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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.

A kind of broadcloth of light weight, used for women's dresses, cloaks, etc.

A coarse cloth.

A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.

Cloth treated with oil or paint, and used for marking garments, covering flooors, etc.

A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.

A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.

To clothe again.

Linen or cotton cloth such a sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence. Gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. 2 Sam. iii. 31. Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe. Sandys.

Clothed in sackcloth.