drepanidium 
Drepane), + dim. -Mtov.] In zoiil. : (a) The fla- 
gellula or sickle-shaped young of certain proto- 
zoans, as a gregarine, as hatched from a spore. 
(6) The phase or stage of growth in which a 
young gregariue is sickle-shaped, (c\) [cap.} 
A genus of such organisms. 
Drejicmidium ranarum, the falciform young of an unas- 
certained coccidiide: Encyc. Brit., XIX. 853. 
drepaniform (drep'a-ni-form), a. [< Gr. Spe- 
Kavti, a sickle, + L'.' forma, shape.] Formed 
like a sickle or scythe ; sickle-shaped ; falciform 
or falcate. 
Drepaninae (drep-a-ni'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Dre- 
pane + -ince.] A subfamily constituted for the 
genus Drepane, by some referred to the family 
Chcetodontidte, and by others to the Carangidce: 
same as the family Drepanidce. 
Drepanis (drep'a-nis), n. [< Gr. dpeiravif, a bird, 
perhaps the European swift, so called from the 
long, thin, falcate wings, < dpevavn, a sickle : see 
Drepane.} A genus of Nectariniidte with fal- 
cate mandibles, characteristic of the Friendly 
Sickle-billed Sunbird (Drepanis pacifica}. 
and Sandwich islands, sometimes giving name 
to a subfamily Drepanince ; the sickle-billed 
sunbirds. D. pamjica is an example. The genua is also 
called Falcator, and some of the species are referred to 
Afellithreptus. In some species, as Drepanis vestiaria, or 
Vestiaria coccinect, the bill is enormously long and curved 
almost to a semicircle. This is a scarlet species from the 
plumage of which the Sandwich islanders manufacture 
beautiful robes. 
drepanium (dre-pa'ni-um), n. ; pi. drepania 
(-a). [NL., < Gr. dpeiramov, dim. of Spitravov, 
equiv. to Apenavr], a sickle : see Drepane.} In 
bot., a sickle-shaped cyme, the successive flow- 
ers springing always from the upper side of 
their respective axes. 
drepeM, See drip, drop. 
drepe 2 t, v. t. See drib*, drub. 
dreret, a. and n. An obsolete spelling of drear. 
drerimentt, n. A variant spelling of dreari- 
ment. 
drerinesst, An obsolete spelling of dreari- 
ness. 
dreryt, a. An obsolete spelling of dreary. 
Dresden point-lace. See lace. 
dress (dres), v. ; pret. and pp. dressed or drest, 
ppr. dressing. [Early mod. E. also dresse; < 
ME. dressen, make straight, direct, rule, pre- 
pare, clothe, address one's attention to, < OF. 
dresser, drescer, drecier, erect, set up, arrange, 
dress, = Pr. dressar, dreissar, drefar = OSp. de- 
rezar = It. drizzare, dirizzare, direct, etc., < ML. 
*directiare, an assumed freq. < L. directus, ML. 
also drectw, drictus, straight, direct: see direct."] 
I. trans. 1. To put or make straight; adjust 
to a right line : as (in military use), to dress 
ranks. 
Schrewide thingis schulen be in to dressid thingis [L. 
erunt prava in directa]. Wydif, Luke iii. 5. 
2f. To regulate; direct; set right; keep in the 
right course. 
Thou schalt blesse God and pray hym to dresse thy ways. 
Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus. 
Danmarke he dryssede alle by drede of hym selvyne, 
Fra Swynne unto Swether-wyke, with his swrede kene ! 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 46. 
Make clean [my soul] thy thoughts, and dress thy mixt de- 
sires. Quarles, Emblems, ii. 7. 
3f. To adjust ; fasten ; fix. 
The vyne eke to the tree with bondes dresse. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 68. 
4f. To address ; direct : as, to dress words to 
a person ; hence, with reflexive pronoun, to di- 
rect 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 fliem- 
selves to the dance. 
To the chambre dore he gan hym dresse. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 282. 
1768 
What for the Yles, what for the See, . . . fewe folke 
assayen for to passen that passage ; alle be it that men 
myghte don it well, that myght ben of power to dresse 
him thereto. MandeMle, Travels, p. 306. 
The men of armys bothe with spere and sheld, 
With grete corage dressid them in to the feld. 
Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2191. 
5. To prepare or make ready; treat in some 
particular way, and thus fit for some special 
use or purpose, (a) To till ; cultivate ; prune. 
