Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of making a knight; the accolade.
  • noun Dress; ornament; trappings.
  • noun The act of striking, cutting, rubbing, or dressing, so as to make smooth or otherwise adapted to a purpose.
  • noun Hence A preparation of grease for use in currying leather.
  • noun The materials used for making the body of a fishing-fly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.
  • noun The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz.
  • noun A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.
  • noun The body substance of an angler's fly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The replacement of a voice part in a film, particularly with a translation.
  • noun The transfer of recorded music from one medium to another.
  • noun Alternative spelling of dubbin.
  • verb Present participle of dub.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a new soundtrack that is added to a film

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