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A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak.

Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.

A cloth worn around the breech.

A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.

Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.

A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter. Linen, besmeared with gums, in manner of cerecloth. Bacon.

A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.

A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean. [Written also crumcloth.]

A cloth used for washing dishes.

To clothe.

Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse. Sir W. Scott.

A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.

The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.

A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred…

A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage. Gunny bag, a sack made of gunny, used for coarse commodities.

Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.

The cloth which covers a coach box.

A handkerchief.

A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.

A fine wide wooled fabric much used for women's dresses.