 | Hensleigh Wedgwood - 1859 - 594 σελίδες
...face, pickle, or sauce, ingredients for dressing leather ; E. to dub cloth, to dress it with teasels ; to dub a cock, to prepare it for fighting by cutting off its comb and wattles ; dubbing, a dressing of flour and water used by weavers, a mixture of tallow... | |
 | T. C. Donkin, Friedrich Diez - 1864 - 502 σελίδες
...be used of any kind of dressing or preparation , the dubbing of a knight consisting in investing nim with the habiliments of his order. In Eng. to dub...Pr. of noble birth (only in Girard de Roussillon), O.Fr. elin; from the OHG adalinc editing, AS ädheling , Eng. Aiheling (prop, name) , LL adalingus.... | |
 | 1897 - 920 σελίδες
...or popular appellations'. DTJB'BING. imp. DCBBED, pp. dfibd. To DUB CLOTH, to dress it with teasels. To DUB A COCK, to prepare it for fighting by cutting off its comb and wattles. Note. — The principal pint of the ceremony of dubbing a knight was investing... | |
 | William Warren Vernon - 1900 - 654 σελίδες
...(so dub) considers that the notion of preparation, equipment, etc., is the primary one ... In English to dub cloth is to dress it with teasles ; to dub...dressing leather, also a dressing used by weavers." Well did I perceive that I had risen higher, by the enkindled smiling of the star (Mars) which appeared... | |
 | William Warren Vernon - 1909 - 632 σελίδες
...dub) considers that the notion of preparation, equipment, etc., is the primary one. ... In English to dub cloth is to dress it with teasles ; to dub...dressing leather, also a dressing used by weavers." Well did I perceive that I had risen higher, by the enkindled smiling of the star (Mars) which appeared... | |
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Eng. to dub cloth is to dress it with teasles; to dub a cock to prepare it for fighting by cutting off the comb and wattles; dubbing a mixture of tallow for dressing leather, also a dressing used by weavers. 