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Any outer covering; array; garb. Not seldom clothed in radiant vest Deceitfully goes forth the morn. Wordsworth.

Clothed; robed; wearing vestments. "The vested priest." Milton.

Pertaining to clothes, or vestments.

Covered with vesture or garments; clothed; enveloped. We be vestured with poor cloth. Ld. Berners.

Furnished or clothed with villi.

f a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc. Piers Plowman laid the cloth, and Simplicity brought in the voider. Decker. The cloth whereon the earl dined was taken away, and the voider, wherein the plate was usually put, was set upon the cupboard's head. Hist.…

A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.

To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water. "She can wash and scour." Shak.

A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.

A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.

A woman who washes clothes, especially for hire, or for others.

An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.

The clothes washed, esp. at one time; a wash. Washing bear (Zoöl.), the raccoon. -- Washing bottle (Chem.), a bottle fitted with glass tubes passing through the cork, so that on blowing into one of the tubes a stream of water issuing from the other may be directed upon anything to be washed or rinsed, as a precipitate…

A tub in which clothes are washed.

strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse. Your clothes are not waxen old upon you. Deut. xxix. 5. Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound. Milton. Waxing kernels (Med.), small tumors formed by the enlargement of the lymphatic glands, especially in the gro…

ing or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.

That which is worn; clothes; garments. [Obs.] Give me my nightly wearing and adieu. Shak.

In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift.

Wherewith. "Wherewithal shall we be clothed" Matt. vi. 31. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way Ps. cxix. 9. [The builders of Babel], still with vain design, New Babels, had they wherewithal, would build. Milton.

obtained at a certain stage in copper smelting. -- White miller. (Zoöl.) (a) The common clothes moth. (b) A common American bombycid moth (Spilosoma Virginica) which is pure white with a few small black spots; -- called also ermine moth, and virgin moth. See Woolly bear, under Woolly. -- White money, silver money.…