a sauce for salads, typically one consisting of oil and vinegar with herbs or other flavourings

vinaigrette dressing

sprinkle each salad lightly with dressing

a piece of material used to cover and protect a wound

an antiseptic dressing

size or stiffening used in the finishing of fabrics

fabrics finished with dressing will work successfully when cut an inch wide

a fertilizing substance such as compost or manure spread over or ploughed into land

a dressing of blood, fish, and bone

put on one's clothes

Graham showered and dressed quickly

I'll go and get dressed

decorate (something) in an artistic or attractive way

she'd enjoyed dressing the tree when the children were little

clean, treat, or apply a dressing to (a wound)

she washed the wound and dressed it with fresh bandages

clean and prepare (food, especially poultry or shellfish) for cooking or eating

dress the crab and shell the prawns

apply a fertilizer to (an area of ground or a plant)

the field was dressed with unrotted farmyard manure

draw up (troops) in the proper alignment

(of a man) have the genitals habitually on one or the other side of the fork of the trousers

do you dress to the left?

make (an artificial fly) for use in fishing

after you dress a dry fly, be sure to remove any oil before you make your next cast