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A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments. [Written also kerseymere.]

A cloth with a cotton wart, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.

Clothed with a cassock.

To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.

Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes.

A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats.

torpedo bat. The incendiary rafts prepared by Sir Sidney Smith for destroying the French flotilla at Boulogne, 1804, were called catamarans. Knight.

ce intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.

Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive. However, I with thee have fixed my lot, Certain to undergo like doom. Milton.

ption to a person as not legally qualifed to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. [U. S.] Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole panel. -- Challenge to the favor, the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide…

y substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation; to change one's intention. They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse! Peele.

r ascribe; to lay to one's charge. No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime On native loth and negligence of time. Dryden.

Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.

itical party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.

ares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.

od, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth. Heaps of money crowded in the chest. Dryden.

A woolen fabric, for men's clothing.

gure of a zigzag from. [A garment] whose nether parts, with their bases, were of watchet cloth of silver, chevroned all over with lace. B. Jonson.

A heavy, longnapped, tufted woolen cloth.