\Re*dress"\ (r?*dr?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + dress.]
To dress again.

\Re*dress"\ (r?*dr?s"), v. t. [F. redresser to
straighten; pref. re- re- + dresser to raise, arrange. See
{Dress.}]
1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
   [R.]
         The common profit could she redress.  --Chaucer.
         In yonder spring of roses intermixed With myrtle,
         find what to redress till noon.       --Milton.
         Your wish that I should redress a certain paper
         which you had prepared.               --A. Hamilton.
2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make
   amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
         Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, . . . I doubt
         not but with honor to redress.        --Shak.
3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything
   unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. ``'T is
   thine, O king! the afflicted to redress.'' --Dryden.
         Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye?    --Byron.

\Re*dress"\, n.
1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation;
   correction; amendment. [R.]
         Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us
         the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves.
                                               --Hooker.
2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as,
   the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy;
   reparation; indemnification. --Shak.
         A few may complain without reason; but there is
         occasion for redress when the cry is universal.
                                               --Davenant.
3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
         Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom
         fate pursues and wants oppress.       --Dryden.