dressingboardt (dresingbord)

Same as dre er2, 1. She's laid him on a dre in board, Whar she did often dine. Sir Hugh (Child's Ballads, III. 143). dre ing-case (dres'ing-kās), n. A box containing certain requisites for the toilet, as combs, shaving apparatus, hair-, tooth-, and nail-brushes, pomatum, etc. 1769 Cokes come with dry ynge knyfe; They brittened tham als thay were wode. Thomas of Er eldoune (Child's Ballads, I. 106). dre ing-machine (dres'ing-ma-shēn"), п. 1. A machine for separating the bran from flour, consisting of a skeleton cylinder covered with wire, and carrying from six to eight brushes.2. A machine in which twisted yarn is sized, scraped, brushed, and dried by heat and an air-blast, to remove the fuzz and slightly glo it. dre ing-room (dres'ing-röm), n. A room, as one opening from a bedroom, intended to be used for dre ing: as, the dre ing -rooms of a theater. dridder 3. To entice step by step. With daily lies she dribs thee into cost. Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love, i. 4. In archery, to shoot directly at short range. Not at the first sight, nor with a dribbed shot, Love gave the wound, which while I breathe will bleed. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, Astrophel and Stella. II. in trans. In archery , to shoot at a mark at short range.