dress v PRATT ~ v for sense 2.
   1 1987 FIZZARD 129 'So when you got your fish on board, you'd have to dress it [and] probably you'd get about three hours of rest through the night.'
   4 Phr dress in the fools: see FOOL; to dress up; hence vbl n.
   1858 LIND MS Diary 6 Jan I am sorry to find that the majority of the young people (& some of the married ones) are busy in dressing up to act as 'mummers.' 1987 FIZZARD 152 'He would come into the house on all fours and sit under the kitchen table making noises like an animal. The house would be filled with mummers, all dressed up.'
   5 Cpd dress-up (a).
   1984 ROBERTSON xvii In a few communities, other words are known as well as or instead of mummers or jannies [for example] dress-ups in Port Rexton, T.B., Swift Current, P.B., Twillingate, N.D.B., and Dark Cove, B.B.

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