut or reduce to the proper shape or dimensions, or evenness of surface, as by planing, chiseling, tooling, etc.; trim; finish off; put the finishing touches to: as, to dress timber; to dress a millstoneIn mining and metallurgy, to sort or fit for smelting by separating and removing the non-metalliferous veinstone: as, to dress ores.To comb and do up: as, to dress the hair.To curry and rub down: as, to dress a horse.To treat with remedies or curative appliances: as, to dress a wound.To array; equip; rig out: as, to dress a ship with flags and pendants.To attire; put clothes upon; apparel; adorn or deck with suitable clothes or raiment: as, he dressed himself hastily; to dress one's self for dinner; the maid dressed her mistress for a ball.To direct toward; reach toward; reach; offer.To prepare for action.Synonyms To aline. To accoutre, array, rig. To attire, apparel, clothe, embellish.To direct one's course; go.To come into line or proper alinement: as (in military use), to dress up in the center.To clothe one's self; put on one's usual garments, or such garments as are required for a particular occasion: as, to dress for the day; to dress for dinner, or for a ball.To give orders or directions.To get on or up; rise.n. A garment, or the assemblage of garments, used as a covering for the body or for its adornment; clothes; apparel: as, to spend a good deal of money on dress.n. Specificallyn. The gown or robe worn by women, consisting of a skirt and a waist, either made separately or in one garment.n. Outward adornment; elegant clothing, or skill in selecting, combining, and adjusting articles of clothing: as, a love of dress; a man of dress.n. In ornithology, plumage: as, spring or autumn dress; the breeding dress.n. External finish: used especially of the arrangement of the furrows on a millstone.n. Size; dressing.n. Synonyms Clothing, raiment, habiliments, accoutrements, vestments, habit, attire, array, garb, costume, suit.In veg. pathol., to treat (grain and other seed) with hot water, formaldehyde solution, or a similar fungicide, for the purpose of destroying the spores of smut and other plant-diseases.In milling, to clean and refine (flour); free (flour) from bran by passing it through bolters. See milling.n. In printing, a set of types with their appurtenances; also, their arrangement and their general appearance in print.