a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions
outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions
protective garment worn by surgeons during operations
the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located; "the relations between town and gown are always sensitive"
any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
(biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle; "chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis"
a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead; "in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment"
decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window; "the cold castle walls were covered with hangings"
not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"
belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"