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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 thin cotton fabric, between and muslin, used for dresses, neckcloths, etc. [Written also jacconet.]

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.

Cloth with the nap, generally of native black wool. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). How couldst thou know these men in Kendal green Shak.

A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple.

Of a dull brownish yellow, or drab color; -- applied to cloth, originally to a stout brownish cotton cloth, used in making uniforms in the Anglo-Indian army. In the United States service the summer uniform of cotton is officially designated khaki; the winter uniform of wool, olive drab.

A rude kind of Russian vehicle, on wheels or on runners, sometimes covered with cloth or leather, and often used as a movable habitation.

To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.