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ndian tree. The shell of the nut yields a blackish resinous juice used for marking cotton cloth, and an oil prepared from it is used for rheumatism.

cs, which are formed of two series of threads interlacing each other, thus forming double cloth, quilted in the loom; -- so named because first made in Marseilles, France.

ed of small lozenge-shaped scales of metal fastened on a foundation of leather or quilted cloth.

hich is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth. "Matching of patterns and colors." Swift.

A coat made of match-cloth.

ful art and beauty materialized, if I may so call it, a scheme of abstracted notions, and clothed the most nice, refined conceptions of philosophy in sensible images. Tatler.

length, breadth, or thickness, or a certain capacity according to a standard measure; as, cloth measures three fourths of a yard; a tree measures three feet in diameter.

A cloth of mixed colors. Fuller.

A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.

fiber to shrink in length and become stronger and more receptive of dyes. If the yarn or cloth is kept under tension during the process, it assumes a silky luster. -- Mer`cer*i*za"tion (#), n.

A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.

To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.

Having been subjected to some process of milling. Milled cloth, cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill. -- Milled lead, lead rolled into sheets.

called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller.

A frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand.

A kind of blue cloth made in India. Balfour (Cyc of India).

An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.

A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.

The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Mort cloth, the pall spread over a coffin; black cloth indicative or mourning; funeral hangings. Carlyle. -- Mort stone, a large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin. [Eng.] H. Taylor.

Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc.