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Dresser

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.

2. A kind of pick for shaping large coal.

3. An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.

4. A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.

5. A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils. The pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Longfellow.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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