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Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. Chaucer. Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching! Shak.

honors." Shak. I have given thee . . . both riches, and honor. 1 Kings iii. 13. Thou art clothed with honor and majesty. Ps. civ. 1.

A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.

A saddlecloth; a housing. [Obs.] Dryden.

A kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings.

lly of the atmosphere, or of anything which has absorbed moisture from the atmosphere, as clothing.

An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force; a centrifugal.

Cloth of silver or of gold. [R.]

To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

A kind of fine cloth brought into England from Greece. or other Eastern countries, in the Middle Ages.

mbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore.

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.