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Clothed. Taylor (1630).

To dress; to clothe; to array. They habited themselves lite those rural deities. Dryden.

Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd.

A large piece of woolen or cotton cloth worn by Arabs as an outer garment. [Written also hyke.] Heyse.

A haircloth. [Obc.] Chaucer.

ally with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels.

A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face or hands.

or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural. Nor purple hangings clothe the palace walls. Dryden.

To clothe; to wrap. The surgeon happed her up carefully. Dr. J. Brown.

A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy. Percy Smith. As dumb harlequin is exhibited in our theaters. Johnson. Harlequin bat (Zoöl.), an Indian bat (Scotophilus ornatus), c…

A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning.

Practice; skill. [Obs.] Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. Chaucer.

A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.

A bag or case, usually of stout cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from knapsack.

The edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and sewed, to strengthen raveling.

t of the genus Cannabis (C. sativa), the fibrous skin or bark of which is used for making cloth and cordage. The name is also applied to various other plants yielding fiber.

d, in the early part of the nineteenth century, tasseled in front. Thackeray. -- Hessian cloth, or Hessians, a coarse hempen cloth for sacking. -- Hessian crucible. See under Crucible. -- Hessian fly (Zoöl.), a small dipterous fly or midge (Cecidomyia destructor). Its larvæ live between the base of the lower leaves…

e, a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.

Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants. [Scot.]

Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.