These are the meanings of the letters SPREDDS when you unscramble them.
- Dress (n.)
A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress.
- Dress (n.)
Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it.
- Dress (n.)
That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel.
- Dress (n.)
The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
- Dress (v. i.)
To arrange one's self in due position in a line of soldiers; -- the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as, Right, dress!
- Dress (v. i.)
To clothe or apparel one's self; to put on one's garments; to pay particular regard to dress; as, to dress quickly.
- Dress (v. t.)
To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.
- Dress (v. t.)
To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks.
- Dress (v. t.)
To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.
- Dress (v. t.)
To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish.
- Dress (v. t.)
To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.
- Dress (v. t.)
To put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck.
- Dress (v. t.)
To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.
- Press (n.)
A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
- Press (n.)
A multitude of individuals crowded together; / crowd of single things; a throng.
- Press (n.)
An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a body is taken; sometimes, the place or building containing a press or presses.
- Press (n.)
An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black.
- Press (n.)
An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press.
- Press (n.)
Specifically, a printing press.
- Press (n.)
The act of pressing or thronging forward.
- Press (n.)
The art or business of printing and publishing; hence, printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or the persons employed in writing for them; as, a free press is a blessing, a licentious press is a curse.
- Press (n.)
To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress.
- Press (n.)
Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements.
- Press (v.)
To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race.
- Press (v.)
To embrace closely; to hug.
- Press (v.)
To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.
- Press (v.)
To oppress; to bear hard upon.
- Press (v.)
To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.
- Press (v.)
To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something.
- Press (v.)
To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger.
- Press (v.)
To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press divine truth on an audience.
- Press (v.)
To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd.
- Press (v. i.)
To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd, or urge with steady force.
- Press (v. i.)
To move on with urging and crowding; to make one's way with violence or effort; to bear onward forcibly; to crowd; to throng; to encroach.
- Press (v. i.)
To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment.
- redds (unknown)
Sorry. I don't have the meaning of this word.