dresser

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One that dresses: a careful dresser.
2. n. A wardrobe assistant, as for an actor.
3. n. A low chest of drawers often supporting a mirror and typically used for holding clothes and personal items.
4. n. A cupboard or set of shelves for dishes or kitchen utensils.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who dresses; one who is employed in preparing, trimming, or adjusting something.
2. n. Specifically— A hospital assistant whose office it is to dress wounds, ulcers, etc.
3. n. One who is employed in clothing and adorning others, as in a theater.
4. n. In type-founding, a workman who dresses types arranged in rows, removes their defects, and prepares them for sale.
5. n. A tool, apparatus, or power-machine for cutting and dressing the furrows on the face of a millstone. The simplest of the tools used for this purpose is a pick or light hammer having one or more sharp steel points; a block of emery or corundum, provided with a handle, and having a sharp cutting edge, is also used. In more complicated apparatus, a pick or other similar tool is supported on a frame that travels over the face of the stone. In some cases the stone is set up on edge, as in a lathe; in others it is placed horizontally in the machine under a revolving cutter, which travels on a fixed arm radial to the stone, the stone revolving beneath it.
6. n. A machine for splitting geological specimens. It consists of a strong frame with a pair of chisels, one fixed and the other controlled by a powerful lever. The mineral, fossil, or other material is placed between the chisels and split by pressure.
7. n. A miners' pick.
8. n. A plumbers' mallet used for closing joints in sheet-lead.
9. n. A table, sideboard, or bench on which meat and other things are dressed or prepared for use.
10. n. A cupboard or set of shelves for dishes and cooking utensils.
11. n. A mandrel having a round top face, used by blacksmiths in forging the forked ends of connecting-rods.
12. n. A dressing- or toilet-table.

Wiktionary

1. n. An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
2. n. An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers, often with a mirror.
3. n. dated A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
4. n. mining A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
5. n. Agent noun of dress:

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.
2. n. (Mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
3. n. An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.
4. n. A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
5. n. A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils.
6. n. United States A piece of chamber furniture consisting of a chest of drawers, or bureau, with a mirror.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
2. n. furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
3. n. a cabinet with shelves
4. n. a wardrobe assistant for an actor
5. n. a person who dresses in a particular way