n.;
I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread. Quarles. [ 1913 Webster ]
Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth? Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to . . . every axiom. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
Body cloth.
Cloth of gold,
Cloth measure,
Cloth paper,
shearer,
adj. having rigid front and back covers, covered with cloth; -- of books. Contrasted to
v. i. To wear clothes. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Care no more to clothe eat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Prov. xxiii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]
The naked every day he clad,
When he put on his clothes. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]
Language in which they can clothe their thoughts. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]
His sides are clothed with waving wood. J. Dyer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
n. pl. [ From Cloth. ]
She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. Mark. v. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]
She turned each way her frighted head,
Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]
Body clothes.
Clothes moth (Zool.),
n. a brush used for cleaning clothing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n.
adj. unclothed. Opposite of
n. A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry. [ 1913 Webster ]