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the 
garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Gen. ii. 15. 
The vfell-dress'd Vine 
Produces plumpest Grapes. 
Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
(6) To prepare for use as food, by cooking or by the addi- 
tion of suitable condiments, etc. : as, to dress meat ; to 
dress a salad. 
It were a folly to take the pain to dress a bad dinner at 
home, when they may be welcome to good and fine fare 
so nigh hand at the hall. 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 5. 
The people were very civil, lending us an earthen Pot 
to dress Rice, or any thing else. 
Dampier, Voyages, II. 1. 90. 
We dined together on very excellent provision, dressed 
according to their custom. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 298. 
(c) To make fit for the purpose intended, by some suita- 
ble process : as, to dress beef for the market ; to dress 
skins ; to dress flax or hemp. 
For their apparell, they are sometimes covered with the 
skinnes of wilde beasts, which in Winter are dressed with 
the hayre, but in Sommer without. 
Capt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 129. 
At that time it was customary to size or dress the warp 
in the loom. A. Barlow, Weaving, p. 239. 
(d) 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 millstone, (e) In mining and met- 
al., 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. 
what need I dress up my head, 
Nor what need I kaim doun my hair? 
Laird of Blackwood (Child's Ballads, IV. 290). 
(g) To curry and rub down : as, to dress a horse. 
6. To treat with remedies or curative appli- 
ances : as, to dress a wound. 
To heal her wounds by dressing of the weapon. 
Ford, Witch of Edmonton, iii. 3. 
The wound was dressed antiseptically. 
Sci. Amer. Supp., p. 8870. 
7. To array ; equip ; rig out : as, to dress a ship 
with flags and pendants. 
We sent our skiffe aland to be dressed. 
Hakluyts Voyages, I. 276. 
And Caddell drest, amang the rest, 
With gun and good claymore. 
Battle of Tranent-Muir (Child's Ballads, VII. 172). 
8. 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. 
All her Tresses ties behind ; 
So dress'd, Diana hunts the fearful Hind. 
Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
Good-morrow, Sir : what ! up and drest, so early ? 
Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 236. 
A young man came to the court dressed as a minstrel, 
and carrying his Timpan at his back. 
O'Currif, Anc. Irish, II. xxxiv. 
9f. To direct toward ; reach toward ; reach ; 
offer. 
He dressyd hys bak unto the maste. 
Richard Coer de Lion, 1. 2554. 
Who of sou is a man, whom gif his soue axe breed, wher 
he shal dresse to hym a stoon? Wyclif, Mat. vii. 9 (Oxf.). 
10f. To prepare for action. 
Segramor drough his suerde and dressed his shelde, and 
com towarde Agravadain a grete spede, and he com for to 
mete hym vigorously. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 669. 
To dress up or out, to clothe elaborately or peculiarly ; 
dress with great care or elegance, or in unusual clothing. 
Our modern medals are full of togas and tunicas . . . 
that have not been in fashion these thousand years. You 
see very often a king of England or France dressed up like 
a Julius Caesar. Addison, Ancient Medals, iii. 
=Syn. 1. To aliue. 7. To accoutre, array, rig. 8. To 
attire, apparel, clothe, embellish. 
II. intrans. If. To direct one's course ; go. 
Fro derknesse I dresse to blysse clere. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 89. 
2. To come into line or proper alinement : as 
(in military use), to dress np in the center. 
All that remains of the west side of the square running 
southwards is continued on the same plan as the brick 
house, and dresses with it in height. 
N. and Q., 7th ser., V. 344. 
3. To clothe one's self ; put on one's usual gar- 
ments, or such garments as are required for a 
particular occasion: as, to dress for the day; 
to dress for dinner, or for a ball. 
dresser 
I did dress in the best array, 
As blythe as ony bird on tree. 
The Laird of Warixtoun (Child's Ballads, III. 319). 
The servant told me that Lord Grey was still at the 
House of Lords, and that her ladyship had just gone to 
dress. Macaulay, Life and Letters, I. 209. 
She always dressed handsomely, and her rich silks and 
laces seemed appropriate to a lady of her dignified position 
in the town. Josiah Quincy, Figures of the Past, p. 61. 
4f. To give orders or directions. 
For als I hyde bus [it behooves] all thyng be and dewly 
done als I will dresse. York Plays, p. 13. 
