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Clothing in general.

Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.

Clothing; dress.

to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle. Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand. Pope.

An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.

To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.

A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying. To take up the gauntlet, to accept a challenge. -- To throw down the gauntlet, to offer or send a challenge. The gauntlet or glove was thrown down by the knight challenging, and was taken up by the one who accepted the challenge; -- hence the phrases.…

Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.

Clothing; garments; ornaments. Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. Spenser.

The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments). [Obs.]

A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth. Gig machine, Gigging machine, Gig mill, or Napping machine. See Gig, 4. -- Gig saw. See Jig saw.

A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.

To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.

That with which one is girded; a girdle. Instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth. Is. iii. 24.

tc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like.

ness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss. It is no part . . . to set on the face of this cause any fairer gloss than the naked truth doth afford. Hooker.

ing with gold leaf, as upon a book cover, by means of an engraved block. Knight. -- Gold cloth. See Cloth of gold, under Cloth. -- Gold Coast, a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa. -- Gold cradle. (Mining) See Cradle, n., 7. -- Gold diggings, the places, or region, where gold is found by digging in sand an…

Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted. Milton.

To daub, as the hands or clothing, with gorm; to daub with anything sticky. [Prov. Eng.]

Covered with gore or clotted blood. Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me. Shak.