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To aim; to direct. |
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To prepare or make ready. |
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Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill
or energies (to some object); to betake. |
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To clothe or array; to dress. |
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To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as
a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience). |
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To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether
spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition,
etc., to speak to; to accost. |
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To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to
direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter. |
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To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo. |
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To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or
factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. |
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To prepare one's self. |
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To direct speech. |
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Act of preparing one's self. |
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Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal
application. |
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A formal communication, either written or spoken; a
discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a
formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of
thanks, an address to the voters. |
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Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name,
title, and place of residence of the person addressed. |
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Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of
pleasing or insinuating address. |
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Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady. |
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Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness. |