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To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature. This essence to incarnate and imbrute, That to the height of deity aspired. Milton.

The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.

The act of assuming, or state of being clothed with, flesh; incarnation.

stus is an incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas. Incombustible cloth, a tissue of amianthus or asbestus; also, a fabric imbued with an incombustible substance. -- In`com*bus"ti*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*bus"ti*bly, adv.

To put on, as clothes; to draw on. The baron had indued a pair of jack boots. Sir W. Scott.

cable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices. Where the infectious pestilence. Shak.

act; as, riding, dying, feeling. It has also a secondary collective force; as, shipping, clothing.

To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

Covering; clothing. [R.] Woodward.

That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering. While we yet have on Our gross investiture of mortal weeds. Trench.

To clothe; to invest; to install. [Obs.] "Monks . . . investured in their copes." Fuller.

To smooth with an instrument of iron; especially, to smooth, as cloth, with a heated flatiron; -- sometimes used with out.

The act or process of smoothing, as clothes, with hot flatirons.

Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language. Italian cloth a light material of cotton and worsted; -- called also farmer's satin. -- Italian iron, a heater for fluting frills. -- Italian juice, Calabrian liquorice.

A kind of twilled cotton cloth. See Jean.

he Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace. Dr. W. Smith. Janus cloth, a fabric having both sides dressed, the sides being of different colors, -- used for reversible garments.

A twilled cotton cloth. Satin jean, a kind of jean woven smooth and glossy, after the manner of satin.

and C. capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc.

A kind of shaggy cloth, resembling bearskin.

A kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta- percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.