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A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments. [Written also kerseymere.]

A cloth with a cotton wart, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.

Clothed with a cassock.

Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes.

A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats.

nce intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.

by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation; to change one's intention. They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse! Peele.

Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.

uares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.

ood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth. Heaps of money crowded in the chest. Dryden.

A woolen fabric, for men's clothing.

igure of a zigzag from. [A garment] whose nether parts, with their bases, were of watchet cloth of silver, chevroned all over with lace. B. Jonson.

A heavy, longnapped, tufted woolen cloth.

Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed. Swift.

A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. [Obs.]

untryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. Emerson.

A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] [Written also checklaton, chekelatoun.] His robe was of ciclatoun, That coste many a Jane. Chaucer.

A kind of haircloth undergarment. Southey.

Made, or consisting, of hair. [Obs.] A Cilicious or sackcloth habit. Sir T. Browne.