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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dress \Dress\ (dr[e^]s), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Dressed} (dr[e^]st) or {Drest}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dressing}.] [OF. drecier to make straight, raise, set up, prepare, arrange, F. dresser, (assumed) LL. directiare, fr. L. dirigere, directum, to direct; dis- + regere to rule. See {Right}, and cf. {Address}, {Adroit}, {Direct}, {Dirge}.]
1. To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order. [Obs.]
At all times thou shalt bless God and pray Him to dress thy ways. --Chaucer.
Note: Dress is used reflexively in Old English, in sense of ''to direct one's step; to address one's self.''
To Grisild again will I me dresse. --Chaucer.
2. (Mil.) 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.
3. (Med.) To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.
4. To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it. --Gen. ii. 15.
When he dresseth the lamps he shall burn incense. --Ex. xxx. 7.
Three hundred horses . . . smoothly dressed. --Dryden.
Dressing their hair with the white sea flower. --Tennyson .
If he felt obliged to expostulate, he might have dressed his censures in a kinder form. --Carlyle. (b) To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish. (c) To put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck.
Dressed myself in such humility. -- Shak.
Prove that ever Idress myself handsome till thy return. --Shak. (d) To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.
{To dress up} or {To dress out}, to dress elaborately, artificially, or pompously. ''You see very often a king of England or France dressed up like a Julius C[ae]sar.'' --Addison.
{To dress a ship} (Naut.), to ornament her by hoisting the national colors at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when dressed full, the signal flags and pennants are added. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Syn: To attire; apparel; clothe; accouter; array; robe; rig; trim; deck; adorn; embellish.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
dressed \dressed\ adjective
1. same as {attired}.
Syn: appareled, attired, clad, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
2. covered with medication or a bandage; -- of wounds.
Syn: bandaged. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
3. trim and smooth; -- of lumber or stone.
Syn: polished. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dressed
adjective
1: dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination; "the elegantly attired gentleman"; "neatly dressed workers"; "monks garbed in hooded robes"; "went about oddly garmented"; "professors robed in crimson"; "tuxedo-attired gentlemen"; "crimson-robed Harvard professors" [syn: {appareled}, {attired}, {garbed}, {garmented}, {habilimented}, {robed}]
2: treated with medications and protective covering
3: (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth [syn: {polished}]
4: dressed in fancy or formal clothing [syn: {dressed(p)}, {dressed-up}, {dressed to the nines(p)}, {dressed to kill(p)}, {dolled up}, {spruced up}, {spiffed up}, {togged up}]
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