Dress·ing, n.
 1. Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
 2. Surg. An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to cover a sore or wound.
 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.
 4. Cookery (a) A preparation, such as a sauce, to flavor food for eating; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. (b) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
 5. Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
 6. An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.
 7. Castigation; scolding; -- often with down. [Colloq.]
 Dressing case, a case of toilet utensils.
 Dressing forceps, a variety of forceps, shaped like a pair of scissors, used in dressing wounds.
 Dressing gown, a light gown, such as is used by a person while dressing; a study gown.
 Dressing room, an apartment appropriated for making one's toilet.
 Top-dressing, manure or compost spread over land and not worked into the soil.

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 For·ceps n.
 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.
 2. Zool. The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig.
 Dressing forceps. See under Dressing.

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