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A loose under-garment for the upper part of the body, made of cotton, linen, or other material; -- formerly used of the under- garment of either sex, now commonly restricted to that worn by men and boys. Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts. Addison. She had her shirts and girdl…

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. Piers Plowman. Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds. Sandys.

Humble; lowly; undistinguished. A simple husbandman in garments gray. Spenser. Clergy and laity, male and female, gentle and simple made the fuel of the same fire. Fuller.

An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet. [Prov. Eng.]

To be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill. This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, Sits not so easy on me as you think. Shak.

The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.

A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.

; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture. A gray jerkin, with scarlet and slashed sleeves. Sir W. Scott.

The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown. Chaucer.

A loose garment worn by a woman.

Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock. [Obs.] Halliwell.

ne; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.

A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.

A woman's under-garment; a smock. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Johnson.

A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. In her smock, with head and foot all bare. Chaucer.

ighing], stronger. Bacon. She sighed, she sobbed, and, furious with despair. She rent her garments, and she tore her hair. Dryden.

To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust. Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained. Milton.

s reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom; especially, the black garment of this shape worn by the clergy in France and Italy as their daily dress; a cassock.

Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther." Spenser. Spotted fever (Med.), a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. -- Spotted tree (Bot.), an Australian tree (Flindersia maculosa); -- so called because its bark falls off in spots.…

A discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth. Shak.