5f. To get on or up ; rise. 
Deliverly he dressed vp, er the day sprenged. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2009. 
TO dress up, to dress one's self with special care ; put on 
one's best clothing, or different garments from those com- 
monly worn. [Colloq., U. S.] 
dress (dres), n. [< dress, v.} 1. A garment, 
or the assemblage of garments, used as a cov- 
ering for the body or for its adornment ; clothes ; 
apparel : as, to spend a good deal of money on 
dress. 
As Chastity, says Philander, appears in the habit of a 
JI 01 luu i matron, in whom that virtue was supposed to 
reign in its perfection, Piety wears the dress of the vestal 
virgins, who were the greatest and most shining examples 
of it. Addison, Ancient Medals, ii. 
Abs, Is Mr. Faulkland returned? 
Fag. He is above, sir, changing his dress. 
Sheridan, The Rivals, ii. 1. 
Style is the dress of thoughts. 
Chesterfield, Letters, Nov. 24, 1749. 
Specifically 2. The gown or robe worn by 
women, consisting of a skirt and a waist, either 
made separately or in one garment. 
Two evening dresses for a girl who had never had any- 
thing better than the simplest muslin ! 
Mrs. Oliphant, A Poor Gentleman, xvi. 
3. Outward adornment; elegant clothing, or 
skill in selecting, combining, and adjusting ar- 
ticles of clothing: as, a love of dress; a man of 
dress. 4. In ornith., plumage: as, spring or 
autumn dress; the breeding dress. 5. External 
finish: used especially of the arrangement of 
the furrows on a millstone. 6. Size; dressing. 
Boil or soak [the canvas] for an hour or so in a solution 
of soda and water to get out the dress. 
Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 122. 
Full dress, a style of dress which etiquette or fashion re- 
quires to be worn on occasions of ceremony, or on certain 
social occasions, as a fashionable private entertainment, 
a ball, etc. =Syn. 1. Clothing, raiment, habiliments, ac- 
coutrements, vestments, habit, attire, array, garb, cos- 
tume, suit. 
dress-circle (dres'ser"kl), n. A portion of a 
theater, concert-room, or other place of enter- 
tainment, originally set apart for spectators or 
an audience in evening dress, but now gener- 
ally used indiscriminately : in theaters, usually 
the first gallery or circle above the floor. 
There they [East Indians at the Queen's Theatre in Lon- 
don] sit in splendid array, in the dress-circle, close to the 
royal box, and no one objects. N. A. Rev., CXXVII. 484. 
dress-coat (dres'kof), . A coat worn by men 
on occasions of ceremony; especially, a coat 
fitting tightly, and having the skirts cut away 
over the hips. See coat' 2 , and/H dress, under 
dress. 
dresser 1 (dres'er), n. [< dress + -er^. Cf. F. 
dresseur, a trainer.] 1. One who dresses; one 
who is employed in preparing, trimming, or ad- 
justing something. 
Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, 
these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and 
find none ; cut it down. Luke xiii. 7. 
A very simple honest fellow, sir, one Demetrius, a dresser 
of plays about the town here. B. Jonson, Poetaster, iii. 1. 
Specifically (a) A hospital assistant whose office it is to 
dress wounds, ulcers, etc. 
The magistrate and clerk were bowed in by the house- 
surgeon and a couple of young men who smelt very strong 
of tobacco-smoke ; they were introduced as dressers. 
Diekens, Sketches, The Hospital Patient. 
(b) One who is employed in clothing and adorning others, 
as in a theater. 
She [the Empress Eugenie] had three maids, or dressers, 
as they are called at the English court. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 617. 
(c) In type-founding, a workman who dresses types ar- 
ranged in rows, removes their defects, and prepares them 
for sale. 
2. A tool, apparatus, or power-machine for 
cutting and dressing the furrows on the face 
of a millstone. The simplest of the tools used for this 
purpose is a pick or light hammer having one or more 
sharp steel points ; a block of emery or corundum, pro- 
vided with a handle, and having a sharp cutting edge, is 
also used. In ,nore complicated apparatus, a pick or 
other similar tool is supported on a frame that travels 
over the face of the stone. In some cases the stone is set 
up on edge, as in a lathe ; in others it is placed horizon- 
tally in the machine under a revolving cutter, which trav- 
els on a fixed arm radial to the stone, the stone revolving 
beneath it. 
